Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-02-17
From the M.disonian.
PARTY AND PATRIOTISM.

10 be divided like Gaul, into three parts to saa:e
the ambition Of party leaders, or whether 1t Is ever
more to prosper in union and harmony by the ex-
ertons OF disnterested patriotism.
What is the spectacle presented by this nation
to the civilized world?
A country of boundless territory and exhaustless |
resources, Of Is millions Of inhabitants, and re-
publican Government, with a revenue but recent |
ly ov crflowi ing, with commerce but recently ex-
tended the remotest seaports OF the earth, with
arts sciences, and trades and every species OF ac-
tive and profitable industry, but recently perva-
ding and stimulating every portion of the wide
spreading and-al, all Frustrated, Slapped, Para!-
wed and bound down, with scarce strength enough
to raise an arm or hope enough to stimulate one
feeble exertion! The ships Of commerce are tied
at the wharves, trade Is discontinued, money Is
locked up every species Of industry Is restrained
and men step forth only like the trembling dent
zen Of the Last DAYS Of PomPeii, faltering with
tear lest the impending cloud of their threatening
doom and destruction, should burst upon them
In the midst Of this picture, certainly not over
drawn, what do we see!
| Does any one, having the temporary direction
the destinies of this nation attempt to raise the
almost lifcless energies of the boay politc,or even
to whisper to the broken spirit one word OF CONN.,
dence or encouragement? Dove see any OF the
lenders Of tho party IN power, here or elsewhere,
extending any prospect of relief or exhibiting any
disposition TO offer any remedy tor the existing
interests Of the COUNTRY? No. The government;
s'has no sympathy for the country"-''the country
looks to the government for too much = the ''gov-
crnment has nothing to do but to take care OF IT.
sef!' SAVE THE PARTY! That is the grand
object, from Maine to Louisiana; the COUNTRY is
nothing, SAVE THE PARTY! Look into the last
Richmond Enquirer-observe the four sets of res
olutions in the Virginia Lcgslature-sce how
perfectly ridiculous men making themselves
in the eyes Of the whole civilized world! They
profess oppose the Sub-treasury scheme. and yet
iater in quadrupie sense mot daring 10 say aught
against the measures they pretend to resist-ire-
scnting impracticable schemes and useless rcso-
lutions and making all sorts Of sounds signitying
nothiug.-Do they say do aught FOR THE
COUNTRY? Nothing. Sarc the party! "Everv
thing for the CAUsE''-what cause? The PARTY
Nothing for the country. What can be more mel
ancholy at such crisis this, than this husnil-
iatng and dcbased subsection to the tramn,els OF
PARTY. Are all the most cherished interests of the
: country to be crushed under this JUGGERNAUr
, OF PARTY? Have men lost their reason, their
f. freedom, their INDEPENDENCE? Else whence this
9 inversion of all moral and political proprietv
/. Yet "cvcry thing" is to be sacrificed ''fOr the
cause.'' Are not the poor absolutely threatened
: with starvation? Yet "SAVE THE PARITY
Are not the merchants broken, the banks shut up
, the factories stopped, business bIighsed, and still
darker clouds impending over us! And yet, the
party must he saved! What! all the grea
> interests of the country to he weighed in thu
J, balance with the political preference of a faction
= of men, and the whole to be overwhelmed an,
= crushed in the general scramble for the Presden
: icy! To sare tie pary-is that the business o
our lives? To make "a Presdent-is that ssou
cause?.' No,
'"Tts Ro.fE drna r,d- r-p rs
Would that Cato's words might resound in tn;
= ears Of every man holding a seat in the Halls o
Legislation. until he should startle from his Stun
bers, and awake to proper sense Of their duty
u &c e.
J. ism to party.
verfowing? Gone! Where is your currency
q Absolutely annihilated! The millions of bond
> shortly falling due, will not, and cannot be pai
even in "rags." Your customs will amount I
nothng--your land sales will be but a drop il
= the bucket the resources Of your revenue al
IS dried up, and bankruptcy of the National Treas
= ury must follow as consequence. And yet, il
p" view Of this terrible catastrophe, men, instead
employing themselves in the calm consideration
Of patriotic and practical objects, celberatn
II only how they shall keep the Office holders i
81 power. and turn their salaries into gold! Tn
admin tration has it in its power, by one breath
p by one single, lawful, constitutional, patriot
y, step, TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE and Civ
animation to the hopes, and activity to the enter
Prise of TIC country but it moves motifs syn
> pathics seem distant and cold as the hard FRI
Y zen ice-bcrgs of the Arctic sea. Mr. WRIGHT, a
y stands forth in the face of popular condemnato,
q and has the hardihood to present scheme for tn
IL universal suppression of trade, and the dirorce
the Government from the People! We can lie
a. gentlemen, that since things have come to this
v. the party for which they are raising such il
]s decent clamor will be but a rotten leaf befol
,e the Iightnings Of popular Indignation Repre-
of sentatives may submit with an outward show
N reason but the ssst small voices will teach the
Of the prelude of their awful reckoning with n
10 people and their God. If PARTY SPIRIT sha
,1 dare to ,ranp.e upon the great interests of tn
country, and mock the caamiiies Of the people,
will raise its head but to perish before the awf
j. Judgment Of OFFENDED PATRIOTISM.
I'd
SLAVE STATE JURISPRUDENCE
J.. We took occasion lately, in the black ma
- Franks case, to remark upon the integrity vii
- which the judicial tribunal Of the Slave State
- act, where matters touching slavery are invoi
cd. Another case has just met ny eye.
Is 1t may be remembered that prosecution wei
rs commenced last summer, at Richmond, v. again
es Thos. Evans, Of Pennsylvania, and NC. Gre