The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-06-06

on the theatre Of action on which |
he had been placed. 1t was by that system
Of party discipline, which, if not now rebu-
ked and frowned down by the people, would
one day crush and destroy their liberties.-
He knew Of his own personal knowledge,
that many ofthe Administration party warm
" and earnestly opposed and deprecated
this scheme down to the period when it was
brought forward by the President. He firmly
that large majority Of the party
in Congress then decidedly disapproved it;
and yet, when the President brought it for
ward in his message, when it was whispered
about that he staked the fortunes of his ad-
upon it, and "meant to stand or
fall by it," many Of those who before earn
estly opposed it, came quietly into its sup
port. This principle of action was even
openly avowed. Here Mr.. r. related an
anecdote of a conversation between himself
and member of the Senate, who had for
merly acted with him and had cordially con-
CURED in his views. That member, while
freely admitting that Mr.. r., in his opposi-
ton to the faporite measure Of the Admins
tration, stood upon the same ground he had
before done, very significantly said, but
tina: is not the question, Mr.. Rives; it is a
rule in dancing in my country, when the
tune turns, you must turn-we have now
new tune and new piper, and yet you will
not turn.' Mr.. Rives said, he was not Of
the Jim Grow school of politicians; he could
not thus turn about and wheel about" as
the Presidential piper might think fit to
change the tune. (Cheers)
Mr.. Rives said, that what he now stated
to this company, was fact of universal no.
toriety at Washington. An able and distin-
guished friend Of his, cool and impartial
observer. and profoundly read in the history of
Governments, ancient and modern, had most
impressively called the attention of the coun-
try to it, year ago. Mr.. Rives then read
an extract from public letter of Mr.. Legare
to the Governor of South Carolina, in which
he graphically describes the mysterious
workings of this fatal system of party disci-
pine, by which ga few leaders, nobody
knows how, dictate to multitudes Of dissent
ing, dissatisfied, and yet complying follow
ers the whole body doing ,rhat almost eucry
member OF II disaPprores."
What was said in these extracts was lit
orally true, particularly since the present
Administration had attempted to force on the
unwilling people measure, fraught, as he
believed, with the ruin ofthc country-when
the party was brought, at the bidding Of a
few party leaders, to support measures
which almost every member Of it disappro-
we'd. For his resistance to the tyranny Of a
party, he had been arraigned as a traitor to
his party. Was it better, he exclaimed, to
be a traitor to ones country or traitor to
ones partyf For his part he gloried in be.
ing traitor to his party, when this was fidel.
ity to his country. Loud and repeated
Cheering.)
But there was danger that the system
would make progress. Here Mr.. Rives CT
ted as All illustration of this assertion, thai
the course of the central Journal at Rich
mond, and the proceedings Of meeting in
the southwestern part Of the State, the mem
bers of which were opposed to the Sub
Treasury scheme, pledged themselves t
waive all objections 10 it in the support o
MIR. Van Buren,. 1t was also sustained by
the fact that prominent member of tht
Convention in Richmond-an old friend o
his-both personally and politically, openly
declared that if they would only allow hin
t,Do feet square to stand upon, on this ques
ton of the Sub Treasury, he should be sa
tisfied, and ready nevertheless to supper
the very party pledged to carry out thi
very measure. Is it not time, said Mr.. K.
to pause? The effect of this course of things
was to centre all power in the hands of tn
President, and to establish, under the colo
ofrepresentative government, the most odiou
of all monarchies?
! Mr.. R. proceeded to specify some 9
! the particular fruits Of this system of part
tyranny. In his message to the last Con
gress, the President said that the Govern
ment ought to be permitted to employ bank
; or not, at its discretion. This had struck Nj
r. as most ominous. 1t looked to giving
the Executive not only the entire control owe
the money collected from the hard earning
!, of the Peoples industry by the Sub-treasur
scheme, but also over the monied institution
I, and interests offhe country by means Of tn
Deposite Banks. He was filled with horre
and alarm at this proposition, and with vie,
, to meet it, brought forward his resolution ,
: inquiry, for which he had been 50 much r,
preached by the party. He saw that, alth'
I the President had been warning with Ii
I Bank Of the U. S., and the Adnlinistratio
: had pledged itself to Incorporating no
I tility to that institution, even to extermin
: ton, yet the Government had again take
! the Bank into its employment. This
was attempted to defend on the sole grour
. Of necessity, the tyrantss plee. And Jet
a d,vn<,,,oavn 1,ln fhn ftnen vaa - nssah -
y cessity, the Government having power give