Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1837-09-26

lfensive, but absolutely necessary and in
dispensable towards3the support Of the
Government N
Again he says--'srhe Alien and Sedi-
ton Laws were made the subject Of an
elegant, but violentand infammatory lei
port, agreed TO by The Legislature Of Wiz.
ginia, as respectable and enlightened a
deliberative body as any in the United
States, or pWhaps in the world. But
they were bitten by the mad dog of faR,
lti6h, in common with large portion D
their fellow citizens"
Speaking of the Federal constitution,
Mr.. Carey says--"Had the real Federal
lists in the convention succeeded, and made
the General Government somewhat more
energetic-endowed it with small degree
more of power-it might endure forever"
| From the above extracts it is clear and
indisputable that Mr.. Carey was at that
time Federalist, Notwithstanding he had
formerly acted with the Democratic party.
The truth is, that the Democrats were so
far from being under the influence Of
"hydrophobia," that Mr.. Carey or any
one else is challenged to produce more
calm and dignified set Of opinions on any
political subject, than the Virginia and
Kentucky resolutions, and Mr.. Madson's
report on the former.
If Mr.. Carey is correct, the Democratic
party of 1898 deserve the execration of
mankind, instead of having their political
opinions laid down in the EXPLANATORY"
resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky,
adopted as ''Text Book at some crisis
or other, by nearly all if not by every
State in the Confederacy
Ohio, in the Bank controversy, adopted
these resolutions as containing the true
theory of our institutions. Were her Sc
majors and Representatives, amongst
whom was w. H. Harrison, "bitten by
the MAD DOG OF FAcTIoN?" If so, why in
the name of common sense do Wings and
Royalists all claim the title of Democrats;
and thus subject themselves to be styled
by Mr., Carey, MAD DOG factionsts?
"Had the Federalists succeeded" says
Mr. Carey, "and endowed the General
Government with more power, it might
endure for centuries" Who, after this
will accuse Mr.. Carey of being Demo.
crat? appeal, fellow-citizens, to your
patriotism, to your good sense ana ais
erection, and ask if there is one man
amongst you who would not much rather
see the General Government shorn of its
usurped powers than to see them extend
ed one iota further, even by constitutional
grants? Where is the public money, and
who assumed the responsibility of its
removal from the depository selected
by the Representatives of the States?
Whose mandate decides what shall be
taken in payment for public lands, and at
the Post Offices what shall be received for
postage? and in fine, is not the arbitrary
will Of one man the supreme law of this
Confederacy9 Does not this man merit |
the title of "usurpcr" and his despicable
minions, that of "royalists," when they
salute the eors of his majesty with the
air of "Wha'll be King but Charlie"
The following resolve of the Philadel-
phia royalists is in print, and proves the
servile spirit of the times: "Resolved,
that TO uphold the orders Of the Executive,
Martin the LIST, Autocrat of all the |
States,) either now issued, or hereafter
to be issued, we hold ourselves ready to
organize in this city and county first
volunteer legion of ten thousand men,
(serfs,) to be as shortly as possible fully |
armed and equipped" Can the royalists
of Virginia, good old Virginia, read this
resolution without a burning cheek
without an involuntary sigh that they are
apostates from that party whose predic-
tons, in an "address to the people of Vir'
GINA on the Alien and Sedition laws" are
thus fully verified? Can any one who
has the soul of a man, and the proud
spirit of a freeman, feel unmoved at such
degrading subserviency?
But to return from this DEPRESSION. Mr..
Carey had ali undoubted right to change
his political opinions and his honesty, in
avowing that change is the mark of an
honest man. But that he has erred in
conceding too much is evident from the
fact, that the General Government is
regularly concentrating all power in itself,
and that power as regularly and natu-
rally concentrating in the Executive. The
excellencies Of the "Olive Branch" in
other respects, is the cause that gave pop |
ularity to Mr.. Carey's fatal error of re-
linquishing the characteristic and funda-
mental principles of the Democratic party
which led them to victory,
but which are now unhappily abandoned
for an empty name. As the immoral
man finds it necessary to assume the
semblance Of virtue to pass himself off
to advantage, SO the politician clings,
with the convulsiye grasp Of drowning |
man, to the "text book Of Democracy for
fear Of being termed, what he knows him
self to be, Federalist. Is this not true
to the letter? or would the magic Of a