Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-30
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ii pubtlshing IN the City OF Richmond. new
tri-weekly Newspaper. to be styled TUE
RRIEND OF THE UNION, and Advocate Of
STATE Highs"
The Publisher, battered by promises Of encou.
ragement from various quarters, will issue his pa
per as soon a. the requisite number OF subscrib-
ers is obtained. There being already political
papers Published in this city, besides iid'!y
Comnsevcioi. some will be apt to imagine the
scheme'of ESTABLISHING another chimerical; but
the Publisher is entirely willing 70 risk lts sue,
cess upon obtaining the support zone thousand
patfons,--a support which, without vanity ne
confidently anticipates. With due respect Tor
the gentlemen who now instruct political opinion
from the Metropolis, the Publisher thinks that a
very large and respectable party in the State,
entertain views upon public affairs. dliferent from
most Of those advocated by either OF them. In
pressed with this conviction, he will proceed to
announce the principles Of his own creed. pro-
missing that his paper will steadfastly maintain
them, through evil and through good report. ln
the FIRST place, the Publisher processes an unai-
terable attachment to the Union Of these Mates,
Ia 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 impsrfectly. as to authorize ITS
total subversiou, at the will Of small and dis
contened fraction Of those interested to preserve
It.. The doctrine Of Notification, therefore,
cannot receive his support. or appreciation; but,
whilst thus frank in disclosing his opinioe upon
this agitating subject, he will not consent to
brand with the eptheis 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 they may be in their views OF the true theo'
~ OF the Constitution. With regard to the
much controyerted question how far the Reso'u-
tons of s98-'99 favor the doctrine OF Nuliihca-
tion. Il il sucient to observe, that the author Of
those resolutions has himself utterly discaimed
any such inference, Upon the superstition, how
ever, that they do discountenance the s, Carolina
theory, it seems to the Publisher that there is.a
very short method of settling the diHiculty-by
denying the validity or binding authority of the
Report and Resolutions themselves. In truth,
it has always appeared to the Pablisher, as ga
voripg 100 much of State pride, 10 represent Mr..
Madison's Report as the standard OF political Or
thcdoxy for the whole Union; and, he thinks it
great mistake, to suppose that the civil rcvolu-
! ton OF 800 turned upon the abstract specua.
tions of that or any other political document. =
How could the general reception and sanction OF
that famous State paper be inferred from the De-
mocraiic triumph in 1900, when probably not one
fourth Of the people Of the United States, ever
, saw heard of its existence; or, how could that
celebrated document be considered as the test
Of Democracy, when the party which gave II no
toriety, have always been, and are still, widely
divided as to its true construction. The truth
is, that the overthrow of the Federal Party in
1900 was caused by the odious and tyrannical
operation Of the Alien aud Sediton Laws. Ju-
dicial prosecutors, followed by fine and impri.
soument Tor the freq exercise Of opinion upon
public affairs, was the true cause which produc.
ed the prostration Of one party, and the elera
ton of another. When, therefore, the Publish.
er processes, in the title Of his paper, to be
the .4duocate of STATE Rights, he wishes to be
understood as referring to such rights as are
clearly defined in, or reserved by. the Federal
Constitution, the Just protection OF which IS
confided to all the States 10 their confederate
character-and not to any one discontinued mem.
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 specuaions upon politics, and perhaps
more alarming and fatal 10 the true genius OF our
Institutions. than the heresy Of Modification it.
self, does the Publisher conceive 10 be, that wide
spread aud mischevous spirit Of man scorship,
which cbarac terises 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
tentous Of evI That men. calling themselves
free citizens aud republicans, should be found in
this age and country, so Supplied and degraded,
a. to render to frail mortal, the alteration only
due to Divine Being.--is a subject Of NOR
tfcation and humiliation. Hitherto, il has
been reserved for the serv'e minions Of an Asia.
tic despot. to PROSTATE themselves before the idol
of their worship. and beg 10 kiss the hem Of his
garment-and. il vas DOLLY in the rotten and de.
cayed institutions Of monarchy. that literary no.
nors could be prostituted at the shrine Of pow
er. But, in free America,-in happy and en-
lightened New Englaud.-In the first literary
CITY Of the new word.-when such scenes are
acted. 10 the face Of day, and iu contempt OF
every virtuous and noble feeling Of our nature,
lit 10 time that public Indignation should be
reused. and denounced in unequivocal language
The publlsaey MAYER waa nOr ever can be. the