The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-06-26

Southern Temper. -WheD the tariff bill repo r.
led to the last session Of Congress bpcame a law
a few insolent British Sea-captains, 10 the port o.
Charleston aud Newly ork manifested tler high
displeasure at the result, by lowering their flags
to halt-mast but few American citizens united
in this insult to the constituted authorities OF the
land, and those few carried their anger to no
greater leug tbs than didlhe oI eigners whose lau
cable example they deemed II SO great an honor
to initiate. We do not wonder that Enrishmen
feel so on the subject, sinoo they see in that
law step towards real independence which
this country ought long ago 10 have made and
proportondte declenslon IN the prosperity NJ
their own manufacturing establishments. Or
Cooper. anotber E7giisbm1n, whose whole life
has been marked by resistance and opposition
to all regular government except wien nv held
SOME Office under IT, and &enhv the most tyran.
nlcal and arbitrary measures, long ago assumed
holder ground He has Told US under his own
proper signature. that ii was time 10 " calculate
the value Oft Union '-he, an EngIishman-
oulawed by his own country for treason-pre-
snmptuously arrogatcs to himself the righ Of
telling the people ofth, country that the union
has failed 10 confer those advantages which had
been anticipated from II at lis formation and
thar n system Of what he chooses to term part
al legislation had rend cred il expedient 10 dis
solve the compact II will be time enough Tor
Or. Cooper to give Ms advice when We shall ask
II a, his hands Foreigners should never per
nit themselves TO intormeddle either with our
form of government, or with IFS practical oprra-
tons. farther Than compor;s win the exercise Of
their righfS aad privileges 1hcy have not the
same interest in our institutions that natjvp-
born citizens havp---they are not taught
from their infancy n rtycre them by the
same conslderatiouS--thev can trace IN their for
nation mono of their fathers labor--nor in the
strne le which gave us the power 70 frame them
Am they po'nt ont field on which one o their KIN.
drcd fell This IS general remark, liable. we
know, 10 many exceptions: but, IT is forced
from us ny the turbulence already excited in |
georgia and South Carolina Ivy the ssorganiz-
ing and reasonable writings Of Thomas Cooper !
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, bb"tN'f, llle flIOftS oI ms
man to excite the people OF the Southern States
to open resistance ota regularly pissed and con.
stitnlionally sanctioned law, the current rolled
on smoothly enough until some Of the members
represents the Charleston district had scarcely
arrived in that city before this comparative calm
was changed TO storm Essays filed the pa
pers, breathing civil war. dissolution Of the T.
Mon, "A separate Congress ofihe Southern States.
calling upon the members OF Congress from that
State 10 the Governor in a body. & represent
to himthe dreadful scourge which thr iarffIaw
wnuldprove to the South, & recommending an ex-
ira session of legislature true some writer's
of great ability took the other side of the ques
ton and urged those who seemed thus madly
determined 10 throw away the blessings which
the trainers of the constitution fondly hoped
would he guarded by their descendants with .
more than veslai vigilance, and be thus preserv- {
ed to ,emoteSt generations, 20 pause before they
adopted a course calculated in its very nature 10
weaken If not to snap the lgRments that bind the
States together In terms Of the most impas-
stoned clequeuoe, and by considerations which
must have an irresistible influence over the
minds even of the most confirmed drvotecs of
Cooper they bcseech them to reflect on the con-
sequences Of their mad coursf, and 10 hesitate
before they advance far that it will be "as dit
fcnlt 10 recede as 10 go on"
Is any danger to he apprehended from these
movements None, at present Bot they tend
to tatniIiarze US with an event which we ough,