The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-11-10
THE MADTsoNIAN.
Pom ne 4iabrma Stats Intelligence Rlrth 2, lsss
10 THE UNION AND STATE RIGHTS PAkaf
r,E Nt1IEIH. lAROLINA.

gentleman Or Alabama Of great rssPesss1n 5s y
Gently SEM me an extract from the 49, ~ ,t t)td
Telescope, puhlisbeu short time 7. ~ no
oeI else,ions w' ,,, ,er tiiigs K eof'sined th'
following -. !.
49,. -, ,za ~ t'sthsps Iatgt snFts !
Ian I. NJ M. s.S,v b,sy tisking spccchss sResee -
r.lh,,, S;ay Hamilton nnd Mr.. McDssnS 80,
,hg.ho,,y documents sixteen yesfs o'a ~ I, 80, ~
al Vice Trcssdc,'t honstos' ~ y o~ ~
IN his sepsh'. y. ,ss,s bsfe srd mslpnty, wheh
nsavots e.. ,,ly bs age ord dfsappontanent
see'ps u..;,, h hscly cold VI nv rens'ning pra.
,e,ty n ths Smtc ~ TO- Z.
TI,S n, ,vllat fifA does he make haseit - oass
A'sna'ha, j, Lair. ri Saatl Carolina when he has de-
" u. is. .4,ia NJ Sosh Csrclfoa ~ ssnk INTO
~, two ncatns hence. how coola i hort Judge
Smith u -.
,. NIX, q ctMotsp MS leas G., Calhoun at
aoses trsi4t y AicA Wham Smith cannot
80, ~ he's ,,creg re- Assa7ca SoaaA CaTsssxa The
Sc .htrt gave baA hssaA s,sii eoa,ans himself and
..a..r,-kis ssa Is devoted 10 her sctylee-he Will
h,,, hsq hte--sra her sol VIII contain hs grave but
weJbsg smith r~e wears ago deserted his principles
- M, h. - 4bor1 10 dnscsa has aenRtry.'r'
Il, .hs, ,t.es and anaer osAcr circumstances, this
.,.A,p,. .oaa nj have been worthy 81 notice But
80, ty,ncs are too partentsoas permit thing 70
- ,,--.,s,e.a ira, all tend 10 deselope the causes
~, rave e 10 The great events that deeply interest
80, .-,er,esa: ard ehsch threaten the immediate
uoftt INC resi- OF the mon,
80 the hasTars OF cNa And as The humble part
h,,s ,.,ea 10 caasel these events have called down
$50, ma tbs nneourteans deuunclaiion. viii take
800, through this address, TO CIDER You my
raa,sans OF this supposed persecution Of the exVice
ry,,len and his friends After which. VIII be
ten, with sach Judgment As generous community may
he pleased 10 pass ON my motives ..at..
therefore admit that | was making speeches. not
,-,ins, Mr. Calhoun Gov Hamilton. and Mr.. McDuf.
Is as private gentlemen but against their Wild and
decisive schemes Of Nulhcation-by which, they had
esTo,ed every thing having the semblance Of social
order or social felicity, among people heretofore
prenely yruous and happy while they seemed evil
IDENTITY bent on separating South Carolina from the
ITpon as the first step towards the dissolution OF the
Up,on itself For at the momcnt Of making these
speeches, Mr. McDotie, Gov. Hamilton and General
Hayne were riding post throughout, the State, coll,tug
the citizens into assemblies at barbacues, and vocera
inc Notification peacesble and constitutional rene
DIV against the tariff and internal improvement systems.
imposed on the South for taxing from the planter Gas
they asseedD forty bales Of hs cotton Of erery
hundred, 10 enrich The people Of NeV England
All these delicious festivals they srove TO excel in
their and sentiments, and in their conviviates
invoked spirit best adapted to produce hatred to the
union-hos,liy to the administration Of its laws and
excite the citizens 10 civil war against their neigh
bors their brothers, and fathers In which the father
might the throat OF his son, and the plunge his
dagger into the bosom Of his father Aud. where the
dsstHuitgS tIoie epleuuiu UeNi
BY Gov. Hamilton, las The National Banner Of Somh
Carolina" WITH ONE STAR AND ONE STRIPE, emble-
matte OF her separation from the Union, unfured
and waved over the sumptuous banquet.
