Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-03-07
THE ENQUIRER
Richmond, March q.

Commcna The Poisoned CAal,cs 10 tier Orn Lips!
The people OF Virginia will remember, among
the other numerous shameless humbugs Of the
Wings, during the last Presidential Campaign,
The DiSua1on Humbug. They attempted 10
ring as many changes upon i, as the six bell
ringers, with their IL bells. They attempted 10
inlimidaie The people with their panic notes,
that South Carolina was bent upon the dis
solution of the Union-that the Republicans
of the South were embarked in the same
conspiracy-lhat Colonel Polk was the Sc
| lected leader of the trai,ors-and that his cleo
! ton would seal The fate OF the Union. The Re-
| publicans not only denied these allegations, bul
they pointed 10 The threats OF John c.. Adams &
Co, 10 The Resolutions of Massachusetts and Yer
; mont, and TO The menacing movements OF the
AbolilionistS and the Wings, as the evidences Of
a more decided Anii-Union feeling. on the
o,ler side of the House-Against all these open
I manifestations The humbugsiag Wings had poll
tically closed their very vigilani eyes. Well
and how stands the case nowl Col. Polk ! eject
ed, and was Yesterday installed into office, as Pre-
Sid.nt oflhc U. States-and still The Union stands
firmly upon lis basis. Nota blow has been aimed
at its foundation By a single Democrat. The
whole huinbug is exposed, 10 the ridicule OF man
kind-aS far as relates TO us-but how is il with
lHC w uIS INV az
has again acted-and issued her bull against The
Union-and it now remains 10 I've scen-lst,
what she will do to carry oft her threats; ami
2dly, What the hrmbugging Wh;aso OF Virginia
will say, either 10 the threat or 10 The execution, II
The Disunionisls os Massachusetts should he rash
enough 10 make the experiment. Texas Is now
3nnexcd-aud We wait 10 hear from Massachn-
sets. what she is about 10 do. Meantime, we lay
betoie nur readers the following scathing Article
from that capital journal, the "Boston Morning
Post" Of Thursday last-ihe very day on which
the Texas Resolutions passed Inc Senate Of The
U. States:
1.-THE TEXAS RESOLVES: ANCIENT
AND MODERN FEDERALISM.
"sRe,o.eea, That there las hitherto been n" precedent
uron aJmi.-i"n ofn fo,e,sn state or i1felsn Irnt"'y
into the Union by legislation And ns the powers Of lr-
sislation granted in the Constitution OF he United State,
~ Congress, do moi embrace a ras- Of The admission of Il
Irnjrn. sUCu an ACT or ADMISSION WILL HAVE
No BINDING FORCE WHATEVER ON TIE PE0-
PIE OF MASSACHUSETTS,"
nWords are said 10 be things. The Wing ma
ioriiy of the Massachusetts Legislature have So
lennly resolved, that if Congress pass an act ad
hitting Texas into this Union, such ACT "wIi.i.
HAVE 80 BINDING FORCE WHATEVER on TIE PEOPLE
or MASSACHUSETTS," This language is either
iIifins, or il is tisorganizing. But first. it is not
to he supposed that the men who compose the ma
ioritv OF this Legislature would pass a series Of
resolves 10 merely trile with their lime or with
the money OF The people. If not lrifiny, then,
secondly. these Legislators have here done what
they could, and all they could, 10 raise a spirit Of
opposition - governments; that, hereafter, may not
SHOWN at their bidding" Here The legally con-
stituted authorities OF Massachusetts have deli5e-
ra.ely and solemnly declared, that if the similarly
constituted legal authorities Of The Union shall
enact a certain law, this law twill have no bind
ing force whatever On the people!" What does
this mean!
"Does it mean that the people Of Massachu-
sets, acting in their Inherent right, shall throw
of the Federal Government? In other words, do
what the Declaration of independence declares a
people have a right 10 do. That they have The
right TO alter and abolish government whenever
and wherever they please, is, unqueSionably, the
doctrine OF the revolution. IL The Legislature
mean to take this ground, or, in other words, 10
plant themselves on the great national right OF re-
v%olution, then another question comes up, whe-
Their the causes are sufficient 10 Justify such a
movement. But this ground is disclaimed by The
Wing party. While its every movement ap-
pears upon its face to have been designed 10 ef-
feet a dissolution of the Union, it still rcpudiales
snch an intention. Is the disclaimer only made
until the leaders think the pear shall be ripe?
"Buttake the words as they stand, and what do
they mean? They invite the people Of Massachu-
sets to resist a law of Congress. Here men pri-
ding themselves on their conservative principles
men who have law and order eternally upon
their lips-men who are daily charging their po-
litical opponents with promoting anarchy; these
men unfurl the banner OF resistance 10 a contem-