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POLITICAL. Z'Vc/w Mr Shtc IntJUgcnccr. TO TUE UN I 0 NA N D STA T E rights taiitv of south Carolina. A general of Alabama ofgreat respectability recently senl me an extract from the Columbia S. C. Telescope, published a short lime previ- ! ous to the October elections, which I had not ; seen before; as Ido not take that papei. A- ' mung other things, it contained the follow- ■ ing. .1 Judge Suiitk- mid Mr. Calhoun.— Judge I Smith is still in York, very busy making speech- I es against Mr. Calhoun, Gov. Hamilton, and Mr. AlcD. file, and republishing documents six teen years old. Having failed in his schemes of Vice Presxient hunting, be is now endeavor ing to gratify a private hate and malignity, 1 which seems to be increased cnly by age and disappointment. Jud ge Smith has lately sold all his remaining property in this State. He is now a citizen of Louisi;uttr--o*—Akbanw. By what right does he make himself so busy-in the local affairs of South Carolina when he has deserted his soli? If South Carolina were to sink- into f.he sea, ■ <{.’.vv months hence how could it hurt Judge j Smith? ' | He only thinks of gratifying hie thirst of ven- I grance against John C. Calhoun. This John ' C. Calhoun at least possesses some merit 'j : which William Smith cannot claim. He has never yet deserted South Carolina. The "State which gave him birth, still contains him- f i self and property —his soul is devoted to her i service—he will share her fate—and her soil ’ ] will contain his grave. But William Smith! j two yeans ago deserted his principles, and < now he is about to desert his aountry!!” I hi other timesand under other circumstances, , this perhaps would not have been worthy of* | notice. But these times are too pertentious to i permit any thing to pass unnoticed that will i tend to develope the causes that gave rise to • die great events that so deeply interest every i American; and which threaten die immediate t separation of South Carolina from the rest of ; the Union, with the horrors of civil war. And < as th i humble* par' 1 have acted, to cotrol these i "nvetlts has called down on me this uncom teous | i .denunci ition I will take occasion through this ; address, to offer you my own ex; I aunt on of t tins supposed persecution (>f the ex- Vice P.esi- t . dent and his friends, After which I will be it content with such judgmeiit as a genet ous com- i niunity may be pleased to pass on my motives. 1 1 therefore admit that I was making speeches, not against Mr. Calhoun, Gov. H <mil on and < Mr. McDuffie as piivate gen.lemen, hut agais I —■ their wild and delusive schemes of Nulirfii aiion i -—by which they had destroyed every thing ; having the semblance of social order or social i felicity, among a people heietofore supremely ( virtuous and happy;—white they seemed evi- i - dently bent on separating South Carolina from t the Union, as the first step towai ds the disso It Jution of the Union itself. For at the moment | of making these speeches Mi. Me Duffie, Gov. j ;i Hamilton and Gen. Hayne were riding post | throughout the State, collecting the citizens in- ; to large assemblies al barbecues, and vociferal- t inp IN unification as a peacetui and constitu- ( ’ tional remedy against the tarib and internal ■ improvement systems, imposed on the South i for taking from the planter, as they asserted, < “forty bales of his cotton out of every hundred, i to enrich the people of New England. ; | At these delicious festivals they strove to i excel in their tons's and sentiments, and in thei i convivialities invok'd a spirit best adapted to t produce hatred to the Union--hostility to the < administration of its laws and excite the citizens to a civil war against their neighbors, their 6ru/'iezs and fathers! in which the father might cut the throat of his son; and the son fjhinge his dagger in'o tin. bosom of his father! And where the assemblage was mor • splended llie crimson fl?g devised by Gov. 11 im lion, “res the national banner oj South t arodnu," with one star an i one stripe, emblematic of hei sepai.ition from the Union was unfurled and Waved over the sumptuous banquet. In the mi an time, Mi. Calhoun, then Vici- Piesident of the United States, was busily em ployed in issuing from the press, immense qu Hi'i'ies of the third edition of his Book o*. Nullification and Vetoes—urging the people to demolish lheii guvernmeir, because each state had not