The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-10-03

the whole State had been but one living bar
bacue the whole summer long And the
whole is so peculiar One would almost
swear from the evidence, that South Carolina
belonged not to the United States, but " Its own
place, and in ITSELF" another world. Else, we
might suppose that South Carolina was in it.
self The United States, and that the United
States consisted of but one or two families OF
men. II is all !. Cardinals air." Cardinals
cause, ""our institutions, ""Southern interests"
" Southern principles" Independent Trea-
sury with the specie clause" Mr. Calhoun,
the Rhetts and South Carolina forever. All
but Cardinals sons" are "traitors," d" aboli-
,ionists," impostors," "white slaves" fe-
deralists," and enemies, for whom to tread
upon " Cardinals hallowed soir is fire, in
surrection, lynching, and hanging. She
scarcely believes that the Constitution was
made for any other State but South Carolina,
and that it has even failed to serve her pur-
poses. If any one disputes this, or denies
that Carolina has perfect right to trample
CONTEMPORARY upon all federal laws, or
doubts the infalIibility of Mr.. Calhoun, the
notes of defiance and bravado will be bawled
by more political parvenues than there were
frogs in Egypt. But we feel great concern
for South Carolina. viii she be divorced
from the Union by her sister States, as the
Globe long since thought she ought to be, or
xu,n Sha iatlx hlrau from, he O
the Globe more recently substantially advised
she should These are questions Of interest
ing import.
The 9 States Rights party" have made a
ludicrous figure in many places, in sowing
the soft impeachments" of their late inveterate
enemy, the Globe, and seizing by the skirts
their newly discovered {" northern man, Nth
southern principles Some Of them, with
surprising independence, avow their devotion
to the principles, but despise the man. Others
confess it is bitter pill. but it must be swal-
lowed, Proclamation, Force Bill, Protest,
Loco Focoism, and all. Some desire the
4" Independent Treasury but dislike the
"specie clause" without which Mr.. Calhoun
says it is farce. Others are willing to pre-
vent the banks from discounting on the pub
lie deposites, but reject all the machinery Of
DIR. Wright's BILL Some think that the whole
matter can be adjusted by Judicious special
deposite plan, and on the whole, there seems
to be marvellous contrarety Of opinion under
Mr.. Calhoun's "tattered and torn banner
The Globe coaxes them all, most lovingly, to
rally around their beloved friend, the Presi-
dent, whose Inauguration so greatly disguised
Mr.. Calhoun, and unite in his support with
the loco-focos, and Mr.. Picken's white
slaves" ofthe North. The Globe has proved
doubtless to their entire satisfaction, that there
is an exact equality and beautiful sympathy of
interest and feeling, in the independent plant
ers of the South, and the 'rabbe followers of
the camp" in the North. The 'present crisis''
1--WE are always in a crisis) should be taken adj
vantage of, according to Mr.. Calhoun, and
his "position to cover his enemy Mr.. Van
Buren,, by joining his standard, will form
prominent item amongst the chronological
phenomena Of 1888. The consequences
of great magnitude which are to follow" will
be, we think, the nomination of Mr.. Calhoun
for the Presidency. IT, in that event, the
election should be thrown upon the House of
Representatives, we may expect to see Goa
lition preferring either Calhoun or Van Buren,,
to the candidate of the Opposition. But in no
probable event will Sub-treasury candidate
be likely to succeed. We expect to see the
House Of Representatives filled with a more
decided majority against the Sub-treasury
than has yet appeared there. Besides, the
Calhoun-Nulifiers exhibit symptoms of dis
abandonment, if not of total dissolution. There
are heart-burnings, chickering's, and differences
among them, which must destroy all harmony
and concert; and, as Mr.. Calhoun says,
.they have no reason to confde" in the
northern man, with southern principles of
this administration, SO that we really do not
see what grounds of hope the allied forces can
reasonably cherish.
We publish in our columns of to-day, letters
of the two distinguished Senators of South
Carolina, principally relating to the "present
crisis" 1t is not little surprising that such
an intellect as Mr.. Calhoun's should have but
Just discovered, that Madison, Crawford,
Monroe, Dallas and Gallatin, and the whole
experience of the Government, have all been
unconstitutional, and that he alone has at last
discovered, in conjunction with Mr.. Gouge,
the infallible construction. Such wonderful
revelation in political economy, is only equal
led by the new light shed upon religion by the