Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-11

members going by, and after this meeting, ny.
their own statement, had been IN session Jus'
ten minutes, it was dissolved!
In short, the opposition bubble IN TINS o'a.e %
bursting as fas, as it gathered ne vo'e o. me
State was not given to Mr.. Adams; but neither
did Gen. Jackson receive beyond $4,000 votes,
out of about 200 900, which the State contains.
Pennsylvania is satisfied with the selection Mr..
Adams has made for some OF the highest
Offices. Clay was always a favorite here,
and Rush, G~allatin. and Sergeant, are names
well calculated to command the confidence oil
our people. The violent course OF the oppost
ton has produced a general reaction. Jona'
than Roberts's letter is The record OF what has
passed through the minds Of the great majority
Of our sober rejecting citizens OF the democrat
tic family. 1t is among them that the strength
Of the Administrator lies. The tederallsls are
divided; the violent and high toned go tor the
GeneraI: the moderate for Mr.. Adams
There are two things, which, as far as single
events have contributed to this state OF public
feeling, have had a marked effect; one is the
fate of the woollen bill. This touched Penn
~sylvania to the quick. A large portion OF the
State is peculiarly adapted to the raising OF
Sheep, and other districts have facilities for
Manufactures. These great interests called
loudly for protection; and they ascrloe the re.
fusal of it and that with truth) TO Gen Jack
sons friends. Another thing has had still
more weight, and that is the adoption OF Giles
re resolutions, as the leading principles oil the
opposition These resolutions, you know, de-
nv the right Of the General Government to
make any internal improvement whatever; deny
the right of Congress to appropriate money TO
aid any improvement; and deny the Constitu'
%tionality of all laws for the protection OF Man
ufactures You know enough OF the State to
know that il is a declaration OF war, IN form, a.
gainst Pennsylvania In one Of their resolutions
the opposition are extravagant enough TO say,
tina, The Tariff law Of l824 is Unconstitutional
and oppressive" o. course, if the opposition
come in, the law will be repealed. This goes
home TO the vital interests of this part part OF
the country. Foreign commerce is with US a
very subordinate concern. We are agrlcullur-
isis and manufacturers, and we know that these
two branches of industry must support each o.
ther."
We copy the following from the Macon lei
egraph Of the 10th April:
" have before alluded to the Inconsistency
Of certain Of our great men. We have stated
that Mr.. Forsyth, in whose praise we hear so
much from his ~partizan presses, "was at one
time a frderalist Of the old school, and a follow
er OF OLD John Adams" His friends deny this,
and dare us to produce he proof For our
part, we had thought the fact too notorious to
need any additional testimony; but, as they de-
sire il. and as abundant, facts are in existence,
ann fA Fo RIP Rs RrfSa eafts %t % OffM For.
syth's adherence to old federal doctrines, there
has been. until very recently, no kind OF dis
pute. II is well known, that in 1910, ne lost
his election to Congress on account Of his an
ti-repulican principles and his defeat al that
time was coneidered a republican triumph
(See the newspapers Of that day. He had been
a strenuous advocate of the Seditlon Act, one
Of the most odious Of the elder Adams ma
surrs, and his partiali,y for the federal party, &
federal doctrines, NAV be Sc u by the following
toast, drunk a, a Fourth Of July Dinner in Au-
gus,a in 1902:
by Mr.. ForsyM:-CHARLEs CoTEswoRrH
PINKNEY, the eldest child Of Federalism"
1t will he r. collected, that this was during a
time of great political excitement; when party
spirit was al its height; and when the line oil de-
marca.ion between the two great parties, the
Republican and Federal, was we'll dehned.-
Gen Pinkney was a warm adherent ot Adams,
and all his measures; and the toast OF Forsyth,
in our opinion, is sufficient evidence
Of his attachment to those principles. What
do yau think Of it, Messrs Editors OF the Re-
Did not the Hartford Convention con-
sist of the same sort OF men; and did they not
advocate the same doctrines? unreasonable as.
Sc mblage" as ii was, ii was but the focus Of
scattered federalism, the receptacle OF the con-
virus of an,i.republie anlsm, main
and propagated by such men as Forsyth,
Berrien, SC. throughout the states.
CuEpIDAN