The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-22

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Limitation IL rhe bargoio me annals of politi
cal crime CONT n no els;ner sos, Of poitical cor
runton mr. Adams wss IN the presdenta
cha;r. and nlsced there nv vour vote. and vo,
was His prime MINISTER This was Ell the cba~g
Ieontaiued. Every specjfication WINS fulfilled "a,
vet Won denied the charge. But vour dec;a
could not obliterate the record or procure for 70,
verdict of acauit.al. and the word .pailtyn i
indelibly written on your coat of arm Yo,
had precedent for the policy YOU pursued. Csul
G. acchus, when plotting the destruction of Tia.
liberties of Rome, adopted the same policy te
turn aside the public wrath from his own head
Less sklful, and less fogurate than Yourself
his impostures were detected and exposed, anc
| by violent death he paid the forfeit of hi.
crimes ; but you vet live to perpetrate more mis-
chief with blight. dark and irrsdicable, resting
upon your name.
Yourself and your partner in guilt were in
stalled into office, where you had placed each
other, and tho master rnd man entered zealousy
upon the work of organizing your American
system. This system, in the enormities it WIS
intended TO innict upon one section for the
benefit of another, is without parallel in the
history Of governments claiming 10 be ,ree
Every argument you urged IN its favor WIS
false, and made with the deliberate pu pose to
deceive the public mind, and to conceal from
public view the great leading objects Of its pro-
mitigation. 1t was a masked battery by which
the stronghold OF African slavery was to be
stormed It's objects were three-fod The
leading one, and which, in your es imation, in
cluded all Others, was to make you popular at
the North, with the view to your election to the
Presidency. The second, TO make the South
pay tribute to the North, for the benefit of your
Northern clients, that you might render I'm
equivalent for the fees paid you mn attorney,
and TO demonstrate the proposition that tho on
ly way for the North to accomplish lis designs
upon the South was to strengthen your influence
aud power The third, to give n fatal stab to
African slavery, and hasten its abolition by Civ
ing governmental protection to free labnr. The
antl-savery policy, like the viper concealed be-
meath the rose, lay ut the foundation of the sys-
tenn, and constituted in conjunction with the
Unsuitable avarice of your followers, the power
full secret element which forced il on to its ac
complshment. Beyond any in the world. per-
haps, the people in whose cause You were en-
listed, posses the art and pursue the policy of
conceang their real designs from public view
and YOU are a fit AGENT to be the chief of the
robbcr crew to whom the motto Is havoc. spoils
and ruin are my yain,'' appropriately belongs
Your American system, your public land and In.
compromises and land piracies. are Int parts of
the great freesoil. antislayery. colonization and
abolition policy. and look with single eve to
the emapcipati0n of the African. the ex ;nct;on
of Southern civilization and ruin of the South.
crn people; and when the scales shall fall from
the ewes of the peonla Of the South thev will
find it difficult to determine which In adm;re
most. the holiness with which Won nernatrat..
treason. or the maonitude of vour cr;minal con.
ceptions. . -5
There 10 n nrevail;ng error in tho mnds NJ
the neople. before which tb;s renubl;c il dos
tined IN fall and hecoma eyti,ct fnrover Tb;s
error "a found in the unaua con6aonce ronosod
in the constituted authorities NJ tho country
This confidence protects the covernmant crim;.
nal. and shields him from the nun;sbment dne
TO his crimes Mt the moment when he 10 iptlict
inc the most fatal wounds mon the INTEGRITY ot
the Constitution. The small criminal il draoued
before the judicial tribunals and made To sutfer
the utmost penalty of the law. The criminal
| functionary finds impunity in the dignity of his
office. He violates every principle of the Con-
stitution. and commits crimes acainst the State
| of the greatest magnitude. and the guilty aren't
whose head would have been brought to the
block in even more barbarous age by the stern
demands of Justice. escapes diminished The
means, sir, by which you and your accomplice
in Grim. made your way into power, attracted
the attention of a people thus con6dnr. and the
two abolition tribunes were driven from office
by the election Of General Jackson to the Pres
idency. Kentucky arain committed the preai
error of sending you to the Senate. Your
American system was pressed forward with re-
newed energy. South Carolina threw herself
into the breach to save the Constitution, which
WIS expiring in you- Grasp. The PARASITES of
power impressed the mind of General Jackson
with the false idea that his military fame was
involved in the issue made by South Carolina.
The power and influence of the Executive were
arrayed in hostile attitude against the State
which led the forlorn hope of the republic, and
the action of which but indicated the PRINCIPLES
which placed him in power. The President
was the special object of your hate. He had
been mainly instrumental in hurting YOU from
office. crime for which he could. in vour iudc.
ment. never atone.
You had denounced his advent to the Presi-
dental chair as an iuliction upon the country