Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-03-02
VOLUME XANV.---iNo. 81,


d n'oe OF Indians III Georgia 10 Gen Jackson com
paih"g ifa she had nu6ed treaty between them and
e peheia Government and seeking for redress from
s Eenerai Jackson replied 10 tbem, ''that the
"'' " "'e "ehetaI Government conId never be EN-
poyed stay any State Of the Union from the exercise
VI 'hose legitimate powers which belong her sovereign
.acer IL is unnecessarily to pursue this subect fur.
ther-the two specifications which have ,nsde arc IN
the point ard conclusive. They show beyond contro-
versy that Gen Jackson thoroughly arrsvet with
the Stale Rights party
It mus, also be borne in mind that Mr. Rives always
claimed 10 be Identified with the Je ersonian school Of
PONIES ne ~. BEL DeiHs asys &c BIT M
South Carolina, together with Virginia and the other
Southern States had commenced q war as earlg as
1921, upon the TurIT They had declared unconsti.
tnona ard lniquitous, and that they would submit
to Is continuance They protested against it, again and
again, in the most emphatic manner They proclaimed
That they would resist i. TO The last extremity After
resolves and protests for number u years. aud after
the Secretary of the Treasury had recommended that
the IarIft ot le}2 should BE- regarded permanent
adjustment OF the controversy between the con"t ting
views upon the subject, South Carolina determined
To carry her resolves into effect And in the
Tenn manner, IN convention OF her people, convened
tor iJa purpose after due and temperate elaboration she
declared that the Tariff was unconstitutional, null and
void and that il should not he enforced within her limits
la he opinion that the Tariff tul!Ona null
and void, Gen Jackson and Mr. Rvcs agreed Neverhe.
less The famous Proc.ama"n issued. founded upon
the Federal theory Of the Constitution and containing the
most u!iia dera Doctrines and declaring that the Ia
I'll should be- enforced the pon, Of the ba yone
and that the Of the General Government should be
invoked Ia cOece sovereign State. Though he had
hui short tine before drn"uucr, the doctrines of Mr.
/ Webster and lauded those Of Gen Hayne, he now
der the grea' seal OF the Union sends forth the world
the identical doctrines Of The former and denounces &C.
neral tayne hImSeli, aud all who agree with him. trail
tors Though he had but shoit time before declared
mat the Of the General Government could not be
invok"d t" stay Georgia from resisting solemn treaty,
hr proclaimed that Souh Carolina should be
I'd aud humbIed when she attempted To resist
| sttnlpnal law
do not rreI to these things either for Inc purpose Of
showing the prnprety the nprcpriey OF The course
OF South Carolina 90 not mean even TO express an
"pI0u relation To that matter, much less make
argument about Bu, refer to them for The purpose
Of showing that General jackson vas brought into
office as State Rights mar; that after his election
he aVo~ed III the most unequYoca manner State
Rights doctrines; that he abandoned those doctrines;
aud The circumstances under which lie did il. II has
been pretended that Central Jackson had changed
his Constitutional opninns What, then, IS The exp!ana
ton Of his conduct, II is easily given In the first
| place, he had plan OF his q! settling the Tariff
Controversy, ard ne bad idea oi having net!ered
with. In The next place do not doubt but that Gen.
Jackson thought that South Carolina had acted rashy,
and that she had carried her doctrines too lar But above
all thu year before, Gen Ja kSon got INTO Guare! with
the leading meu of South Carolina particularly with
| MIR Calhoun, who, he had learned. had taken part
against hIm in Mr. MOnroe's cabinet in a matter con-
nrc,rd with the Seminole war La thIs state OF things,
Gen Jackson entered into the contest with South Ca.
rOlna with all the feelings at personal conflict, and
with passion, because at that Tune he
had particular object ol attack. And Il Ii an admit.
