Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1844-12-25
THE NEW PHASE OF WHIGERY AN
ANCIENT FEATURE OF FEDERAL

THE NEW PHASE OF WHIGERY AN
ANCIENT FEATURE OF FEDERAL
ISM.
The coalition of whigery with the Ma
tive American" faction, shows federalism
true to its ancient instincts and motives.
The same spirit which dictated the alien
and sedition laws, in the palmy days of fe-
deral rule, now animates the successors of
that party, in the persecution of our foreign
population. The party contending for mo-
nopoles, special legislation, and exclusive
privileges, had in that day, as they have
in this, an instructive dread of the masses,
to tax and Cypress whom, for the benefit of
few, is the object and result of their mea-
sures and any plan which leads to a dis
reimbursement of portion of the people,
be the pretext never so fmsy, is sure 10
meet their appreciation, and be incorporat-
ed into the "creed of wing principles"
To place the government above and be-
yond its Legitimate masters, the people, was
then, as it is now, the moving end and aim
of all their exertions-the alpha and omega
of all their efforts for power. Of course
We speak Of the leaders and directors, and
not of the great body, of the whig party
a majority of whom we are bound to CON
slider actuated by mistaken sense Of right,
Foreigners who migrate hther, come
from countries where banking, tariff, and
funding systems flourish in all their luxu-
riancei where the better classes compris-
ing the " intelligence and decency' so
much bosted of by the wings here, have
SO succeeded in expressing the working
classes, as to render life weary curse to
most of the populations and where, from
a long course of legislation, having in view
the aggrandizement of the great, and the
abasement of the humble, tyranny and in
Justice now holds revel over the sGualid
wretchedness and poverty of labor and in
dustry, to an extent uncomfortable by all who
can escape its preying rapacity. And it is
not to be wondered at that when the silent
weapon of freedom, the elective ballot is
placed in their hands by our laws, they
should use it against those who are striv-
ing to establish the same iniquitous sys-
TENS, the operation OF which drove them
from their former homes. Has rot the great
high priest who ofiiciated at the union of
Whigery and Nativism in Massachusetts,
openly proclaimed the British doctrine that
If Government will take care of the rich,
the rich will take care of the poor" land
this is key to the political action of his
whole life. It is mockery of reason to ex-
pect that those who have realized the fos-
tering care which wealth gives to labor in
foreign countries, should agree to ask the
same kind Offices in this. They know, by
bitter experience, that the care they may
expect from monopolists, is like " the pro-
lection which vultures give to ambs--co
vering but TO devour them" In the De-
mocracy-the true American Republicans
they recognize a party which, while it
makes no war upon wealth, or the just ac-
QUESTION of wealth. would deprive it of the
power of depressing labor by the force of
statutes, and would have the government
deal out its blessings and burdens to all
alike, whetherrich or poor. With this par
ty they have natural afIinity-and hence
the furious zeal which incites whgery to
their disfranchsement
Nor has this proscriptive spirit first shown
itself in the war upon foreigners who have
taken up their abodes among US. But a few
years since the wings endeavored TO dis
franchise all who held office under the 60
vernment. The patriot Dorr is now VIC
tim to the same malignant dread of an ex-
tension of popular rights, In our sister
State of Louisiana, every effort has been
made by whigery which they could VEN
ture on in defiance of the popular senti- |
ment, to prevent or delay an extension OF
suffrage, and the reform of the aristocratic
and illiberal structure of their State 20. |
vernment. But why multiply instances of
the hatred of the popular form of govern
ment by the leaders Of federal whgery 7 |
The real intelligence and patriotism Of
large majority Of the people has pronoun- /
ced sentence Of condemnation upon them I