Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-05

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principles in tie pursuit of power or place.
A. Really admire the independent spirit Of those
fellows, and p'rhaps may carry out your suggestion
and let the public know that the Editors of the Wing
are not the ony members Of The putting committee
Ny the list too EIcnnt
CHRISTOPHER QUANDARY.
70 THE EDTTOR OF TIE ENQUIRER.
! "Itmc DGnaOs Il dona frrcntsS.
writer, who signs himself a Friend Of State
Rights has again made his appearance in the Rich
nond Wing, continuing series Of letters, addressed Il
tho Hon. Henry Cay. His former communications
like the last, Enrkcd by bitterness and rance,
against Mr. Calhoun which is seldom inspired even b.
the exciting If party politics. How such feel
ngs could have found their way into the closet Of the
scholar, 10 disturb tie quiet Of scientific sccsion i,
somewhat astonishing One would think that the I'll.
ms Of some lofty ambition were toruring a mind
whose aspirations cee0ncc hgh c"oagh 10 grasp a NE
fdi'iHg mante Of McWustrious Randolph: that some
disappointment, bitter and unorgottcn, prompting
abuse where praise was once 80 lav!Shiy bestowed
and seeking by iadreGioa the prostitution othosc rin-
cipcS, Of which, Mr. Calhoun Is able and successful
an advocate. There better suited issa!l The
principles o: civil religious liberty than he, who,
under cover OF devotion, ~ in reality their foe. and no
character more dangerous 10 State Rights, than one
who their mantle, IN c0Hccal he dirk with which
he seeks to stab them. This writer once pcrhnpS,
a member o. the Republican party. He may be
classed among the number of that p0r0dor;cai scct,
yc!ept S'ntr RghtS FtdcrG'istS lately generated b.
The throcs G the Wig cnnidr0n 10 shame the prnci-
pies they process 10 vcncrate by swelling the procession
of those, whose public policy, they have haharto rs
now, preindI to oppose. Calling themselves ricuds
IF state R.Its, as forth in the Resolutions Of ~
and 80, tleg found advocating men who have H.
l ,-Tps held those doctrines IN contempt Protcssedly
hostile 4 National Bank to Protective Tariff, and 4
system Of Internal improvements by the General Go
vcrnment always considered by the State Rights par
t. as thee OF the ouchston:s of Rcpubcansm they
aiding 10 elevate men who are advocates OF them
al, and who cons der the prosperity and greatness OF
the country, dependent upon their revival Pretending
to hold the doctrine of Snfc SOrcrciony, the onnda-
ton principle Of system the only great check upon
interested majorcs and hence the snrcst guarantee
for tie preservation Of the Unon they are supporting
| Mr. CLAW, Gen. Harrison and Mr. Webster, who deny
that the States Sovereign, the Constitution a
CcMpA CT between SOrereigcs bu; assert Matit Go
ycrnmcnt constituted By the American people in the
crcgaic acting through Representative body without
check or limitation to lis power: That the Govern
mcnt Sovereign he dOr'riac Of .Nonarchy" lis rorst
| farm which Revolutionary patriots thought they
had exploded the States Corporations,
bound to yield 10 any intracon of the Constitution,
which Congress may nict, be driven into submis-
sion bv military force These the principles of the
Proclamation, which these gentlemen insisted were the
true exposition of our Constitution, after General
Jackson denied that he intended such Interpretation
to be given TO that paper.
How. then can a "Triend of State Rights accuse
Mr. Calhoun of going to the advocates of the Pro-
clamation and Force bill: He vifying that gentle
man for ccasns 10 act with the very men, who mcrr and
are the frfsi supporters OF boh those mcasurcs.-Who
was the Great leader in their defence upon the floor OF
the Scnac-thc High Priest selected to o.icatc at that
unhoy altar upon whch the rights and Liberties OF a
sovereign State to b. sacrificed h0 was III favor
of drawing the sword Of Cir war to open those honor
able Srars which her gallant had received III de-
fence Of vorhcrn interests against foreign foe, whilst
he was meanly skulking from the conflict Who OPP
posed The Compromise and preferred dissolution OF
The Union to n surrender of the Tariff? Daniel Web
ster was that by his side in this warfare upon
State Rights stood gentleman from Virginia, whom
il were srpcrilunus to designate. Having drawn his
frih from the Resolutions and Report Of $50 he came
to the same conclusions with Mr.. Webster upon the
PRINCIPLES of the Constitution-the only difference be-
mo that Mr.. Webster advocating opinions he had
always held, whilst his coadlutor deserted every Prn
chile he had formerly supported dear to Virginia and
essential to the preservation of her freedom. Yet
STRANGE to tell ''this echo Of living or the sta
dow of a dead one, is the politician upon whom these
State Rehts FcdcraisS, who evincc such holy horror
Of The Proclamation, are seeking to confer the highest
office within the gift of the State, with all his sins ''ye
| fresh upon while they are accusing Mr.. Calhoun ana
his friends with going to the Proclamatoniss.
Upon what principles does the State Rights party
the Nullifiers if you will, the Pnrnns in politics
agree with Mr.. Clay, Mr. Adams, Gen. Harrison or Mr.
Webster Not ONE no, not one! From the time o
Alexander Hamilton, TO the present day, they have
been antpodes upon every great principle of Govern
ment Let "Frcnd of State Rights show iii wha
these men with us, before he tauns lis for oppos
inc them If have truly defined their opinions, abou
which there be no question, Of an unlimited con
structioa of the Constitution, giving Congress the reh
10 pass any law which majority may deem, Tor th'
pcRrrai aecfarc, however sectional and oppressive M
operation conceding the right To that majority to judge
of the Consttutonalty of such law, with power t.
enforce by the sword; il the advocacy of Natlona
/ Bank with capital of FIFTY MILLIONS, Protective
Tariff, a System of Internal Improvements, acting a
sponge, not only absorb the proceeds of un ust anc
oppressive TAXATION, but the liberties OF The States;
a distribution of the proceeds of the Public Lands
among the States, thus assuming, by ndIrecon, the
State debts making prccxt for another Tariff, anc
creating an enormous National debt upon the faltt
of the Public Domain, and thus converting that do
main from a fund for national defence into NJ
instrument for the oppression OF postcrty-ln tnc, !
an effort, commenced in the Convention whici
framed the Constitution to dress the United States il
British cgimentals, and perscvrred in from that dal
TO this be the line of conduct which the Federal part,
has ever pursued, then must require some audacity
in any one TO ieer the State Rights party for refusn!
to support them.
What hope could THAT party ever have of carryin!
ont their principles from such POSITION They mus
have uclded like the State Rights Federalsts, to ma
iory of those with whom they acted, and thus have be
come the instruments for the destruction of their owl
principles trust that such fate awaits them Be
parated for time from the Republican party, by some
of the acts of Gen Jackson which they did not sanction
the force and pocer ofuh has again thrown them VIII
that party aid by their joint efforts Ggaih 10 establish
those great principles which brought Cen Jackson mt
power, and TO rally every true Republican under thu
banner by which they then fought and conquered "a
Friend of State Rights must the consequences ofh
present position. "Soscitur Sccio. By making Mr.