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ry, of the 26th March, which is intended, no doubt, to make the whole Union tremble! Here it is:""

Is such language as this to be applied to South Carolina? Are we to be treated with taunt and ridicule for endeavoring to save the Union, the Constitution, and the liberty of the whole country?

separation, where then, we would ask, will be the field for the display of their wits? If they now require,and actually get a protecting bounty upon their industry, of from sixty to two hundred and fifty per cent. levied on the south, what will they do when this prodigal protection is cut off? Do they imagine that, as a separate confederacy, their wits will still enable them to enforce us to pay them tribute? It is hardly pro

In our own State, too, those who have heretofore claimed to themselves the name of Un-bable. But, besides, where are the markets ionists, have now brought forward secession as their remedy against unconstitutional oppression. Nuckolls, Blair, Williams, &c. leaders of the Union party, who have so loudly clamored that the Union was in danger, now actually propose to secede from it!

In this state of things, when our most sacred institutions are threatened by northern tariffiites on the one side, and South Carolina Unionists on the other, where is hope to be found for the Constitution and the Union? Where, but in the moderation and the firmness of the Nullifiers. They alone can preserve the confederacy and the country, and they will do it. NULLIFICATION is now the only name under heaven or upon earth whereby we may be saved.

"LET THEM GO."

We are not a little amazed at the taunting language resorted to in some of the northern newspapers on the subject of a separation of the Union. In reference to a secession of the south, the expression it seems, is becoming quite familiar, "let them go," and the editor of the National Gazette, Mr. Walsh, in the profundity of his wisdom, joins in this chorus of taunt and defiance. Without expressing a single regret ourselves at this insulting bravado, in which we well know they are too keen-sighted to be in the least in earnest, we cannot but express our astonishment at their utter ignorance of the spirit of the south; and their stupidity and folly in supposing that such language is calculated in any possible manner to dissuade, deter, or intimidate the south, or divert her from her high and dignified purposes. "Let them go!!!" Indeed! and let us suppose they do go, who will have the greatest cause of regret? This is a question that deserves inquiry. Are these wiseacres so wofully ignorant of their own sitution as not to know who would be subjected to great, permanent, and overwhelming causes of repentance for such an event? They are not. Living in an inclement climate, on a sterile soil, already overpopulated, do they say to the south in good faith, "Let them go ?"

for the products of their labor? Can they carry them to Great Britain, France, Germany,or Russia, and live by it? Every man knows, and none so well as themselyes, that they dare not attempt it without meeting with inevitable loss and ruin. Can they find a market in the East Indies, or in South America? They dare not try it. The English are there before them, with products so much better and cheaper than theirs, that they will take good care never to employ their wits in that way. Where, then, is their market? We answer emphatically, almost exclusively at the south. Deprive them of this, and you confine them to live on their fishing banks, and whatever of commerce their powerful competitor, Great Britain, might permit them by courtesy to enjoy ; or else to emigrate to the western wilds. And yet they exhibit the temerity and folly to say to the south, "Let them go!" It is by and upon the south that they have hitherto existed; and yet, in effect, say-let the south go-it is a burthen, an eye-sore, a profitless incumbrance upon us; and, moreover, by their slave institutions, &c., a disgrace to us into the bargain; therefore, "let them go !"

