Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-31
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tri- weekly Newspaper. to be styled THE
FRIEND OF THE UNION, ind advocate 81
STATE Rights"
The Publisher. aattered by promises Of encou.
ragement from various quarters, will issue his pa
per as soon as the requisite number OF subscrib-
ers is obtained. There being already political
papers published in this city, besides Da'ty
Commercial. some win be apt to imagine the
scheme Of establishing another chimerlcal; but
The Publisher is entirely willing to risk its sue.
cess upon obtaiEins the support Of one thousand
patrons,-a support which, without vanity, ne
confidently anticipates. With due respect for
the gentlemen who now instruct political opinion
frum the Metropolis, the Publisher thinks that
very large aud respectable party IN the State,
entertain views upon public affairs, different from
most of those advocated by either OF them. I'M
pressed with this conviction, he will proceed to
announce the principles of his own creed, pro-
missing that bis paper will steadfastly maintain
them. through evil and through good report. In
the first place, the Publisher processes an unai'
terable attachment to the Union Of these States,
"a union which, he believes, Is fully secured by
Constitutional Government, empowered to pro.
tect itself from dissolution. He cannot sup.
pose, that the Fathers of the Republic perform.
ed their work so imperfectly, as to authorize its
total subversou. at the viii Of small and dis
contented fraction Of those interested to preserve
it. The doctrine of Notification, therefore,
cannot receive his support or appreciation; but,
whilst thus frank 10 disclosing his opinion upon
this agitatins subject, he will not consent to
brand with the epithets of traitor and demagogue
those who entertain different opinions. On the
contrary, he believes that for the most part they
are honorable and patriotic men, however mista-
ken thew nav be i'm their views Of the true thee.
~ of the Constitution. With regard to the
much controverted question ho~ far the Reso'u-
tons of '98-'99 favor the doctrine Of Nullihca.
ton, it is sufficient to observe, that the author OF
those resolutions has himself utterly disclamed
any such inference, Upon the superstition, how
ever, that they do discountenance the > Carolina
theory, il seems to the Publisher. that there Is
very short method Of settling the dithculty-6I
denying the validity or binding authority OF the
Report and Resolutions themselves. ln truth,
it has always appeared TO the Publisher. as sa-
voring TOO much o! State pride, to represent MIR.
Madison's Report as the standard OF political or
tho,loxy for the whole Union; aud, he thinks 1t
great mistake, to suppose that the civil revolu'
tion OF 1900 turned upon the abstract specua-
tons OF that or any other political document.
How could the general reception and sanction OF
tU1t famous Stdte paper TIC ~ ouI tuC DS"
mocratic triumph in 1900, when probably not one
fourth Of the people Of the United States. ever
saw or heard of its existence; or, how could that
celebrated document be considered as the test
Of Democracy, when the party which gave it no
toriety, have always been, and are still, widely
divided, as to its true construction. The truth
il, that the overthrow Of the Federal Party in
1900 was caused BY the odious and tyrannical
operation of the Alien aud Scdit,on Laws. Ja-
dieial prosecution, followed by fine and iupri-
sonment for the free exercise Of opinion upon
public affairs, was the true cause which produc-
ell the prostration Of one party, aud the elesa-
ton of another When, therefore, the Publish
er processes, in the title of his paper, to be
the Adcocafe of State Rights, he wishes to be
understood as referring to such rights are
clearly defined in, or reserved by, the Federal
Constitution, the just protection OF which is
con6ded to all the States 10 their confederate
character-and not to any one discontented mrm-
Der Of the Union, who may imagine that she has
rights incompatible with the rights OF the rest,
and the common safety Of all.
Infinitely more dangerous however, than any
abstract speculations upon politics. and perhaps
more alarming aud fatal TO the true genius Of our
institutions, than the heresy Of Modification it..
self, does the Publisher conceive 10 be, that wide
spread and mischieyous spirit Of man ,oorship,
which characterises the present period The blind
confidence and extraordinary homage rendered
to President Jackson in his late northern tour,
is, Of all the signs OF the times, the most por-
fenfous of erI That men, calling themselves
free citizens and republicans, should be found 10
this aye aud country, so Supplied and degraded,
as to render to frail mortal, the alteration only
due to Divine Being,-is a subject Of NOR.
tification and humiliation. Hitherto, it has
been reserved for the servile minions OF an Asia.
tic despot, to PROSTATE themselves before the idol
of their worship. and beg to kiss the hem Of has
garnani-and, il was only in the rotten and de.
cayed Institutions Of monarchy, that literary DO.
nors could be prosti,uted at The shrine OF pow
er. But. in free Amerca,-in happy and en-.
lightened New England,-,n the first literary
CITY of the new worId.--when such scenes are
acted. in the face of day, and in contempt OF
every sir,uoas and noble feeling of our nature,
lit is time that public indignation should De
reused, and denounced in uneqaivocal language
The published never was, nor ever can be, the
supporter Of General Jackson's administration.