Southern telegraph., 1838-08-22

succeeded, one Of the fundamental princi-
Piles of the constitution would have been vio-
lated and destroyed. On those great fun
damentai principles every thing depends,
and yet they are too frequently regarded as
mere distractions, we are too apt to neglect
them and leave them unguarded, under die
idea that no audacity will venture TO attack
them. Such a principle is the elective fran
chise, the very palladium Of the constitu-
ton; and had the people of Mississippi sub
miited to the attempt Of the federal govern
ment, to deprive them of it, should have
despaired ofthe Republic; not single prin-
ciple of the constitution would have been
worth straw. When we look back and see
the bright gem OF onr common rights so near
ly stolen away, are we not strenuously cali
ed upon to keep an untiring and never ceas.
ing watch, against like insidious attemptsa-
galnst the great fundamental principles Of
our dearest rights and liberties.
Let us look now at the great battle which
is raging, and see if do not tell you true,
when say that every patriot, like the min
ute men Of the revolution, to keep constant
ly ready TO do battle at amoment's warning
One great plan ofthe enemy is TO array one
class of society against another. They hold
that there is a natural, and there ought to
be a perpetual hostility between the poor
and rich ;--as if in this country all classes
were not mutually dependant on each other,
as ia the busy hive, when those who return
laden impart their stores, and those who are
empty, have only to go forth to return la
den. have observed in the part of the
country whence come, that the now most
prosperous, hono-ed and wealthy, are those
who commenced their course with no for
tune but their hands, their industry, and their
enterprising spirit. Let this imaginary line
which divides the rich and the poor be at a.
ny momen. drawn, and how many seconds
would it be before hundreds would have
passed it on the ono side and perhaps thou
sands OH the otherl
Another great scheme Of the present Ad-
ministration and those who supported it, is,
to excite sectional ealousies, and thus to
bring about disunIon among those, whom
God himself has united, and whom man by
works of art is every day binding more and
more together; to array the North against
the South, aud the East against the West,
and thus produce irreconciliable differences
of interests, manners and institutions, yet
when we cody reflect upon the many more,
and most important things in common be.
tween us, surely, it is only those who look
upon the dark side only ofthe picture, who
are not convinced that ell parts of tho coun-
try are becoming every day more and more
closely united and bound together. The
handicrait of the mechanic has done more
perhaps, and already does more 10 bind the
Union together as with hooks of steel, than
even the Constitution ITSELF Look at the
steamboats, which daily and hourly like huge
leviathans, make the waters of the Missis-
sippi and its tributaries boil like pot, and
keep up SO constant, rapid and comfortable
an intercourse between the most distant sec
tons ofthe country. Look at the rail roads
whose cars like fiery furnaces, outstrip the
swiftness of the wine, and yet with all
their rapidity, need no other stimulus than
water, conveying from quarter TO quarter
the intelligence, sentiments and feelings of
the citizens, as well as the products of the |
land! What shall we say to those who
would sever the Mississippi into fragments,
like so many separate and stagnant pools,
and who would cut off the rail roads as hey
pass from one State to another, bv impassa-
bic barriers! Is this the state Of things we
wantt No! the proudest boast ofthe Amer
lean citizen is the Union under which he
lives, and the proudest efforts of our distin-
guished guest, are those which have taught
the people that their highest interest is in
maintaining that Union! Lett but hold to-
gether for fifty years longer, and defy par
ty strife or factions to sever US. Now is the
Nme to labor for the preservation of the u
Mon, and even already the internal improve
ments which in the end will make it immoye-
able, afford to the sons of Massachusetts, the
means to carry with them all over the land
Ahe intelligence, free principles, and love oil
liberty by which they have ever been achl.
ated. Indeed in addressing you upon the
present occasion, consider myself as only
discharging the high duty Of interchanging
and commingling the sentiment and opinions
Of dlnerent and distinct portions OF the Union,
and of uniting to produce between them
unison of feeling, calculated most effectiaIlv
70 repel the attempts Of wicked men, TO per
'uade them that their interests are dissimi-
ar and can only be furlhered by disunion
Is though the common ship in which we are
embarked, and of whose safe arrival at her
destined port we ought to entertain no doubt,
we're already gone to pieces, and our great
'bject ought to be to choke each other from
be floating planks, and even at the expense
i each others safety, to preserve ourselves
nd gain the shore
Such are the doctrines openly avowed by
ONE of the most strenuous supporters of the
administration; but fortunately the time is
lose at hand when the people instead of
niger pursuing mere will-ofthe-wisp
'hich wheH attained, degenerates into dis
listing muc lage, shall see rising before
lem the steady and glorious light of the