Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-09-23
LYNCnBURG, SEPTEMBER 23, isse
FEDERALISM REVIVED-or. WORDS Nor
THINGS

would acquire entire asceudaney in the na,,o.
councils and he vas not less acute in lorcsees
the means by which the political revolution or,o.
90 would be rendered eninely abo,tive. In one 4
h Letters lie wains the American people that al |
snake was only stolch'd-not killed !" and tLa, -.
less vgiIanlly watched, il would eventually wind
coils around the pillars of the Constitution. urao,
mining what it seemed TO support, until the ubol.
fabric, its foundations thus nsidousy desro,.J
would tumble into ruins. This re.ult, lie de,,,,1
would not be accomplished by open assaults NM.
the principles Of the Republican party of $3.50
for against them the people would ALWAYS be lor,
warned and forearmed,-but by the artlhces Of a.,
pirng demagogues, who would assume that title
even while Ihey ,ramred upon the dtctrines un,,
which il is coeval, for The pu, pose ofpromone their
own self.agg,andizemeni. The events which AZ.
now uanslrng before our eyes permit us 10 ndulp.
but feeble hope that tins prediction vii! moth fully
realized even before the death of hundreds VIII,
were the contemporaries and companions, and some
OF them the counselIofs of the prophet.
The men in power, although assuming tie appel.
laiion of The party which in 1860 elevated Mr.. Jel
fe rson to the Presidency-no We beg their pardon
they 60 farher-dat name is not, it seems. expau
siye enough for thcn--ihey clam to be not only
Republicans, but " Democratic Republicans" and
we are not that they do not deem it heterodo1
10 be any ,hng less than "Jackson-Van Buren,
Democratic Republicans the men in power We
say, although thus assuming to be better Rcpubi.
cans even than Mr.. jefferson aud bis friends are alb.
solutely advocating doctines and making them the
lest Of orthodoxy which equal, If they do cx-
coed, in their ederaizing tendencies. the atuli.
nous assumptions of Mr.. Jef1erson's old antagonists
few of the most ultra Of the old federal school,
ii is rue, may have gone as far as MI. Van Buren,
aud his illustrious predecessor have done Alex
ander Hamilton for example, who, it seems,ls the
thor Of at least of the most promnen, ieanresOi
the Sub Treasury scheme-hc having insisted las
we are told by the Wv York Wing who quotes from
the Isl vol p. 81 OF his Life,) that he naonalre-
venues should be collected by officers, appointed by
the government, for the reason "tha their appoint
ment would be The means e creating, in the interior
Of each State, mass ofinnuence in favor Of the iede
Ial governmental other words, he was in favor Of
plan Of his so,l, because it would tAert rcniral
,ins and consolidating influence Of hich known
he was always the warm AID able champion, and 10
the same extent, by weakening State attachments,
destroy STATE Rights The only difference between
Van Buren, and Hamilton, as is well remarked by
the N. Y. Wing is. that Hamilton openly ayo"sd
his purposes, while Van Buren, anfuy conceals bs,
The opinions Of Hamilton were comparatively harm
less, because their avowal by exciting dislrGs and
jealousy, ensured their defeat while those OF MI
Van Buren,, though note poisonous because they
are sugared over with popular name, are danger
in the precise ratio oil his skill in thus Disgusting
their deeterious properties, and securing for them
favorable epon. There is no danger that man
will swallow arsenic il lie knows that il is alsenici
but tell him that ii is innoxious draugh q mlnsle
with ingredients pleasant the palate, and he viii
pour it down hls ,hroat-thc passive instrument OF
his destruction because ignorant Of the deadly
nature of the potion, until the agonies of the hid
den re begin TO prey ulon his ,las and TO rack his
system. The Sub-Teasury is TO tie body polite
what arsenic is to the human system and though
II be arlluIly compounded and cunningly labelled II
will result in the death of the liberties Of the nation
that tastes the cup; unless indeed IT be. that a
recuperative energy shall be found TO exist in its
Constitution too powerful for the subtle poison at once
TO destroy. But the people are mad, who. with tho
fearful and appalling example before their eyes, fun
nished hy past history and by totemporary events,
shall peril that freedom for which their
fathers fought and bed, upon The issue of SO doubt
full an Experiment specially under the guidance
of men whose experiments heretofore have uni
formly resulted in spread confusion and dlsas-
ter.
But the ultra federalism of the measures OF the
men in power is still more clearly, if possible, betray-
ed, by the fact indsputable or, If disputed, snscep'
tbe Of easy demonstrations that their direct and in
evitable tendency is not only centalize power at
Westinghouse weaken the State Rights principle
and 10 strengthen the federal goyernment,-but to
consolidate all the power, thus snatched from the
States, in the hands of one man. Their federalism,
indeed, it will be thus seem degenera;es into monar-
chy. The iederasts of 90 commended, it is true,
for strong central government, Uhough certainly
not stronger than that contemplated by the authors
of the Proclamation and The Force Bil,l-but they
were IN favor of distributing its powers equally a
mong its three great departmenls-Executiye, lie
glsatve and Judicial. But now, under the reign of
modern federalism, which has usurped the appela
ton OF democratic republicanisn, while The
trail government is 10 be rendered supreme and
onnipotent, its unlimited power is to be
ted exclusively in the President What, but
this. is the direct result ofthe Sub Treasury system,
for examEle, WHICH places the Purse in the hands Of
officers no, appointed by and responsible the repre-
senalves of The people, (who are The constitutional
custod'ans of the public money! but appointed by
the President and Senate, and removable by the
President alone, to whom, consequently, they are
alone DraC ally ,,bo,, tLorcforc,