Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-05-02
JACOBIN CLUBS.

JACOBlN CLUBS
Iii is stated in the Baltimore papers that a Loco
Foco Convention consisting Of delegates appoin'eo
BY the several Wards IN that city for the purpose oil
taking care Of the interests Of the party al a "ee'"e
lately held, decided that Mr.. Meculloch' the aep"-
~ collector Of that port. J. e. Van "yck, deputy
naval officer. and several of the clerks, must De re-
moved, and appointed a committee TO wan on MI
Frick, the collector of the port, to demand tic aPPh
cation oftlIe rotary suillotine. The report Is lha'
Mr.. Flick. with a proper appreciation of his own sta
ton and character, Indignantly refused to recognize
the authorship of this irresponsible Cabai, and thai
thereupon the Convention re-assembled' aud deci-
deJ that Mr.. Frick should be himself removed -
They lhen appointed a committee TO inform the Pre-
sideut oftheir last deeision-and tins coinh'i''ee' "
are told. had actually proceeded to " aSh'ng'oh WI"
the orders of the Convention /"
WHO does not see, in this state ofthings.t the germ
ofthat mobocraiic spirit which converted rance III
to a great charnel house, the nominal adnihIsira-
tors Of tue government being themselves mere pup.
nets in IN. hands of JaeobIn Clubs, which singled
out the nnnberisss victims, not ofcrime, but OF sus-
picion, who persisted IN prison, or "hose ''oo'
streamed upon the scaffold /! II these things are
done in the green tree, " hat may we not expectih lHe
dry ! Iforganized Clubs are already so powerful ;
to presume to dictate to the President whom lie shal
remove from office and whom appoint, how long VIII
it be before they will ask for the incarceration ana
death of Their victims There can be no system
more lntolcrable lhan that which combines Exccu-
tive subseivi,ney with Moboeratic violence
These were The pillars upon which were erected that
colossal aud gloomy fabric OF blood and anarchy IN
France, HE recital of whose deeds yeLfils the mind
with mingled ineredul,ty and horror. C1n we eX-
pect to escape lie same results, five adopt the same
principles ? We may be sure OF This, that the ituii
we shall hereafter cat, will be OF the Tree that we
nov plant. II his attempt to control appointments
be Successful, ii Will not Be long before. in every CT
~, town aud village, to which The patronage of the
Federal Government may extend, tanI where will il
not extend, if the Sub-Treasury scheme be sane
toned J these affiliated Clubs will spring up,-scat-
ncred over a wide extent, but animated by a com,
mon lrQpulse,-tur the purpose ofcontrolling the dis
tribntion Of that patronage, aud OF bringing il more
ettectually tito conflict with the freedom ofelee-
lions.
We do not speah thus earnestly upon this sub
jet because we have any apprehension oil present
Danger. But it is in small beginnings like this, that
the most fearful and widespread evils have had them
origin; and we therefore contend that this pein.cious
attemptto operate upon the legitimate action Of The
Executive by an exterior influence, which a popu-
laIily-huntlug Administration may find II difficult
to resist, should be arrested in the outset by the mar
kcd aud decisive reprohalion of The community qnd
by the prompt rcpulse of the President. or the
latter, however, we confess we have no hope. 1t has
rather been his object TO encourage the formation oil
these Clubs, for the purpose of operatlng upon and
concentrating public sentiment. They now aspire
TO the higher privilege Of debating to him and we
lear, that, as he cannot dispense with their services,
lie will yield to their control. Aud ii is not one of
the least OF our grounds ofobjection to the present
Administration that, While 1t seeks TO throw off the
influence OF public sentiment, as legitimately devel-
oped agreeably TO the forms of the constitutions, il
has encouraged that turbulent and violent ma nilesta-
lion Il opinion, which is in opposition alike to the
genius -four institutions and TO the preservation oil
wrll-rcgulaied flcedom-whlcll substitutes licen-
tiousness for liberty-and which will ultimately
throw us into the arms ola Despoi, that we may be
saved from the unnitigated horrors of .Anatchy.