Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-11-09
From the Lyachburg Virgi;nian.


predicted. that, - very distant peri
cd, federal doctrines would acquire al
entire asccndancy in the national coun
ellis; and he was not less arate in fore
seeing the means - which the politica
revolution of 1870 would be renieres
entirely abortive. Ia one Of his letter!
he warns the Anne riean people that = rhs
snake was only scoteh'd--not killed, ;
and that, unless vigilantly watched, i
would eventually wind It's coils around
the pillars OF the Constitution, undernlin
ing what il seemed TO support, until The
whole fabric, is foundations thus insiIi
ousy destroyed, would tumble into
ruins This result, he declared, would
not be accomplished by open assaults
upon the principles Of the Republican
party Of 98-99.--for against them tho
people would always be forewarne and
forearmed--5ut by the artifices Of as
piring denagagues. who would assume
that title, even while they tranbled upon
the doctrines with which it is coeval, foi
the purpose.of promoting their own self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The events which are
now transpiring before our eyes. permit
us 10 indulge bat feeble hope that this
prediction will not be fully realized even
before the death Of hundreds who were
the contemporaries aud companions, and
some of them the councillors Of the pro-
phet. ~ ts5s-
The men in power, although assuming
the appeiIation of the party which in
1900 elevated Mr.. Jefferson to the Pre-
sidency--no; we beg their pardon-they
90 fartIier-tAdf name is not, il seems,
expansive enough for them--they claim
to be not only Republicans, but .Demo-
cratic Republicans" and we are not sure
that they do not deem it heterodox to be
any less than Jack son-Van Buren-De-
mocratic Republicans" the men in
power, we say, although thus assuming
10 be better Republicans even than Mr.
Jefferson and his friends, are absolutely
advocating doctrines, and making them
the test of orthodoxy, which equal, if
they do not exceed, ia their federalizing
tendencies, the latituninous assumptions
of Mr.. Jefferson's old antagonists. A few
of the most ultra Of the old federal
school, il is true, may have gone as far
as Mr.. Van Buren, and his ssillustrious
predecessor" have done; Alexander
Hamilton, for example, who, it seems, is
tiiC vi OF IcdSl OlG OI the II1O9l
prominent features of the sub-Treasury
scheme--he having insisted (as we are
told by the New York Wing, who quotes
from the lst vol. p. 37l of his'Life) that
@the national revenues should be collect
ed by officers, appointed by the govern
ment," for the reason "that their APP
pointment would be the means Of Great
ing. in the interior Of each State, a mass
of influence in favor Of the federal gov
ernment."-In other words, he was in
favor of a plan of this sort, because it
would exert a ceBfralizing and consoli-
dating influence, Of which it is known
he was always the warm and able cham
pon, and TO the same extent, by weaken
ing State attachments, destroy State
Rights The only difference between
Van Buren, and Hamilton, is well re-
marked by the New York Wing. is, that
Hamilton openly avowed his purposes,
while Van Buren conceaIs his. The
opinions of Hamilton were comparative
ly harmless, because their avowal, by
exciting distrust and jealousy, ensured
their defeat, while those of Mr.. Van
Buren,, though not less poisonous because
they are sugared over with a popular
name, are dangerous in the precise ratio
of his skill in thus Disgusting their dele
FERROUS proprieties, and securing for them
a favorable reception. There is no dan
ger that man will swallow arsenic if
he knows that it is arsenic; but tell him
that it is an innoxious draught, and min
gle with it Ingredients pleasant to the
palate, and he will pour it down his
passive instrument Of his
own destruction, because ignorant Of the
deadly nature of the potion, until the
agonirs of the hidden fire begin TO prey ,
upon his vitals and to rack his system ,
The SUBJ Treasury IS TO the body public
" hat arsenic is to the human system;
and though it be artfuIy compounded
and cunningly labelled. it will result in
The death of the liberties of the nation ;
hat tastes the cup; unless indeed it be,
hat arecuperatIve energy shall be found !
o exist in its Constitution, too powerful
or the subtle poison at once to destroy !
Bat the people are mad, who, with the
earful aud appalling example before
heir eyes. furnished by q past history
ind by contemporary events, shall con- !
sent to peril that freedom for which their !,
athers fought and bIed, upon the issue
,f so doubtful an Erper iment-especiaiIy J
lnder the guidance of men whose expc-
.iments heretofore have uniformly re- /
ulted in wide spread confusion and dis :
lstcr. s
But the Mira federalism of the mea- b
lures of the men 10 power is still more c
dearly. if possible, betrayed, by the $
act, indisputable, or, if disputed, suscep lie
ible. of easy Demonstration, that their Il
ireci and inevitable tendency is not only g
Q ccntralizc power at Washington,-to a
weaken the State Rights principle and V
. strengthen the federal goyernment,-- G
ut to consolidate all the power, thus p
matched from the States, IN the hands Of o
ne man. Their Federalism, indeed, it II
ill be thus seen, degene rates into mon p
rchy.-The fcderalists Of '93 contend la
d, it is true, for a strong central govern u
rent. (theugh certainly not stronger a,
ian that contemplated by The authors Of I'll
ae Proclamation and the Force Bill, r. "
ut they were in favor of distributing q
= powers equally among its three great fr
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