Well, let us suppose the Southern States do go," (an event to which it is possible they may be driven by their oppressors) what will then be the state of things? Instead of a protection of some two or three hundred per cent. on their industry in our market, as at present, let us suppose they find a heavy tariff upon their inferior manufactures and worthless notions, in favor of others every way better, and in favor of people more honest, and less hostile? What will their wits enable them to do in this conjunction? Will they then cry, "let them go?" No, my fellowcitizens, they will not: the history of their condision and character is a plain one. We know, and they know well, that their condition without the South would indeed be impoverished and wretched; nor do they intend to let you go." It is the bully-ragging of cupidity in a state of desperation. They see that the stirrings of republican virtue at the South is bringing their It is said that soon after the Revolution, some craft into danger; they perceive that the spoils of gentleman, commiserating the condition of the their robbery, more gainful to them than would Yankees, asked General Washington what be the mines of Potosi, are in jeopardy; and these people, in that inhospitable and barren they are exerting all their wits, and in all possiregion were to do? "Let them alone," was his ble ways, to preserve and retain them. We see reply, they will live by their wits." He their wits taxed and exercised to the very utknew them well; and God knows the prophecy most stretch, in Congress and out of Congress, has so far been most literally fulfilled. But let by cunning enactments, by persuasion, by arguus suppose they do drive the south by self-ment, by threatenings, and by bully-ragging, to legalized robbery, and plunder, and oppression, to separate from them, should they, or would they not outwit themselves? In the event of a

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keep possession of their system of robbery; and so far as these can be carried, rely on it, nothing will be left undone to frighten or cajole

us. The boon they are contending for, is, to them, a very great one; and so far as mere words can insure success, they well know it is richly worth them all.

ciples, the elder Adams; and the son, for the like cause, was made to follow the footsteps of his father.

Virginia, in a greater degree, probably, than any other State, has exercised an unrelenting political intolerance. So scrupulous a stickler has she been for principle, that it has been made to control almost every office in the State. None save those of the true faith, could be permitted to sit at the communion table, and excommunication was the inevitable fate of all dissenters.

In the dark hour of the infant Republic, But let South Carolina interpose her sove- when innovation and consolidation threatened, reign authority, and declare the act of Congress Virginia threw herself into the breach to save imposing a tariff null and void, (which being the country. The contest was tremendous; unconstitutional, is no law at all,) and thereby but her principles triumphed, and she secured place the tariff despots upon the exercise of 10 us for the time, "Liberty-the Constitution their wits to decide whether it will be most pro--Union." fitable to call a convention to settle the difference, and perpetuate the Union; or else, by force, to drive the south to a separation, and our lives on it, they will then evince wit enough to pursue the right course for the preservation of the Union. Let South Carolina pass an act of nullification, and we shall see that this is an argument that will address itself to their self-interest; and when they are brought over to weigh a question of this sort, all the world knows We would fain hope that the principles of which way they will decide. Arguments ad- the State are still unchanged. The people, dressed to their justice, to their republicanism, we believe, are unchanged. But it is truth 'to their national pride, we have had ample ex- to say, that portentous signs are now arising, perience are all futile, and impotent: but ad- which force us to believe that many who are dress their pecuniary interest, and make it their and have been influential in the State, are now interest to act right, and all is safe. Like free- willing and anxious to abandon the old princi. men, once show them that the act of their ma-ples of Virginia, if there is a certainty of taking jority which legalises their more than Turkish plunderings, is a dead letter in South Carolina, and shall not be enforced, and you will hear from them a very different song from that of "let them go.'

It is now, we trust, no longer an act of treason at the south to "calculate the value of the Union," and if so, we assert without fear of contradiction, that whatever its value may be to other sections of the country, it is the very lifeblood and salvation of New England; and, without it, she cannot maintain an existence worth possessing. She knows it, notwithstanding her bully-ragging taunt; and the moment you teach her that she must either abandon the spoils of her robberies, or else give up the Union, you will find her amongst the foremost and the loudest for the call of a convention. Let South Carolina pass an act of nullification, and we shall soon hear who will be the first to cry, "let them go."

ONWARD.

FROM THE VIRGINIA TIMES.

MR. VAN BUREN. The question is now every where asked-Will Virginia take up Mr, Van Buren' Will she embrace the fortunes of the man who has been hurled from his "bad eminence" by the voice of the Senate; although he has "'usurped the Patriot's all-atoning name,' "and presents himself now to the people as the great and the persecuted statesman? To this question we can give no positive answer, but our opinion is, that she will not.

the people along with them. There is an ef fort making, nay, we might almost say, successfully made, to merge all questions of policy, politics, and principle, in the humiliating and degrading idolatry of men, and the contemptable and disgusting scramble for office. These are the means by which the people are sought to be led astray. The temptation of office and emolument is held out to all who can be bought, and by the cry of persecution is sought to touch the generous and unsuspecting.

