Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-02-25

st. The particular ssfsy b found In certain known
parts Of our national compact BE- valued
Presidential Traffic chat bpying and seny between which
there scketh fraud than all other wh.ievc) be-
come the sole hops 81 Southern security the one.man
power and the faith before election bad grown the
only refuge the arb Of Southern salvation had 10
be safer In the keeping Of the Phsnes Of Congress than
OF tho Lev,es if Dsgon Basl foreign God
TO be sosshs with incense and sacrifices, rather than ha
which fathers adersd-su. though s especial hope
the South against what svsrs TO her particular
forms ii society huf given mp Zoe the moot palpabe
deusion. she could yet retain which slow.
retrieve least the comur, and the peace common TO
the OF the Union, when her had passsd through
all the terrible trials ct servie revolution tho Cous,u.
ton would sl DO c though srpt Of oil the compromises
that guarded the South: every thing eise gone.
whether Of right policy faith hrave s<lfreanee
least the general Constitution srll worth preserving
for the loss Of large alice docs make IL prudent ling
away al the Of ones Loaf il generally, among
hungry men. esteemed altogether advisable exchange
ones bread for Stone,
Such appears me to have been The prudence of those
counsels, matter what their authors that have o
late prevailed much with the South. From the broad
securities OF the Union they have beiaken themselves to
NIL the hazards OF dependence the faith Of the most
Abandoned inRues the conservatism of the re vou-
tionay Of parties. Fur reliance themselves and on
prncplesthe only things which either the brave OF
STEADY RESISTANCE VI
in delusve exchange political shifts and bargain. They
have abandoned bu~aiks shelter themselves with blinds
IL system Of forihcson in which their Vauban
substitutes Tor solid masonry wall Of apple dnmplnxs il
Is new plan Of fencing, where hogs to be kept
with hedge OF pancakes sked and ridercd with buttered
mullins .....t.tt r.Fr- f..|.
Say that the good ship Of the Constitution growing
eaky yet while IL could still be with the pumps
whale there anything aboard make into oakum
a he ,Lac ,,1k.
and seuc her, the South, at least large part Of IT,
seems bent doing, in this Texas business What pant
OF the country has larger venture abosrd7 Or what part
when the vcsse down, less expect ashoe1
While plank holds together who should cling 10 IL no
firmly tue South who less, while Il yet rides the
waves bravey, should with the auger of Joint
Resolution, bore perfect food gate for the waves in the
bottom .-...,-.tt IA M
clear that the method Of Interpretation in this case
resoed for the purpose Of arriving the end in spi,s Of
all the known and systematic Of the Constitution
is utterly suversye of every Constitutional limit whatever
II is, in reality dycsng this government Of every charac
but that of uneharteed unlimited popular de.pc.
tiSm governed by nothing but demoe tumu excited
only by public passions aruy action and checked
only by the adverse efforts of and aga
To this OF things what that old Terror of
Consolidation What form Of consolidation n,ugine,
half appalling this Of Consolidated Jacobinsm
Of centralized, radical ograrian, Dorrte government Of
the manyi In wild rule OF the mere majority what
certain to be the first victim Southern Institutional
Slavery will be the first great sacrifice the altar of Equal
ty; aud property Ct every other only the second
lie who first invented the alliance between Democracy
and the slave system in other words between
equality and the soryitude Of ha-was in my mind
the foules, traitor the South that ever existed and he
who set up tue Texas scheme will come, before long, TO
be looked the second but still direct betrayor of
the region whose safety lie pretended guard Northern
Democracy and souher Slavery coaesce. lie who
brings about their alliance only facilitates the destruction
Of the one by the other.
H. SEcRETARio.