Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-03-24

election OF the Hon. MARTIN IN oSH
Senate Of the U, States, he did attempt ~ u"
troduce into that body bis system OF par! ~"
cipline, and to procure the -eJee'ion OIL "o.i'"a
tons, not upon the question oil honesyo VI "'"s
for trust, but upon the test oil persons ha''"s
voted one way or another at a preeea'"s -
lion. Still less can be forgotten the recordeu r
attempt to bring down upon the EAe'uu.e r
the United States, the irrePressible energy
his party in New York, because inc
had the assurance, the honorable ofha'o. ai'
pleasure to the contrary Notwithstanding, "
appoin, the gallan, soldier SoLoMoNVAN kENs, =
srIAER (whose body was scanned with scars OF
honorable wounds during the. late war 10 Dc
Postmaster for the City of Albany. he APP
peal was not responded 10: the Senate OF '?e
United States, was not then in the h"mor to DC
'organizrd;' and the attempt to establish zen
trial Junta al Washington, 10 control the reSu.
lar operation Of this Government, by means OF
Densioned presses and affiliated clubs IN the
States, was posiponed-not relnquished, as we
have seen in the sequel. How far the plans,
laid during the last Winter, for efftcllng the
same object, will be successful, remains 10 oe
seen. The hopes Of the pSty rest on the a'ii-
i,y OF Mr. VAN buren, 10 transfer to the Eau
Gus Of the next Winter, The thirty S'r shares o.
stock which he has contracted 10 lhem; ana, IL
the People Of New York submit to he sold ana
transferred like a lot of sheep, or drove OF OK
en-, we do not SEE VIII at is 10 prevent his making
President, or-6eing made President h,mSeJ-
Stranger things than that have happened IN this
best Of all possible worlds. The calculations
which are made are, that the feeling oil party
in New York is stronger than regard TO prin-
ciple; and therefore the Advocate talks about
the ancient usages ofhe Republican party being
preserved, as if the newly organized party here
had any claim TO that designation, in any sense
even in the sense OF the Advocate mat
party certainly ranks amongst its most active
and efficient members, gentlemen who not only
refused 10 attend the meeting OF Democratic
Members Of Congress held at the Capitol IN
February, 1924, but were signers 10 The protest
against that Caucus, besides using every other
means TO prevent it, and who OF course ale not
included in the Advocates idea Of Republican,
ism.
The vote Of New-York, however, supposing
Mr.. VAN buren,, 10 be able 10 control 1t, would
be wholly inefficient for his purposes, whatever
they are, without retaining, also, the Southern
votes. These, from the absence Of previous or
ednzation, cannot he controlled or directed by
mere party terms; and, 10 secure their co-ope
ration, there must be some preence OF a regard
TO principle. Mr.. VAN buren, is too skiliul
navigator not 10 have discovered this shoal, on
which his fortunes might be wrecked; and he
has taken care, therefore, in good time, to cas-!
an anchor to windward. An opportunity was
afforded him for doing so in his Letter 10 the
President Of the Senate Of New York, accept
ing his reelection to the Senate. Looking one
way and rowing another--his face towards
Ncw-York, his mind with Virginia, he says 10
4 L, m
slant and jealous endeavor to protect The re-
naming rights reserved 70 the States by the
$ Federal Constitution; 10 restore those Of tciich
then haze been Invested By construction, and TO
promote the interests and honor Of our COM
mon country" We need not express to our
readers entire disbelief in the imputed dan.
ger to the rights Of the States, and our convic-
ton that the States have beer Invested Of no
rights bat such as, for the benefit Of the States
themselves, the Federal Constitution has depo-
sited with the Congress Of the United States.
We have said this too often 10 leave any ncces
sity for its repetition.
Such as il is, however, we may search in vain
for any other ayowal Of principle by the new
party. IT is upon this avowal, we presume, that
the Richmond Enquirer proclalms that "an OPP
position is now organised The organization is
admitted, the reader will perceive upon the
high GROUNDS OF Inc CONSTITUTION anu lhc ihlei-
es,s of the country" Indeed the reader will
hardly fail to perceive in this sentence the echo
Of Mr.. Van Buren's welI-turned period. What
the Enquirer means by the Constitution, We all
know. And we all know very well, that, ex-
cepting the honorable Senator from New ork,
apd his distinguished compeer who hills the
guberna,orial chair Of the same State, no per-
son is named by the organ Of the party, as TIT
person to fill the Presidency, who aVows the
sentiments Of the Enquirer School on that sub
,ect. 1t is very certain that the Incumbent does
not: it is equally certain that General JACKSON
does not: and most assuredly neither does MIR
CLAY nor Mr. CALHOUN. The Presidential
Candidate Of this organised Opposition, there
fore, il such are the grounds Of ii, must either
be the Governor of New-York, or the Senator
from the same State, who have recently rivalled
one another in their zeal to support the doc
trines inculcated BY the politicians at klch,
mond. This, however, by way ofparebthesis.J
Our object in taking up the pen to-day, Is TO
show, by single illustration, to our readers,
,cLat arc The grounds Of the Constitution on
which, if any, Mr.. V. d. has taken his stand,
and upon which The Enquirer declares an Up
position 10 be "organised."