Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-06-05
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JACKsoNIsM-AND THE TORIES.

JACKSONISM-AND THE TORIES.
The last Quarterly Review, makes the following
very just, and 0or it) very remarkable observation
upon tho state of party feeling in the U. States
Speaking of the security which property has
hitherto enjoyed in this country, the Reviewers
inclined to consider that security rather acct
Dental than the effect Of tho virtue of our insttu
tions and cite these principal causes for it: name.
ly. 1. The plenty oc lands, which removes the
pressure of want upon the multitude, in othor Coun
tries the fruitful source of turbulence and insurrect
ion 2. The mechanism of the Federal Consttu-
ton, offering mpedmcnts to rash innovations upon
the Constitution 3. Tho frequent recurrence of
elections, and the election of President particu.
larly, in which the spirit Of party harmessly
wastes itself. Notwithstanding these, proceed the
Reviewers, "the Federal or conservative party
has for time, boon all but extinct; and it may
be said, indeed, not only that opposition to the
prevailing system now exists, but that is to-
lcrated; for in Je,o Countries appears, 10 there
really less freedom of thought action for any
individual ,cho may be disinelined to s,eim ,rith
the stream, than there is in the u. States"
1t is to the last clause, which have italicised
that would particularly direct tho readers at.
tentiop; and here we may remark, en- passant, that
the best information concerning this Country is e.
yer to be found in the Tory, instead of the Wing
Journals and Periodicals, md that it is certainly
true, tho Tory Administrations have svor been
moro just and liberal towards us than tho Whiy.
Castloroagh contrasted with Canning, is a fair il.
lustration of this truth.
But to return to that which proposed to d.
rect the readers attention the observation ofthe
Journalist italicised above--it but tho othe r
day we heard it asserted, that there libor-
ty of opinion in England than in the o. Statos--
that in point of fact, free expression of political
opinion less subject to be visited with penal
consequences was attended with more impunity
in England. than in the u. States. The fact is SO
nnquestionably; but recent, and we trust never a.
gain to be witnessed repeated events. have made
it only temporarily true. Need to those
disgraceful facts7 Need recapitulate them1
Need we say, that the earlier history of the Co
verhment of the u States would have stamped this
assertion of the London Quarterly Review az q
malicious SANDER whereas the reign of Jacksonism
the elevation Of brutal imbeciie to the chief
thority--has developed evidence which cop,pels
every man Of information and candor to acknow-
ledge il to be rHe7 What is it but Jackson's detest-
able system of rewards and punishments"-a
system rendered thousand fold more atrocious by
the reflection, that the hand which administers
punishment is not itself clear of guilt, what is it
but this system, unknown when the Government
was administered by men Of sense, honesty, and
capacity, which has exposed the u. States to the
just snesrs of the Tories of England?