The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-21


ems and editors. The obnoxious aliens theI
were French and English repubicans--som'
of them distinguished political writer's, and zeal
Gus advocates of Democratic institutions Th'
Federalists inclined to monarchy, and therefore
attempted to Danish these men, and to imprisoI
such natives as presumed TO denounee the mel
in power, who were Federalists. The move
ment was party one. 1t was also sectional
one. A Northern mana Massachusetts, man
JOHN ADAMS, was President. Another chic
of that party, ALEXANDER HAMILTON was New
York man. And it has been seen that all the
Northern States except Pennsylvania, which
borders on Maryland and Virginia, came forward
to support these laws. OF the Southern States
two only resisted; the Others were passive.
The next movement of the North in 1928
after having been partially foiled in the Mis-.
souri, controversy, was still more sectional. The
rapid extension of the cotton culture in the
South had effected, ard was effecting, great
augmentation of Southern wealth and power
And as at the time cotton was the great staple
of export, the North determined on line Of
policy that would have the two-fold effect ofap-
propriating to herself the profit Of its manufac-
ture, and ofcutting off the foreign trade and the
growing wealth of the South II was therefore
determined to immediate the cotton planters for
the general welfare Of this glorious Union. The
sugar planters, the grain growers, and the wool
growers, were all b!ibed into the combination
by bounties on their productions In 1898 there
was great Southern military chieftain, General
WASHINGTON, who threw the immense weight
Of his revolutionary services and popularity into
the scale of Northern federalism and of ALEX.
AMBER HAMILTON. In 1928 there was an
other great military chieftain, General JACKSON
that gave TO the policy Of WEBSTER and the
North, the alliance of his popularity won by
brilliant achievement in the late war. So in the
present struggle, we have seen another great
military chieftain, whose laurels were achieved
in the Mexican war, at the head chiefly ofSouth-
ern men, lending the power of his name and of
the Presidency, to the same WEBSTER, the same
MISUNDERSTANDING same North.
When the Mexican territory was acquired
and when the immense and unexampled mineral
wealth of California was disclosed, the division,
or disposal of such an enormous spoil presented
a temptation which, perhaps, no political or hui
man virtue in the history of nations has with
stood. 1t was of itself the severest test to
,,h;ob 49, ;p.t;t,t;on, or human not,,ra conJJ
be subjected.
But when, to the disturbing element of ava
rice was added sectional and personal ambition,
and, beyond all that, long -smoudering and
widespread fanaticism, and then, in aid of all
these, came the infatuated cooperation of q
Southern hero and President, giving his laurels
and his sword to Northern TO Massachusetts
aggression, the case became, for the time being,
desperate. And il was decided with great con-
idence BY the North, to make third and last
effort for sectional dominion and financial ag-
grandizement, at the expense Of the South and
the Constitution. And as il was attempted TO
crush the press in 1898, and the planting inter
est in 1882, 80 in 1913 it was resolved 10 pro.
scribe and degrade the whole body of slave
holders, the institutions of the South, and TO
make il a condition with the descendants OF
WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, MADISON, NJ. con
PrEcKSEY, and RUTLEpGE, that before they
should be permitted to enter the territory their
swords had won, they should repent and reform
their habits Of life, and conform to the code of
GARRISON and TAPPAS.
he attempt was made, and the law passed
as was the case in both other In tances. But
not year has elapsed, and already has one
State announced in maj ner not to be mis-
taken, her determination never to submit. An.
other is now celebrating. And in severa
others a large and powerful body exists, befor,
whom the two pre.existing national parties have
already broken in pieces. And in two year,
from tho time Of its passage, this comproms,
will either be overthrown, or the Union W II b,
gone. But in our opinion the compromise vii
be crushed, and not the Union.
In seventeen years after the alien and seiitior
laws we're passed, the party that supported then
wns extinct. In seventeen years after the mon
.trous tariff of 1892 the principle Of high Protec
ion was an obsolete idea. And In seventeen year
,fter the passage of the spoliation compromise
its authors and supporters will be where tn,
FedsraIis;s of 1898 and the Protectionists o
1889 are now.
We advise, now, therefore, every young anc
rising politician to stand from under-to avoi,
this compromise as pesiilence, and to win hi
way TO public favor and intellectual renown, b.
following the example Of JEFFERSON, Madison
and CALHouS in contending for its overthrow
Federalism seems 10 have regular period
cal cycle of appearance like the seventeen yea
locusts-and like them, It lies 10 the in.ervs
under ground.
1t came out in 1893, and disappeared in 1871
It came out again in 1892, and infected both o
the grand national parties. Such was the 10
ratuaiion that General JACKSON actually playe'
| for awhile second fiddle to Mr.. WEBSTER, ard is