Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-03-16
TO TIE PEOPLE OF TIE UNITED
STATES.

Recent occurrences, maniesting not
merely The future prospects but the pres
ent certainty, of a wide division among
the party which has hitherto supported
Jackson's Administration, are too impor-
tant not to awaken great degree of at
tention. They are entitled to deep re-
Election by the opposcrs Of the Admins
tration, and by the Public. The Vice
Presidents late publication was but the
ebuition ola political lerment, well known
to have been secretly long at work. 1t
was not the origin of a schism; it was on
ly its avowal. From the moment of the
original Combination" so it was admit
ted to be- against Mr.. Adams Admins
tration, it was forcseen that the parts
composing it, held together for the time
by common object, (the hope or power
would necessarily fly asundcr when that
power should have been obtained, and
when it should come to be decided who
should enjoy its posts for the present,
and who expect them for the future.
Nothing but the powerful chymistry of
this common object, it was easy to per-
ceivc, could keep in union such opposite
materials as the friends of Gen. Jackson
in Pennsylvania and those in South Car
olina and the followers of Mr.. Calhoun,
who had been called Prodigals, and the
followers of Mr.. Crawford, who had been
called Radicals. Such a tumble of pol
iticians could have no natural cohesion.
If MIR. Calhoun and Mr.. Randolph could
act long in harmony; if the highest notes
of Consolidation and the lowest grumb-
ling of State Rights could be made to
chime in unison; if the Tariff and Multi
fication could walk hand in hand-then,
indeed, the time might be expected to
have arrived when the Lion s the Lamb
would lie down together.
As to the Secretary of State, his af-
intios were well known to be easily
drawn towards any political elements,
and again easily to be rcpellcd. lie
mingles with every thing by the slight
est attraction, and again is discngagcd
from every thing by the gcntlcst solvent:
For MIR. King, and against MIR. King; a
friend of MIR. Clinton and an enemy of
Mr.. Clinton; an Anti-Tarifi man, out of
courtesy, (or out of subservience) to
some; to others Tariff man; by virtue
of Instructions; friend oGthe Union, yet
cropping after lost rights of the States;
and on the great question between the
constitutional powers of the Government
on one hand, and the absurdites of Null
lilication on the other, hanging precisely
midway upon an axact poisc. The fore
sight which anticipated this rupture of
the Party, was not deceived. The full
flment has trodden, indeed, very close
upon the heels of the prediction. Before
the second year of Gen. Jackson's Ad-
mnistration has closed, n wide, deep,
and impossible gu pin already separates
the lcgions of followers and fcudatories.
His own influence over these leaders not
founded in their respect for his talents or
character, but mainly in conviction that
there is a great, though Il vague and in
definite popularity attached to his name,
is now no longer sufficient to rcpress their
contentious. They quarrel in his own
face, for his own seat, while he yet fills
it, and means to fill it longer fhc can.
We have heard much, heretofore, of
the Presidents independence; of his lofty
elevation above all influence near his
person, and of his fixed resolution to be
himself every inch President. We now
see the veriication, and manifestation of
these qualities: we behold him evidently
busy in the first stages of a controversy,
the origin Of which lies in motives and
objects, connected, first with his own re-
election, and secondly, with the success
of another to his Office, when he shall
have done with it. We were assured,
too, by his supporters, that no aspirant
for further promotion would ever be in
his counscls. We perceive how this as
surance has been performed. But this
is not all; the President has repeatedly
EXPRESSED his own nurposes in words