It is our duty fearlessly to admonish the people of the dangers which await them, and regardless of consequences, we will do it. As to the man who may be Vice President, it is certainly a matter of very little importance; he has neither patronage nor power. But as to the support of a man for Vice President who, in all probability, will be the President of the United States, and thus obtain the almost boundless power and patronage of that office, it is necessary-it is an imperious duty-for us to inquire whether or not his principles are in accordance with ours. None, then, but those perfectly regardless of recorded truth, can, or will say, that Mr. Van Buren is not the exact antipode of the Virginia politics of '98. Then the question arises, will the people of Virginia suffer themselves insiduously to be drawn into the support of their enemy by a few worshippers of men and office bunters? or, has the State undergone an entire change, and are the people ready to abandon their own heretofore highly valued, and take up the New York, system of principles?

The boast of Virginia heretofore has been, that she advocated principles, not men; and the moral influence arising from such a course, ena. bled her to exercise over her sister States an PUBLIC MEETING. influence, which has ruled the destinies of the Agreeably to previous notice, a number of Union. That influence drove from the Presi- the citizens of Greene county, Alabama, condency, for his dereliction of her cherished prin-vened at the court house, in Erie, on the 31st

of March last, to take into consideration the Senate, been attempted to be justified? Why vote of our Senator, the Hon. G. Moore, on the did not the meeting recently held here, or their nomination of Mr. Van Buren to the Court of committee, the ostensible authors of their preSt. James, Col. Patrick Norris, a soldier of the amble and resolutions, attempt to demonstrate, revolution, was called to the Chair, and Willis upon the facts of his case, that Mr. Van Buren Crenshaw, appointed Secretary. The object had beed unjustly assailed, and that he was not of the meeting having been explained by Wm. guilty as he stood charged before the Senate M. Murphey, Mr. Vandegraaff moved that a of the United States? Why no single remark committee be appointed to prepare resolutions offered in vindication of his anti-American inexpressive of the sense of the meeting. The structions to Mr. McLane? Why not one sylChair then appointed Wm. J. Vandegraaff, Sol.lable upon the subject of his political opinions, McAlpin, J. C. McAlpin, and Wm. M. Mur-now or heretofore entertained? phy; who, after retirement, reported to the Without stopping to inquire into the question house the following preamble and resolutions: of Mr. Van Buren's gulit-his sincerity-his The Committee appointed by the meeting in political creed-or the nature or occasion of accordance with the foregoing resolution, in a his present adhesion to the administration, his short time after their appointment, offered for friends here, seem to deem it a sufficient charge the consideration of the meeting the following against our Senator, that his vote was offensive report: to the President. For that sin 'twere presumpYour Committee cannot but express their tion in him, to supplicate for pardon. unaffected regret, that any citizen should have committee cannot be mistaken in the opinion, deemed it necessary or proper, at this time, to that the community to which Gov. Moore is produce an excitement in public feeling, in re-responsible for his vote, will look to the real lation to the name of Martin Van Buren; for questions involved in the merits and demerits which purpose only, as they conceive, was the of Mr. Van Buren-the truth or falsehood of meeting held in this place on the 19th instant the charges preferred against him, and upon convened. As, however, for such purpose an which he has been condemned, before they attack has been made upon the Senate of the proceed to pronounce sentence of condemnaUnited States, for an upright exercise of its tion upon their Senator. constitutional authority, and particularly upon It is believed that the people of Alabama, Gov. Moore, as a member thereof, from this much as they esteem and admire the President; State. It cannot be improper in us, to contri-will never enjoin it upon their Representatives bute our voice in the vindication, at least, of in Congress, or elsewhere, blindly to support our implicated Senator, from the most unjust every measure of which he is the advocate, of and wanton crimination and abuse. every nomination, right or wrong, which he may make of an individual to office.

