Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-09-13
MIR. McDUFF1E 4 MIR. CALHOUN.


that the conclusions TO which he has arrived arr
the offspring of his feelings rather than of his Judg
men, Tracing Mr. McDuffe throughout his pub
lie career, we discover, that, III no instance has 1t
dssented from Mr. Calhoun, bur that the Beneficial
ry has uniformly trod in the footsteps of tho Patron
through all the winnings OF his tortuous course. witt
the same unerring seadness and accuracy with
which the Indian the tracks OF his file leader.
When, in 1921 VIM. II. Crawford :" Bank
FederalIsr,' by the way.-was the candidate of HE
Republican State Rights panty, nominated, as Mr..
Madison and Mr.. Monroe had been befoic hun by a
Congressional Caucus and supported by the Rich
fnond Enquirer and by overn helming majority Of
the people of Vngni,, john G.. Calhoun TOOK the
salnst lim,-denounced HIM as Radical, be-
.dse lie was supposed to be in favor Of economical
expenditures, and opposed to that gigantic project of
Internal improvements by the General Government
devised aud recommended by Nj. Calhoun-and
Mr. McDmGe eagerly embarked in the contest a.
ganst the fvorlte candidate Of the State Rights par
~, putting forth those able essays, signed One Of
the People" which avowed doctrines decidedly more
laliiuduatian dian had been bfoacled BY Alex
ander Hhmi!ton or by any Of his discpes--declar-
ing, among Other things, that " is the climax of
absu,diy TO say that the States have ana riehis at
all ~ Such WAS the Calhoun creed OF 1924. In no
opinion did that gentleman or his disciples agree with
Mr. Crawford except in supporting National Bank
the only sentiment held by Mr.. Crawford which The
State Rights party, who supported him, deemed
hcrecal!
When Mr. Calhoun, who, after finding his own
prospects hopeless in 1921, Sustained Mr. Adams
deserted that gentleman and, for reasons best known
H.,
Mr. McDutic took post as his Lieutenant, and.
at speech delivered in Georgia during the canvass
ofls2e, undertook, by train of poco. philosoph-
cal reasoning, worthy the school in which he ad
been trained, to show that "irue greatness CONSISTS
more in action dian in Reflection, and consequently
that Jackson the greatest man in the Union
mot excepting his own tutor, Of coufse
In the progress OF events. Ms Calhoun. finding
that his Northern rival Tor Gen. Jaeksons favor had
succeeded worming himself into tie good graccs Of
the Prcslden', aud thai hs claims were 10 be
postponed to Van Burcn's, broke of nom the Ad-
mnsraon and Mr.. cDufie became the most
powerful a>saant Of the =. csidcn in the House of
representatives. To emtalrass the Administration,
aud TO rally aSoaIhern paly in opposition 10 Gen
Jacksons Northern iarorile was row determined up
on, and the Iariliaws alording flrarable pretext
Mr. Calhoun, notwithstanding lie had himself been
one OF the most efficient champions little Protective
Policy, set his instruments 10 work. 70 pourtlay the
sectional inequality Of The system, and to magnify
and exaggerdtc its oppressive operation upon the
Plantation States, which finally set he whole South
and patucu!aI, his own State, fte and resulted in
the solemn farce of Modification. Mr.. McDuflir,
though dlsapprouns of the lisltlal remedy" as il
called, united nh those who lvp1, -,
toitand he who had in s2i broadly asserted that the
States had no rights at ALL row assumed the equally
preposterous ground that they not only had rights
but that State might constlutionally nuIiry a law
OF Congress, aud render it imperative within her
limits, while it in force in every other State
and that die Nullityng State mig yet remain mem
Der ofthe Union, and share in all its benefits, while
she thus trampled upon lis laws and threw off ITS
burthens!
Mr. Calhoun has ever since, until September
last, remained an opponent d the Jackson aud Van
Buren, administrations and their measures including
the Specie Hambug, which he now hugs to his
bosom as though it were his instead of Benton's
oifspring-and Mr.. McDunie followed in his foot
steps, with even ferccr zeal and more consummate
ability as all will acknowledge, who will recur to his
celebrated speech the Removal oflhe Dcpostes
IN which he tore the SILVER vel from the great No
hannah of the day, and held up the Slupendous I'm
posture" to the execrarlon ofhs country
SO thoroughly, however had Mr. McDunie com.
united himself in favor OF the consttutonaly of the
United States Bank, that for him there was no
loop-hole of retreat" Hence lie rc.aliitms its
.copsttut'ondtiy though, resolving to coincide in
Mf oahouns conclusions he objects to its nicer
poraon, for reasons which do not in fact exist and
which he is compelled TO assumc,-such as the
ignitude of lis capital and the place Of its oca-
'uon,-nethet Of which has been or can be vet de-
tefnllned upon. Even, however if he were rclt in
''hese assumptions, it might well be asked how is 1t
mat nifty millions in 1888 is SO mach more formula
'oe 10 the public liberties than thirty five millions in
iolo-and why Is it so much more dangerous to To-
cafe Bank IN New Y ork than in Philadelphia .
Inc ruin 49, as we before remarked, Mr.. McDuiIic
was determined to agree with Mr. Calhoun in his
hostility TO Bank--and when man resolves upon
particular course reasons for it, good, bad or in
u"iefeh'' are always as plenty as blackberries.
90 too' with the specie clause of the Sub Treasu-
~ scheme. Mr.. McDufie had in 1891 so thorough
suited and exposed the absurdty and the mis-
'''e'ous consequences of this "Stupendous I'm
pasture, that it was impossible for HIM unless he
nau forgotten, as Mr. Calhoun has done. all his bit,
'i aehunciations of that "brilliant delusion." to
o'e."'e "lor moment. And therefore, although