Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-22
ALEXANDRIA, ID. c.
MONDAY MORNING, JULY 81. 1888.
STATE OF PARTIES.

is ridiculous enough. We would not regard the
matter as at all worth the time employed IN its
consideration, were there not Interior views enter
tanned by those who are constantly using these de-
signations, and efforts made TO delude and de-
ceive honest and unsuspecting people by these
miserable subterfuges. Let US look at the sub
ject fairly aud candidly, add see to what results
we shall come.
The friends Of Gen. jackson, every where,
with very few and ynimportant exceptions. call
themselves the "reaI, uuadulterated DEMOCRATIC
party" At the head of this party, enjoying ITS
confidence, and possessed Of the high Offices of
the government, are Louis McLane and Roger
B. Taney, FEpERALIsrs of the old sch ool-men
who have always prided themselves upon being
called FEpERALIsTs, aud who have never is.
owned nor deserted their partyM-The ultra
State Rights men, and the Nullfiers call them
selves the real, unadulterated DEMooRATIc par.
ty. As the head Of these State Rights politicians
is BENJAMIN Watkins Leigh, the opposer OF JET
fersun and Madison-the decided opponent OF the
Embargo and the Wharf.-The friend OF the Fedora
lists alwavs-and entertaining, what are called.
Federal notions with regard to the right OF sui
frage-and matters of government generally.
This will suffice, for men. The absnrdity OF the
thing is sufficiently evident on this head No"
let US look little at measures, and see it the alb
surdity is not still more striking. The procla'
nation of Gen Jackson is called by the $. De.
mocratic party" Of New York, Pennsylvania,
and Ohio. the ablest exposition Of the Demoera-
tic principles ever furnished to the country
And yet this same Democratic exposition is hail
ed with delight and received with exu'tation, as
embodyin all their sentiments,by Harrison Gray
Otis, Josiah Quincy, and all the most thorough
blooded Federalists that are to be found IN New
England. BY the 4" real Democratic party OF
Virginia and South Caroina, this same proc'a-
nation is treated as an 4" abominabe political
production" {" disgraceful to its author and
siener," and >"utterly subversiye OF liberty and
the rishts of the States" And-mira6ae dtcfW
"A large portion of the old Fsderalis's in the
South unite with these true Democrats, and shout,
with them, denunciatons against the proclama'
ton.
We know Of no better way Of illustrating what
we are endeavorineDo show. than by giving an
example, which we ind nos apropos to cur puf-
pose, in an account Of the 4th OF July ceiebra-
ton at Williamsburg. in Virginia AT this ce'e'
bration, we find that Robert Anderson Fede'
ralist of the first water-a man who has nailed
his colors to the mast, and for twenty years past
has gloried in being called Federalist-retus'
ing, almost, in his speeches before the people,
when he has been co,tdidate for Congress and
the Legislature from the district aud county IN
which he lives, to be recognized as any thing else
than the Federal can;lidate-in strict accordance
with his ancient faith, gave as toast, g limo
thy Pckering--from The date OF whose expulsion
from the public. councils may be reckoned most
Of our political evisH Here was Federalism!
But mark what a change comes over the scene
But short time afterwards, at the same place
at the same table--on the same day, and, tor
aupht we know, in the same hour.-th same Ro
bert Andersen gave" Martin Van Buren,
The stone which the builders rejected, 10 1887
will be made the i.aad of the corner" Here was
Democracy
But why go on and multiply words to prove
what every candid man must be satisfied is fact,
when he looks abroad and surveys the situation
Of the country and the various sects OF politicians
seeking for power and place. There are no such
things-there have been no such things-as Fe.
deralism and Democracy. in the old sense OF the
terms, since theelection OF MIR. Monroe. Gen.
Jackson advised him to kill the monster "party
spirit" and he did it, effectually. as far as an
Gent party spirit was concerned. Parties are now
formed upon other and different principles. The
seekers for popular favor. for effect, may call
| themselves Democrats, when, in TACT, they may
be rank Aris,ocrats. But intelligent people. for
the mort part, see through the fmsy veil with
| which they cover themselves, and laugh at their
pretensions.