Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-05
From the Nsw. York Dali, .advertiser.

CONSULTATIONS. and particularly to
remark made in it, that s' ii ,ras high time TO
calculate the raiue Of this Union to the South"
Mr.. Cooper is an Englisnman by birth, but has
resided considerable time in this country, and
has for a number of years presided over the Col
lege at Columbia IN S. Carolina. Having great
passion for writing, he has published an article in
e Columbia newspaper, in which he undertakes
to reply to Mr.. Webster's notice of his pamphlet
in his speech. This article was re-published in
the Evening Post in this city on Monday last,
without any other remark, than what is contain
ed in the following very cool and dspassonate
paragraph:-'. On our first page we publish the
letter of DR.. Cooper of Columbia, IS. c. in an
swer TO the attack made upon him by Mr.. Web
ster, in the United States Senate. The reply is
by no means wanting in warmth and severity of
lang uage any more than the attack. We give it
as a specimen of the manner in which many of
our southern neighbors calculated the benefits
of the Union under the late system Of admins
tering ia This is certainly very mild AID mo-
deratc language to BE- used when speaking If
production the most violent, and the most open
in calculating not merely the benefits. nut tac-cx
istence of The Uricn. However, this is n SON
ce;n of ours, When the Union shall be icscnr-
ed b. DIR. Cooper and his fellow-patrio,s Of ne
South, we should think the edi;ora of The I've
ings, consider themselves very un!9ctDHa-e al
falling into the wrong half, according % Dr.
Cooper's plan of division.
Mr. Cooper expresses wish mat M aerne
had put the question distinctly to \. V-ar"~,
"0f what use is the North to the Sou.' L-e
South" he says, mas joined in gratui "7 'a--
rels TO defend the northern interests, VIVA s0 E
ern interest as such has ever required no.
protection?" As these questions have no
been put so as to elicit an Ineligible replv," '
undertakes to furnish some materials for tina,
purpose.
"The last war with Great Britain says Mr..
Cooper '',cas a northern aCar. 1t originated
in the clashing interests, the unfair practices,
the exaggerated complaints Of the merchants IA
both countries, and their influence on their re-
spectivc governments" 1t required no ordina-
nv degree of assurance to make such an assertion
as this, at least within the first 30 years after that
war was declared. Did the northern influence,
or the northern representatives, make that war.
Was the Chief Magistrate of the United States,
who recommended the declaration OF war,
northern man? Was the present Vice Presi-
dent, then a member of Congress, and a great
mover of the war. a northern man? Where did
the maiorities in both Houses of Congress come
! from, who voted for that declaration? Who
spoke, voted, and finally protested, against the
war after it was declared! Were they south
ern men? If 1T was a northern war, why were
the northern states abused at the time and why
are they viifed down to this day, for not engagg-
in it with more zeal, for not lending thelf mo-
ney. and not giving up their militia 10 the COM
mand of the United States officers! Are they
now to be told, that the wal was made on their
account, though against their will, and they
must submit patiently to the abuse they have eX-
perienced for nearly twenty years IN succession,
for not joining heartily in carrying it on?
| In the next place, Mr.. Cooper gives as a rea-
son why the union is of no advantage to the South.
the fact that imposts and duties on foreign mer-
chandiZe are levied in South Carolina. Howev-
er inconvenieut and uncomfortable the payment
of those duties may be-. the fault is IN the con-
stitution, and not in the people at the North;
nor i'm Congress. The constitution says, "all
duties. impOsts, and excuses, shall be uniform
throughout the UnitediStates." If the southern
states did not mean to submit to this they should
not have adopted the new form OF government.-
But Mr.. Cooper complains that no part OF the
sums thus paid returns to the South. Inns IS very
extraordinary. if they wished it; because the
country has been governed for nearly tmrty years
in a great measure by Southern policy, and they
have had the majority almost exclusively under
their influence and control. Why have they
suffered themselves to be feeced in this manner:
The third reason given by Mr.. Cooper, why
the Union has been of no advantage to the South,
is in the following wolds: g The modern marin
of the worshippers of Union, is that the 'eA OF me
majority Is me lac paramount in every possio!e
case of iegisiation. That the general ,ceJfare is
the onlvrule of constitutional construction. That
what is for the general welfare can only be decd,
ed by a majority in Congress, and 'ohen dec'ae de;
is finding on the minority -. Under 1 1
maxim, that the will Of the majority is the law
mramount, and may decide conclusively what
shall be the general welfare, there is an end Of
ne Federal compact. There is no compact. The
I;sonte about express powers and implied powers
is all jargon. The government of our n'asleas IS
n, more. This is now one consolidated govern
'nsnt. as absolute and despotc as Turkey ever
was or Russia is. The barriers against the en-
croachments of power are completely Frustrated;
to the tyranny Of majority there is now ee,ther
check. limitation, or termination" we nave
frequently, within two or three years past seen
-. .Lo Ioonotism of fine majority under