Delaware journal., 1828-12-12
From the National .Egis.
SOUTHERN PATRIOTISM.

Our Southern friends have been particularly
ready with voice and pen, to denounce the express
sion of Northern discomfort under the pressure of
great and grevous evils, and many aJest has been
made and reproach thrown upon certain assembly
of politicians of the East convened under peculiar
circumstances for consultation the state OF the nd
ton. Yet leta singl measure be proposed in Con-
gress, or adopted by the administration touching
the interest of the South, jealousy kndless into a
flame ; menaces Of division and threats of the Sc
peraton of the union are boldly and freely uttered.
1t will be recoected that Mr.. Stevenson. OF Vf-
enia. the Speaker Of the House of Representatives
was sometime since charged, on the evidence of
three witnesses, with having publicly declared in
the presence of several individuals, that il Mr.. Adj
ANS was reelected, the anaon 7eould be dissolved
About the same period, Mr.. Rowan, a senator from
Kentucky, was proved to have asserted that, if Mr.
Adams was reelected, Congress would never meet
again. II is true these expressions were denied and
qualifications insisted on, but without much success.
| After the passage of the Tariff bill, Mr.. McDufle
and the leading politicians of South Carolina, on their
return from Washington, lost no opportunity OF adj
dressing nhammatory and violent speeches TO every
collection of inhabitants that could be gathered, de-
nouncing in bitter and unqualified terms the whole
Northern population and exhorting resistance OF the
4 laws. A meeting was soon alter held IN Colleton
District in that state, where the same violent Ian
guage was repe,'ed with increased bitterness. and
resolutions we're deliberately passed, pointing at the
separation of the states The Governor was inv-
ted to convene the Legislature, to devise measures
for systematic resistance to the execution Of the
laws. Other meetings corr esponding in date, were
held in South Carolina and Georgia, of similar char
acter and purpose. Gov. Taylor, with manly In
dependence met the wild movements of inclpent
insurrecon, with an unequivocal refusal TO con-
vene the Legislature, and declaration that he
would not be party to any measures tending to an
end so unnsti6able, instrument to aid the ac-
complishment OF purpose so unhallowcd. The
public prints openly advocated oppositionand in the
columns of the Southern and other newspapers it
was proposed, among other things, to make Char
lesion and other southern harbors free ports in eff
feet, to assume the control ofthe custom houses and
regulate trade with foreign nations at their own
pleasure, power expressly delegated by the cen-
stitution to the general government. These decla-
rations made almost simultaneously by men in higf
favor with the people of the South, in parts of the
union widely separated, followedby public meetings
sanctioned by members Of Congress, indicating
powerful combination OF intention, awakened anxious
solcitude for the safety of institutions. 1t wa
rendered but too probable that they were the re
suits of preconcerted plan formed at Washington Il
rouse the resentment of the people against consti
tutional authority, and crafty unholy ambition BY
: the dissolution of the union, and earnest appeal
t were made to patriotic citizens, to disclose the
! knowledge of such conspiracies.