The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-12-19
Che Aassaehusetts Spp.
" THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS is ESSENTIAL TO
THE SECURITY OF FREEDOM"
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WEDNESDAY. DEC. 10, 1882.
THE PROCLAMATION.


We publish the Proclamation of the President
to the people, on the present alarming crisis of
affairs in South Carolina TO the exclusion OF
much other matter. Our readers will not re.
greet TO find our columns thus occupied, espe.
cIally, as the Proclamation evnces the fnal fri.
umph oil the Cabinet proper over the councils
of the Cabinet improper, or the Kitchen CaJi-
nat, as it is most usually called. How long this
will last-whether 1t is permanent triumph or
but temporary arrangement for the occasion,
time must determine Whichever it NAV be,
one good canno! fail 10 come out of it, Gen
Jackson has set his signature to a sound expo-
sltion Of the true principles Of the Constitution,
as held and expounded, heretofore, by Hamil.
ton, Madison, Jay, Webster, and others,-an
exposition which cuts up by tho roots, the false
and pernlclous doctrines embodied in his veto
Message and other documents prepared for him
by the Kitchen Cabinet. This will be circulat-
ed every where among the people, and, in those
portions of the country, where the same doc.
trines, more ably set forth by Webster have
been rejected as heresies, because they did not
correspond with the prevailing notions of the
administration, or because they were held BY
an opponent, they will, now, having the sign
manual of Andrew jackson and the great seal
affixed TO them, be received and acknowledged
as the true orthodox political faith To get
once more out of the msts and fogs which have
been cast around the subject, and to be able TO
discern, in clear atmosphere, the polar star of
the Constitution, in its original brilliancy, is
certainly most cheering and animatng to those
who had had so much cause TO fear shipwreck
of our political bark from the unskilfulmanape.
mcnt Of those who had got possession of the
helm
We have often had occasion to remark, that,
In our opinion, this was the saving principle of
our Government and instItutions-that, let dem.
agogues get into power by whatever means
they may, by advancing unsound doctrines. bv
acting upon the passions and prcjudces of any
portion OF the people. or by any other mode,
when power is obtained exgences will, most
generally, occur, which force them from their
false positions, and bring them back to true
principles, or, ifthey resist will hurl them from
their lll'gotten stations. As a general princi.
pie, this will prove true, but it would be exceed
lngly dangerous TO act upon the assump,,on
that 1t would never fail
Based as it is, on the principles of the Con-
slitutlon, the Proclamation, as a whole, meets
our cordial appreciation. There are portions of
1t which we could wish were otherwise than as
they are On some points it is not sufficiently
full and explicit The personal illusions to the
leaders OF notification and some other portions
of the paper are not sufficiently dignf I'd for the
solemn character of such document, and the
conspicuous and egotistlcal protruson of I"
Andrew Jackson" which prevails through the
whole performance, is not in accordance with
our taste, in the address of the republican
chief magistrate of republican people 10 his
constituents, but smacks little too much Of
the airs of the hereditary rulers of the ensav-
cd people OF other countries. Yet, for tho
good ii contains, and for that which it will be
likely to produce, we are willing to forego its
minor blemlshes, and to accord TO it the praise
OF being sound constitutional document, such
as we had no reason TO expect from such
source, but, in the support of which, we ought
all to unite, without reference TO any precun.
ceived feelings in relation to the Administra.
ton, or to those, with whom it is now BROUGHT
into collision.