The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-11-10

auesion--snd at the nex session ~ the Legislature
ia 1925 WHICH consisted Of tbs same members other
resolutions were submitted, DENYING In direct terms
the constitutional power Of Congress TO establish ia
ri for protection, system Of internal improvement
These resolutions fully discussed by both PARTIES
the question Of their passage there ~ IN
favor OF the resolutions aud only 81 votes against them
And among these 81 now to BIO found some Of the
most inolersnt aud unIolenting nuiiers. This dee-
sion brought these four gentlemen, for the first time. 10
pausc--dn dujui pause.
AT the next session Of Congress, in 1895, Governor
Hamilton and Gen Hsync, TO the utter establishment
lion to Internal Improvements it oppressioe and
/ unconstitutional.
No more thirty thousand dollar iGrs by Gen, Hayne
for plans and surveys.
No more south Sea Canals by Gov. Hamilton.
Mr. McDufiie held on for the present to his msgnid-
cent scheme for Roads and Canais--and
Mr. Calhoun was lcit 70 mhsptr his tariff affections
to his tariff friends only,
And here il was that the germ Of notification was
produced. The policy of these gentlemen beng thus
unveiled in South Carolina. something necessary
regain their standing which had received surprising
shock from the State Rights Party--a name, which
lhem had short time before been term Of ieproach
"A sport and by-word, But TO Join the State Rights
Party to demonstrate aud to discuss the question so
! 10 draw public opinion against these systems would
have subjected them to the character Of followers ard
not leaders This they could brook any hazard
Besides, here were their arguments speeches and
pamphlets TO confront them all fresh in the minds OF
the people, in which they had only supported these
systems but upon the broad ground Of the general rel
JdTe doctrine, had recorded their opinions favor Of
them, and in their Congressional speeches had given
/ Congress power every other subject The I'M
preston produced by these speeches and pamphlets
could not be removed, but by violent conyulsion
OF the public mind in which their former policy might
be overlooked, and new impulse given TO the pursuits
OF the people towards other object-whch their
ingenuity must devise and magnify to an extent, COM
mensuratc with the occasion.
| Now MULTIPLICATION seemed 10 be the cxpedient
which presented itself II was entirely new--not
ders'ood, and therefore could be modelled exgcnccs
might require. Aud what still endeared it
the fact, that 1t was exclusively their Upon this
they intended 10 plant their standard, las, resort
But they waited for events.
Tho Presidential election was at hand, and if Gen
raj Jackson should be elected, and matters ar
ranged as to limit his services term they doubt
cd no, but that Mr.. Calhoun could be made his sue
I cessor.
| In the meantime, Pennsylvania had her Harrisburg
Convention to nominate candidates for tho Presidency
and VICE Presidency, and accordingly Gen Jackson
nominated for the Presidency, and the Convention
signed It's for doing So Mr. Calhoun was also
nominated for the Vice Presidency, and among the
reasons assigned by the Convention in his favor, was
| that
"Mr, Calhoun, when in Congress- had advocat with
unnvalled eloquencc the claims Of the American manu-
features TO the protection Of the government and
Secretary Of War had modelled with judcous care the
| Internal Improvement of his country
| This was published Immediately after the Convention
adjourned, in the United States Telegraph OF the 27h
January, lS2S-and with this nncqnivocal evidence of
their motives in his pocket in November following not
more dn nine months hdrng elapsed did Mr. Calhoun
present to the Legislature of South Carolina through
The medium 81 comnaHec, the manuscript copy Of this
book OF notification and vctoes. 1t accompanied
with charge, that his name should be concealed until
after the Presidential election was decided. The in
| junction faithfully obcyed
lhe American people are here presented with can
didate for the Vice Presidency, The second office the
gvt ~ great nation, who, reward for his talents
and fidelity III the support Of the Tariff and internal i'm
provemcnt systems, leans Pennsylvania for support
whilst at the same lime, he was poisoning himself
South Carolina for support aso and his talents and f.
deity TO be further rewarded for having furnished
her Legislature with dgcsed plan By tohich these sys
tens could be subrcrcd II any are incredulous, and
wish to be fully Informed, they will find the docu-
men,ary evidence Of the first statement in tho journals
of the Harrisburg Convention; and Of the second. in
the Archives Of the South Carolina Legislature.
Gepcral Jackson being elected and every thing being
| considered safe, Notification sunhcred for tine and
he became the cherished object of their affections He
toasted at all her political eass tie greatest man
living Their public prints teemcd with o"log'es OF
| him Mr.. McDufie was transported with his admi
nisraton OF the Government that at one OF his political
banq ue,r he told the audience. The finger Of Heaven
| pointed TO General Jackson for that Office.
At the next session Of Congress- however, President
Jackson consented to serve another term. This cut OIL
the prospects Of Mr. Calhoun entirely from that quarter
The American system, against which the before named
gentleman had been exceeding camorous seemed in the
mean time to be crumblng away very fast. President
Jackson had put his every road and canal BILL
and recommended reduction Of the tartf-the national
debt nearly ex,nquishedan event to which every
body looked when a just reduction Of the tariff might be
brough, about through the influence Of public opinion
only.
The duty on tea coffee cocoa, salt and moasses had
been reduced more than half coffee and cocoa
the duty had been reduced almost entirely and IN pl
il will be recoeced introduced by Mr. Dutfe himself,
this reduction took place at The touch. Every hing set
in that wav and never before had there been pro-
missing a prospect for placing those systems on salts
factory basis. Among southern members there was
general rejoicing at the gadcnng prospect more espe-
| caly as internal Improvement which appeared TO
have received death blow, and with it must go the
tariff Such was the situation of things tho last day
Of May.
On the lst day of July following (ony 80 days) null
fcation publicly proclaimed in the city OF Charleston
at magnificent feast gotten up for the occasion where
this monsrous doctrine avowed to be the only re-.
naming alternative by which the southern people could
be saved from the ravages of the north.
Here General lIayne in speech of anmang clo-
ouence addressed an assembage of eight hundred gen
ncmen of wealth, Of intelligence and of patriotism.
against the tariff and more particularly against internal
| Improvement In this speech he cautiously concealed
the state Of our public affairs at Washington, He must
have done SO Intentionally, he told that numerous
and respectable audience, that President Jackson had
done nothing check the progress of that destructive
SYSTEM except negative the Maysvlle road bill,
which he defined to be mere CLEAN Of Hgh" He
gave no description Of the Maysvle road although he
knew it the beginning OF al extensive work. lie
was also aware that besides this BILL President Jackson
had nega,ved four Others for roads and canals far more
important than the concerning the Mnysvle road ;
and he further knew that by these repeated acts the
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