The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-26
THE GLORIOUS SOUTH.

South. 1t began in envy grew to Jealousy, and
is, we fear, soon to become implacable hatred.
But we trust not
We will give sketch of the rise and prog
ress of this prejudice. We can easily trace its
origin to the quarrels of few powerful party
leaders, and so savishly subdung has hitherto
been the influence of these leaders, that they
have assumed on many occasions to settle the
most momentous affairs of the nation with
out consulting the People They have abso-
lutely been in the habit of prescribing opinions
for their constituents. Thus, Though we have
a presentiment that the reign Of Demagoguism
is over were sectional jealousies and enmlty
engendered The partisan leaders marshalled
their hosts on the field of battle without even
impaltng to them the merits of the cause they
were engaged in, and thus the People were
summoned to the polls like so many mercenary
soldiers, to render an unconditional obedience
to the mandates of a few self-constituted pollt-
cal generals. One year the North and South
are at peace--the next their prominent politicians
quarrel, and fraterna friendship is Immediately
changed to savage animosty We ask the
PEOPLE of the North and the South, the East
and the West, if it is conducive to the welfare
and safety of the country to permit few ire
sponsible Demagogues thus to throw the brand
Of discord among them at pleasure? We know
they are tired of such impositions, and will sub
NIT to them no longer.
, But to our history. During the Admlnlstra-
ton of Mr.. Monroe, some of the Northern pol
itcians conceived the resolution to crcum vent
and humble the power and influence ofthe South.
But feeling was conceived In their own breasts,
and nourished by their vauting ambition The
People whom they represented partook not OF
their enmity, nor do the great mass OF them to
this day, because there existed no just cause for
such enmity. But these aspirants were tired OF
Southern Presidents. They wished to make
themselves the Washingtons, Jeffersons, Madi-
sons, and Monroes, of the North. And there
never could be more proptlous moment than
the time indicated. The leading Northern poll
tcians were Hartford Convention Faderallsts.
The Republicans of the South disdaned all
cliques, secret associations, and caucuses, de-
pending on the Justice Of their cause. Their
sires had freely poured forth their blood in the
Revolutionary War for the principles which
they continued to maintain. They were not
capable of resorting to unworthy artlhces TO
maintain their ground, or to overthrow their po-
litcal enemies. We would be distinctly un-
derstood as asserting that the scheming Fede-
rasts of the North were not upheld and Justl-
fed by their constituents-on the contrary, ma
nv, very many Jeffersonian Republicans dwelt,
,f,I in
whose comprehensive estimation of the broad
principles of justice and patriotism scared, and
still SOAR far above any petty sectional consldera-
tons.7 The Northern Federalists were rich
manufacturers, and continued to promote and
protect their individual interests by National
Legislation The Republican leaders of the
South asked nothing more, and were justly con
tent with nothing less, than the privileges qua
ranteed in the original compact They fought
their part in the struggle for independence, and
Joined the Confederacy with their Southern soil,
their slaves, and State institutions They were
willing to contribute their quota of revenue to
the General Government, IN their oWn Wdy,
contending that if the requisite sum was pro-
duced, 1t mattered not to others hoao it was rails
Constitution. But they protested against taxa
ton for the benefit Of The Manufacturers OF
the North. And thus the quarrel began
The Federalists Of the North Eve always mean
the Hartford Convention Federalists--lhe ma
bobs-not the n,asses) next became the cham
pions. patrons and controllers of that National
Chartered Monopoly, the United States Bank.
TN (tbo fr,tn u Ia
tives of the People, sought no adventurous adj
juncts whatever. They were content with the
solvency of their sound State Institutions. But
the Hartford Conventlonists left no stone I'M
turned which they could raise and throw at
their Southern brothers. In a lucky hour (per-
haps aalucky) they not only succeeded in get
ting passed high protective tariff law, but
avaied themselves with avdlv of the Golfers
of the Monster Bank to push their monopolis
ing enterprises Nor was this all. That they
might the more effecually secure the advan
tages thus obtained, and even extend their tri
umphs, they set about establishing pensIoned
presses not only in the North, but the East and
Hest also, that they might drown, with con-
certed clamor, all the eloquent appeals and un-
answerable arguments of the poor abused
South. These presses answered the purpose
most admirably. They not only the un-
fnching champions of the mammoth Mon
ster' (to which they were indebted for exist
ence,) but they were the potent advocates Of
that greatest of all humbugs, the American
System, and became the manufacturers and
defenders of great men. The advantage the
h,h,, n,
this day. While there are but comparatively