In The time, Mr.. Calhoun, then Vice President
OF the United States, busily employed in issuing
from the press, immense quantities Of the third edition
of his Book Of Notification and Vetocs-urgng the
people 10 demolish their Government, because each
State had not the entire control the laws Of the
National Govemment-assuring them that the tariff
and internal improvement systems were unconstitutional.
and, consequently null and po,d-that they produced
corruption and oppression, and led to consolidation
and finally, that monarchy would soon follow That
Notification moreover peaceabe remedy, proyid-
ed by the Constitution Of the United States whereby
single State is empowered, by virtue Of her reserved
sovereignty, to arrest the operation Of any law of the
General Government, whenever, in the opinion OF the
citizens of that State, such law should be deemed by
them to be unconstitutional And further-that this
was the practice the formation Of the Government
1t was the only remaining mode by which Union OF
the States could be preseved-as those great apostles
Of liberty, Jefferson and Madison, had fully established
the constutlonalIty OF Notification, in their Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions. To aid the operation Of
Nuhcation they established Jacobin Clubs throughout
The State precisely In character with the Jacobn Clubs
OF France during the stormy period Of her revolution
which were orerunners to the scenes that produced
such torrents Of human blood, and such Of hu
man lie, Tor many years, in that fine but unfortunate
SSS'N'J'
at entrance, the OF dollar and fin ccnts and the
same amount annually, fundto delrav the expense
OF Puoish'ng TWENTY THOUSAND TRACTS weekly. by
the mail stages these tracts were distributed the
CLUBS over the State and they again distributed them
70 inc citizens, gratis. These tracts filled with
gapieo ana nntIlattd sentences from the lately pub
hshed writings Of Mr. Jcficrson-choice sentences from
M Calhouns Book of Nullifc aton-fase quotations
rom 'he speeches oil the Union party aud such med
Ty III general as no man ever read before To crown
all ms they were invariably published without
IN aooton TO all this, the two Senators and six Re-
representatives. IRON South Carolina as a Joint stock
company inundated the State with pamnhleis To vhich
e'ch haa subscribed his own proper name dcnouncinp
tue tarH OF 1872 as lar worse than the tariff Of 1928
and that as all hope OF relief had fed the principles
OF protection were now fixed upon u.s. for ever They
declared that the Southern people must look for relief
elsewhere than Congress sand so determined we're
they TO get possession of the public mind that thew
actually sent OIL thousands OF their pamphlets while the
law was yet unfinished. Vast numbers of these i.
ndhha'oy publications were secretly deposited in the
na"u' OF one Pa1y before their opponents the Union
fary. knew any thing OF what was going forward The
speeches which | made were intended to counteract
's mad career, and if possible to save hirh-minded
anu credulons community from the disasters to which
ese hefes'es and egregrous npostons were destined
10 lead them In dong so, | met these gentlemen
openly some OF them face to face and not under the
mask oil an edlor-thdt sanctuary of a to,rard
It Is equally true that | repu6lshed documena six
,een years old They were the speeches, the pamph-
Ie's' ana the votes of Mr.. Calhoun MIR McDulie Gov
Hamilton and Gen. Hayne, in support Of the tariff and
internal Improvement systems, when these systems
were popular and evidently rising public estimation
e3ntas'ed with the speeches, the pamphlets and votes
o. inc same gentlemen, IN opposition these systems
Mneh 'ney had become unpopular and were evidently
guy aown In public estimation. My object was 10
prove 10 the people Of South Carolina, that the tariff
a"u internal Improvement systems were imposed upon
ane'h oy Mr. Calhoun, Mr.. McDuffe, Gov. Hamilton
ana zen; hayne, and not by the people Of New Eng
ano' They were further sdmonlshed that when the