Richmond Enquirer

BEAUTIES OF MODERN LOGIC.

A contemporary Editor holds this language:

"We have argued against Nullification—we have derided it, scoffed at it, attempted to array public feeling against it. Admitted. We thought then as we think now, that Nullification for the Tariff, which we believed right in policy and constitutionality, was absurd." Then Nullification was in contemplation only. But, is not the whole ground changed by its having been actually adopted by the people of South Carolina as a remedy for what they conceive oppression?" That is to say, we deny the right of S. C. to nullify a law of the U. States— but no sooner does she do it, than we say it is all right. The whole thing is absurd; and yet we justify her resort to it. Who, after this, could be astonished at this logician's turning out a flaming eulogist of S. Carolina—and a great favorite with the Nullifiers? The National Intelligencer is distraught, because the Enquirer publishes a communication, quoting with approbation a sentiment of Mr. Clay in favor of the Union.—"A Miracle" indeed!—What would the Intelligencer have thought of us, if we had refused it? The Globe is re-publishing the very able Numbers signed "A voice for Union," with a compliment upon "their manly vigour, their plain, common-sense course of thinking, in direct contrast with the sophistication of that class of spurious State Right politicians, who have perverted the doctrines of '98 into Nullification." The compliment is just. We differ from the author in a few of his positions; but the ability, with which he supports them actioped s-th Sinanaperion Afncwopa- per cempositio. nave not appeared within our recollections. Another seal to the Bargain!—Mr. Calhoun has come out through the Telegraph, in favor of the Bank. Think of that! State Rights—Nullification—and the Bank of the United States!! What a beautiful, consistent, harmonious, orthodox political creed his must be! Meanwhile Mr. Clay merely reverses the order—he goes for the Bank first—as a true and lawful Attorney ought—and then for the rest. "A pair of noble brothers."—Baltimore Rep. Add a grand scheme of Internal Improvement, with the power of appropriating money at the pleasure of Congress—and what a beautiful standard of State Rights orthodoxy, have we in John C. Calhoun!—Enquirer.