Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-09-14

Whlcn mas long been accustomed 10 pour
out abuse against the republican admin
istration. -
1t is not, however, on the floor of Con-
gress only, that we may find these evil
dences OF new opposition. Many in
dicatlons OF its existence are exhibited
in the public prints. We are told Of the
Je6eraon Schooipoliticians, and are pref
ty distinctly, informed that the present
chief magistrate, and those who support
him, are not ofthis school. Movements,
which it is impossible to mistake, are
making in a certain quarter, not only to
draw distinction between members Of
the republican party, as belonging or OPP
posed, to this school, but to make that
distinction bear upon the present admi-
nisration, and the next presidential cleo
ton. Passing over slighter indications,
we would call your attention to the es-
says which filled the columns of the
Georgia papers, during the last summer,
under the signature Of THE TR1o."II
The writer's openly and boldly denounc-
ed the whole administration, with the ex-
cep,ion Of single individual, accusing
it of systematic abandonment of princi
pies, OF extravaganza and profusion, Of
encroachments on the rights of the peo-
! pie and of the states, and total disre-
gard the constitution and loudly CALI
ed on the people to rise up and crush an
administration guilty of such enormities.
In these sentiments, manyof the leading
papers of the state apparently concurred.
| We have brought these facts 10 your
notice, not with the intention of affecting
The standing of any individual, but sim
/ ply that you might Judge whether the OPP
position, which we have pronounced to
be forming against the administration,
does really exist. We dwell not on the
subject with pleasure, but pain. Hav-
ing, at all times, been attached 10 the re-
| publican party, and believing that the
best hopes OF the country are identified
with it; we cannot behold, with plea
sure, facts, which indicating asettled hos
,ility to the administrators, from those
who were once ranked among its friends,
threaten its very safety. With these feel
| ings, we have not come hastily to the
conclusion, that there exists fixed hos
tiity to the administration. We know
how to make allowances for occasional
opposition to particular measures. Such
we may expect from the best and purest
members of party, and ought to be
cheerfully borne. Ii resalts from the
spirit and Intelligence which belong to
freemen, thinking Independently for
themselves, and should be carefully dis
! tinguishcd from settled hostility. In
truth, they are so disiinguishable, that a
careful! observer can never be in danger
of confounding the one with the other
| The one is occasional; the other syste-
matic.-Ihe one differs with reluctance,
III style almost Of apology; the other,
with eagerness and exaggeration. A fix-
ed opposition, while forming, may, in
deed, assume the appearance Of that dit
terence which occas ionally occurs be-
tween friends; but the latter never as
snmes the attributes OF the former. APP
! plying these remarks, you cannot doubt
oil the character of the opposition, OF the
existence OF which there are SO many in
dcations. 1t is fixed and systematic, and
viii vigilantly watch every opportunity
20 augment its strength, and diminish
that of the administration and will ulli-
mately absorb all the elements Of tiscon-
tent; from Whatever cause sprinsing, or
wherever existing. 1t is this state OF
things, which renders the present juno
tpre peculiar and important.
/ " IL
/ These pieces originally appeared in the
Southern Recorder, printed 1T Milledgyille,
and are supposed to have been written. at
least in part, by Mr.. Cobb, formerly leading
member in Congress from Georgia.