Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-01-25

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WOODSTOCK:
THURSDAY, JAN. 25, 1914.
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YOUNG NEWS 7. Il. s.
The young mems total abstinence soci-
ely will hold its monthly meeting in the
Woodstock Academy, on SATURDAY, eve.
ming, the Sd February, 1914. An ad-
dress will be delivered on the occasion.
The community. are respectfully invited
to attend.
The legislature of Maryland has pass.
ed an act dividing the state into con-
gressional districts. Under the late GEN.
sus the state is entitled to six represen-
tatiyes in congress.
49,
In the proceedings of the wings of this
county, published last week, they spoke
of this as being the 10th instead Of the
18th congressional district. The reader
will make the correction.
-ene-
Hon. VIM. Taylor wiz accent our
thanks for the public documents he has
sent US.
The Federo- Wing Pariy.-This is a
strange world. Its aspects are as vari-
Gus as the people composing it are differ
ent and adverse in their moral castles and
political relations. And yet such is the
case, that every individual has his mark
of personal identity, and every party,
whether religious or political, has a char
acterlstic peculiar to itself, by which it
may be distinguished from all the rest.
We have heard of personal identity be-
ing counterfeited; but it has never oc-
Cured, in the history of any government,
whether monarchial or republican, that
political parties have lost their distn-
gushing traits and instincts. In Great
Britain there have ever been opposers to
the crown; and the crown has never
been without supporters. The latter
sustans itself by the strong arm of the
civil power and the tremendous weight
of its moneyed arlstocracy. Against the
potency of these mighty engines, must
the former ever strive. Crushed to the
lowest depths of oppression by ponder,
Gus national debt, the great mass Of the
subjects of that government are unable
to assert their claims to those blessings
which the ca pablities of their moral
constitution declare they were created
to enjoy. So it has ever been, and so it
must ever be, until the principles of the
American Declaration of Independence
shall be asserted.
Some of those who were members of
the convention that framed the constitu-
ton OF our government, were deeply i'm
bued with the opinion, that the federal
government could not long exist, with
out being endowed with extraordinary
powers. Hence their efforts to assimi-
late it as nearly as possible to that of
England. 1t was their desire that the
power of the people should be paralysed
anG rendered ineffective by the strong
arm of thefederal government. They
did not believe N tie capacity Of the
people Tor self government There were
those. IN that body, OF the o,Lcr hand,
who powerfully ana triumphant sus.
tanned the doctrines of tie Declaration;
maintaining that all civil power belong
e'i t'', anu emanated from the people .
that they were capable Of self-govern-
ment;-tiiat their happiness and prospe-
rlty could only be promoted by constltu-
ting them the archieidtects of their own
destiny, and that these objects would be
efectually defeated hy compelling them
to wage war against an depressing gov
ernmeot. And the sequel shows, that
nation lett to pursue happiness, I'M
trammelled by restrictions such as were
medltated by the former, would not only
attain TO the highest state Of national and
Individual prosperity, but that the civil
power would be preserved inviolate.-
These were tie main Joints of difference
between tie federal alt republican par
ties at the tie of the formation and a.
doptIon OF the federal constitution.
The federal party has since abandon
ed some of its id asu;,n the subject of
the election and term of service of presl-
dent, senators, &c. Joining itself to
the various factions that have left the re-
publican party for the last thirty years,
tho tpnofs IF tho Fadprai Marty have