Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-03-23

ner, to all similar proceedings, wherevsr
else found.
/ The gentleman, sir, has spoken at large
of former parties, now no longer in being,
by their received appollations, and has un-
dertaken TO instruct us, not only in the
knowledge of their principles, but Of their
respective pedigrees also. He has ascend
ed TO the origin, and run out their geneal-
ogies. With most exemplary modesty. he
speaks Of the party to which he belongs,
as the true Pure, the only honest, patriot
lex party, derived by regular descent, from
father to son from the time Of the virtuous
Romans! Spreading before US the family
tree Of political parties, he takes especial
care to show himself. snngly perched on a
popular bought He is wakeful to the
expediency Of adopting such rules of de-
scent, for political parties, as shall bring
him in, in exclusion Of others, as an heir
to the inheritance of all publick virtue,
and all true political principle. His doxy
is always orthodoxy. Heterodoxy is con-
fined to his opponents. He spoke. sir, oil
the federalists. and thought / saw some
eyes begin TO open aud stare little when
he ventured on that ground. expected
he would draw his sketches rather lightly,
when he looked on the circle around, him,
and especially he should cast his thoughts
to the high places out of the Senate.
Nevertheless. he went back to Rome,
ad amman urbe condita, and found the ia
theirs of the federalists in the primeyal ar
istocrats of that renowned empire He
traced the flow of federal blood down
through successive ages and centuries, till
he got it into the veins of the American
tories, (of whom, by the way, there we're
twenty in the Carolinas, for one in Massa-
chusetts.) From the Tories, he followed
it to the Federalists; and, as the Federal
Party was broken up, and there was no
possibility, Of transmitting it further on
this side the Atlantic he seems to have
discovered that it has gone off coIlateraIly,
though against all the canons of descent,
into the ultras Of France, and finally be-
came extingushed, like exploded gas,
among the adherents of Don Miguel.
This, sir, is an abstract of the gentleman's
history of Federalism. | am not about to
controvert it. 1t is not, at present worth
the pains Of refutation, because, sir. if at
this day any one feels the sin of federalism
lying heavily on his conscience. he can
easily obtain remission. He may even
have an indulgence, if he is desilous of
repeating the same 'transgression. II is
an affair of no difficulty TO get into this
same right line of patriotick descent. A
man, nowadays, may choose his political
parentage. lie may elect his own father.
Federalist or not, he may, if he choose,
claim TO belong to the favoured stock and
his claim will be allowed. He may carry
back his Pretensions as far as the honour
able gentleman himself; nay he may make
himself out the honorable gentleman's
cousin, and prove satisfactorily that he is
descended from the same political great
grandfather. All this is allowable. We
all know process, sir, by which the whole
Essex Junto could, in one hour, be all
washed white from their ancient federal
ism, and come out every one Of them an
original democrat, dyed in the wool Some
of them have actually undergone the OPP
Grafton, and they say it is quite easy. The
only inconvenience it occasions, as they
tell us, is slight tendency Of the blood to
the cheek, a soft suffuslon, which, howev-
er, is very transient, since nothing is said
calculated to deepen the red onthe cheek,
but prudent silence observed 10 regard
to all the past. Indeed sir, some smiles
of appreciation have been bestowed, and
some crumbs Of comfort has fallen, not a
thousand miles from the doors of the
Hartford Convention itself. And if the
author Of the ordinance Of 1857, possess
ed the other requisite qualifications, there
is no knowing, notwithstanding his feder-
alism, to what heights Of favour he might
not yet attain.
Mr.. President, in carrying his warfare,
such as it was, into New.England, the
honorable gentleman all along processes
to be acting on the defensive. He de-
sires to consider me as having assailed
South Carolina, and insists that he comes
forth only as her champion, and in her
defence. Sir, / do not admit that
made any attack whatever on South Car
DINA. Nothing like it. The honorable
member in his first speech, expressed
opinions, in regard to revenue, and some
other topicks. which | heard both with
pain and surprise. told the gentleman
that was aware that such sentiments
| were entertained out OF the Government,
but had not expected to find them advan-
ced in it that knew there were persons
in the South who speak Of our Union with
indifference, or doubt, taking pains to
magnify its evils, and to say nothing of
its benefits; that the honorable member
himself, was sure, could never be one
of these and regretted the expression
OF such opinions as he had avowed, be-
cause | thought their obvious tendency
was 70 encourage feelings of disrepect to
the Union. and 10 weaken its connexion.