Macon intelligencer., 1839-12-05

Il
ton increase of government patronage in
the creation of a horde of pensioned Uni
ted States office-holders all over the coun-
try, and the proaigate expenditure of the
peoples hard earnings upon Indian wars,
purposely conducted so as to procrastinate
their duration, and to augment the govern
ment patronage-the waste of public mo-
neys on expensive government contracts
for Notifications, and a thousand other
works destined to strengthen the consol-
idated central government are among the
alarming evidences of the encroachment of
the national administration upon the sove-
reign authority ofthe States.
Not contented, however. with the VIOLA
tions and usurpatlons. and a thousand
others, that would here occupy loo much
space to enumerate, we confne ourselves
at present TO the still more recent and
dangerous interference of. the United
States government officers, NTH the actual
Legislation of the States.
|. Plants concocted by Mr.. Van Buresl's
cabinet, at Washington, have been put in
to execution before our eyes, actually to
obstruct the free legislation of the States
by directattack on the members of the
legislatures assembled at their respective
capitals. At Harrisburg, the capital of
Pennsylvania. the independence of this
great commonwealth was invaded by a
suborned, hired mob. of United States Of
ice-holders. seEt on from Philadelphia city
and one or two other counties. The can
itol was stormed and taken possession Of
by them-the members Of the Senate and
House Of Representatives driven out of
doors, and finally inundated and bullied
into compliance with the terms offered by
these infuriated hlrelings, backed by To-
cofoco minority in either house of the le-
gislature.
2. Following upon the heels of this
guilty triumph, we have the plan adopted
to defeatthe election Of Whig United
States Senator from Delaware, by SNUG
Cling Locofoco members into both houses
from the Wing county of Sussex. Here
the scheme has been thwarted by the in
dependent stand assumed by the popular
branch ofthe Legislature.
5. In the State of New York we have
just been witness of the yet more disgrace
ful subterfuge resorted to by the small Van
Buren majority in the Senate, to defeat the
reelection to the United States Senate of
Mr. n P. Tallmadge.
4. If Mr.. Van Buren perists in his de-
termination to grasp at unlimited power,
we shall soon have a civil war, with all
ftihie III people people will be SO abject as to submit
to these open violations upon the most
sacred rights they possess, andthat hireling
office-holders shall traverse the country
from one capitol 10 another, to dragoon the
State Legislatures into degrading subju-
CATION to the will and authority of the
President.
The time has arrived when it behooves
the declared friends of State Rights to
come forward and hang their banner on
the outward wall" We speak not of the
north. for we know that they will protect
themselves against an army Of Sub-Treas-
ury pensioners and myrmidons But where
now is Calhoun and the other chivalrous
men ofthe South, who look to State rights
and the sovereignty of the States as the
only sheet-anchor of their salvation from
Executive dominion, and the centraliza-
ton of the whole power of the country into
the hands of one man-that man too, pro-
Tossing Southern principles2