Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-06-26
From, the National LteHigcnccr.
JACOBlN CLUBS, AND THEIR DC
TATION

| FROM TIC Ndft0adt fnfcuigcnccr.
| JACOBlN CLUBS, AND THEIR DC
TATION.
| There is nothing that more hunombly marks
the difference between the Northern and Sou
them divisions of the so-called "Democracy."
Than their opposite spirit as TO the "spoils."
In Is IN this matter that they of the latter
quarter still show something of the old Re-
publican temper; the feeling that in free
country, adversarles are men and citizens
still--are entitled 10 political tolerance. to
personal consideration, to a continued share
IN public trusts of at least the orldary kind
II they have heretofore occupied them honor
ably TO themselves and usetuly to the coun-
Try: Tor that, after all, to have deserved well
oil all parties alike, by discmrging with faith
iulness difficult and responsible trust, is to
nave merit far beyond any that men untred
except as partizans Gun boast; and that to
thrust out those Tor the mere personal benefit
oil these, at hazard of a wide injury to the
public service and ofthe corruption of all pub
he Ideas, is deeply to wrong and betruy the
people and their hopes of good government
Let party call itself what it may, there is hard
iy anything that it can effect capable of at all
compcnsating the deep mischief inflicted, the
ineradicable faint spread through the whole
business OF administering public affairs, by
such a system of conduct. II there be any
man who deserves the curse OF his country.
u there be one who has poisoned the entire
uovernment, II there be one whose invention
Is wickeder because less capable of being co,,n-
teiacted, than that OF him who has conspired
with domestic enemies or sold the State TO n
foreign one, it is he who first, for his own in
dividual and party ends, taught cabals to de.
sign, and whole party to tolerate, the abom-
Unable idea that the GcUGrnmcnt is TO be held
bet,cccn contcndiag factions, like mere help
less tocn, ,ioio beseiged by this aud now by that
army, and 10 DC gipcn mp TO the Understandable
ptunder Of both Us either prcrdils aud erpels
The other
1t is easy to sec how idle must be all preten
ces OF principle, how hopeless all promises of
doctrines, how mere cheat all talk of reform
when body OF politicians, by the avowal of
such Intentions, proclaim the tactics of slaugh-
Ter anu oil rapine; give notice that whoever
can Kill an opponent shall strip his body, car
ry away his watch, and tear on his epaulets,
and call to their ranks every thing that is san.
culinary in point of feeling and rapacious i'm
purpose. Then must
"The whiskcr'd pandoor and the fierce hr,zzar
And all the sons of ravage crowd the war"
and the whole strife become one animated by
hardly any better motive than the lust of po-
wer and the rage of venalty. As little can
they who set such wild and fatal passions on
loot, toprocure or to incite followers, be the
friends OF the country they would govern, as
men who first kindle up civil war in their
land, then invite crowds of mercenaries from
abroad with the offer of living at fee quarters,
ask robbers and cut-throats to their standards,
and finally swell their forces by procuring a
servilc Instruction.
They begin by cornpting the whole body of
their own party, by iniurating the opposite
on", and thus overseeing the public morality
oil both almost alike; so that presently, no
matter which side succeed, the same system
/ oil rewards must, to- great extent, ensue, the
public service be utterly sacrificed to the lille
gitimate claims of hot partizanship, and the
great body OF active politicians of both fac
tons become either deeply infected with the
same mere rage OF personal advantage or with
passion almost as penicious, if less dishon-
est-a nncor and spirit of revenge, and
hold every man on the other side fair object
oil prescription as soon as the party to which
10 has attached himself is worsted.
To this state of things soon succeeds ano-
Their still more deplorable: when the better
party prevails, that party will do, through
what seems to be but a warrantable resent
mentor indeed upon cases where mere jus :
tice towards men wrongfully driven from of
flee, or others as wrongiully put into it pleads
! for proscription--ju just what it condemned i'm
its beaten rival. 1t thus lets down its own
standard of public duty, and affords seem
ing justification to what it is furnishing; so
that the practice of both sides speedily settles
this execrable public method into thing that
ceases to excite apprehension and alarm ex.
cept In minority OF both parties. Then fol
lows rapid augmentation of the class who
make OF politics mere trade; who adopt a
on lv
TO sustain any party act of the party that APP
pears secure i'm power; and the mass of such
men grows so strong that they who first called
them in as hirelings and soldiers of fortune
/ become almost the slaves OF those of whom
1 they late were masters. The venal and clam
orous seekers of Office claim their reward and
signify their will; and the dispensers of the
booty dare scarcely refuse TO distribute the
common spoil. Such is, with respect to a
portion of Locofocoism, the condition at
which we are arrived.
In this, however, Gas we have already said J
the Southern division of the pretended Democ.
racy still preserves something of the spirit of
/ a better day. 1t looks with Indignation upon
the entire system of the spells, and at times
vents Its contempt upon the insolent preten-
sions Of Jacobin associations in strain like
that of the extract below, which we take from
the Charleston Courier, a paper formerly
Whiggish, but which has always preserved its
local respect for the irresistible ascendency of
MIR. Calhoun in his State, and now appears to
support him. At ANY event, it holds, i'm
what we subjoin, a language such as the
mercury, or any other Of the warmest Calhoun
prints OF that quarter, would be equally ready
to use, and such as does them all honor. We
have before given the resolutions which the
article embodies; but they are such as we are
slad second time to hold up to public repre-
henslon; that we may again signify our hearty
aPproVa, oil tho conduct in this one instance
observed by the Secretary Of State, with the
concurrence, we trust, of the whole Adm;nis-
! tration.
From the Charleston Courier.
But the following are the proceedings of a
, regularly constituted association. soIcmnly
deliberated on, and promulgcd with the air of
men assuming to PROFOUND respectable matter