Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-08-29

TO0tFT Tc0THt Ut THtm ntE0CThTFU Uy n. JUCKSOn
himself,) by which the limits and boundaries of the
Indian Territory have been solcmnly guaranteed,
may hereafter be violated ut the pleasure of Alaba-
ma and Georgia Land-jobbers and Spectators? BY
what authority, we enquire, are the Indians to be
thrown ont of the protection of the laws Of Con-
gress, of the Constitution of the u. States, and of
the treaties solemnly ratified by the treaty making
power."-Whig, Dec. 1S29.-Thus goes nj one fell
swoop, the right ofsorereignty ofa State, and the ju-
rtsdicfion overits own soil.
Internal Representations the subject of In
fernal Improvements, President Jackson shows
much more timidity than Candidate Jackson. We
hear OF no constitutional qualms about the Tariff,
but the President seems TO he suddenly inspired with
great doubts and difficulties with respect TO Internal
improvements The distribution Of the surplus re-
Usnue among the several STATES according TO their ratio
representation was supposed Except by politicians
Of he Richmond Schoor'-Richmond School, that is,
of the old School of Virginia politicians, not your
Iiew-fangled school, Notification, Clay, National
Republican,, Bank, &c, &C., &c.)5"to iisentangle
the subject Of much of its difficulty; but we find
that General Jackson entertains doubts even on this
branch of the question. Indeed, poor gentleman,
he seems to be as sadly beset with constitutional
~srruples nolo, as he was once utterly regardless of
all such barriers to his will. There is now difficult
~ in almost every thing."-Uhig ID.
The Bank ofdhe U. Sfdies.-.W We hive no belief
that the u. $. Bank will fall, even under the power
of Jacksonism. Without attempting to decide the
Constitutional question ourselves, we would respect
fully enquire in what school the President acquired
his wisdom in the sccuce of construction. If he
altogctner Iaiieu IN correctly interpreting the I'd sec
ton OF the rules and Articles of War, we should
doubt whether he could easily overturn the esta-
blisned opinions of several preceding Administru-
ton, enlightened by repeated discussions in both
Houses of Congress, and sustained by the profound
Investigations and luminous judgments of the SUI
Trene Court. A greater curse cannot, i'm Our OPT
MON, befall this nation, than the system, if once
adopted, OF unsetiling, for party purposes, the solemn
adJudicaiions OF the country. fapy question could
ever be finally decided and put to resi-, we thought
this of the constitutionality of the u. s.. Bank was
decidedly the one so placed. Now it seems the ma
ton is TO be re-agitaied with this tremendous con-
flict, and what other purpose IL can serve than to
promote personal ambition, we are entirely al q loss
10 conceive.n-B
The Thrift" 1t is not to be doubtcd-all the in
dicalIons OF the time are pregnant with evidence of
the fact-that the political hostility of Virginia TO
the Tariff is greatly relaxed-that the friends of pro-
tecting duties are multiplying in all quarters-and
that the time cannot he far distant, when this State
will range herself with that immense majority of the
people OF the United States, who have, irrevocably,
dccreed, that the protecting system shall CON
siitnte n part of the permanent policy of the
nation. In II few years more, we shall find the
walters upon Providence MS eager 10 protest that
a particular vote, involving by possibility no prin-
ciple, is not to be construed into opposition to the
Tariff, as of late years they have been TO assure the
world, in season and out OF season, of their hostility
10 IT. There was one remaining chance TO over
throw the Tariff principles or III least 10 reduce il
10 the standard of mere revenue purposes-and this
was, that Gen. Jackson, when he spoke of favoring
n" Judicious" Tariff, meant one for Revenue, and
that he would throw the Irresistible weight. of his
popularity into The scale of Southern opposition.
That chance has gone, and his Southern friends
have the supreme felicity of knowing, that by elect
ing linn, they have entoinbed their last hope, and
clInciied lie last nail of the coffin will. their own
hand. So far as the question is one of feeling, zoe
rejoice at THIS reStdt-for the want of political candor
which led to their support of him, deserved the re-
tribution It has received. Preponderating before,
his message has finally and forever, turned the
scale IN JGuor Of the american System. No in
telhgent man can doubt the fact, however La
BILE TO the delusiye influence of hope. ne re-
Jotce III II for ft0o TedSons-firsr, because after the
most deliberate examination which we are capable
OF making, we believe IL good for the country-and
secondly, because the unriyalled popularity of Gen.
Jackson will recommend it TO The affections of ma
NY, remove the prejudices and enmity of many more,
and secure it a more pacific endurance thnn under
N less popular President might perhaps have been
anticipated."-JYhig Jan. 1880.
NuHyfcdtion.-"1 this very debate, he (Mr. Web
ster) was assaulted with the grossest personality, and
his partial participation in tie Hartford Convention,
thrown in his teeth Ivy those who openly contend
for the doctrine of one States possessing the ripht
of annnlling the compact of Union, and are even now
threatening to carry that right into practical opera
lion. What The difference IS, between the conduct
of Massachusetts, in 1912, and Of S. Carolina, i'm 1898.
except TINT the latter threatened to do The same cuL-
Pabe act for a less sufficient cause, we have never
been able TO discover."-W hig, ID. 1890.
"The (Carolina) Telescope will find, when the
time comes-if, unbappily, it shall come-that conx-
ing will prove quite as Intellectual in inducing Vjr-
gInia 10 embark with South Carolina, in her pro-
posed crusade against the Union, as bullying has
proved in regard to the Tariff. We repeat, that eve
ny indication fayors the idea that Virginia will speedi-
Jy become an extensively manufacturing State-thnt
every change of individual opinion is to that side
of the quesiion-tbat, in our opinion, public feeling,
SO far from sympathsing in the violent extremities,
which n few I'VE include not the People of S. CI
faDatical politicians in the South continue to menace,
most decidedly reprobates and abhors tliem."L
Hhig, Feb. 1, 1880.
alt is instructive TO witness the prahsess Of
human opinion. Until Mr.. Philip PendIcton Bar
bour, a few years ago, yentured, in the plenitude of
his hair-sPhtting propensity, 10 question the consii-
stutloDalify of The Tnriff, such an iden had probably
not entered II dozen heads. 1t, however, was adopt-
ed by many, who wished it TO be true, and in a few
years has Tipened into an incontrovertible axiom
No man, who respects his popularity, thinks of call
ing il in question. The multiplying doctrine was start
ed in the same accidental way, and found favor
from the same causes, until, when only a few years
old, we find such a man MS Gen. Sumter holding the
following language:
That tho Legislature (snys tho Goneinl) 10 a sorereiga mower
can nuty the unconditional acts of the Gonoial Government, is
the primary and principal dochioo oftbe State Rights Party"
30 we go. That which is speculation to-day, be-
comes doctrine Tomorrow. What shy our State
Rights genIlemen-pariicularly our Barbour, our
Richie, and the rest of the real Simon Pures TO this
unconstitutional, unqualified position of Gen. Sum
ter9 They do not approve tive know they do not,
cannot-but why do they not attack ii?--They who so
b%elabored Massachusetts in 1913, for a similar beresy;
whose keen and sagacions noses scent danger TO the
Constitution and State Rights, in every breeze that
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