Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-03-08

prostitution Of that public patronage
which accident had enabled aud ambi-
ton prompts him TO WELD, TO draw
around him mercenary band ofmen-
dacious miscreants, is most true. And
this gang may perhaps be disnlhed by
the appellative Of a partHbut with no
more propriety of terms than lhlei
can be styled man of enterprise OF
an assassin hel 0. In this view il IS
most likely there may be two parties
Mr.. Tyler and his mercenaries on
the one side, and all the rest OF the
country on the other.
Mr.. Tyler will have party much
after the fashion that smallpox would
ii ave, lift prevailed in the land; small
corps of vaccinated physicians would
bless and fatten on the scourge, while
the great mass would turn with horror
and disgust from the loathsome pestl-
lence. We do not believe that MIR.
Tyler will be able to draw TO his and
great body ofsupporters, or that he
can elevate hims5 If to the distinction
of being the leader of one of the two
great parties of the country; so he VIII
be condemned to stand by and witness
contest tn which he can have no IN
terest, and must await victory which
will not fill his camp with spoils.
True it is that the President may,by
pursuing course of policy coincident
with the views of either the Wing OF
democratic party, obtain for the time
being the sanction and support OF the
party whose principles were espoused;
but, at last, it wonld be the principles,
and not the man, that would be sus-
tanned, and Mr.. Tyler would find that
he had submitted to be the mere tool
of party whose confidence ne did not
enjoy, and whose esteem he never pos
sessed.
But the problem that is to be solved
/ is not void of interest, and may be in
struci;;e. !. will be determined by
the result, wne;ler lie country is true
to the principles of pubic virtue and
whether there is a mass Of integrity yet
rem2ining, sufficiently potent to repel
the licentioIs advances of power,
and scorn the aI!uteme2t which the
profligate of patronage may offer TOR
the abandonment Of principles. That
Mr.. Tyler is deeply impressed with the
W onderful potency of patronage in ma
king political proselytes, is evident
alike from tie tone and temper of his
official organs as from his practical
use Of the power itself We have
seen this man abandon the party to
whose bounty he owes his elevation,
and we have beheId him with mate h
less effrontery obstruct the consumma-
ton Of measures regarded of vital con-
sequence to the whole country, mere
| " because to sanction them would not
strange awith the incompatible consis-
tencv of John Tyler, Of New Kent
county, Virginia. The honor was r,ser-
we'd for this little wo-begone, poverty
stricken country, to produce man of
such overtowering Importance, that his
consistency was sufficient TO outweigh
the interests, wants, land wishes of fifteen
millions of his felIow-citizens. But
it has been perlormed;his fiat has gone
forth; he has ob:tructed and prevented
the passage of the law that the great
majority of the people Of this country
struggled so many years TO obtain
1t only remains to be shown whether
the Government patronage is compe.
tent per Sc to manufacture party fol
the President We think not. Pat
ronage is a powerful engine when par
ties are nearly equally balanced, bu
it is wholly inadequate TO c1edte a par
Sty.
Mr.. Tyler has fallen between the
two great parties that really divide the
country; and they will fight over hin
like the two giants over pigmy, re-
gardless of his puny efforts TO stay The
conflict or to draw off their ate ntion.-
The principles of each party were en-
de9red to its members by too many as.
sociations, and parties are united by
bonds too strong to be suddenly bro
ken for an adherence to a man who i.
himself recreant partisan and an i'm.
beetle officer.