The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-09-12
QUALIFICATION AND JACKSONISM
NSEpAkABLE.


treason involved in its practical results, be
: charged 10 the account Of South Carolina
and Georgia? WHY should those who are
MT subordinate actors in the fearful tragedy
OF DIsunon, he made to quail under the
stern rebukcs of an indignant people, while
: The man who has given TO this detestable
heresy the sanction Of the highest official
authority in the nation, and contributed
mole than any other one 10 establish the
principle on which it rests, is passed by in
shehfe. or iorsooth Landed for his patriotism
and independence
1t Is truth which ought to be reiterated
10y every unhought piess in the country.
WIN an e?rnestness and frequency which
shall cause every one who reads to remem-
Der 1t, that The UNITED STATES DOES NOT
CONTAIN SO DECIDED AND DANGEROUS A
NULLIFIER AS GEN. JACKSON The venal
presses who support him. NAV manifest a
Pious horror at the propagation of the mon
strous doctrine we are speaking of but
there can he no grosscr inconsistency than
they exhibit in prescribing that doctrine,
while they advocate his re-election The
fact ought to be understood, that Jacksonism
and Modification are one and inseparable
He has advanced and defended the doctrine
IN his public messages and private CONVEX
Stations, and he has most culpably sustained
1t by his practice. Is it asked where, and
when? | refer, for his theory, to several of
his official communications to Congress, and
more especially to his famous Veto Mes
sage. where his sentiments are expressed
somewhat in detail, and are substantially
I as follows, to wit THAT the Judicial, Leg
slatlve and Executive Departments o: the
! (JpnprAI tTnvnrnnlnnt in
| dependent of each other; and that the two
( latter have full liberty to interpret the Con-
! stituion as they choose, the settled and SOL
emn decisions Of the Judiciary to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
Such is the avowed opinion of General
jackson. And never since the organization
of the Government, was a sentiment pro-
| inulgated from the Presidential clair so
fraught with danger, or so calculated TO
arouse and alarm the patriotism and virtue
of the country. 1t is a sentiment which
nullifies the Union itself. 1t virtually de-
clares that we have no Un;on-that the
bond which holds the States together is but
IA rope of sand. With just as much reason,
and with equal safety to the country, might
the National Legislature assume The pre-
! rogatiVe of executing, as we'll as ordaininp,
all the laws; or the Judiciary usurp the pc
cullar powers Of the Legislature. If Gen
eral Jackson's doctrine he correct. it is idle
and absurd to talk about Union. The
States may be associated together by some
sort of conventional arrangement; they
may have fol med a temporary league or en-
tered into an association for their mutual
safety and prosperity but it is as clear us
the noon day sun, that whatever may be the
nature of the relation subsisting between
them they are not constituted into a LEGAL
Union. 1t matters not that the inhabitants
/ of the different States dwell together on
terms of perfect harmony ard friendship,
like the people of II common county 1t
TTntters iUt ti'"t they have defended each
other against foreign aggressions it mat
tefs not that they have one President. one
judiciary, and one National Legislative As
sembly and that they term this reciprocal
arrangement which subsists among them.
Union: the thing itself is not altered by
names-and unless they have not only
common Constitution but an Gufhoyizedh e
bunat 10 interpret that Con si;tunon, and
whose decisions shall lac final and univer-
sally obligatory, they have no real Union.
TIE say that the valuable founders of this
government drew up Constitution without
providing for the ultimate and irrevocable
and binding determination of all questions
which might arise respecting the interpre-
taton Of it, is to charge them with leaving
defective an instrument which has been re-
garded as one Of the most perfect produce
tions of uninspred reason ever exhibited to
the world it is to say that they omitted the
very keystone to an arch which is SO beau
lilul as to have attracted the gaze and won
the admiration of all behoders. And to
pretend on the other hand thai they consti-
tnted three distinct co-cqua tribunals for
this single purpose is TO tax them with
lack OF Common foresight, such as has been
unparalleled in our history previous to the
Accession of Andrew Jackson.
For my own part, without referring to the
instrument itself, should consider the
names and character of those men suffici-
ent evidence of the incorrectness of his
opinion. Were they such simpletons as TO
! draft Constitution for the express purpose
of binding the States together in an ndis-
( soluble Union, and to provide in it for every
thing else except the Union? What sort Of
government did they give us, if we have
three supreme heads--each of which NAV
make null and void the acts Of the others /?
! What mockery was it to call the half form
ed, i'll digested system they bequeathed us
a Republic, if the President Especially one
like the presently is supreme maker, en-
Founder, aud executor, of the laws Why
did they not declare, like men, for mon II, ey
were, that they meant to entail on the pco-
pie of this land Despotism wt:ch could he
swayed only by second Sylla or Nero, oil
some other one "born to command ?"
have drawn no caricature. Genera
Jackson's theory is death to the Constitu.
ton, and ruin to the country. 1t has in il
the very ESSENCE of Notification. VIII,
else lid the Southern Dsunionists, whel
they reud his Veto Message, send up
! shout-a shout of fearful omen--which ha
; swept like blasting pestilence across III
land? Let the friends Of the Union ponde
this question.
The LAST ACT THE BEST. To Judge {
, Gen. Jackson by the language of his follow
ers, we must suppose that by this time, h
has nearly reached the pinnacle or altitude
Of his greatness and goodness. Every sui
: scquent act seems TO eclipse in greatnes
all the previous ones of his life. When h
commenced his reign Of prescription, ever
removal he made was one of the "hest act
OF his life" When he vetoed the Mnysvll
road bill, it wns the "greatest and best az
:, Of his life" When he scattered his Cab
r net to the four winds of the heavens, be