The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-12-27
From the Richmond WING.
THE sMONARCHIAL PARTY.


A more absurd and.preposteTOus claim was
never Perferred by any party, than that which
is now advanced by the ofIicehOlders and
sink or swim adherents of the Federal Ex-
ecutive 10 the appellatiOn so far from being
Republicans or Democrats, the very worst
Federalist ever known in this county,.
o. if you understand by the term Federalsl,
what in the days of Mr.. Jefferson, friend
of Power and Prerogative in opposition to
the People and Privileges. This assertion
is borne out by ample and incontroVertble
evidence, whether we look North or South,
to the prominent men of the party, or TO the
d0'oe'ahlo and mnnarchical measures they,
support. In regard to men, there IS Buc-
hanGn, who once thanked his God that not
a drop of Democratic blood flowed in his
vein*-IngerSoH, VINO proclaimed that had
he lived in the Revolution he would have
been-a Tory-WdH, the father of the Re-
port which advocated Office holders interfer-
ing with elections, who declared in the SEN
ate, that he had always been a Federalist
and always intended to be--Rush, who was
one of the first, if not the very first, who
mounted the Observation-Disclosures host
of Others, main pillars and chief ornaments
of the Temple of Modern Democracy. They
were advocates Of strong central Govern
ment in '9S; of a Monarchy in fact, they are
the same things now. They still 90 with
all their hearts and souls for vestinp al the
powers Of the Government in the hands of
the Execu tive, and making that functionary
omnipotent and supreme.
1t we turn to measures, the evidence of
the worst species of Federalism are equally
abundant and conclusive. What was ever
proposed by the elder Adams, or Alexander
Hamilton, or Timothy Pickering, more
strongly consolidating, anti-repubican, and
subversive of the rights of the States, than
the bankrupt Lam, recommended by Mr..
Van Buren, for the purpose of bringing the
State Banks to the footstool of the Execu-
tive? What power was ever claimed by the
Fathers of Federalism for the Executive,
equal to that asserted in the protest, to the
entire and undisputed custody of the public
money, and actually carried outinto practice
by Jackson and Van Buren,? When did
Hamilton breach doctrines half SO Federal
as those contained in the celebrated pro-
which even the ostrich stomach
of the sink or swim Editor of the Enquirer
could not digest without many wry faces
and patriotic grimaces? We may look in
vain to the annals of Federalism, in its prou-
dest day, for any principles or measures TO
exceed or equal these in their consolida-
ting, An'i-State Rights tendencies. In fact,
the who'd drift and policy of the dominant
party has been, and is, to lggrandize the
Federal Head To obey his behests is the
only test of Democracy; to strengthen his
arm for mischief by usurping the rights of
the People and the co-ordily genuine Repub-
licanism; and TO sink priaciples-to sink the
best interests ofthe country-and to sink
the rights Of the States, in order swim with
the president is TO be the beau ideal ola bold
disinterested patriot, consistent Statesman.
and champion ofStaie Rights.