The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-17
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WEDNESDAY, EVENING, JULY II, 1874
THE GLOBE -THE ADVOCATE OF IN
SURRECTION

IHE GLOBE-IHE ADVOCAIH OF IN
SURRECTION.
The Globe continues it's reckless assaults upon
MIR. Clay, because he is in favor of the supreme
cy of constitutional over mobocratic govern
ment If there be any honest conservative feel
ing among Locofocos, the course of the Globe
must prejudice the cause of their candidate for
the Presidency. We can not believe that South
ern Locofocos, at least, will sanction principle
SO directly at war with peaceful and stable gov
eminent. The Globe may chime in with the
reckless rabble who are firing cities and burning
churches, in maintaining that the mob may at any
moment overset the most permanent and long
established institutions but he will certainly not
find supporters at the South in favor OF principle
which might destroy them in day. Let it be
distinctly understood, that the Dorr party, with
the Globe at its head maintain the right Of the
mob to SET ASIDE THE CONSTITUTION
any fair day they may declare it to be will of the
majority! The majority, with the Globe and the
Dorr party, is omnipotent; they may destroy the
Constitutions of the States, the Constitution of
the Federal Government, and, with them, EVE
RY INSTITUTION of the country. The Globe
contends, with the full chorus of Locofoco presses
in various parts of the country, that the majority
may alter, at pleasure, the whole character of our
institutions. 1t is, consequently, in the province
of the majority to set up military despotism, to
elect king, to abolish Slavery; in word, the
majority may do any thing! We had thought
that this assumption Of power in the majority to
trampe upon the rights of the States was con-
fined to the ultra Aboltionsts to the Abby Kel-
lys, the Garrisons, and Birneys; and we can not
but feel surprise that the Globe, which has always
affected to act the part Of sentinel for the South
should maintain principle which places the lives
and property of Southern people in the power 0
the Abolitionists.
But such is the desperate strait in which thu
Globe finds its despicabe cause, that no sacrifice
of principle is too great to accomplish the darling
object of obtaining power.
Let the principle be once admitted, for which
the Globe and the Locofocos are now contendng
that no limit bounds the power of the majority
and the Southern people have no longer any
safety-no longer any guaranty-aganst the mad
dest scheme of ABOLITION which ever started il
the brain of Abby Kelly.
Will it be said that the principle only applies
to the State Constitutions That they may be
overthrown and trampled upon, while the Fede-
raj Constitution will be held sacred! Prepos-
ferrous 1t would be insane to reason thus. 1t
may be said that our nation, being confederacy
of States the majority in each will remain indie
pendent of the majority in all. But what makes
our nation confederacy! What but the State
constitutions, which may be abolished at pleasure?
The majority, upon the Dorrite principle, may
declare that the United States shall no longer be
contederacy-that they shall constitute one
consolidated community and that step being
taken, Abby Kelly, in Massachusetts,, will pro-
pose 10 abolish slavery in the Southern States,
and The question will be settled by majority of
the votes cast in the whole country State lines
will cease TO be even imaginary and the Abol-
tionsts in Massachusetts will have tho door Oman
ed by their Locofoco friends, by which they NAV
quietly carry, at the ballot box their schemes Of
emancipation.
The principle of Dorrism saps the foundation
Of all Government. The majority may at anv
moment declare that no law exists to punish vii
lainy, vice, or crime. According to the favorite
principle of the Globe, the majority may abolish
all religion, a useless source of expense, al
was done by the French in their day of majority
misrule. Or, on the other hand, it will be en-
tirely in the power of the majority, according tc
the Globe to establish one universal religion
whether it be Protestant or Catholic, Mahomedar
or Jewish, and require universal conformity to it
Such are the revolving consequences which mus
necessarily follow from the premises laid dowr
by the Globe.
What security would men have for life OF
property, for liberty Of speech of the press, o.
conscience, If constitutions may be oyerthrown al