The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-12-09
National Organization.

We employ no general, but a very definite
and fixed fact, when we say that the pre-.
sent Union embraces tull three.lourths of
what twelve months ago, was recognized
and known as the oId whig party in The
State. Ii is proper that we should be I'M
derstood, and presenting oar opinions. LEI
those trtSc Wings wto have acted with the
/ sS,ates Rigb; pagty follow eS u ont ee.sg,a-
siUns before the pt0ndanced Judgment.
The true Wigs, that is. those who bslieve
in, aud contend tcs :!:e doctrines Of 1883,
have abandon their Old party associates up
on principle While the great and con
trolling element in the old H-blg party fay.
ored consolidation aud "sir0nc govern
meut within the view and meauir- as
portrayed by Alexander Hamilton, and old
John Adams, there was latent within Il.
bosom body Of pure, Stem men, holding to,
and ready to advocate whenever necessary
the doctrines OF the Kentucky ana Virginia
Resolutions. Local measures, Stale and
National, held them together, they being in
fact, the only links of adhesion between
them OF the nature aud character Of the
government under which we live, of its
power, its duty, aud the rights of the States
there was wide dyergence--an impossible
chasm.
One looked to the Sovereignty of the Fe-s
deral, the other to the sovereignty OF thes
State government. One held to ReDubii-
casa, the other to Federal doctlnes. OF the
former we cite w. L. Harris, John I.
Guion, t. Jones Stewart, and a host OF
others, in former days the very soul and
spirit--the intellectual lie ofwhat once was
known as the whig party of Mississippi.
Of the latter, we cite Col. j. B. Cobb,
Judge John Moore, Major Blewett, ct I'D
on1ne genus the very incarnation Of Fe3er
allS11, In the bosom of the Democratic
years meet of Fe3crak conS0iiaGttonsSts
They have worked with and for the demo.
cracy, not so much because they admired
the principles as the Offices and ho9oys that
party were capable of confering They
may have honestly differed with the wings
in regard to the tariff, the bank, internal inn
provement and the distribution policy upon
which the separated from the whig party,
| But the moment that those issues Were ad-
justed, and the consolidation principles
which are largely in the ascendant in both
parties at the North, forced the government
TO eneroach upon the rights of the States,
and to threaten me State aoith military CO.
erci0n, thisS 0uraous democracy, the demo
cracy of office, that has loudly and unceas-
ingly preached up and practised upon the
principle that TO "the victor belong the
spoils, as naturally as could be, gIided into
the advocacy OF covert consoidationism.
Their natural allies, the modegn aoh5gS,
struck hands with them and proposed dI.
UtSton Of Offices ".
We thus see then, this Union party
what a mockery-is made up of consolida-
tionists, and republics, they hold to the doc
trine that the people are incapable of self
government, and should, therefore, submit
to the strong government'-a specie OF
elective monarchy. State Rights they
disavow, and declare secession a revolution.
ary right, or, in short phrase, the right OF
might. which is no right unless the physica
or brute force exists to enforce the right
Those who have heretofore acted with the
democracy and are now acting with the
Union party are in a fix. The position
which they occupy is novel one. we ma!
safely say most ridiculous one. Let u
point it out.
The Washington Union, paper con
Quoted by Andrew JackS0a Donelson, th
man who proposed to dissolve the Nashville
Convention by reading the old Romans
(Jackson's) prociamation-th snuf-takin!
aunt Nancy ofthe newspaper press. declare
with an JUNCTION as soIem as it is ridiculous
that the succession Of the Cobb in Georgia
and Foote ia Mississippi, are real sinonpur
De1tocgQtic victories
This is all plain enough, and it is as aim
pie as it is plain and it jnst takes man a
barren Of common sense and political homes
tv as Andrew Jackson Donelson, to stant
up and brazen out an assertion so wholly de
ficient of truth.--But this is in strict keep
ing with the plan Of operations matured by
Foote and Cobb, and defended by Donelso