the enthe control over the 1 tivs of the | National Government—assuring them that the tinifi'and internal improvement system were un constitutional, and consequently, null and void ' —that they produced corruption and oppres sion, and led to consolidation—and fin illy, that monarchy would soon follow. That Nullifica tion was moreover a peaceable remedy, pro , vided by the Constitution of tue United St ites, whereby a single St He is empowered by virtue oi li'Jf reserved sovereignty, io arrest the oper • INion of any law of the General Government, whenever in the opinion of the citizens of that Stq(p-,,suc h him a——as this wis the practice since the formation of the I government, it was the only remaining mode hy which a Union of the States could be pre served—as those great Apostles of Liberty, Jeflerson and Madison, had fully established the constitutionality of Nullification, in their * Virginia and Kentucky resolutions. To aid the operation of Nullification, (bey established Jacobin Clubs throughout the State, precisely in character with the Jacobin Clubs of France during the stormy period of her revolution— which were forerunners to the scenes that pro duced such torrents of human blood, and such a waste of human life; for many years, in that fine but unfortuna’.e country. Each member of these sjcictie sconti ibnted, at entrance the sum of one dollar and fifty cents, and the same amount annually, as a fund to defray the ex pensn of publishing twenty thousand tracts weekly. Bv the mail stages these tracts were dis’ributed to the clubs over the State, and they again distributed them among the citizens, gratis. These trades we.e filled with garbled and mutil ted sen'ences fiom tlie lately pub ’. shed writings cl Mr. Jtflerson-—choice sen- i tenccs from Mr. book upon Nuiiifi i cation-—false quotations from the speeches of I the Union Parly; and such a medley in gener al, as no man ever l ead before. To crowd all this, they were invariably bublished without re name. In addition to all this, the two senators and" six Representatives horn South Caioliua, as a, joint stock campany, inundated the State with' pamphlets, to which each had subscribed his own I proper name, denouncing the tariff of 1832 as ! > far worse than the tariff of 1828—and that as j all hope of rebel had lied the principles of pro ; tcction were now fixed upon us forever, 'i hey (.declared .that the Southern people must look- I for relief elsewhere than to Congress— and so | 1 determined were they to get possesion of the ( public mind that they actually sent off thousands i of their pamphlets whilst the law was yet un- ( finished. Vast numbers of these infl unatory publications were secretly deposited in the hands ol one party, before their opponents, (he ' Union Party, knew any thing of what was go ing forward. The speeches which 1 made were intended to counteract this mad career and if possible to save a high minded and credu lous community from the disasters to which these heresies and egregious impositions were destined to lead them. In doing so, 1 met these gentlemen openly, some of iliern face to face, and not under (he mask of un editor— sanctuary of a coward. It is equally true that I republished docu ments sixteen years old. They were the • speeches, the pamphlets and the votes of Mr. Calhoun, Mr. McDuffie, Gov. Hamilton, and General Hayne, in support of the tariff and in ternal improvement systems,' when these sys tems w-ere popular and evidently rising in pub lic estimation; contrasted with the speeches, the pamphlets, and votes of the same gentlemen, in i opposition io those systems, when they had become unpopular and were evidently going 1 down in public estimation. My object was to prove to the people of South Carolina, that the . tat iff and internal improvement system were ' imposed upon them by Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Me-! Duffie, Gov. Hamilton, and Gen. Hayne, and i Bill by the people ol New-England.