Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-26

which met ON Monday last. to transact the ousl'
ness Of the quarterly term for August adjourn
ed on that day, to the court 10 course
From the Hagersto,on Press Of sla.
Tur CHoLERA.-Since our last publications.
there have been three deaths by disease supPo'
sed TO be the Cholera, in Haserstown. mere IS
no alarm manifested BY our citizens.
NEW ENGLAND IN 1909, against soulh
CAROLINA IN 1883.
We have frequently asserted that the doc,
tr;nes of Modification and Secession, as iaiu
down by the South Carolina politicians, had
their origin 10 New England. during the embargo
and non.intercourse times Of 1909, and the war
of 1919; and this assertion has been as frequent
~ denied bv those, who, then opposed 10 nose
doctrines, are now ende ayorlng TO palm mem
mon the people as the results OF the ola sir'
o;o;a nrinciples. We are indebted to the
research of Mr. Gallaher. editor ,of the Free
Press" published in Jefferson, Va. OF which
county he is one of the delegates to the next
LEGISLATURE, for a few extracts from the procee'
dines of the New England Jacobins. which com.
nle,ely identify the South Carolina school of
noli,icisos with the "federaIists OF the Boston
tsmp. about whom so much has been said and
sung, in the democratic journals Mr.. Gala.
her il himself one of the New Lights, and
seems to have forgotten, when he quoted these
extracts, the dilemma into which he was throw
ing his party. But to the extract.
1. The people of Boston assembled IN town
meeting, in 1909, to concert means OF renei d
yainst the oppressive effects OF the policy adoP'
ted by the general government, and' IN the me
mortal to the Legislature OF Massachusetts which
thew adopted, we find this sentence: our
with the l .P0l9lature
of our State, to whom it is competent to devise
means Of relief against the Unconstitutional mea-
sures of the general government"
9 The town Of Gloucester resolved A" that to
our State governments We look for counsel, pro.
lection and relief, at this awful period OF general
calamity" =,
8. The town of Tops6eld, not satisfied with
repeal Of the embargo laws, (as South Carolina
declared that she would not be satisfied with a
repeal Of the Tariff laws, demanded "a solemn
remuneration Of the right" to enact them, las
South Carolina demanded remuneration OF the
| right to impose protecting duties.
4 The town Of Augusta, Maine, then part
of Massac husettes,) declared that the govern.
ment of Massachusetts, had also a duty to per.
form-the State being still sovereign anu mdepea'
dent"
Mr.. Galfaher quotes all these. and other like
opinions, to show that however much the people
Of New England NAV now reProbate nuii'hsat'on
and secession, denunciations OF these doctrines
come with a very bad grace from them. We do
not mean to deny this, though, when men abandon
errors, we know Of no good reason Why they may
not depict their evil consequences, and strive to
enlighten and reform those who are enveiOped
in the maze from which they have been extrica
ted. But, we think it is remarkably strange that
those who have adopted the principles OF the New
Ensan federalists, should still continue TO a.
buse the fathers Of their creed.
The above extracts show that the right OF State
interpos,ion, arbitrarily to arrest the operations
of law which it deemed Unconstitutional and
oppressive, was broadly asserted in 1909 by the
New Eng land people; and we all know, that
for the assertion of this right, they were branded
with the most odlous epithets which the political
vocabulary then furnished. They were stigma.
t,zed as fedcralists, as Jacobins as traitors, as
disunionts. But now. the South Carolina politi-
clans, and their friends in Virginia. assert the
same right, yet they abuse their New England
forerunners. and claim to be the State Rights Re-
pubicans. denounce their opponents as feder allsts,
and assert their conservative remedy" can
alone save the Union from the horrors Of Consolda
tim !-.' Tempora mniantnr," SC.
The auth Is, if Modification aud Secession be
the 1T gniui TeUeuttS VI y o'eS3
against the usurpations, imaginary or real OF
the federal government, it IS high time that we had
done Justice to the intrepid asserors OF those doc.
trnes, from 1907 to lSl5-And who were they!
They were the New England federasts, who, 1t
seems, seven years after the great Republican tri.
umph Of 1906, which carried Mr.. Jefferson into
power, were the defenders Of State Rights against
the consolidating tendencies OF Mr.. Jetferson's
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS same Mr. Jefferson whose
election was secured bv his supposed devotion to
the rights Of the states, and his determined oP'
position to the encroachments Of the federal 60.
vernnent, then in the hands Of the Essex Junto!
1t 10 possible that Mr.. Jefferson had abandoned
his party-or rather, is it possible that Mr.. JET.
ferson and his party had abandoned their princi..
plies, seven short years after their triumph, and
that the New England jabobins had become their
champions? This must be SO, if the Virginia
Resolutions of $3.50, which contained the
written creed Of that party, contended for this
right Of separate State action-for it is certain
that Mr.. Jefferson and the Republican party OF
l., I.n.,,,ad aha snnarate State acfion