Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-05-19

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}, Webster and their party oppose it, as they
would dot Surely not. Such course
would display the excess Of madness and
, faulty. And the same remark holds good
as to the divorce bill--the great measure
ofreform recommended by the State Rights
party in 1886. We must stick topur prin-
ciples, let the Administration and the Ma
tionals do what they may. We must stand
between them and act as occasion requires,
without becoming the mere emissaries of
! either.
As regards the course Of the Hon. Mr..
Rhett, we are surprised at the remarks of
the Advocate. The speech Of this distin-
tinguished Representative from South
Carolina, on the contested election was
published in the Washington papers; and
the editor might have learned from it that
his vote was placed on grounds entirely
distinct, and @ifferent from those he sug-
gests. He placed the whole question on
constitutions grounds, and admitted no
extrinsic consideration to influence him.
We are confident there is no man in Con-
gress who is more distinguished for inde-
pendence Of thought and action than the
member from South Carolina. All sides
concede this to him--and the fact, coupled
with his argument, decided, we believe,
the question. The editor would do we'll to
read his remarks before he commits him
self further.
Now, from the remarks of the Chroni-
Gle, we infer that he thinks we intend a.
MATCHMAKING with the Nationals. We
wish to place ourselves before the public,
in correct attitude, in regard to this mat
ter. We are the conductors of Nullify-
ing Paper, and as such we cannot consis-
tently hoist the banner of either Clay
or Webster. The motto emblazoned up
on our Paper, that "when powers are as
sumed which have not been delegated, a
Notification Of the act, is the rightful rem
edy," forbids US from pursuing such a
course. Weare NulljGers, land are proud
of the appellation,) and we shall not ap-
plaud in our columns men, who have taken
every opportunity to abuse, revile and rid
icule the Nullifers, and those men are
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. Mr..
Clay from his recent vindictive aspersions
upon the Nullifers, we presume, does not
calculate upon their support. He saw his
strength increasing hourly and the pillars
of his empire daily going up, and conf
dent, of coming triumph, he thought that
he could, with one blast of his voice, drive
us tremblingly into his ranks. But he
will be sadly mistaken in the support Of
all the Nullfiers, though set before us by
q National Convention, threatened with
all the terrors, which noncompliance
with the dictation of Baltimore Caucus,
will inevitably be attended We have
said naught in our Paper, from which it
could be inferred, that we we're Clay men,
or Caucus men, though calamny may
have invented such tale. We at this
time avow ourselves opposed to Clay,
and the call Of a National Convention or
Caucus if you please. And we tell the
Wings of Mississippi that if Henry Clay
be their candidate, defeat will be the inev-
liable consequence. We are satisfied of
this fact from actual observation. We
think we are correct in saying that ma
jority of the Nullifers will not support
Clay. If the Wings contemplate a tri-
Jump in the next Presidential contest, il
must be under other stripes and stars, than
those that stream and twinkle on the ban
ner of Henry Clay. There is ample time
to settle down upon candidates, for the
Presidency, and we shall say no more a.
bout it at this time.
The Chronicle wishes to know whether
we have any distinct and definite princi-
plesf The Kentucky and Virginia Res
olutions unfold the distinctive principles Of
the Nullifers. Poised upon those reso-
buttons we have been battling for the
sacred fundamental principles announced
in that Text Book of the Republican Pa r.
~, and shall still struggle for their main /
talnance. In those resolutions we find ,
those principles definitely avowed, that ,
the states are sovereign and independent:
that the constitution is a compact: that
zach State is an integral party to that com.
pact: and that, as in all other cases Of ,
compact between parties having no com