Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-09
ALEXANDRIA, Cd. CO.
FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 9, 1885.
SOUTHERN POLITICS.

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Many Of the most respectable prints in differ.
emit parts Of the country have copied an editorial
srt;cle from this paper, headed the g Prospec,
before u.s." in which We expressed our appreheu.
sion of the course Of politics in the South, and
some have accompanied it with comments, cal.
cuIated to give US encouraging hopes.
The Richmond Enquirer says:-
6. The Proclamation has indeed encouraged Tue
Nullifers in Virginia to throw OF the mask, which
concealed their principles. Nor isit 10 be deni.
ed. that its errors have driven some few honest
and honorable friends OF State Rights, into The
tolls of the same party. But we can assure the A.
exanJria Gazette, that the great body Of our irI.
low.citizens IS sound 10 the core. Virg inia will ne
ver strike her own proud flag Of State Rights, bg.
she will never suffer herself to be harnessed to
the car of Modification. When her Legislature
durins their last session protested against The
doctrines Of South Carolina, they expressed the
sentiments Of their people-and to those senli.
m tents, the great body Of the people adhere. in
spite Of the arts of Modification, and in spite Of
the errors of the Proclamation. We say then,
frankly to the Alexandria Gazette, what the Sa.
vannah Georgian says, in commenting on It's ar.
ticle."
After copying entire our article the Savan.
nah Georgian says
owe give the above, not that we think viii
the Gazette there is much to fear from Virginia
whose sons have ever been foremost in protec!in.
State Rights, but have never held up to their TEL
Iow.citjzens of other States other than Constitu
,;onal remedies for their defence,-but that we
NAV repudiate the idea that Georgia is wave
ing on the question of Modification. Her Ias
| Legislature boldly denounced the doctrine, and
though it suits the views of some OF he. sons 10
approve and countenance the Carolina hereSy,
the great body of the People are not to be sulIed
out Of their Rights by the volunteer hartangue,
of those would.be delnagogues who cry out there
| is danger from an alliance with the States, and
as q sovereign cure for exaggerated evils point to
Modification. This doctrine may heal The lace
rated pride of disappointed Politicians: but tie
People, when their rights are assailed, trust 10:
to the prescriptions Of political quacks. Every
man IN the Republic has a mind free to judge
his wrongs and to remove them when insutferabs
Ia times Of public commotion, the Demasosus
may rise on the heaying blIow, but its relrogrsd:
movements will sink him in the ocean OF oblivion
Ills true the newspapers have teemed with &C
counts of the Festivals Of NulIltiers, with SENT
mentS tnere uttered, CHdIdSteiiLeo "oie ~. wv"
harmless personality than the profundity oil tier
devotion Tor the public veal. And where the I"
cessty of all this parade. this venting of bile
this Don Quixotte bravado Of some OF our CHI
zensl Do not the majority Of the people kn9"
their Rights? Are they not jealous OF any, th.
lie asst eneroaehment on them7 As for the Carroll
ma doctrine, the people Of Georgia are too en-
lightened, and too qualified to form correct
judgment, to be led astray by the noisy babbeO
disappointed or designing Politicians. They
will be found, when the occasion shall demand,
ready, as they have always been, to battle in de-
fence of State Sovereignty not yielded in The
Constitution Of the Union, and after having 10
spirit of forbearance exhausted every argument
every Constitutional remedy, will as the last re-
sort stand by their arms.'-Then, it the hour
shall ever arrive, those SO anxious to instruct The
people in their political faith will find that PEI"
pie capable Of judging for themselves Wess
ry as Georgians in the dscernment and pnd'
cvinced bv the great body of the people OF o1
State, in refusing TO hug TO their bosom: G%
trlne monstrous and revolutionary in its enden'
CIV, and which owes its birth to the prolific brains
OF former Consolidationists and miscalled sta,e
Rights men, teeming with the fruits OF an l"Gl.
vidual Jealousy, knowing no qualification but De
structiOn."