Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-10-06
STATE ELECTIONS IN OCTOBER
&,ritteal.
Mr. HAMILTON IN 1891.
as.
MR. HAMILTON IN 1892.

As we consider notification BY far the most
dangerous heresy in politics. ever propagated In
this country, aud likely To do much mischief,
unless it is checked eec,ually, We conceive il to
be duty, occasionally to notice the leading cha
racters who support it, as well as the alarming
tendency of the doctrine itself We have re.
Gently given letter from Mr.. McDuffie, written
but few wears ago, avowing himself friend Of
Internal improvements, in the most extended
and National sense Of the term. We yesterday
published speech Of Mr.. Calhoun, delivered SO
late as 1925, ON the sentiments Of which we need
not comment--and to-day we copy from the
Charleston Courier, the following paragraph, re.
iative to Mr. Hamilton. which she VS. that he too,
like the others, has bu, recently been brought to
the marvellous light of aui6cation:
Coz. Hmihon.-T This gentleman has had the
peculiar honor Of ushering to the world two op-
posie sets Of principles. the very ap,ipodes of
each other-consolid with all its imposing
magn, Observation-Disclosures or State Rights, run
MAD, with ailit ele~ients of mischief. In 1921
he acted as publisher OF Mr.. McDuffie's ESSAYS,
under the signature of lone OF the people, 3 and
in preface of glowing commentator, declared
the following To be " imperishable ruths"-that
the General government rrnanaed from the whole
Americ an people as a unit, and not from the Deo-
pie of the several States. IN their distinct sove.
reign capacites-that the responsibility of the of.
liz ers of the General Government is not to the
State authorities, bur 10 tha PEopLE-that the
States, as such, have no original Inherent rights -
that the on.y danger To our system consists in the
ecceu,ric and centrifugal tendencies of the States
that the right Of each State or party to the
compact 10 Judge for ITSELF is a climax Of politi.
cal herrs,, the concentrated essence of every
thing wild aud destructive in principle.
In 1882. he introduces To public notice let.
ter written to him bv Mr.. Calhoun, in which all
the foregoing "imperishable truths" after an
efernity of eleven years duration, are compIetely
subverIed, and that with ga light approaching az
nearly to demonstration as any subject belonging
TO moral AMI not mathematical reasoning will
permit" What were once ''i,nperishable truths'
have now become ''criminal sophisms," and
s.crminal sophisms," Z" imperishable truths"-
day has been turned into night, and night into
dav. estate Sovereignty" once san i'll
omened blast" without variety to relieve its
dull and vexatious dissonauce," has now become
music Of surprising sweetness, enriched with all
the chansefui melody Of the Notification gamut.
State sovereignty, once disparagngly compared TO
"y"ur wife's pineushion, is now swelled into
m object Of paramount. neutrality-suspicious.
even to the Sovereignty Of the Union. The
General Government. once too digni6ed, too
lofty in i's career Of glorious smbi,iun-to stoop
Ito demean itself to the paltry anil petit lar
seny process Of pilfering little Fragments from
the temples of State sovereignty" is now repre-.
lsntsd ss ready, with cormorant appetite, to en-.