—They were further admonished, that when the day of accountability’ should arrive, it would be un wise to trust the mode or measure of redress, to these men who were maiuly instrumental in producing their c d amities. They wore liber ally Son b Caioliua systems, and owe their existence io these ‘four gentleman, more than to any other portion of the hum in race. All. Calhoun laid the foundation of internal 1 improvement in his famous Bonus Bill: and bo so d of being ns author. /Vs Secretary of iV.it, be went fin i'ner to establish a permanent extravagant system titan any other man nt the Uttum has ever gone before oi sincO|. General H <yne, in the Senate in 1824, sup ported a hill in opposition to every other mem ber of th it body South of the Potomac, and in opposition to a number ol the New-England members, for an annual appropriation <d dnrty, thousand dollars, tor plans and surveys oi roads and canals only! He voted down eve: v pro- i position that was calculated eithei to d-t’eaior to lessen the powers of his bill—lie con’d not be controlled—he would have his thirty thous and dollars. A sum sufficient forone year only, tri survey more roatlu i.riJ canals ui.tu ivvu hun dred millions of dollars could accomplish. Mr. McDuffie, in the other House, in a most indefatigable effort to sustain the same bill, de clared that a system of internal improvement was as essential to perpetuate the Union and prospeiiiy ol the Nation, as the veins were,to the health and vigor of animal life. And that Congress had the rjglii. not only under the implied powers of the Constitution, but al so under the express powers of that iasirument to establish such a system. Could he say more? ¥• s, he has said more. In a letter to lbs friends in 1828, published by his authority and subset ibed by his name, and which ap ,;,?ared m the United States Telegraph of the 7th of Aptd, 1858, h<? said, that—The <’ iinbi i laud Road, Hie ChesepOake and Ohio C hi I, connecting Pittsbuig with the L ikes, the line of inland navigation from New-Or l< ans around the coast through Florida Neck; , thcu'e to the ex'iemt' Noitli—ind finally, the Pos Road from Washington to New-Oileans, ait ne ptiiicip.il national works which I have dwavs regarded as enliiled to the patronage of Corgross, and am prepared to carry them on pari passu so soon as our financial resources will <••> >ble us to do so.” These grand national works constitute a dis tance of five thousand miles. The engineers who h've smveyed the Chesepeake and Ohio Canals, have estimated tin? cost of one divi sion of only 70 miles at three millions of dol lars, and another division of only five miles', to cost another three millions five hundred thous and dollars, which added together will make a sum of six millions five hundred thousand dollars—the cost of seventy five miles of canal only. And Florida Neck, ofoniy two hundred miles, cannot be executed for less than th." sum ol one hundred millions <>f dollars. .j. yet to be provided fuj And yet these are worus which Air. McDuffia avows in the public prints, ■ “he is prepared to carry on at the expense of the governmhnt so soon as our financial re ! sources will enable us to do so!” Governor Hamilton went as far to support that bill as any other man. Inadition to which he expressed a wish for ship channel to unite the Atlantic with the great P ictfic O- To accomplish which, instead of drawing on the Treasury of the United States, i he must draw on the mines of Potosi. ‘ Now where wore these four gentleman, going hand in hand tor the same grand projects, to find the revenues to accomplish such stupeml- I ous public works, not surpassed in magntfi i cettce nor equalled in cost by the R iyal Canal t oi Laguedore, or the appiaii Way ft inn’Bi Un ditsiitm to Rome—l say where were they to s obtain their revenues, unless from a Tariff, and a I arifi too more extensive and vigorous than 1 any rariii, heretofore known to the United , States ct America? These gentlemen were 1 Lidy apprized of cuasequeiices—and their ef tor s gave un impetus to the tariff bill, which - even surprised the eastern people not less than (those of Penusyluutia. For within .wenty : days after the bill making an annual appropria tion of thirty thousand dollars, got up by Gen eral Hayne, had passed, the Tariff of [ passed likewise. The two bills being thus made mutually dependent on each other, wore ’ carried on pari passu. Many members voted for (he Tarifi', who had no motive for doing so, but as means for supporting interne! improve- I ment, General Hayne had the internal improve ment bill under his control in the Senate. His own vote with two others would have defeated it. But being a Southern man, and asking no thing for South Carolina, he turned the scale ■ in its favor. | As a Tariff man, Mr. Colhoun was placed lin the front, rank. In his speech of 1816, he . began by divesting himself of every motive { but patriotism. He told Congress— “'[’hat