Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-03-28

readers, our purpose will have been accom-
plished :.
"a free People will Judge 70: themselves,
saws the ENQUIRER. "aDd the hour OF retrlnution
must come upon the heads which deserve IL.
AS the Enquirer saith, so be II, ana all eoou
men will cry AMEN. But may the vlsita.ioh oe
in mercy! =, r., IT,
The Editors Of the Enquirer will ieei the
blow when it does come. They have hea'y
responsibility upon their heads, tor their rIsu-
lar and systematic cooperation VITA INC p'a"S
Of the opposition "organized" here rom ."e
time of their exuItation at the obstacles thrown
in the way of the Panama Mission, 10 tne,r re,
cent jubilation OH the defeat Of 'i'e Oo'oia'
Trade bill, and other measures, Oh hiSn n@"o"
al import. Far be ii from us TO say 'ha' '"e Up
position TO the Panama Mission arose a'lose'h,
err from personal hostility 10 Mi. ADAMS anu
MIR. CLAY. That il die in part ARISE 'ro'" ina.
cause will not be denied. 1t is well Khow'' ':s'
the opposition to the course OF the hu''iihi'
tration would have been as strong, on ,he par'
of some gentlemen in Congress'had 'ha' Toris
been directly the reverse of what 1t was. before
MIR. Adams was seated in the Presidential
Chair the threat went forth, that, act as ne
might, he should be hurled from it at the end
of his present term of Office Upon that 2rln-
ciple the oath of perpetual enmi'y was SWIFT"
Had the President and his Cabinet rejected the
overture from the Southern Republics, instead
Of accepting II, they would have been brandea
| as the enemies to freedom-as the friends OF
| the Holy Alliances the associates OF despo's
| in their hostility to the emancipation oil the
South. They would upon that ground unques.
lionaby have been successfully assaiied., All
this the Editors Oft Enquirer know as well
as we; and they must allow us to say that we
did set them down as opposed TO the Admins
tration, right or wrong, from the moment that
we discovered, year ago, how carefully they
published the speeches against that Panama
| Mission, apparently forgetting, IN their zeal 10
decry the measures of the Executive, that there
was more than one side 10 the question ne
same unfairness we think we have seen in the
whole Of the recent course OF the Enquirer
They have recklessly, though apparently I'M
consciously, entered upon purely party career
ard they go the whole.
What reader the Enquirer does not recol-
lect the language employed in that print, and
commended by them as being as beautiful as
just" when "a few weeks ago) the reelection
Of the II on. MARTIN VAN buren,, 10 the Senate Of
the U. States, was announced? "a rapid sue
cession Of disastrous defeats pursues the Coai-
ton" said The beautiful writer in the Enquirer.
awe have just seen the victories OF BENTON,
M'LANE, RIDeELl, and ELCis, and now we see
that Of VAN BUREN, This was pronounced
TO be "a result emineniiy gratifying" TWAS the
consummaton Of hope, ard the climax OF ieli-
city. "The Senate" says the same article, "be-
comes the controlling po'Cer Of the Government"
A pretty sort Of Republicanism, or Democracy,
truly is coming into vogue under the influence
tbeSSe"orfedsFa Senators and rejoice tina,
| eha e, It, n
es Of the Government! This is patent and Elm
proved" Republicanism. This from the En-.
quirer? Why, it is the very error Of the moon:
and we need not wonder at the singular votes
Of the late Legislature Of that State, by which
the existence Of General Government is made
a questionable affair, when We find lis oracle so
beside itself.
| 1t is high time that the intelligence Of Virgil
MIA should throw ofits vassalage TO the Enqui-
rer, whose false doctrines and political herasies,
| innocent in their conception, but fraught with
! danger in their maturity, are plunging the State,
deeper and deeper, into the most inextricable
contradictions. 1t is fortunate that, by the ma.
tural operation OF such Inconsistencies, the OPT.
mons OF the Virg mia Legislature have lost
much OF their weight with her Sister States: for
we say 1t with the most entire conviction Of The
truth OF what we say, that The predominance Of
the Virginia doctrine among the States would
be the overthrow of this Union. For, we ask,
what sort OF interest can the People Of the trans
montana States and Territories feel in the dura-
ton Of this Government, if they are to have no
knowledge ofits existence but through the me-
dunn Of tax-gatherers, traversing their lands,
numbering and registering their horses and
their oxen, their farming utensils, and their
household effects, and eAhaus,ng ingenuity for
sources of revenue, and objects Of ,axation?-
How long would such oppression be borne by
an indignant People? To this, undoubtedly, we
must come, if the Enquirer doctrines prevail:
Tor, 1t the duties on imports be repealed or ma
terlaily reduced, direct taxes necessarily follow
-anG, If the Government have no license 10 ex-
pend money on the improvement Of our internal
n'munic atoms, by land or water, or upon any
otG'r object whatever in the interior, there is
no way in which any portion the public money
can be expended for the benefit Of those from
whom, in fact, the bulk Of it is collected.
ht "Signs If the Times" continue to be full
Of interest The organs ofthe Opposition con.
'nue 10 boast of the Organization" of their
Party: they still hold the language Of menace
and intimidation TO those who DO rot choose 10
be harnessed in with them, to drag a half doz-
en- aspiring Politicians into power. Blu, there
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