Your

It is certainly remarkable, that the prominent complaint, the heart and core of all the com- The Senate of the United States not only plaints put forth against Gov. Moore, is, that heretofore, but now also, the most august dehis vote upon Mr. Van Buren's nomination to liberative assembly in the world, was not instithe Senate of the United States, as our Minis-tuted by the wisdom and patriotism of our fater to the Court of St. James, was not in accor-thers thus to worship at the shrine of any indi-, dance with the expressed and known wishes vidual's popularity.

and predilections of the President; as if that It lies within the wide compass of possibiliSenator's busine-s at Washington was, upon ality at least, that the President is not a perfect occasions, to consult, and like a good and faith-being, and if he be subject, like other men, ful subject, exactly obey the wishes, express to the prejudices and passions of poor human or implied, of him who is at the head of the nature, he may occasioually err.

Executive Government.

It would be time better employed, therefore,

But our Senator has the gratification to to examine the charges preferred against Marknow, that a free and enlightened people, who tin Van Buren, and to determine upon the justly appreciate the maxim, that government facts established by the evidence, whether they is not instituted for the glory of rulers, but sole-are or are not well founded, than to be engaged ly to promote and secure the public weal, in the fabrication of arguments and rhetorical would expect him, as their faithful representa- flourishes, to prove that the accusations ought tive, to overlook the individual wishes and par- to be rejected as groundless, for reason meretialities of even Gen. Jackson himself, when-ly, that the party implicated is a favorite at ever and as often as those wishes and partiali-Court. Your committee will not enlarge upon ties could not be gratified consistently with the the indefensible character of Mr. Van Buren's public good. And in voting upon Mr. Van instructions to Mr. McLane, as his new-born Buren's nomination, therefore, it is presumed, friends in Alabama have forborne to attempt a he did not so much inquire what this or that justification of them; what, indeed, could be individual wished, as what the good of the said, even to palliate the offence of that citizen, country demanded at his hands. who has deliberately invited a foreign govern It is thus, that we would have our represen ment, (our rival at all points,) to take part in atives to act. our domestic political divisions, and to assist the Why has not, your Committee would res-party in power, effectually to crush and destroy pectfully inquire, Mr. Van Buren's conduct in that portion of our fellow citizens who happen respect to which he was condemned by the to be attached to another and less fortunate

party! It may be well taken for granted that the Hon. William R. King, our other Senator in these instructions admit of no palliation, for, Congress, voted from honest motives, and otherwise, surely the friends of their author, that, although we cannot approve of his vote, founded upon the merits of his case, instead of he still retains our confidence, as an upright and resting his defence, as they have done, upon faithful pu lc servant.

the high authority of the President's approba- 4. Resolved, That a copy of the proceedings tion. The prospects of this happy and fou-of this meeting, authenticated by the signatures rishing Republic will, indeed, be clouded in of the Chairman and Secretary, be forwarded deep gloom, whenever that day shall arrive, to the National Intelligencer and Washington which beholds, in the popularity of any one citi-City Telegraph for publication, also in the zen, sufficient influence to close up the avenues Greene County Gazette. of inquiry into iniquity and crime.

Chairman.

FROM THE WINCHESTER REPUBLICAN.

SPECIFICATIONS.

