Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-05-29

some Roadway. The people appeared to
be coming to our support and our assis.
lance. The country had been reused
every successive election weakening the
strength Of the adversary, and increasing
our own. We were in this career Of
success carried strongly forward by the
current Of public opinion, and only nee.
ded TO hear the cheering voice Of the hon.
orable member,
Once more unto the breach, dear friends
once more!' and we should have prostra-
ted, forever, this anti-constitutional, anti
commercial, anti-republican, and anita
merican policy of the administration.
But, instead of these encouraging and ami.
mating accents, behold! in the very cri-
SIS of our affairs, on the very eve of our
victory, the honorable member cries out
to the enemy-not to us, his allies-but
to the enemy" Halloa! A sudden
thought strikes me! Iabandon my alliesl
Now, ] think Of it, they have always been
my oppressor! abandon them, and now
let you and me swear an eternal friend
ship !'
Such proposition, from such quarter,
sir, was not likely to be long withstood.
The other party was little COY, but, up
on the whole, nothing loath. After a
proper hesitation; and a little decorous
blushing, it owned the soft impeachment,
admitted an equally sudden sympathetic
impulse on its own side; and, since few
words are wanted where hearts are already
known, the honorable gentleman takes his
place among his new friends, amidst gree.
tings and caresses, and is already enjoy
ing the sweets Of an eternal friendship.
In this letter, Mr.. President, the writer
says, in substance, that he saw, at the COM
mencement Of the last session, that affairs
had reached the point, when he and his
friends, according to the course they should
take, would reap the full harvest of their
long and arduous struggle, against the
encroachments and abuses Of the GeRer-
al government, or lose the fruits of all
their labors.
/ At that time, he says, State interposi.
ltion (viz: Nullifcation) had overthrown
the protecting tariff and the American
system, and put stop to Congressional
usurpation that he had previously been
united with the National Republicans
and that their joint attacks had brought
down the power Of the Executive but
that, in joining such allies, he was not IN.
sensible to the embarrassment of his DO.
sition; that, with them, victory itself was
dangerous and that therefore he had
been waiting events that now, THAT is to
lsay in September last, the joint attacks
of the allies had brought down Executive
power; that the Administration had be.
come divested of power and influence,
/ and that it had become clear that the COM
lbined attacks of the allied forces would
utterly overthrow and demolish It. All
this he saw. But he saw, too, as he says,
i that in that case the victory would enure,
mot to him and his cause, but to his allies
and their cause. ! do not mean to say
that he spoke Of personal victories, or al
luded topersonal objects, at all. He spoke
of his cause.
j He proceeds to say, then, that never
was there before, and meyer, probably viii
there be again, so fair an opportunity fol
i himself and his friends to carry out tEei,
oson principles and policy, and to reap the
/ fruits of their long and arduous struggle.
These principles and this policy; sir, be Il
remembered. he represents, all along, as
/ identified with the principles and policy Of
notification. And he makes use of this
glorious opportunity, by refusing to join
bis late allies in any further attack on those
Il in power, raIlying anew the old States
r Rights party to hold in check their ole
u opponents, the National Republican party.
3 This, he said, would enable him to pre-
D vent the complete ascendancy of his al
s lies, and tocompel the Southern division
3 of the administration party to occupy tn,
+ ground Of which he proposes to take pos
: session, to wit, the ground of the old State
Rights party. They viii have, he says
: no other alternative.
IL Mr.. President, stripped of its military
|. language, what is the amount Of all this
81 but that, finding the administration weak
. and likely to be overthrown, the opposi
{ ton continued with undiminished force, he
went over to it, to join it !; to act, hinsel
]. upon notification principles; and to com
!. | bel the Southern members Of the admins
: tratiol TO meet him on those principles p
: In other words, to make a notification
E administration, and to take such part in j
i Is should belong to him and his friends
!. He confesses, sir, that in thus abandoning
Il his allies, and taking position TO cove
those in power, he perceived q shocl
,fl would be created, which would nequlrl
Z some degrees Of resolution and firmness
this he was right. a shock, SIR, Ia
s been created vet there he IS.
d This administration, sir, IS representa-
{ as succeeding to the last by an lnheTitanc
!. of principle. ltpl0fesses TO tread "a tn
b ffootstepsof its illrstIious predecessor.
!. adopts, GENERALS. tie sentiments, princi
e pies, and opinions 81 General Jacksou
i ProcIama6o and 90 and yet, though 3
5 Be the very prince Of Nulli6eFs, and bu
It lately regarded as the chiefest of SINNERS
il Il receives th8 honorable gentleman VT
utmost naplasencys TO- az appeal
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followers But, So, ia al this niopenlen
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