Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-01-15

prosecution of the measure OF annexation
TO final contamination. 1t is the dupe of
its own bad counsels. 1t has most effec.
tually misled and deceived its friends-it
seems now determined to end by deceiy-
ing itself. Young Hickory.
WHIGERY IN FAVOR OF REFORM,
Old federalism, no matter what protean
form it takes, or alias it assumes, always
acts on the principle of subjugating the
people. The inherent instinct of all those
who, upon the selfish idea of superiority
to the masses, arrogate the right of appro.
priating their labor by legislative contri-
vance, is fear aad hatred OF those whose
rights they would invade. Nothing but
combination, and a concerted system of
action on the part of the class plotting
schemes of usurpation, can enable them
to accomplish their designs against the
majority Of their felIow-ciizens. Hence
federalism has always been formed upon
a comprehensive system, embracing every
particular class of men whose mode of
living gives them a separate interest from
the mass of socity. With the cunning
which always directs associations laboring
to effect dishonest schemes at the expense
of the body of the community, federalism
is invariably seen directing the force of
its phahnx on some weak point which the
multitude is not likely to be aroused to
defend. Sometimes its attack is made
upon weaker section of the country, up.
on which the prejudices OF the stronger
may be supposed willing to visit injustice
and rapacity. Sometimes against weaker
classes, whose religion or origin separates
them, in some degree, from the multitude,
with whom they are, nevertheless, united
in interest.
Federalism, under the elder Adams,
commenced in war upon the laboring cas-
ses; first, on the class of emigranls, whom
it stigmatized as "dlieRs." The alien law
was passed TO abridge their rights---to ex-
cIude or expel them from the country,
because they sweled the suhrages which
maintained the popular rights guaranteed
in the constitution. These first attempts
against emigrant citizens were foiled blythe
fathers of the government, whose lumin-
Gus exposiions of the liberal principles
and vast interests which the institutions
they established were calculated to pro-
mote, vanquished the narrow preiudices
which federalism endeayored to instil
against the foreign population they invi-
ted, The alien law and It's authors we're
put down; and the signal rebuke of this
early attempt TO unsettle the principles of
government has depressed all attacks 10
the same quarter for almost halfa century.
The war upon emigrants is now revived
under new disguise, when the power of
the native born citizens has so increased
as entirel y 70 remove the pretence under
which it was first waged. We shall no.
tlce hereafter the new grounds npon which
the dslranchisement of the foreigner, in
yited TO invest his fortune and his labor in
the improvement of our country, and
stake up all his means, aud his life in its
defence, is now again to be urged. Globe
Tho New York Morning News suggests
TO the "Natiye" members Of Congress
elected from that city and from Phllidel.
phia, that their first duty should be to move
to take down the portrait Of Lafayette,
which fronts that Of Washington in the
Hall Of the House Of Representatives. and
20 domolsh the monument Of Pulaski at
West Point.