The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-12-18

Ii ought not, perhaps, to surprise that this gentle
should continue to persevere in course of pol
icy which has been repudated by the people OF his
Stale, and is obviously at with the best interests
OF his country they understood by the patriots and
statesmen Of both the great parties which have been de-
veloped by our public experience. Those who have
watched the of The Southern Press located in this
city for the poessed purpose Of guarding what it deems
southern interests, cannot have failed that the hon.
oable senator from South Carolina has but faithfully
echoed the notes OF that organ Disunon rather than
quiescence in The Compromse-seeesson, not revo.
luionary remedy but constitutional highland the
organization of the South in the attitude OF resistance
suspendng multiplying the regular action Of the laws,
until those laws be made TO take the form prescribed
minen, grounds upon which these new lights would
seek to place hopes to preserve our republican ns
,utons and transmit, them unmpaired to our poseriy
But il is not much purpose this occasion to
point on, the glazing enormties, both in doctrine and
argument which render the position OF the honorable
ator referred to offensive the patriotic spirit OF our peo
pie, 10 correct an error into which he has fallen
specting the views entertained by General Jackson
during the notification crisis Of 1882. The procama.
ton issued at that ,me the honorable senator was un
derstood to say, not written by the President but
by Mr.. Livingston represented as change.
ling in politics, and acknowledged federalist In
making such statements the honorable senator can
find pretext outside of the irresponsible declaa-
tons OF the hereto organs whose aim il was a, that
day TO break up the government and destroy the in
fuence OF the patriot who threw himself into the
breach, and sked all his character and fame in over
throwing combination which WA far more dan.
gerous to the constitution thsn the invasion OF the British
in 1915 had been TO Liberties We defy the honora-
bic senator to produce any respectable authority for in
validating the declaration we now make respecting the
and issue of that proclamation as a public
document.
1t is true tina, the document issued from The State De
partment, where all such papers recorded. and that
Mr. Livingston. who the Secretary Of State was the
cabinet minister chiefly consulted in its preparation But
il is utterly untrue that Mr. Livingston did more than
give form to sentiments carefully drawn by the Generals
own hand by his private secretary, or that the pa
per did not undergone usual cabinet revision and con-
sul,ation before published The writer OF hi,
article was that private secretary, and there i. now in
The Senate one Of the cabinet officers Of General Jackson
who took part in The consultations that paper and who
cannot have forgotten the careful attention which
AT the last meeting OF the cabine, on
this subject several passages in the paper were mate.
rally changed. in order that there might be nothing
in il, Of either phaseoogy sentiment at which excep-
lion would be taken. which could give rise to the i'm
preston, now anxonsy sought to be created that il
document which did represent the opinions or
feelings Of the President The following is one among
other passages that can be enumerated which was &C
,ep,sd substitute for the original paragraph on the
same subject, TO which exception was taken by one Of
he cabinet;
The people Of the United States formed the oonstit
on acting through the State legislatures in making the
compact 10 meet and discuss its provisions and acting In
separate conventions when they ratified those provision.
o the terms used in its construction show it to be gov
'ment In which the people of all the State. collectively
represented We PEOPLE in the choice of be
President and Vice President Here the States have no
',ser agency than direct the mode In which the vo,e.
hall be given The candidates having the ,oy of the
'oes are chosen The electors OF majority OF States may
nave given their votes for candidate and yet snotbs
nay be chosen The people, them and not the States. IRE
epresented in the executive branch"
This paragraph had the sanction of the lamen,ed Wood
'ury nj whose instance it offered a Substitute
or the original, which he deemed not quite guarded
nongh in the historical account it gave OF the manner
n which the constitution came into existence ms a com
'act between the States Mr. Woodbury. referred The