Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-06
on to betray the principles of

&C. oIso in the civil revolution of 1901. Very
o,1, and very meritorious were the worthy patri-
lli"n IL assisted in bringing back our government
~ ;ts republican tack. To preserve it in that viii
reoure unremitting vigilance. Whether the sur
render of our opponents, their reception into our
camp. their assumption of our name and apparent
occesson to our objects may strengthen or weaken
the genuine principles of republcanism, may be a
GOOD or an evil, is yet to be SEEN We already see
the power installed for life responsible to no au-
tbority flor impeachment is not even scarecrow)
advancing with a noiseless and steady pace to the
great object of consolidation. The foundations
are already deeply laid by their decisions for the
humiliation of Constitutional State Rights and the
removal of every check, every counterPolse to the
ingulphing power of which themselves are to MAKE
a sovereign part"
Again-on the 18th June, 1928, he thus speaks
of these pesudo- Republicans, their principles and
objects
az have stated above that the original objects
&c tbo fadora1ists were / To warp our govern
ment more to the form and principles of monarchy,
and Q To weaken the barriers Of the State govern
ments as coordinate powers. In the first they
have been so completely foiled by the universal
spirit of the nation that they have abandoned the
enterprise shrunk from the odium of their old dp-
DeLEation, taken to themselves a participation Of
ours, and under the psuedo republican mask are
now aiming at their second object and strengthen
ed by unsuspecting or apostate recruits from our
ranks are advancing fast towards an ascendancy.
have been blamed for saying that prevalence of
the doctrines of consolidation would one day call
for reformation or revolution"
On the 4th of November, 1928, in a letter to
La Fayette, he thus again expresses himself:
1.-THE question will be ultimately reduced to the
northernmOst and sOuthernmost candidates. The
former will get every federal vote in the Union and
many republic ans, the latter all those denomina-
ted of tie old school for you not to believe that
these two parties are amagamated, that the lion
and lamb are laying down together. The Hartford
convention, the victory Of Orleans the peace of
Client Frustrated the name of federalism. Its vo-
taries abandoned it through shame and moTtifca-
ton and now call themselves republicans. Butt
name alone is changed, the principles are the
same"
1.-THE line of division now is the preservation OF
State Rights as reserved in the constitution or by
strained constructions of that instrument to merge
all into a consolidated government The tories are
for strengthening the Executive and General Gov
eminent
And in letter to Edward Livingston, of the
9th April, 1928 he aludes again to g our old
opponents who have given up their old apPella-
ton, but in assuming ours, have not abandoned
their views, ., mocrats in name, but Fedora
lists in truth.
at was with great pleasure, l learned that the
good people of New Orleans had restored you
again to the councils of our country. | did not
doubt the aid it would bring to the remains of our
old school in Congress in which your early labors
had been so useful You will find [ suppose on
revising our maritime States the names of things
more changed than the things themselves, that
though our old opponents have given up their APP
peation, they have not in assuming ours, aban-
doned their views, and that they are as strong
nearly as they ever were.'
1t was against these wide mouthed, impudent
hypocrites of his day. as well of succeeding years
of the Republic, who stole the livery Of Democra-
cy to serve Federalism n that these patriotic war
nings were directed. 1t was against those, who
wearing the q lions skin, - the name of popu
lar party or venerated patriot, might seek II
impose upon the nation, the hated brayings 0
their own species-for the genuine voice Of tn
old monarchs of the political forest
How faithful the prophecy How completely
has this Federalist of the Union in Democratic
clothing, hkencd himself to the drawings of GU
political painter? How industriously has he Blu
sled himself to draw off the genuine Republican
Democracy of the South from their devotion t
princp le-their allegiance to the Constitution
their undertaking adherence to the doctrines c
the cold school - He has tried them by threat
and persuason-by fattery and abuse-by promi
ses and maledictions-by the tempting allurement
of Presidential favor; his inauguration draw
heavy drafts upon things hoped for-when the au
tumn days Of his bargain, intrigue, corruption
and public plumber policy, shall have repaid b
its fruits, his vernai labor. g Bury your differ
ences !''-go over to the F'Northcrn-most cand
date !''-to Federalism and Free-soilism, an
Webster and Consolidation Mr. Madison al
proves it. Jefferson, and Jackson, and Polk, an
all the Democracy have 4" forgotten their resen
ment," g healed their wounds, - and the day
political millennium is at hand-when Andre
jackson Donelson shall be crowned Public PriI
ter, and ''by authority, organ-grinder to wht
ever may be the giver of this good and perfe
gift-when Senator Foote elected for the &c long
millennal Z" term, - shall agitase for g Unio
Union, "a GLORIOUS Union y of races, nation
and worlds-and when every Democrat in nan
shall have just what Office he wants. Who wou
not be a practical Democrat upon these hapE
principles BURY your differences - friends
the "scheme, ''-'' heal your wounds, ''-'' 70
get your resentments, - and jump in quick, b
fore the chances in this grand Lottery for the &