he was no mannfaciurer, that com ing from rhe South he and his constitutent had no interest but in the cultivation of the soil. That to affotd manufacturers ample protec tion would enable the farmers to sell bis pro ducts high, and buy all his wants and conven iences of life cheap. That a Tariff fur protection was of vital im portance to the security and pemanent.pros perity of the Union. That it would produce an interest, strictly American, as much as agriculture, and far in ire so than commerce and navigation. Tiiat it would produce a new and most pow erful cement for outweighing any objections that might be urged against the system. : That would preserve us from a new and terrible danger—disunion—against which we I ought to be perpetually guarded. And that it would afford to the cotton and woollen manufacturers protection which would place them beyond (he reach of contingency.,, The above were among his arguments—-and bad he succeeded in giving to the cotton and I Woolen manufacturers as he would do, that j protection which would place them beyond the l reach of contingency, it would ha ’e excluded > from the Ametican markets every foreign fa bric, of which the materials were either ol cot ton or wool, it wdi be borne in mind, that the maiiufaciurers themselves only asked for j'ictccii in as would enabl? them to com pute* with, but not ■<) exclude foreign fabrics. But it w,s reserved fin Mr. Calhoun who was no'manufacturer, who, coming from the South, he an I his constituents had no interest but in the cultivation of iib soil, to >nisii protection to its utmost verge, and to sweep the whole of our foreign commerce from the land, and to place himself pre-eminently conspicuous with tlic mmitt ictuiers, as their great cn tmpiun and bettefac'or. Ftie tariff bill of 1816 passed into a law by a m joriiy' ol only five voles. Mt. Calhoun carried to its six South Carolina voles — leaving only two fiom die S ate who voted a agai’ts' it. John Taylor, <4 Plendlemn, nd > General Moore, of Spat tangutg District. Hau Air. Calhoun and his live votes gone against it, t.ie bill w -mJ have been lost oy a rntjoriiy of seven. This is but a mere sketch of the pan i<keti by Air C.tlhoiin, Mi. M’D'iffm, Gov. II tifiikon, and Gen. H .yne, in ( .erfecitng those systems oi which wish one ajicij they now so loudly complain-—arc so opjnessive, are so unjust, and are so um onstittiiiimal, as to j justify a dissolution of tue Union at Hie price of | blood. And have said through their ordinance, ' that Congress must guage the revenue to a I nan s beead.lt, co the wants of the government | before the first of February, or they will uis- ! solve the Union. I he annals of the world do not furnish such a contrast in the public history of any other men that ever lived. When other politicians change, they are accustomed to acknowledge the cause for doing so, and endeavor to repair any injuries winch societies may have suffered through their errors. But these gentlemen have shifted their ground as by magic—and with a daring, un-exampled in the history of fiction, cast the odium of their ill judged and ruinous policy upon the people of New Eng land. The interest and habits of the people of New England were directed in opposition to a tariff for protection. Their capital was al- | most exclusively invested in commerce; and the restrictive system which Al’. Calhoun ad vocated in 1816 with so much success, and which was amended in 1824. quite disconsert ed the pursuits of that frugal an 1 industrious people, and ruined thousands by the change. In opposition to his schemes, Dtniel Web ster, whom Air. Calhoun and his party have led lite people of South Carolina to believe was the father of the whole system, pointed out every consequence of which the nulliliers now complain; and in a speech which would have don r honor to a Chatham or a Burke, warned Congress that it would prove disastrous to the best interest of the Union, and unsettle all the pursuits of the Amirican people. And ifun<ivalled eloquence could have prevailed over faction and frenzy, Ito would have (rambled the whole system l.is feet. Ou the pas -1824, twelve members from head v S ’ W “'* wasour /"I agH, ." St ik Whilst Mr. Calhoun was out ol doors, both before and f sage of that act, e,arne»H.