PATRICK NORRIS, But it is said that Governor Moore voted con- WILLIS CRENSHAW, Secretary. trary to the known wishes of the people of Alabama. If, indeed, our Senator had reason to believe, and did believe, that his constituents expected and desired him to vote for every The followers of Van Buren demand specimeasure recommended by the President, right fied charges against him. They shall be or wrong, and the proposition were really true, gratified, and we trust that "investigations" it might be justly said, that he wilfully disre- may still be the order of the day. The charges garded the wishes of his constituents. The which we are about to bring against him have proposition however happens to be preposterous. no reference to his conduct towards our party, It was known to that Senator that he was the but to his wire-workings in his own. It is not Representative of a high-minded and independ our business to find fault with him for blowing ed people, who would exact of him a faithful up the sublime Jackson party, which he seems and unremitting attention and attachment to to have done pretty effectually, but we have a their and his country's welfare, without respect right to express our contempt for the means to the peremptory dictation of any individual whereby he has attempted to rise-means whatever. Governor Moore certainly knew, which prove him to be alike destitute of the what every body knows, that Martin Van Buren honor of a patriot and the spirit of a man. had been known in Alabama previous to his no- We charge Martin Van Buren with having mination, as the master intriguer and political fomented, instead of attempting to subdue, the juggler of the age, and that his appointment to dissentions of a domestic nature by which Gen. the office of Secretary of State, was unfavorably Jackson was surrounded after forming his first regarded by General Jackson's best and oldest Cabinet, and for the sole purpose of selfand most steadfast friends. Governor Moore, advancement-and we say that he who obtains also knew that Mr. Van Buren has been and is power, by such base means, cannot be an honor the devoted friend of the American System, in able man.

all is ramifications, and that, after having given We charge him with having driven from a deceitful pledge to oppose, he flagiciously Gen. Jackson, by artful intrigues, his earliest, supported by his talent for intrigue, that ultra his most generous, most faithful, efficient, and measure, the tariff of 1828, approved by no par disinterested supporters, which he would not ty, and which has driven the whole south very have done. were he a sincere friend of the nearly to the point of exasperation. How could President, or an honest member of his party; Governor Moore have imagined that such a because he thereby compromised the honor of man was to become a favorite in Alabama, an the President and endangered the welfare of individual opposed to us in politics upon those the said party.

very vital questions, which so much agitate at We charge him with having caused the disthis moment the confederacy, and which have solution of the first Cabinet, every member of brought South Carolina to the verge of open which did his duty faithfully, according to Gen. resistance to the authorities of the General Go. Jackson's written certificates, because Ingham, vernment, and to civil war. Governor Moore Branch, and Bertien, would not become his could not have discharged his duty as a faithful partizans, and lend their exertions and their Representative of the south, had he contribut-influence in furtherance of his selfish and cored, in any degree, to brighten Mr. Van Buren's rupt designs. prospect of succeeding to power. Your com mittee, therefore, respectfully recommend the adoption of the following resolutions:

We charge him with having used his influence to control, in an improper manne, the social relations of the community at Washing

1. Resolved, That we heartily approve of the ton, for the purpose of gaining the affections vote of the Hon. Gabriel Moore, one of our Se. of the President, whose feelings were interests nators in Congress, upon Mr. Van Buren's no-ed in behalf of the individual who gave rise to mination, as being right in itself, and as having the disturbance of said social relations, and been honestly and independently given. thereby enlisting the President as one of his partizans.

2. Resolved, That we have increased confi dence in his independence, and in his devotion to what he conceives to be the interest of luis country.

3. Resolved, That we do also believe that

Our authority for these charge is the speech delivered by Robert Y. Hayne, in the United States' Senate, on the nomination of Van Puren as Minister to England, which speech will be

found in our paper of February 11th. Gen. this resolution be violated by any one printer, Hayne expressly states that he has examined and they must be again involved in a trial as to into the truth of all the charges he brings the orders and privileges of that House. For against Van Buren-that he relies upon fucts, this reason, he (Mr. W.) thought it would be some of which have fallen under his own better to leave the matter to their reporters; if observation, and that he has most unquestionable they should transgress what were conceived to sources of information as to others. We be- be the bounds of decorum and propriety, the lieve no Van Buren press has been found House might then take such order upon their sufficiently profligate and sufficiently impudent conduct as it should think proper.

to question the honor or doubt the veracity of Mr. DICKSON objected, that in the form in Gen. Hayne. ARE THESE CHARGES SPECIFIC which the resolution stood, it would preclude ENOUGH? the publication of the proceedings, not only then, but at any other time.

