The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-01-26

Tho fclloW1uR nwuHMw SATIRE upon @o0lh
Il Bmpllna ard hsF politlciana we ocpy from
HE Louisville Journal for IL tuugeney and
I humefcut severity az
1he inflated pretensIcn and oyerAeenia1
arrogance Of that peIEslyled chivalrous state
are most justly and IudicrousIy exposed. But
here follows the sketch Of the Journal, which
speaks for ITSELF
EouTH CABoLINA.--This poor, In
significant, vaporing, benighled speck
4 Of land, which is called a State by
! American citizens and misnamed and
tempire in the miserable nomenclature
Eof Nulification-whiclI bears about the
Isame relation 10 this Union that a red
patch in the seat ola beggar's brooches
Idoes to his entire nexpresSibles-tbis de-
/ il possessed section ofour Coniederacy
Iiorgetful OF its past experienc, has re-
IcentIy been maniEesting some Of that
peculiar spirit which Is her glory and
the worlds ridicuIe. Swords, war
fare, and notification, are words which
have recently fallen from her lips as
thick as ''autumnal leaves in ValIam-
brosa," or, to adopt juster compar-
/ ison, as thick as oaths from the ton
que OF the drunken sailor. South
Carolina says that the tariff now
in operation is too greiVous to be borne
by her citizens, and intimates 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 hurI defiances again in the very
teeth of the General Government.
This, it must be confessed, is pretty
lofty talking for so small State and,
if she had not already given me a
touch Of her quality in her mad and
blind devotion 10 the most incor ceiva-
bly, wretched and hopeless schemes,
we should at present feel no other dis
position than merely TO crafty our
selves by hearty laugh at her ridicu-
lious attitudes.
There are many kinds Of mania
which Psychologists have described
with infallible 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 in
the learned tonnes Of the medical pro-
fession but that mysterious kind Of
mania, which sometimes inf CTS
whole people, causing them to become
a laughing-stock for the world ; has
not yet been clearly de6ned-neither
has the proper treatment Of the dis
ease, perhaps, been suggested. Il is
true that one Doctor Jackson, doctor
Of laws Ia Harvard University in
his reconcile researches into the ma
ure Of this disease, did about ten
ears ago, publish diagnosis Of il as
{ appeared in south Carolina, and
a cure for it, suggested by
lis acquaintance with a hempsseed
nd the virtues which grow out ofcer- /
ain uses Of it, which, however men {
nay differ as to the policy Of admins.
ering it, it must be confessed would !
e highly efficacious when the symp- {
pms Of the mania become very malig- /
ant. .
There never heretofore existed a ,
tate under any form of government h
! which the most ridiculous selfim- J
ortance and frothy clustering prevailed O
} generally as they now do in South O
'arolina. Without solitary element y
greatness in her composition, she a
ncies herself to be the most impor- il
mt State in our Union. With a n
story blackened by the crimes Of o
oryism during war and treason du- Il
ng peace, she exults in the past as If a
sr escutcheon were unstained and 81
sr pedigree as pure and noble as that s
Theseus. With a puny and inian- Il
e arm, she defes the gigantic pow II
of the Union, and talk OF building bl
lvies without money and of organic o
g armies without men, She looks III
sand-banks, and pirates Of the beau IN
of her green fields; and, contem- "a
ating her abodes dragged splendor, he
e grows eloquent on the charmes of ri
r society and the magnificent other Vi
laces. With orators, who mistake al
y for inspiration, and suppose as co
-tion TO be demonstration, she brags
her knowledge Unconstitutional law, m
1 prseumes to teach mankined the In
} nature of republican government. ha
els at once vaIngIorious and inn m
lent, lordly in her talk and baggarTy IN
her department, full Of arrogance -
yet profoundly ignorant, in fancy u,
hing in her own estimation, and q es
nbination Of inferior atoms il the ;Ds
imations of allthe world besides. ~,
South Carolina is the crooked lag- c;e
in our confederate bundle, and. be- -,