Liberty advocate., 1839-06-06

one, certainly no respectable number of poIiti
clans in this country, who do not regard tha
Question as settled, and permanently settled
Some gentlemen speak of The compromise n.
ending in l842. regard it as beginning THEN
and that the intermediate time has only been q
course Of preparation. Whence the danger OF
renewed agitation? The South is satisfied
with it, bad bargain as it unquestonably was.
very bad bargain. But the point Of honor
was saved, and as Francis the First said after
the battle Of Pavia, it is all that was saved
The manufacturers are satisfied, as they have
much reason to be, Tor they never were more
prosperous. Whence, then, the danger?-
ITher@s none, sir, but from political agitators
who desire to use this topic rs they have used
il, and as they would use the most sacred and
delicate Of the Institutions of public o,Npf pri.
yate life, as counters in their cheating and pro.
lllgae games Of personal ambition.
understand the game, for game it is, and
here, in my place, denounce it as 1t deserves
There is one little corner, if no other, where
Just denunciation will be needed. Those now
in power are much indebted for that power to
this very tariff subect-it has done them yeo-
mans service, and they desire to have again
in their hands so powerful an Instrument
They expect again 10 divide, as they have done,
the Northern and Southern wings of the oppo-
sition, and still more, they calculate TO gain
favor with each party, as they have heretofore
done, by protesting different opinions in every
different line of latitude-opposed to the tariff
in the South-surprsed in the North that any
one could have doubted their support of that
policy. Is it forgotten, sir, that Mr.. Van Bu-
rem voted for the tariff of 1898? the bill Of
denominations; one of those things, by which a
wise nscrutabIe Providence, works geod out of
evil. | do believe the revolving enormity of
that bill enabled the South, at last, to assail the
whole policy as successfully as it did; yes, sir,
for this revolving measure, unconstitutional as
his friends now admit it TO be, he not only vo-
ted, but was IN favor ofthe Force Bill to exc
cute, by the bayone,. law which he believed
unconstitutional. Great God, sir, TO what have
we come! Are we men, bearded men, or chill.
dren, that such language should be addressed
to us, such attempts to cheat and laugh al US
For mercy's sake, if you are determined toI
overcome US, do it in such way as will leave
us some little of our own self-eSteem. Do not
make Of us, willing, conscious dupes.
But, sir, the support of II was not ali; ; he was
closeted, night after night, with the Southern
gentlemen, consulting as to the best means Of
defeating the measure, and, TO their perfect as
tonishment, voted for it. Here we see him vo-
ting for this most pcrnicious and unconstitu-
tional measure and thinking it so, and in vio-
lation of other very high Obligations. What
was the excuse? He did il under the coercion
of instructions from his Legisature-a New
York Lcgislature--an Albany Regency Legs-
lature, instructing him, who was conlessedy
their head, TO do that to which his own inclina-
tions and sense of duty were opposed. Credat
JuCleuS Appeila non ego.
But this reason was only given at the South.
If | am not wholly mistaken, at public meet
ing, shortly afterwards in Albany, Mr. Van
Buren, prolessed himself in favor Of protec-
tive tariff, and expressed his surprise that any
one should eyer have doubted it-because, for
sooth, he owned twenty thousand sheep. Not
influenced by any Of those high and exciting
topics OF encouragement 10 our own native in
dustry, of complete national independence,
which, dclusiye and laIlacious as they are, have
something lofty and generous and exciting in
them. Oh no, sir, moi for any OF these, but be-
cause he had twenty thousand sheep. He was
amazed that any cne should suppose it posi-
BILE for man who owned twenty thousand
sheep, to be opposed to the tariff Truly, al
most Sheepish reason.
Sir, THAT disastrous measure is ever again
to agitate this country, desire some other de-
pendence than that which shall be placed in
any one man, and especially on man who,
when the country was on the eve of civil war,
was heard or thought Of by no one. In that, orI
any other grea. crisis, other spirits are looked
to, 10 direct the storm. | have no fears on that
subject. 1t will not be revived. lfit is, thank
God, the whole South will be animated as one
man, with the same selEdevoting spirit as was
heretofore one of the smallest ofthem, in the
terrible conflict through which she passed.
When denounced by her enemies, abandoned
by friends, and deserted in the hour oil peril by
those who should have sustained her, she trod,
undismayed "her war path" alone.
There is another subject too delicate to be
lightly touched, and too important not to be al
luded to. We are asked TO rely upon this
same individual for the protection ofanother
and our greatest interest-whilst will not de-
ny that he has lately acted we'll on that sub
ject, and would not insinuate that ne has the
slightest taint of abolitionism upon him, still
do want confidence in his disposition or his
ability to meet great crisis, to throw himself
in the way ola bursting torrent-God has CIV
en- the qualities necessary to this to few men,
and he is not one of them. Possessed, although
he unqucstionably is, Of many high endow-
ments, cannot however close MY eyes TO the
fact, that his zeal in favor Of the South has
been IN exact proportion as his star has waned