Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-03-14

cate OF abolishiug slavery by our own
acts and means as any man, never have
been prepared to sanction, much less to
inuHe the interference Of the Gcuersl
Government i'll the business and lac
must pardon me for saying that he is the
only man that know OF in Virginia,
who has doae SO; as will be perceived
he did In the speech above referred 10
And would fam hope, that even the
aboiitionists themselves, would, on due
reflection, consent 10 hold the Constitu
ton 10 be inviolable. Pc,chance they
may have been 'seduced iato the adop-
ton OF some unsouud Constitutional
doctrines, By reading Capt. Craig's eel.
tbrated speech on the Buffalo and New
Orleans road delivered in The Ii. Of r.
on the 18th of March lS30.-In which
notwithstanding his repeated votes in
the General Assembly OF Virginia, for
resolutions. soiemuly declaring the Tar
iif and Internal improvements by the
General Government to be unconstitu
tional; he declares his determination (al.
though he still regarded the Ta,iff and
lnterna! Improvements by the General
Government as unconstitutional "not TO
be found idly fighting against the wind
and tide; but like a skilfu mariner TO
GO with the wind and tide, until he
could acquire velocity greater than the
current, and make his bark obedient to
her heln.' 1t is the same speech in
which Capt. Craig SO lorciby de.
clared his determination, not TO depy
himself "a fair participation in the bles-
sings Of Government, because every
thing is not done according 10 my (his)
notions OF sound policy and constitution
atty" | would hope that the aboi-
tionists will give up their strange con-
stitutional doctrines, as readily as Capt.
Craig did his unqualified support of ali
the acts of the late Bank of the Uaited
States, Onto the support of which it was
alleged by his friends he had been Sc
duced;) especially if it should turn out,
as hope it soon will, that the current
is taking course adverse TO abolition
doctrines.
Mr.. Craig undertakes to prove that
there has been coalition formed be-
tween the Abolitioniss and the Wings
of the North, and whst is the proof he
offers, to sustain so grave charge,
against large portion of the citizens of
the U. States, containing many of the
most talented. high minded, honorable
men upon earth, (and such know
many ofthe Northern Wings 10 be from
personal acquaintance with them y
why, verify, extracts from an abolition
newspaper printed in New York -
Was ever such evidence relied upon be-
fore to sustain such a charge ;! Sure.
ly nothing more can oe necessary TO
stamp such a charge as utterly unfound-
ed, than the fact, that Capt. Craig could
find no better evidence to sustain it thar
the naked assertion Of his abolition friends
( in New York, who, he informs us in
his address, gratuitously sent him week
ly copy of the Emancipator. 1t is
due to the abolitionists to say, that they
have at least displayed some skill in Sc.
iecting the persons to whom they sent
the Emancipator gratuitously since,
notwithstanding the circulation Of the
Enancipa,or in Virginia, is prohibited
by an act Of assembly, under heavy pen.
allies, as being an "inceDdiarY pubiica-
tion," they have succeeded in getting
large extracts from i, gratuitously and
widely disseminated over the largest dis.
rictti 1t seems thatCapt. Craig in his
eagerness to Fl y the charge of coalition
with the abolitionisis upon the Wings
OF the North, has chosen to forget, that,
the Administration owed lis success in
the recent election in Chic, entirely TO
the skill with which its partizans avail
ed themselves Of the act OF Governor
Vance, in yielding up slave 10 the
state of Kentucky. upon demand made
by that state, in pursuance Of the pro-
visions of the Federal Constitution, to
make an artlul and insidious appeal 10
! the prejudices Of the abolitioDists of the
| West. IL | were disposed 10 charge the
administration with uniting with the alb.
oiitionists, could any man ask Tor strong.
er evidence Of coalition between tie
abolitiouisls and the friends Of nir Van
Burer in Ohio, than is furnished by the
letter addressed TO the abolitionists,
just before the last election, by Mr..
Duncan, now the grea, champion Of the
administration on the floor of the House
Of Representatives, and whose speech
es, if ! am not misinfosmed have been
literally distributed in This District by
Capt. Craig? In that letter, (the au>
then.icitv OF which has been acknow!.
edged by Mr.. Duncan IN his place. he
says: at slavery is not only moral
and political evil within itself. or in,rin.
sically so, Of the darkest aud most dam
ming character, but in all its bearings
and effects calculated to produce the
most fatal effects on both the moral and
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