ted trait his character That he cannot live without
the Of combat s"ss i9 s
ed, he at got up another Excitement the natural
element o has mind and il seems almost TO be necessary
! tor his existence The Nationals no about him,
seeing his determination arrest South Carolina seized
the opportunity which Gen Jacksons excitement and
Tie nature Of the contest gave them, 10 advance their
plEcIpts; and they pamrd upon him, who never vas
much OF a civilian, the heiesIes Of the PrOclamaon.-
lie entered into the contest w'th Carolina as have
already said, i'll the Split Of personal controversy, and
for moment thought that fundamental principle
had any thing do with thu matter. Hence II was,
story goes that when MIR. Richie began 10 find fault
with the docrinaI points OF the Ffoclamaon General
Jackson CURSED HIM right out, and asked, what the
d State Rights had 10 DO with The natter
There excuse, perhaps, for Gen. Jackson
the character OF his mind aud PASSIONS ~ the raity
Of human nature, and in the circumstances OF the con-
test We eXcuss the murderer, wnen the deed 10
perperrated under the influence OF excited passions But,
Whale there may be tor General! Jackson The
course of MIR RIves and o her State Rights men who
sustained the measure utterly tetencrless General
Jccks0ns conduct that Oi ali excited nu derer, Mr.
R.vrs :, that OF passI"n.rss accomPhce
When Gen Jackson was betrayed into The adoption
Of the PrucaGnalion-If indeed may undertake. to de.
eide that he the bel'ay,T but the
say, Gen jackson betrayed into The adoption OF
The principles of the Prnciaralon, what should have
been the Of MIR Rves aud other States Rights
politicians: When they saw that he - had heen nliu'
puced by designing cuunst 10 subserve the purposes
Of their gully ambition, dISavow the principles
to which he owed his elevation to the Chel Nlagsracy
of the Government n the United States, and 10 trans.
fer his real friends and supporters bound hand and no
10 the tender OF his and their beTest enemies,
The ultra Federas,s, ultra Bank, uI:raar ultra In.
t.rna mprovrmPn and Hartford Conventi0n men
the habtua scotrrs at State Rights, and to their IN
strument the vena and prostItuied press, by when
they had endeayed, and but too successfully, TO IN
fucnce and aislead public opirion,' ! ask what
should have been their course! They should have
PURSUED the course which John Randolph did, whose
language have just quoted. They should have gone
to General Jackson and opened his eyes TO his course
aud insisted upon his abandoning IT. they had taReh
thus course, my opinion Is, thai he would have re-
lracted And this opinion Is founded upnn the tact mat
twelve months afterwards after the excitement OF the
had passed e did come out and dIsavow some OF
the principles Of The Proclamation 1T is lrus that THIS
explanation did not satisfy ne In the hrst place, IL
came too late In the second the Proclamation was an
official ucl, under The great seal OF the nation, ano he
explanation merely on authorized statement IN inc
ne wspapers Bot il shows that Gen Jackson had rot
given Il, the doctrines of The Proclamation such deter:
mined assent to have made II Impossible TO prevail
upon him 10 have retracted them But instead OF PufT
ing this course, these gentlemen sustained MN ~ Io
act and tried defend and rIPlaln what was not ue'
fensbIe and what could not be explained away
MIR Speaker: look back upon this crisis as The most
fatal one that be!el republican prlnclPts Theh
General jackson betrayed into the ceserion Of me
principles of his party. he left them in the most peTGus
condition. The only alternative OF the SAFE hig"ts
n,r,vwas 10 out him. as many thought without posi-
iior to ia back upon; 60 with him in the support
Of doctrines upon winch he and they had been uniformly
warning They had either at once in the held mud IN the
u,dsl of the contest 10 form ane" under new leader
d lime bas embodied, TO encounter The old and pow
ercu, enemy well disciplined and organized. and rein.
G,rcrd by their chie', with such followers his I'M
p,ailsltd popularity could carry over 10 submit qui
foodiy cherished The bold fearless and uncaculsing,
did not hesitate. But the cautious and timid, relying
upon Gen Jacksons professionalism il remarkable
fact that he loud in hi, professions oil De.
mOcfacy when his acts most FEDERAL, always &C.
! companyng an attack upun the Constitution with the
loudest prot; Ssons OF regard for 1.-THE cautious and
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