Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-06
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Also. CLEANING, DYEING and RI
nessee, and one of the truest men that
ever graced the Senate Chamber. The
Governor was indulging in a social glass
with Hale and several other gentlemen,
when he remarked to the Senator from
New Hampshire, "How is it, Hale, that
as genial gentleman as yourself can
unite your fortunes with so foula party r
"Why, Governor, you see 1t was the
strongest card in the Granite State, and
PLAYED to whit is my bread and meat
but so far as the Republican principles
are concerned, would not give q fig for
them" Hilloo, therel" says by
stander, "Tll tell on you, Mr.: Hale,
when we get to Concord" II don
care if you do" says Hale; they
won't believe word you say" So it is
with all of them. 1t is. business, money,
plunder persus principle. And is it pos
sible that any decent politician can de-
feua $50 called" principles, evolved by
leaders without Christian or moral senti.
ments? That great rhetorician, Burke,
saws: II never liked this continual talk
Of resistance and revolution, or the prac-,
tice of making the extreme medicine OF
the Constitution its daily bread Nor
does your correspondent, believing with
Guizot, "a society may be tortured,
perhaps destroyed, but you cannot make
Il assume a form or mode OF existence
foreign to its nature, either by disregard
ing the essential elements of which it is
constituted, or by doing violence to Them;
hence all will come right in the end. Yet,
it is our province to use the means,
striving between the two extremes oil
Burke and Guizot We should remember
Sydney Smiths sarcasm: I'm coun
try intersected with dikes, a rat might
inundate a province" Thus let the West
beware, and watch their Radicals, or, in
stead Of preserving the balance Of power
and holding it, they will find Yankee
heel. upon their throat, and Yankee
bayonet threatening every household
Let them read the LEDGER which tells
them that six Yankee Senators, repre-
senting one.tenth of the population of the
country, rule the land with an iron rod f;
and the little territory Of New England,
66, 280 square miles, q little patch OF land
on this broad domain of the United
States, through her twelve Senators,
rules the country. Gentlemen OF the
Westl remember these truths, and feel
them, and you can't help voting the
Democratic ticket. Watch those Radical
rats, or we may be inundated with flood
of ills that no social or political dyke can
stay. The readers of the LEDGER would
be astonished could they come North,
mix with the leading Democrats through
the length and breadth of the land, and
find how rapidly they are going back to
the true principles of true Democracy,
as laid down in that part of the Kentucky
resolutions which says: THAT the seve-
raj States comprising the United States
Of America are not united on the princl-
ples of unlimited submission to the gene
raH government, bat, that by compact,
under the style and title of a Constitution
for the United States, and of ofamendments
thereto, they constituted general gov.
ernment for special purposes, delegated
to that government certain dehnltive
powers, reserving each State to itself the
residuary mass of rights to their own self.
government, and that whensoever the
general government assumes undelegated
powers, its acts are unsuthoritatively
void, and of mo- force" Each party has
the right Ian equal one) to judge for
itself as we'll Of infractions as Of the mode
and measures of redress. Also, that res
olution Of the Virginia resolutions, drawn
up by Madison, the founder of the Consti-
tuition: "The General Assembly most
solemnly declares warm attachment to
the Union of the States, to maintain
which it pledges all its power and that for
this end il is their duty to watch over and
oppose every infraction of these princi-
pies. which constitute the only basis Of
that Union, because faithful observance
Of them alone can secure its existence
aud the public happiness" Now that the
rights OF Northern States are threatened
by the Radicals, who have trampled upon
those of the South, the alarm is sounded,
and the Northern Democracy are ready
to stand by States rights, as laid down in
the Kentncky and Virginia resolutions
Of I198-99.
The principle of States rights is now
onoe more being battled for by the
Democracy of the North, and an infringe.
ment upon them by the fanatics in power
win re.euact the scenes that electrified
the enemies of Cromwell and Napoleon
in their coup detats in Parliament and