Richmond Enquirer

The rightful remedy.--The State Rights' Party of South Carolina are for Nullification. The Union Party are in favor of a Southern Convention, to move in concert and to determine what is best to be done. But the Nullifiers, who are for arresting the execution of an U. S.' Law within the boundaries of their own State, are stigmatising this plan of a Southern Convention with the names of a breach of the Constitution, with secession, disunion, treason. They declare that this scheme of conference among the oppressed States is contrary to the Constitution; because it forbids any State to enter into any treaty, alliance," &c., or to "enter into any agreement or compact with another State, without the consent of Congress," &c.

But these same Nullifiers, who quote so much of Mr. Jefferson's resolutions as are in favor of Nullification, throw away so much of them as proposes "a committee of conference and correspondence to be appointed, who shall have in charge to communicate the preceding resolutions to the Legislatures of the several States," &c. &c. and "to communicate, by writing or personal conference, at any time or places whatever, with any person or persons who may be appointed by any one or more of the States, to correspond or confer with them," &c.

And what says a contemporaneous Exponent of the Constitution? (The 46th No. of the Federalist.) —"But ambitious encroachments of the Federal Government, on the authority of the State Governments, would not excite the Opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted," &c.

But it is earnestly hoped that such a compromise may be adopted by the present Congress, as may supersede the necessity of any concert, any Southern Convention, (not to speak at all of Nullification.)