The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-02-14
MR.. McDUFFIE ON DISSOLUTION.

From our congressional record it will be
seen that Mr.. McDulTie has been again shad-
owing forth the beauties of Notification
which have SO long infected the brains of
South Carolina politicians, with Calhoun at
their head, and which he asserts will ere long
be realized. There is little doubt that these
wisacres still harbor designs Of a dissolution
Of the union, and the erection Of republics ora
triumvirate Of republics on its ruins. Their
inextinguishable hatred to the North, is not
even attempted to be blinked in the least
Our prosperity and wealth, sprnging from
the indomitable industry of our enterprising
population, haunts the Imagination OF these
gentlemen of the whip, by night and by day.
Nor while wrapt in the frightlul conlempla-
ton do they cease to depict to themselves the
brilliant destiny which awaits asouthern con-
fcdcracy, enjoying the rights Of self govern
ment, and freed from the system of 'plunder'
which they pretend the principle Of protec
ton entails upon them. Never did enthusi-
asls indulge in more fantastic visions than
these silly abstractionists. The arrangement
of theirprojected confederacies as their boun-
daries 81 extent is not more imaginative than
the relative power and prosperity with hioh
McDufie invests them. Who can believe in
the combinations he has made! How can it
be rendered credible that the states in the val
ley Of the Mississippi, and extending north to
the lakes, now linked to the northeast by
every easy and direct means of intercom-
municaiion, by ties Of blood, by similarity OF
institutions, of habits and identity of inter-
ests would ever for moment think of fra
ternzing with the proud, domineering negro
drivers Of South Carolina, Alabama and Mis-
sissiPpi, whose physical strength. is utterly
paralyzed by slavery, and who must soon fall
an easy prey to their more enterprising north
ern eishbors, or become the victims of the
eXasperated Africans whom they now hold
in bondage. But what would be quite as I'M
palateable, how would they relish an union
with men whose avowed policy would soon
reduce them to a colonial dependence upon
Britain. Every merely agricultural country
in the range of history which has purchased
her manufactures abroad, has been impover-
ished and rendered subservient to the nation
which has reapt the profits of the exhausting
intercourse.
But however preposterous the expectations
of the mad Hamlets of South Carolina may
be, it is very evident that taking their cue
from McDuffie, they have again become so
infatuated with their visionary projects, as to
be ready to tear up the constitution and dis
solve the union. This new outbre axis onIyan
other edition Of the notification of $50 which !
if persisted in as commenced, would have re-
suited in open rebellion, and entitled its pro-
jectors to gibbet. There can be little doubt
that the splendid scheme of southern con-
federacy which has been so long Pickering up
on its embers is contemplated again to be
blown up by the same restless aspirant whose
disappointed ambition is again urging him
forward to deeds of desperate daring. The
annexation of Texas is intended as prelim-
mary step to the unmasking of the traitorous
conspiracy. The furious zeal of Northern
aboltionism is another powerful instrument
to operate upon the fears and exasperate the
prejudices of the South to secure their CO.
operation.
But however ssnguine OF sueeess these I