The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-06-16
P o L / T I C A L
From the National Wing.
THE PARTY OF COALITIONS.

Nv His'oiy VI 'he PIFs'''eilidi TIFt-
ton campaign of JOHN Quincy ADAMS
time, shows that the opposition to his
administration was made up OF coai-
tons of the most heterogeneous elements
There We're the Crawtordites, the Jack
sonians. the Calhounit-s. the eli ntoni-
ans the ancient Federalists and hun.
dred other parties. all as diverse in their
opinions OF public policy as men could
well be, but all united by one bond the
"cohesive power of public plumber .
They saw that separately they could eff
feet nothing for themselves OF for any
body else, and that general coalition
alone could enable them to gain power.
Each party opened a regular intercom-
munica.ion with each other; and the re
suit was, determination to sacrifice all
personal feelings and preferences and
to unite upon JACKSON, who had about
him the elements Of personal popularity
IN a larger degree than either of the 9th
err gentlemen at the head oftheir respect
i've combinations. Power must be had
at any price, and the bargain was struck
y the instruments of each party; assign
ing to each the share which each was to
have IN the plumber of the public offices.
We have ever regarded the coalitions
that united upon JACKSON as It's leader
as one of the most corrupt III its tenden
cies and practices, that ever cursed a
free country. 1t was the basis of dyn
asty oftwenty years duration-a dynas
ty that came near uprooting and over
turning our free institutions. 1t was
corrupt. from its beginning, because the
objects were originally corrupt. The
cohesive power Of public plunder,' was
its sole object and purpose. Every 9th
er object and purpose assigned, was
mete pretence. The canvass that elect
ed JACKSON, was the most violent; ribaId,
INSCRIPTIONS and personal that ever DIS
graced the annals Of politics in this couu
try. The appetite Of the parties who
supported him; was whetted to the keen
est edge, by the contemplation oftwen.
ty thousand public Offices, which they
had agreed, beforehand, to parcel out
among the victors. The public press of
that era, IN the interest of the Jacksoni-
ans, teens with evidence OF the truth Of
what We have just hastily set forth. We
do not tell twentieth part Of the state
of things then existing. and of the cau-
ses that led to them, but we have told
enough to revive the memory OF that fu
rIous contest hackened as it was by de-
traction, malice and caIumny, free ly in
dulged in by both of the two great par
ties to it, and to fix upon the right shout
ders the origin of minorities coalescing
for the purpose Of obtaining power, for
the mere sake of power.
The coalitions OF the heterogeneous ele-
nents in existence during the younger
ADAMS administration, overturned that
administration: and; which their success
full men got fairly Into power. these
men denomlnated themselves the repre-
sentatives Of the Democracy of the coun
try. and the men, whom they defeated
they called the representatives Of aris-
tocracy. In little while, the political
cognomens of the two parties. the ms and
the outs took on the forms OF Democrats
and Wings Other titles were given to
them in common parlance, with a view
10 opprobrium and rldcule, such as Fed
eralls's and Locofocos. The party oi
the Goa lltions reckoned not without their
host calculating the effect of the CO.
hesive power of public plumber, as ce.
ment by which party could be eleva-
| ted TO the possession of the government
They piled increasingly all the selfish
machinery of party invention, to keep
themselves in power. And when, al
the commencement of Jackson's adminis
tratlon, it was found that the mere ce.
msnt Of public plumber, when once dis
tributed, was not sufficiently powerful