Washington sentinel., 1854-02-01

: States. Sir Saturn only devoured his own
children; but this government, surprising even
the cannlbalism Of heather mythology, would
consume those who .gave it birth and being.
Yes, 1t has not yet sent forth its satraps pro-
consuls with the insignia of imperial power, to
fatten their greed upon plundered wealth and
safe their pampered lust on ruined Victims but
! its electric power is felt throughout all the
land, poisoning, dominating, crushing.
, And will you not increase this danger by
multiplying the objects of expenditure, and
consequently the resources of the government?
Where, too, will it stop? You have now three
times the territory you had when you achieved
your independence. Your population, too, is
moving down, with the tread of Roman le-
gion, upon surrounding nations; and the Anglo
Norman spirit must ultimately be breathed upon
all this continent. When the revenue of the
government is quadrupled, and your coast in.
definitely extended-when the few remaining
bands OF the Constitution are burst asunder,
and your powers are swollen by construction
where Will be the barrier against central ty-
ranny? Subsidized interests, corrupt coali-
tons, and rival sections will lay the last offer
ing upon the federal altar
Sir, has the broad West no interest in these
fearful results? With "vaey containing
within its limits one million two hundred thou.
sand square miles, lying in the temperate zone,
and midway between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans;' with population expanding within
sixty years from two hundred thousand to nine
millions; with mighty rivers traversing it in
every direction, and bearing upon their bosoms
more than $300,O0O,000 Of wealth; and with
tonnage of over two hundred thousand, is not
the West equal to the paltry demands upon her
own resources? Young, flushed and trium-
phant, will she come to her poorer sisters to
ask for aid; and, with broad tide of mpetu-
GUS blood sweeping along her arteries, will she
bow herself for aims at the federal footstool?
Sir, she has received from this government
about $4,O0O,0O0, which has been spent only
in rearing monuments of ruin and she lost
more than $l,000,000 per annum while she
was besieging Congress and clamoring at the
doors of the federal treasury. Had she but
looked to her own resources, how much prop
erty would have been saved from shipwreck?
Sir, this government, with its torpid touch, has
benumbed and paralyzed every community and
section where its heavy grasp has fallen. In
dividnahty has been broken down, and local
enterprise been paralyzed, where its overshad
owing power has been actively exerted. 1t has
lavished Sls,0O0,000 of treasure upon schemes
which would not tomorrow yield $4,000, 900.
An effort is now made to rescue the government
and restore it to its republican principles. 1t
is noble and patriotic effort. -...
In this struggle invoke the mighty West,
now bounding with the step of giant along
the pathway of greatness-the West, with her
hundred hands stretched out through all the
globe, shaking every tree of wealth and gather
ing golden fruit from each-I invoke the West
to follow the lead of her most distinguished
senator, Mr.. DouGLAs,] and lay her ambition
and avarice an Offering upon the altar of repub-
can freedom. ....
invoke the North, reveling in wealth created
! by others, to turn from the fesh-pots," and,
with her distinguished son, the President, to
battle again for constitutional liberty | in
woke Virginia, whose flag has never yet f;lltered,
and whose sons are ever ready to bare their
arms for the right, to defend the Constitution,
baptized with her blood, and illustrated by her
most splendid intellects. Will she now build a
wall Of fire around the Constitution, or will she
present herethe appalling and ghastly spectacle
OF Hercules, with tottering step and infrm
grasp, tearing down the very monuments which
he has reared in his manhood and glory? in
woke the South, which has known this govern
ment for long years by plunder, not protection,
to rally again under the old republican flag,
and fight for its few remaining shreds.
Sir, the President, the Jupiter Tonans of my
eloquent friend from Kentucky, Mr.. EWING,
stands not upon heathen Olympus, but the
Olympus Of constitutional liberty; and, girt
round with its sacred fires, he hurls his blazing
bolts against it's assailants and usurpers
Standing there, he calls upon us to shear this
central power of its monstrous proportions, so
that it may purify and not desolate. Sir
while the President pursues the old republican
policy, he will have the unbroken support of
South Carolipa. She has never asked this gov.
ernment for aid Whenever it's flag has been in
danger, her sons have been the among the first
to rally around it; and whenever its Golfers
have been exhausted, her own treasure has been
freely poured out. Whatever improvements
have been needed upon her soil, her own hands
have reared, and her own wealth has paid for
Years ago her public men, in spirit of wild
extravaganza, embarked her resources upon
stupendous and visionary schemes of internal
improvement the wrecks of which yet cumber
her soil but from her own toll she met every
demand upon her, and with historic selfreli-
ance calmly bore up under her losses. Savan-
nah, too, our gallant sister, has herself proudly
met the requirements of her own destiny.
Sir, South Carolina will firmly uphold the
President as long as he upholds the principles
of the old republican party; but should he de-
sert them, she will as sternly oppose him. She
will rally under the old republican fag stream
ing all over with light and with its historic
motto blazing upon its fold-the watchword of
her own great statesman-" Principles, not
men,
Va. l