-members of Congres*. -"tm were opposed to the t iriif, to abandon their opposition, and join nim in support oi it. And al the same avowing that lie was prepared to stand or fall by his internal imp. ovr-ment projects, because the great in terest of the Union were involved in them. Mr. Calhoun was public in his entreaties and avowals; and these facts I am fully prepared to establish beyond any doubt, should he ven ture to deny them. But he must disavow them himself, as he is responsible for the denial of no other person. His fame grew tip from .he support of these ! systems. They gave him the reputation of be ing a statesman of enlarged views, a politician i of the nation, overlooking the sectional feelings I and local intarest of the States, to promote the i great interests of the Union. These were the I plaudits he gained fur sacrificing tire dearest ia i terest of South-Carolina on the alter of his ani- ■ bition, that he might ripen his popularity in a i hoi bed for the premature enjoyment of lite i Presidency. For this purpose his n-me was ie Presiden-f cy ’ aies set up by himself and hiendo were his tariff and internal improvement schemes. So lar had ite gained the ascenden cy over the people of South- Carilina in favor Os these systems, without which he told them ours could never be a splendid government, that when Governor Wilson, in November, 1824, brought before the Legislature the tariff act' and the act for appropriating thirty thousand dollars annually, lor plans and surveys of roads and canals only, all of which had been pussbd into laws at the preceding session of Congress, and which he recommended the Legislature to take up and remonstrate against : a committee was appointed, of which Judge Prilcau, the brnther-in liw ol Gov. Hamilton,-was appoint ed chairman ; and in bis report upon this sub-) jcctsaid— “ I hey’ knew no evils produced hy the acts of congress—that the Legislature bad no power to impugn the acts of Congress or the decision of the Judiciary— and any attempt by the Le gislature to do so, would be an act of usurpa tion.” And they actually postponed the considera tion of their own report, without permitting it to be debated, by a majority of three fourths. And the p.ostmonemen of that report was considered as settling the opinion of South-Car- ' olina, in favor ol the tai iff and internal improve- j > ment systems, forever. It was so proclaimed in I the public prints, and announced as a Triumph over State Rights, which it was repeatedly as serted, had been gotten up for the sole purpose :of putting these gentlemen down. | It was believed the people did not under- ( stand this question—and at the next session of the Legislature, in 1825, which consisted of the ; same members, other resolutions were submit- ( ted, denying Fn direct terms, the constitutional power of Congress to establish a tariff sot pro j tection, or a system of internal improvement, j I These tesolutions were fully discussed by both ' I parties—and on-the question of their passage, ! i there were 72 votes in favor of the resolutions, ; and onley 37 votes against them. And among these 37 are now to be found some of the most I intolerant and unrelenting nullifiers. This de- I cision brought these four gentlemen, fur the first , time, to a pause—an awful pause. zlt the next session of Congress, in 1826, Governor H imilton and General Hayne, to 1 the utter astonishment of every body, were ' found in the ranks of the opposition to Inter nal Improvement—calling it oppressive and un constitutional. No more thirty thousand dollar laws by Gen eral II lyne for plans and surveys. No more South-Sea Canals by Governor Hamilton. Mr. McDuffie held on for the present to his : magnificent scheme for Roads and Canals— ! and. Air. Calhoun was left to whisper his tariff as- ' ections to his tariff friends only. And here it was that the germ of nullification I was produced. The policy ol these gentelmen being thus unveiled in South-Carolina, some thing was necessary to regain their standing, which had received a surprising shock from the State Rights Pir y —a name, which to them, had a short time before been a teim of reproach —a sport and by word. But to join the Slate j Rights Party, to remonstrate and discuss the ( question so as to draw public opinion against ' these systems, would h ive subjected them to , the. character of followers, and not leaders. I This they could not brook at any hazard. Be sides, here were their own arguments, speeches and pamphlets to confront them ; all fresh in tho minds of die people, in which they had not only supported these systems, but upon the broad