Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-03-19
THE REGISTER.
Jefferson County, Va.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1850.
WANTED-A youth II or Is years OF
age, to learn the Printing Business. APP
ply Immediately at The Register Office.
Rule or Ruin.

Our private suspicious, long entertain
a. haze at last been fully realized. The
cross conversation in the Senate on We'd
nesdav last-c,oss in more senses than
one-proves all that re privately suspect
ed, TO be correct. The las. Presl1@nual
election showed South Carolina-isI: to
have been numbered among the things
that were. The scepue then departed
from Judah, and as Mr.. Calhoun would
rather reign in He'll than serve in Heaven,
he has at length very naturally moved
right in the direction of his unchanged
predictions. Had the candidate for
whom South Carolina voted been elected,
Mr.. Calhoun would have still believed
that the General Government was suffi-
cientlv under his control to answer his
touch as helmsman, and he and his follow
ers would have kept the peace; but the
election of Gent Taylor has put and kept
him and them, in such bad temper, that
nothing can satisfy but parting, or threat
ening TO part company with those he can
no longer control. We must say Mr..
Calhoun's air and manner win our admit
ration. There is certain greatness, a
singleness of aim, lofty determination to
look only on his proud purpose, with a
freedom from small sell-conceit, that sets
the man far in advance of Napoleon, and
puts him almost if not fully alongside the
mighty conception of the poet
Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised,
Above his fellows, with monarchial pride,
Conscious OF highest worth, unmoved*' his face
Deep scars of thunder had entrenched and care
Sat on his faded cheek but under brows
| OF dauntless courage and considerate pride -" I"
Drew audience and attention still as night
That conversation on Wednesday last
did more to disclose the secret motives OF
the great Carolinian than anything that
has preceded. Questions are indeed the
keys of knowledge, they unlock the hid,
den treasures, and give us an insight to
the very penetralia of the heart. The
speech of Monday week gave us his SEN
timents, the conversation Of Wednesday
last points directly to his motives.
One thing begins to be palpabIe now
that the smoke is clearing of, and that is,
that to Mr.. Calhoun's individual qualities
of mind, his strong constitutional love of.
or rather demand for power, and unyleld-
ing rightly of purpose, are due ninety
nine hundredths of the existing difficulty
at accommodation. We would notrepeat
lightly or disrespectfulIy either, the cpl
tibet of the erst-while Washington Globe,
but beyond question there are strong
points of similarity between the aims,
though not the means, of two Senators,
the one of ancient Rome, the other Of mod
ern America. Many great and noble
qualities must be accorded to each, but in
both there is the same inability to subject
strong self-wll before love Of country, in
both the same Impotence Of being any
where else but at the head, in both the
same commiual TO Rule or Ruin.
Mr.. Calhoun's opinions are all far ahead
of the rest of the Southern Senators, and
in their most important points are all but
coincident with the theories o. the rankest
Free Sellers. Ii is another instance where
extremes meet. Notwithstanding Mr..
Foote's endorsement of Mr.. Calhoun's
address, it is clear that the Mississippi
Senator thinks much more nearly with
Gent Cass and therefore Gen'l Taylor.
than he does with Mr.. Calhoun. The
gist of the difference is as to the power OF
Congress over the people of territory,
and surely Mr.. Calhoun's quotation from
the Constitution in his last address was
quite inadequate to sustain the theory he
would deduce from it. Mr.. Calhoun for
bore to prove his doctrine by anything de-
serving the name of demonstration lin this
respect so unlike and inferior to Gem
Cass) but chose to supply the deficiency
in his argument by the most fragrant ipsc
diris, and the menace Of contempt for
whomsoever should dispute his Ito HIM
all-essential dogma.
The moment that Mr.. Calhoun's pow
err, purposes, and position have got to be