The Yazoo Democrat., 1851-09-17

OENTLEMEN. parting word OF counsel ],
and the interesting relation which has SO
long subssted between us will be dissolved;
and it will be my pleasing office. to welcome
you from the position of suboidnates, to the
rank of equals with your preceptors. We
cheerluily lay down our authority at your
feet, and thus, we ilatteI ourselves, remove
the only impedimenl to an intercourse which
time shall but endear, and death alone ar
rest.
Il For reasons obvious to all, must con-
fine myself upon this occasion 10 a single
subject; aud could [ have found one less
ample in its range and less diversified in its
details, but not less important at this junc-
ture than that which | have selected, l
should Ger ainly in charity to the patience
and courtesy OF this respected assembly have
given the preference. But as no such sub~
ject presents itselfto my mind, I bespeak
your attention for a few moments, to the
paramount claims of your own State upon
you-and hence to quiet any uneasiness
which the announcement OF my theme may
awaken in these tunes of over-weaning sem
sitiveness upon matters Of State and State
relations, beg leave TO premise that the
most of what am about to say is equally
applicable TO the North aud South, the East
and West.
If we cast our eye over our heaven-favor
ed country, we behold in it much to saJdon
the heart, and depress the spirits of every
true patriot-vioent agitation peryading the
whole community; churches Of the same
faith ren: asunder; politicians grown up in
the same creed at war with each other;
sections arrayed against sections. State
against State, neighborhoo1, against neigh
hnr
against brother. These are evils of gener-
al prevalence, which shake the whole polit
iCal spstem, and com, home TO our own
doors, whilst lat distant from US, but not too
far Immediately or ultimately TO affect US
are others ofa more malignant type, which
are spreading gangrene and modification
! through some Of The strongest and most viz
orous members of the body polite The
question very naturally presents ITSELF no v
in the short term of our political existence,
blessed as we have been by heaven aud by
inheritance, have wo been reduced 10 these
| eztremit:es? [ have no hesitation in saying
that if they all eau be traced to any one
cause, i: is the indomiCable yea:ning Of our
men of high gifts and literary attainments at
figure before the eyes of the nation So
large, and Perchancs Of distant nations,
rather than consecrate their time and talens
and their services 10 the State oftheir birth
or odoption. The States respectively. Offer
lew laurels to vaulting ambition. Their
honors dazzle only TO their confines; their
offices seldom enrich. They have no naval
titles to confer, and their military TILES are
comparatively unimposing and Improbable.
They have no Intercourse with foreign
nations, no foreign missions in their giii,
with their uncomfortable, not to say ex,rava
CANT outfits in short nothing so flat ering
to the pride, vanity, and ambition Of nan.
as the largesses OF tho Central Govern
ment. They are, therefore, neglected by
those who owe them most; their interests
are forsaken, by those best qualih I'd to ad
vance them; their rights are compromised
by those most able to defend them; and
their whole moral power is directly Or indi
recty turned into the mighty stream which
is waiting everything great and good, with
90 much that Is little and vile, to the city of
Washington. Is it thing unlikely, then,
that the States should waste and wHher
under such process of exhaust iOn? That
they should make tardy advances in all that
dignifes, ennobles or blesSes community
while their master e9irs are far away from
them, quilting and pushing at the Federal
Government That they should lose their
rank in public estimation, when their men
of rank obviously subordinate to them in
their estimationl L. it TO bewondered, that
power accumu ate where power appears in
most seductive fascinations, 10 tho most fas
cinating of men, and that under its charms
10 them and their charms to their consttu
ents, the natural order of things should be
reversed; and the States, instead Of being
the m sters, should become the servants Of
their presentatiyes: and be moved, and
wheeled, and couHte!maTched by bugle
notes from the caoitol with the serYility Of
trained bands? Should we wonder, ii in
such a state of things. the masses who
Judge more from sight than from research
.hould assign the States place by the side
of the idolzed government BETTING their
humIiating services?
low far all .his is historically true, ask
your aged fathers of al! parties.
Now, whatever our forefathers may have
meant in allotment OF powers between the
two governments under which we live, it
is absolutely certain that they rever
| meant to make the States the mere under
underlings of the Federal Government.
This l may venture to assume without
rcading upon debateable grounds. 1t is
| a truth which it requires no Profound con-
stitutional learning to discover or under
stand. 1t is stamped upon the current coin
OF your country Tor was until the late is
sues from the minO aud is embazoned
IN beautiful heraldry upon your "5tar
Spangled Banner" And here as you are
Just stepping into public life, at time
| when your country s ensign derives q new