ground of the general welfare doctrine, had seconded their opinions in ftv >r of them and in their Congressional speeches had given Congress power over every other subject. The impression produced by these speeches and pamphlets could not be removed, hut by some violent convulsion of die public mind ; in which their sonnet policy might bo overlooked, and a new impulse given to the pursuits of the people towards some other object—which their ingen uity must advise and magnify to an extent, com ) mensurate with the occasion. Now Nullification seemed to be the expedi ent which presented itself. It was entirely new—not understood, and therefote could be modeled as exigencies might require. And i what still rendered it still more so, was the fact, : j that it was exclusively their own. Upon this • they itetided to plant their standard as a last re- : sort. But they waited for events. j Tim Presidential election was at hand, and if General Jackson could be elected, and matters ‘ could be so arranged as to limit his services to one term, they doubted not but that Air. Cal houn could be made his successor. In the mean time, Pennsylvania had her har- I risburg Convention to nominate candidates for j the Presidency and Vice Presidency, and ac cordingly General Jackson was nomiuated lot ' j the Presidency, and the convention assigned its reasons for doing so. Mr. Catti....n !.so nominated for the vice and a- intntt, titr.ro-- - ‘ b e Convention |< nTBr was that— “ Air. Calhoun, when in congress, hid advo? ( c ited with unrivalled eloquence the claim of the American manufacturers to the protection l of the government ; and as secretary of'Var, ; ( had muddled with cjudiious care the internal! improvement ol his country.” | I his was published immediately after the . Convention adjourned, in the United Stales Te 'legraph ol the 17;h or the 27th ofj inuarv, 1828 and with this unequivocal evidence of their mo tives in uis pockit, in November following, not more thin nine months having elapsed, did Mr. Colhoun presents to the legislature of South Carolina, through the tnedum of a com mittee, the manuscript copy of his book of mil- : : lification and vote's. It was accompanied with ( a charge, that his name should be concealed until alter the presidential election was decided. Tite injunction was faithfully obeyd. The americau people are here presented with a candidate for the Vice presidency, the second office in the gift of a great nation, who, as a i reward for his tallanl an 1 fidelity in the support i of the tarifi and internal improvement systems, I . leans on pcnsylvania for support, wliikt at the i same time, he was poising himself on 'Smuiw 1 Carolina for support also, and his talents anti i7 k f delity were to be further rewarded for havitjn furnished her Legislature with a digested plan* by which these systems should be subverted. If any are incredulous, and Wish to be more fully informed they wdl find the documentary evidence of the first statement in the journals of the Harrisburgh Convention ; and of tire, second, in the archives 'of the South-Carufial Legislature. •» General Jackson having been elected, and every thing being considered safe, Nullification slumbered for a lime, and he became the cher ished object of their affections. He was toasted at all (heir political feasts as the greatest man living. Their public prints teemed with eulo gies of him. Mr. McDuffie was so transported With his administration of the government that at one of bis political banquets, Im told the au- . dience. “The finger of heaven had pointed I to Gen. Jackson for that office.” A. the next session of Congress, however President Jackson consented to serve another term. This cut off the prospects of Air. Cal houn entirely from that quarter. The Ameri can system against which the before named gen tleman Ibid been exceeding clamorous, seemed ' in the mean time to be crumbling away very fast. • I resident JaCkson had put his veto on every road and Canal bill, bad recommended a reduction of the tariff—the national debt wa-» nearly extinguished*—an event to which every body looked when a just reduction of the tariff might be brought about through the inflence of public opinion only. The duty On tea, coffee, cocoa, salt and mo- ' lasses, had been reduced more than half; on tea, coflee and cocoa, the duty had been redu ced almost entirely; and in a bill, it will be ► recollecred introduced by Ms. McDffie him self, this