The Democratic Whig., 1843-01-26

The kuoainr nmusing astie uPon souih
Carolina end her poiitcians. We eoqy 'so'a
ne Lousvlno iouEnal fog iis pungeney aud
humaous severity.
he inflated prslension and oserNeeniag
arrogance Of that relfslyled chvalrous Stale
are most Justly aud ludicroualy exposed. ba'
here f,Hows lbe sketch Of the Journal which
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SoUrH CARoLINA.-This poor, in
significant, vaporing, benighled sPeck
Of land, which is called a State BY
American citizens and misnaped and
empire IN the miserable nomenclature
Of Nulilicatiou-which bears about The
same relation TO this Union that red
patch in the seat ofa beggaFs breeehes
does 10 bis entire inexpressibles-tbis de-
/ lilposssessed section ofour Coulederacy
lorgetiul Of lis past experienc, has re-
cenlly been manifesling some OF that
peculiar spirit which Is her glory and
| The worlds ridicule. Swords, war
fare, and notification, are words which
have recently fallen from her lips as
thick as "autumnal leaves in Nsllam-
brosa," or, to adopt . Jusser compaf-
ison, as thick as oaths from the ton
que Of the drunken sailor. South
Carolina says that the tariff now
in operation is too grsivous TO be borne
by ber citizens, and intimaies pretty
strongly that, unless the difficulty Is
compromised by the elevation Of her
lord and master, John G. Calhoun;
TO the Presidency, she will resort
once mole to MULTIPLYING ordinances,
render the law imperative within her
magnificent palmetto-shaded borders,
and hurl de6ances again in the very
teeth Of The General Government.
This, it must be confessed, is pretty
lofty talking for so small State and,
liz She had not already given me a
touch Of her quality in her mad and
blind devotion TO the most incorceiya-
bly wretched and hopeless schemes,
we should at present feel no other dis
position than merely 10 CRAFTY our
selves by hearty laugh at her ridicu-
lious attitudes.
There are many kinds Of mania
which Psychologists have described
with iniallible accuracy. There is
the madness which results from strong
drink, from strong love, from the bite
ola rabid dog, and from various 9th
er sources. All these different sorts
Of madness are correctly described 10
the learned tonnes Of the medical pro-
lession but that mysterious kind Of
mania, which sometimes inf els a
whole people, causing them to become
laughing-stock for the world F; has
not yet been clearly de6ned-neither
has the proper treatment Of the dis
ease, perhaps, been suggested. II is
true that one Doctor Jackson, doctor
of laws a Ia Harvard University 10
his recondite researches into the ma
ture Of this disease, did about ten
years ago, publish a diagnosis Of il as
it appeared in south Carolina, and
proposed a cure for It, suggested by
his acquaintance with hempsseed
and the virtues which grow out ofcer-
tain uses Of it, which, however men
may differ as to the policy Of admins.
tering it, it must be confessed would
be highly efFicaeious when the symp-
toms ofthe mania become very malig-
nant.
There never heretofore existed a
State under any form Of government
in which the most ridiculous sell-im-
portance and frothy clustering prevailed
so generally as they now do in South
Carolina. Without solitary element
Of greatness in her composition, she
lancies herself to be the most impor-
tant State in our Union. With a
history blackened by the crimes Of
Toryism during war and treason du-
ring peace, she exulls in the past as il
her escutcheon were unstained and
her pedigree as pure and noble as that
Of Theseus. With puny and intan-
tile arm, she dedes the gigantic pow
er Of The Union, and talk Of building
navies without money and Of organiz-
ing armies without men. She looks
on sand-banks, and prates Of the beau-
ty Of her green fields and, coutem-
plating her abodes dragged splendor,
she grows eloquent on the charmes Of
her society and the magnificent Of her
palaces. With orators, who mistake
fury for inspiration, and suppose as
sertion to be demonstration, she brags
Of her knowledge Unconstitutional law,
aud prseumes to teach mankined the
the nature Of republican government.
She is at once yalngIorious and i'm
potent, lordly in her talk and baggarly
in her department. foil Of arrogance
and yet profoundly ignorant, in fancy
a thing in her own estimation, and a
combination of inferior atoms in the