CONGRESSIONAL

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1832.

TRIAL OF SAMUEL HOUSTON. The House assembled at 12 o'clock.

Mr. PATTON said, that such was not the

case.

The resolution was then again read, and Mr. DICKSON withdrew his objection, perceiving that the restriction was only whilst the trial was pending.

Mr. DAVIS said, he wished to make one inquiry of the gentleman who had offered this reMr. C. JOHNSON wished to offer a resolu- solution; from whence did that House derive tion to the House, that Samuel Houston, the the authority to say that what was done and said accused party, should be allowed the assistance there should not be published to the American of counsel, for the purpose of examining wit- people?

solution to the House.

nesses, and to assist him in any legal questions Mr. PATTON said, he was surprised at such which might arise in the course of his trial.- an inquiry; and the more so from the gentleman Mr. Houston had, on reflection, thought that from whence it came. What were they about such assistance might be desirable, and it was to do? They were proceeding to the trial of at his request that he, (Mr. J.) offered this re- an individual charged with a breach of the rules and privileges of that House. They were The resolution was then read and agreed to: about to do this in a judicial character, and the Mr. THOMAS then said, he had a resolu- proceeding had been urged and justified by an tion to offer, which he doubted not the gallan- analogy with certain proceedings of judicial try and courtesy of the House would sustain. courts. A gentleman, (Mr. D.) who had been As many ladies were present, desirous of hear- most conspicuous in his exertions for the proing their proceedings in this case, and the gal-tection of the House in all its liberties, now leries were very much crowded, he thought it asked, from whence they derived an authority would be proper that they should be allowed to protect themselves, during this prosecution, to occupy the privileged scats on the floor of from the operation of appeals and statements the House, Mr. T. moved a resolution to that which might be made through the medium of effect which was adopted. the public papers. The course which he pro

Mr. PATTON submitted a resolution prohi-posed was a practice which had been pursued, biting reporters admitted upon the floor, and and a privilege which had been exercised by editors of newspapers and others, from printing every judicial tribunal in criminal causes, withor publishing the testimony in the case, pending out dispute or question. Mr. P. said, he had, the trial. on presenting his resolution, adverted to the Mr. PATTON said, he had not offered this considerations which induced him to offer it to resolution until he had consulted many members the House. Let him again refer to those conof that House, whose experience and discretion siderations somewhat more at large. Yesterhe thought entitled to regard. He hoped it day, (said Mr. P.,) or the day before, one of would be adopted without discussion. The on- the papers of this city contained an editorial ly objection he had felt to offering it was, that paragraph, purporting to give a statement of the necessity of what it proposed, might, of it- the facts connected with this alleged outrage self be conceived sufficient, without the en- and breach of privilege; that statement was obforcement of a resolution of that House. He viously, and on the face of it, highly discolored should, indeed, have conceived this obligation and exaggerated, and as he had since been insufficing, if there had not been already, what formed by one of the parties implicated, grossly he conceived a most flagrant violation of pro- false in all its essential particulars. He, (Mr. priety in this respect. He had, therefore, P.,) knew not if it was so; but what was the thought proper to propose this resolution as a period at which this charge was made? Samuel solemn warning against future publications, cal- Houston, the accused party, was at that time in culated to bias the public mind, and thereby custody of the officer of that House; he was disprevent a fair trial of the case before this House. armed and powerless; and would have been Mr. WAYNE had no doubt the motives of guilty of a new breach of privilege and conthe gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. P.) were ve- tempt of the House, if he had dared to publish ry good; but he would ask that gentleman, if any statement of facts relative to this transac he had considered one point-it was this. Let tion; whilst in this predicament, before one

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