Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-08-01
Triumphs Of the South.

We always like frankness whether II come from
friend or toe. We are indebted to few honest Lo-
cofoco papers for developments Of the true designs
aud feelings Of their party. One of these presses is
the Charleston Is. c. Mercury, without doubt the
ablest and most influential Locofoco paper in the
whole South. From this paper we extract the fol-
lowing paragraphs found in an article which we
would copy entire If our limits would permit. The
Mercury and its coadjutors now boast Of having
driven both Mr. Clay and Mr. Van Buren, into retire.
ment, and called Mr. Polk from his comparative OBJ
security TO fill the highest Office in the gift of the
American people, But what is this power Of the
South which has thus driven into private life the
acknowledged Chiefs Of the two great partiesi Ii
certainly is not their proper numerical strength
for the North out votes The South, two TO one in
the popular vote, and nearly in the same proper.
ton, in the electoral college What then, we ask,
has given power TO the South and caused her thus
10 exult in her triumph, and 10 brandish her victol
Gus sword not only in the faces of the Wings, but
directly over the heads of Mr. Van Buren, and his
Northern Locofocos1 Put this question TO the pol
ticians of the South, and while chuckling at their
successful trickery, they will exclaim W North
erR dough faces aided By .9boiihonism in WesterR
.Ns'o York haze given as ibis pO,etr Orer you, and
helped to 'eztend tie area Of freedom Jy securing
TO The South an immense addition Of Stare poicer
aohich zoe 'oH make you feel hrOugha future U. S.
Senate! And at the very moment when these
chivalrous Locoiocos Of The South are thus exult-
ing over their fallen friends and natural allies,
as they term them, just before Presidential cleo
ton, these Northern dough.faces are kissing the
hand that has smitten them down. AS to that part
Of the last paragraph which rails at the tariff and
speaks Of the elements of the greatness and strength
Of the South, it is all moonshne. The South is her
own worst enemy. Through blind Locofoco pol
icy, she has discouraged the manufacturing oftheir
own raw material among themselves, and thus driv-
en- from their doors home market which
would relieve them from state Of anxious depend
ence on English prosperity, and enable them TO vie
with The North in promoting the growth and well
fare of the whole Union. II was proud specta-
Gle when we beheld,a few years since,a convention
Of Wing planters in South Alabama declaring in
favor Of protective Tariff recommending the pol
icy Of encouraging the establishment of manuiacto-
ries in the South and thus creating home market,
which they resOlred was their only hope of perma-
nent prosperity and independence. How beautiful
y this Southern Wing spirit contrasts with South
ern Locofocoism, which talks loudly of dcmOeyG-
ey that is exempli6ed by cursing the Yankees, and
preferring TO patronize English manufactures to
encouraging the institutions of the North But
we come to the extracts from the Mercury:
The annexation OF Texas, (says that paper)
forms new era in the history Of our country
especially the Southern portion Of it, We
have no alluson here to The numerical strength
gained Ivy the South, in Congress. The voice
of the South will have lis due weight in the
Senate, by the new accessions, but il is not OF
this we speak. IL is ofthe moral influence OF
The Southern States, as developed ~ the sue
cess Of annexation and its coiiaferals, that zoe
| feel proudest.
Mr. Van Bpren with charactistic astuteness
saw, or thought he saw, that the Southern
States were too powerless TO waste time in
counting, at the risk oil losing the huge votes OF
the three great non-slavehodng states, whose
prepossessions were most probably against an
| nexation. And he gave its friends learned
disqusition on de jtire and de faeto recogni-
tons, with all the technical distinctions be-
tween tweede dun and tweedle dee. He
soothingly called Us 'children Of the sum- and
left us TO seek friends for annexation elsewhere,
while he went on similar errand for himself
among those who were stronger than we
But political sagacity was at fault, and the
lynx eye of politicians failed for once 10 pene-
trate the remote contingencies Of the future
The South aroused to a sense of her situation,
by the singing irony Of one candidate for her
suiirages, and the smooth Indifference of the
other, threw off the gossamer letters OF preiu-
dice and party and taught those who would
spurn her, their insig nfcance and her strene h.
Who sent MIR Van Buren, to the retirement of
Underwood Who could, but did not, call
Mr. Clay from the shades OF Ashland 10 the a.
rena he loves so well 7 II was the Southern
States Their indignant voice made involun-
tary refuses of the two sages, and called
James X. Polk from retirement TO be the Pres
ident of the United States.
| This event will sink deep into the mind OF
every rejecting southern man. Villified by
foreigners, traduced and pillaged by their own
countrymen, will they not be true TO them
selves Let them learn concert from their
success. Let them learn it even from those
who go with the unity OF action OF bandtti
before Congress for leave 10 plumber the pro-
ducers Of the country. But LET them learn Ia
study the interest OF the South, and when the
time calls for action, to act with unity. The
South yet possesses a moral force, that, when
called into action, may stay farther incursion:
on the Constitution and prevent our govern
ment from degenerating into machine for ex.
torling the labors of one class TO fatten anoth.
er. We have every element of greatness and
strength, and only kneed to know how ant
when to use them to our own benefit.
The BAKER FAMILY.-Wherever these minstrel,