reduction took place at the touch. Every thing set in the way’ and never before had there been so piomisinga prospect for pla cing those systems on a satisfactory basis. A mong southren members there was a general rejoiceing at the gladdening prospect, more es pecially as-to internal improvement, which ap peard to have received its death blow, and with it must go the tariff. Such was the situation of I thinps on the last day of May. On the first day of july following, only' thtr* i ty days, nullification was publicly proclaimed in the city of Charleston, at a magnificent feast gotten up for the occasion; where this monstrous doctrine wasavowd to be the only remaining alternative by which the southern people could be saved from the ravages of the North. Here Gen. Hayne in a speech of animating i eloquence, addressed an assemblage of eight , htindre gentlemen of wealth, of intelligence and jol patriotism, against the tariff, and more ’par ticularly against internal improvement. J n this ! speech he cautiously concealed the stalo of ou public affiirs at Washington. He must have (done so intentionally, as he told'that numerous I and respectable audience, that President Jack son had done nothing to check the progress of j that distinctive system, except to negative the j Maysville road bill which he defined to be a | “mere gleam of light.” He gavx? noffeserm | non of the Maysville road, although he kne .v t was the begining of an extensive work. Ho was also aware, that besides this bill, President ; Jackson had negatived four others, fuor roads ; and cannals, far more important than the one concerning the Maysville road; and he further knew that by these repeated acts the President bad effecltiaky controled the system. • With these facts, this speech of General Hayne, with many others equally violent, add cd to about two hundred toasts drank at the dinner, many of them of a ‘ most inflamatory , character, and some tending directly to a disso , iution of the Union,-.Were immediately put into I pamphlet form and immense quantities of them , were hurried off in every corner and quarter of j the btates, as the harbingers of nullification, i and heralds of the destroying angel. But it j was accompanied to the people with the assu rance from the Vice President of the United I otates, from the Senator in Congress, as Well as from several members of ibe House, togeth er with the Governor of South Carolina,'that this pamphlet was the messenger of peace, bearing on its wings the palladium of the Consti tution, of Union anil of liberty. And now to soothe a deluded people whom I they have almost plunged into civil war and i brought to the lamentable alternative ofidc jStroying this same Constitution, the 31st of | January has been fixed upon for * ; a day of |hunnliation of fasting, and of prayer.” Tho night before the late deed takes place, they are to implore high Heaven, and with fixed bay onets they are to concccrato the dreadful catas trophe, to cut the cords which bind together the affections oi the most favored portion of the human race, and to demolish die happy gov ernment which has ever been devised by the i wisdom of man. And Imre I m ist dropa word as to mvsi If: 'because 1414 not bow At the shrine of nußifi —.mn," and blindly rush into the disastrous schemes of its founders, they have proclaimed me to the world, to the people of Louis ana and Alabama, as a man full of ma lignity and thirsting for vengeance:, one who ( hiving been disappointed in Vice President , hunting had two years ago deserted his princi ples, and was now about to desert his country.” j As these charges have been thrown out and (were calculated to meet me in whatsoever quarter of the Union I might take up my ne w abode, I will peoceed to mike a few rmmtiks upon them; not as a matter of self defenc; but because it is interwoven with the luv.e 1 bear my country. J This charge of Vice President hunting is a state of Mr. Senator Milller. lie hiving fixed his affections upon the office he now hold's bid determined to sell himself to secure it.’ Ho therefore gave me the fi st offer of the bargain, by tendering to me the Vice President, if i would decline tho Senate in his-fa/or. Ire fused the contract,. and treated him as his pre position deserved. He then went over to (he nullifiers, and told them, were I elected t » ihr» Senate, U w is my iniention to oppose Mr. C d- Hioun for the Vice Presi-Igijcy. They i lowed thy bait! ! - •.