The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1843-11-03
From the National Is;elligeaesr
NO MORE PHIL OSOPHY

snol WSio a. W uiliS uuout tHdt puoilC COn.
fusion which is the main hope, the iavorile
aspiration, of their party. Mr.. 0resies
Brownson-an arden, aud ingenious Opt.
mist, sharp at every kind of subtlely me.
laphysiclan of tha, sor. that see best IN the
dark; politician Of The priori school
who can settle every question Of govern.
meni 10y the mere force OF reasoning, and
without or against all observation-disclosures
the !avorite expounder OF their high mys,e.
RES, the angelic doctor of their creed and
great, for time, was the fame of Mr..
Brownson, as the abest writer, the keenesl
coniroyersialist, the most orthodox thinker
1 OF all Locoiocoism, It's great speculative
chef and champion.
! Unhapplly, however, Mr.. Brownsnn 10
some~ bal downright, somewhat siucere.-
Having adopted q system, he is not to be
deferred, even by party Inconvenience
from carrying 1t out to lis logical conclu.
sIons. tie is 40 enthusiast Of the ruth,
as 1t appears to him: policy he will never
put in competition with II. He respects no
name before which Locoiocolsm is used TO
fall PROSTATE, If that name sanctions false
opinion and where he sees that Gen. Jack
son sci up the popular Will OF The moment
tthat Is, the pleasure Of bis party as solne.
thing far superior to the Constitution, Mr..
Brownson has the courage AND THE yIR
TUE 10 say SO, aud almost to denouRce HIN
for it.
Wha, is the consequence? Are Gener-
al Jackson's opinions, any more than his
acts, to be suffered TO be brought in ques-
ton, to be reason ed about Is his lptall-
bility TO be drawn lDlo doubt, any more
than his will to be disputed Certainly
not. The contumacy, the heresy OF such
daring idea is punished at once not by
the call of council like that Of Trent or
Constance, but somewhat less ceremonious.
ly sort of Vatican, which is held in the
breast of the leading editor here of that por.
lion of the party which be has dIsobliged,
levels the thunder at bis head. He is ex.
communicated. An interdic. is hurled at
him. HIS books are condemned 10 the
flames and be is cas-. out forever from the
pale Of the church of Van Burenism into
that ogter darkness appointed for schismati.
cal Calhoun men and obduIate Tylerites.
A II this IS perhaps very well. II Patlo f,
soPhy joins the ultra Democracy II should
be accommodating, and draw no danger.
Gus conclusions. It should be discreet,
we'll behaved, supple philosophy; and,
above all, a Undertook, not Fort Hill
philosophy. Ii it dares be otherwise, i,
should be made to walk the plank"
There lie no telling, indeed, where the
Iemerily of man is to stop, who thus sets
a, nousht party orders, and dares 10 think
for himself OF with the wrong Presidential
candidates. it may be seen that Mr.,
Btownson does in yet another instance,
about The Rhode Island Government, which
the Benton and Van Buren, division held 10
be glorious constitutional! struggle, and
The Calhoun division to be a wild and law.
less rebellion. Il is thus that Dir. Brown.
sen dIscourses about il:
EXTRACT FROM AN ARTICLE BY Mr.. BROWN.
son, IN THg DEMOCRATIC REVIEW"
& have heard It asserted, nay, | believe
II the fact, before going into more thor.
ough investigation OF the case, that the
principle commended FOR BY Dorr and bis
friends 10 Rhode Island was precisely the
principle involved in cur contest with Grea,
Britain; but this is By no means true
The Suffrage party in Rhode Island lag
down the principle that government is a
mere agency ; that sovereignty resides no.
10 tue State, tho body polite, bu! in the
people, or majority Of them, taken ndl
yIdually, who have not only the power bu!
he right TO overthrow The constituted au.
hor,es, and to institute new authorities as
seem to them good. The Fathers Of the
Revolution did no! by any means lay down
so broad principle. They asserted moth.
ing CONCERNING the right of the people, ia.
ken as mass Of individuals, TO govern
themselves; nothing concerning The righ. I
OF the citizen TO overthrow the Stale Of
which he is citizen; nothing concerning
The right OF insurrectlou on the part Of clil. .
zens all they asserted, because all that vas
involved 10 the controversy, was the right
Of each people, already people, having .
ciyl! and political existence Of lis own, 10 as.
seri and maintain its entire political indie.
peudence Of every foreign State. Now, be /
tween this riehl and Tia, commended for BY
he Rhode Island Suffrage men there is no
little difference, and men may vel! assert
his without being wiling 10 assert that.
When the cit'zena Of a State rebel
against constituted authority, whatever the
orm of their rebellion or its results, they
ire, for the time being, in state Of anar.
ny, and do recognise no law to bind them.
This was the case in Rhode Island. The
Suffrage men, while forming their new
Constitution, did not ad nit l6eir obliga.
100 to obey the Charter Government for,
{ they had, they would have admitted the
LEGALITY Of their own proceedings. They
we're obliged, then, to proceed without law,
= government, I'll they could get their new
government into operation. But such was
ot the case with the American people in