, 1861-09-19
l. WASHINGTON TERRITORY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 49, 1861

| the conspiracy. Inc tar1n was SelZed upon as
that question. It served the purpose we'll 1t
was alleged that it affected injurously the cotton
states, which were the southern and southwes-
tern states, covering almost the same region that
the dream Of Burr hoated over. True, nearly
all the goods imported under the new tariff were
brought into northern ports, and the duties there
paid, and the far greater proportion Of the im.
ports consumed by the northern people; yet be-
cause the south raised raw material which
could not be consumed in the country, and was
In demand abroad and northern merchants pur-
chased and shipped it TO meet Indebtedness in
England, it was supposed that, in some mysteTi'
Gus way, the producer Of cotton was affected by
the tariff in an injurious manner, and differently
from all other nOn.manuiacturing members Of
the community Upon this question Calhoun
raised the watchword Of notification, and South
Carolina led off then, as she has SINCE 10 the at
tempt to subvert the government; and her Pal
metto banner was emhlaZoned then, as now,
with the legend Of estate rights" Though
those who had laid the foundation Of ourgovern-
ment had passed from public life, a hero who
had defended the structure from the fire Of its
ancient enemy held the chief magistracy, and
knew how to meet peril within as well as as
saults from without The first thing necessary
was to give the unquestionable shape true
name and, after looking notification fully in
threatened to hang its great apostle as a traitor
The southern rose by that name did not smell as
sweet. Perhaps, indeed, Calhoun smelt the
mold beneath the rose" and his senses warned
him to beware Of the inexorable logic Of events,
especially when the latter were under the con-
troll Of the resOlute will of General jackson.
The military arm Of the government was made
manifest in Charleston, in the person of General
Scott, and South Carolina abdicated her assumed
sovereignty. ....f.
So closed the second act of the grand con-
spiracy. The chief conspirator lived, cut of
from the confidence Of the nation, yet still hon
ored by the participatOrs in his schemes-lived
to SOW the dragons teeth throughout the South
which were, after his death, to spring up armed
men. 1t is said that jackson, on his death-bed,
regretted that he did not hang Calhoun. II il
BE- true, patriots should feel deep sorrow when
they remember that the last moments Of the
old hero's life were troubled by the recollection
Of hat one great mistake.
To General jackson must be awarded the
credit Of a clear perception aud thorough under
standing Of the question in his time, and won
deriu prescienee as to its probable phases in the
future. In his letter Of May 1st, 1888, to the
Rev. A. j. Crawford, he says; Qualification is
dead, aud its actors and courtiers will only be
remembered by the people to be execrated for
their wicked designs to sever and destroy the
onlv gooA rovernn,ent on the cyiobe and that
pros1eritv and bappjnsss we epiov over every
other portion Of the world Haman's gallows
ought to be the fate Of oil such ambitious men,
who would involve the country in civil war, and
all the evils 10 its train that they may reign and
ride on It's whirlwinds and direct the storm.
The free neopIe Of the United States have spokeD,
anJ consignaJ these ,vicLed drmococps to their
nrnncr doom Tala care Of the nSlIfers Vol,
baye a,nonS Won Iet them NEE, ,be INDIGNANT
frowns of sysrv man who loves bis country.
The tariff was only the pretext. and
disunion and the Southern ConIederacy the real
object The next pretext will be the negro or
the slavery question" Posterity will add 10 his
titles Of valiant warrior and ncofruptible states
man that Of true propbet. The real object dis.
union and n Southern ConIederacy. now con.
front US and the pretext is the negro or slavery
question.
BENTON. who for thirty wears watched the
workings of Senate dominated bv he South.
savs IN his great work when speakine of the
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and publicIr nroclaitned nv incredulitv. :
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ihe covert approaches Of suotle, Undermining
logic toward the citadel Of our hoerues were
met, and the constitution defended, in the Senate