New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-16

of the Southern ObghIcH!-d iiuchlAViu tOutSc
Of proceeding of which our political history at
the North affords too many instances.
The Missouri question united for moment
the whole of the Northern States 1t fairly
striped he South of the democratic disguise
under which she bad so long cheated the conn
try, revealing the Southern tools OF the Union,
who had made themselves rich by protesting
an ultra democracy, as scoiers at the doctrine
of the rights of man-not merely reluctant and
unwilling holders of slaves imposed upon them
by the voices of the British slavetraders, against
whom the British Government had refused the
colonies permission to protect themselves-such
being the colOriDg that Jefferson had been used
to give to the matter-but in Georgia and Ala
bsma and the other South western States, vol
untary slave-buyers; in Maryland, Virgin and
the Carolinas, ve-breeders and slave sellers
and throughout the entire South. jealous sdvo-
Gates for the extensio of Slavery as a means OF
perpetuatipg the Southern rule and the political
pupilaee of the North.
The slavehodirg wolf thus stripped of the
sbeepskin of Democracy-detected as ii were
in the very felonous act of seeking to devour
the lambs of the flock even before they were
born-amrg even then to do that which Atchl-
son and Stringfellow are trying 70 do now-and
conserving to reliDquish or rather to postpone
their claim to the whole Wet only on being
permitted to stay their stOmachs for the time
being on Missouri-the whole plot, the entire
fraud, thus revealed and detected-is it not as
in
its strength to throw off this odious and detest-
able slsvedriviDg yoke Alas for the depressing
effects of seryitude The day a man becomes
,laye he loses, Homer says, one-half his
manhood. We of the North had been
slaves for twenty years, and IN that
long period we had lost almost the
whole of ours Astonished at cur own temer-
ity in daring to make terms with our
masters, and overwhelmed with gratitude at
their gracious coudescension in cOnsenting,
while they swallowed the meat-to wit, the
State of MissOuri-to throw US the shells in the
shape of restriction which many of them held
at the moment to be mere verbal decept on,
and which they have all Joined in setting aside
as soon as their convenience demands tin this
state of the case we Northern men, as 1t mt Tor
nothing but servitude, skunk back to our old
places, and began TO dig in the field of politics
a, usual, under the crack of the whip OF
our Southern overseers-a voluntary hasten
ing back to worse than Egyptian bondage, in
which nobody exhibited greater alacrity than
did Mr.. Van Buren,. Indeed it WAS mainly by
his activity and his talent for political manage
ment that the movement for NOrther rights at the
front of which John Quincy Adams was placed,
was broken down and defeated, aud General
Jackson-not the man whom the Southern poll
ticians would have wished, but the man whom
circumstances had obliged them to take-estab-
lished in the Presidency as the head of new
Southern party.
General Jackson's hatterers and worshipers
and few men have had more-were accus-
toned to speak Of him as the second Wash
ington. As to several leading traits of
character it would be hard to find in
all history two men more totally I'M
like; and yet there were some points
as to which resemblance may be traced, aud
points, too, which mark them both as belonging
to quite a different class from the great bulk of
Southern politicians. Like Washington, aud
like Clay, with the feelings natural to those
who can afford to rely on their own merits and
services without reference to the accidents of
birth, General Jackson was a national man.
Twelve years before, he had advised Monroe to
organize his Cabinet in disregard of that South
ern sectional nervousness which had so long
excluded from oflics under the General Govern
ment all the abest men Of the North. General
Jackson was a man, too, who rewarded his
friends, and who gave the first place in his Cab
met, and what was still more, the first place in
his confidence, to Mr.. Van Buren,. This was a
result by no means anticipated by the Southern
politicians, and especially disagreeable to Mr..
Calhoun, who in waving his pretensions to the
Presidency and becoming a supporter of General
Jackson had expected to become his political
manager, and in due time his successor. Ga the
ground that General Jackson's administration
was too Northern and too sectional, Mr. Calhoun
csme out against it; and to upset it, he revived
the doctrine of notification and State rights,
originally invented by Jefferson TO be used
sgainst John Adams but which, during the embir-
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National authority, had fallen into total oblivion.
AS Jefferson was the founder of the original
Southern sectional party, so when that party
began to liberalze itself and TO admit the claim
of the North to a share of political power, Mr..
Calhoun became the founder OF the second and
still existing Southern sectional party.
More fortunate than WashingtOn-as indeed
he had much more extensive patronage at his