Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-01-22

CAS- I1Tty CdTTgU, Nloat zeal and UOIpr
Following Mr.. McDutfie at an interval Of two wears
came into Congress from the State OF souh Carolina
two other gentlemen, Robert Y Havne in the Senate
OF whom, now ne more, we shall say nothing but what
expresses his praise as an honorable oen1Ien,an and
sincere regret that he had not lived hi now, ;fnnv
to have averted as we are persuaded he woud have
done, by his wise and sohered counsels the rash and
ladvised course which his State is now taking and
Of James Hamilton ir of whom we will saw noibing
because he is still living and as he has proved hv
portrait from his own hand recently published in orr
columns his natvrcl has underuone no chance dnrinu
the twenty eight years which have eapsed since he first
took his seat the representative of the metropoita
district of his State The advent of these gentlemen
into CONGRESS ro,yh ora aal;no in the etot.
of outh Carolina directly opposjte to that under which
her Representatives in Congress had acted but few
years earIier-hat is to saw feeling Of hostility to the
interests ,ha countrv nc ouos; odverse
to the planting interest of the South hostility To the
Tariff in word and TO all those who were sunnosed
10 be benefited bv it. This e cling not wholly NINA
tura at first became through the efforts made 10 aq.
gravate it so intense as 10 monopoljze nearly all the
consideration which the State Of South Carolina had
to bestow upon the affairs of the General Government
AT the period at which MIR Hayne and Mr. Hamil-
ton came into pnblc life Tin the wear 1921 the conn
try was if we NAV nse the expression in a transition
state about TO exchange the last of the Presidents of
the Revolutionary Era for some one of the succeed.
though occasional Complains of inequality or oppres
sveness of the duties on imports had been heard from
Souhe men in the Halls of Congress- hostility TO the
Tariff had hardly then become as twas afterwards at
tempted to make it, an article of political faith unon
which an opposition was to be made in Congress to
the Admin istraton and eventually in the State Of
South Carolina, to the execution of laws passed by
Congress in the clearest exercise of constitutional an
thority
In the course of the canvass for the succession to
Mr. Monroe the friends of Mr. Calhoun pres .nted his
name as one Of the competitors in the race nnhIic
journals were established to support his claims and
they were advocated by his Congress onal friends and
others with characteristic animation and eanestness
against those of the other eminent men WHOSE nan,es
h,f,r tEo D. n
however on whose support Mr. Calhoun hsd in
great degree relied evincine preference for Cen
Jackson the friends of the former W it'll his consent
Withdrew his name from the connection for rho pres,,
dency He became the cand Gate for the Vice Presi
dency and was elected and at the expiraton of his
first term of four years he was eeected to the same
office ~
1t was not if VIC remember RIGHTLY until after Tho
great debate in the Senate upon Mr. Foot's ResoInon
concerning the Public Lands in which Mr. Webster 81
trumnhanv sustained the Constitution ara;nst he 81
sauIts upon it. that The idea of torcibe resistance ~
the Tariff Laws was preached in anv public assemble
The occas on on which il was introduced was tho ak
braton in This city, on the 18Th dav of Anr Jaao ~
the anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Jefferson NJ
which, besides large assembly of the political friands
of the Administration President Jackson tban in M
zenith of his power was present: when Mr. Sansn ,r
Hayne, replying to toast, in which aIlusion had
been made to the politics OF South Carolina undertook
TO define the position OF South Carolina in relation TO
certain powers assumed and measures adopted by the
Federal government, and the grounds OF her opposition
the greater part OF the company that South Carolina
had takeu aposition in opposition to the popeys re-
fered TO- Chiefly, OF course, the power to raise
ne by taxes upon lmports) the speech OF Mr. Ifayne
was listened to with great attention. In resisting the
lafi policy, the operation OF which, he said had been
gevous upon the South to rel eve themselves from its
Pressure was not the only object OF the South Carroll
mans. we are striving" said he, "tor the establish
ment OF those great fundamental principles which
our Government is based. and which essential TO
me Pefn'anence Of or Pre- anstlsutions Gentlemen
n trapG ,opt
could tomg endure under The influence of such sys
tenn The South SAID he, "is striving to resist this
system by all the means in her power: il she succeeds
I'm resisting the Tariff systemJ she will save the Con-
stution, &c.--concuding by saying Eve shall 90
steadily forward doubling nothing and fearing moth
ing, the fall assurance that the Constitution soN be
| feStoreG, &c. This formal auuuncatlou OF deter
mnatlon on the part OF South Carolina TO restore
constitution which was still supposed to be sound and
| neart-W ho!e was generally considered an intma-
ton OF the design OF the State to "nullity" the Tariff
laws ana was SO interpreted by the journals OF the
DAY, and by Gen Jackson himself, who, taken much
by surprise any at the disclosure on festive oe-
caslen OF des gns SO little expected being soon after cal.
led upon Tor sentiment, gave the following we'll re-
membered toast, italicized in the copy furnished by him
as it is here:
Our Federal Union IL must be preserved" .
The discomfort of the South n, this ner;od mn. H.
picted in still HIGHER colors in snaaoh dl;vorsd n th
| same month in the House Of Papresentotyes h, N M
McDufie, in which he declared that the "son,bsrn
States are TO ali inentS and n,,rnoses ro @ ;d ~
much so as ifthe British Parliament had th nr "e
legislative power of regulating ther con,marce One
would have thought it an aIl-snfcent answer to sncb
an argument as this-vvhch bowe,or aa"a =, W b
been urged in seriousoesathat the Cnsp,;t ~ as
ers in very terms The precise nower ~ the nf
which the orator Objected saving "coos SnU I ~
pooer to regulate c0mmsycc with oregn noers and
among the several States" Inmatine he n,o6ab,u
of resistance of the law bv force the neroren Of NJ
McDuffies sneech was an annooi ~ th @ " r,
Character to the advocates o dt Soie a
retrocs their steps as speedy as nosshla I'D raouo
patriotic and high.mjnded peonle from an ,,noonst;t
tIonal and oppressive burden which they cannot lon
ger bear
These facts of history are thus infinitely referred to
for the purpose of showing that up to the war lS30
when South Carolina was pilng up accusations against
notification fits Laws for grievances too oppressive
to be borne, not word was heard of resistance for
chile or otherwise, by South Carolina 10 wrongs sus
tanned IN her relations OF Sayeholding State nor
because OF any interference with her rights by the Mis-