A Whig Lecture

Locke, íhe great origina) thinker, recotnrnefíds to liis readers to keep a comuionploce book, in which thy shoutó enter under one betid al! the important ciensíliey found intheir reading upon any subject in which thry were interefted, so that lliey could ever hiive at command, re;.dy foi use, n!l ;he knowledge upon that subject whicli i lie iodtisiry of ages , bad p.cc-imulatcd. We know nol wlictlier the whig editora of this State have practiced upou thisjudiciousodvice. However thal mny be, it is certnin that 'Aboütion" is une of the topics, however hateful, lo which they ir.iiHC give tboir atteníion, and as some of íhélñ mnv be unprrpared wi:li argnmenls and epitheta for a wnrfare upon tlie liberty party, we invite tlieir attcrrtíod to the heads of a!cc♦ tire upon one or two point respectingf that Iherne from the New Bcdford Mercury. A reftisal to vote for Henry Clay, because he it a slaveholder, the Mercury soys,is 'proscciplion'-iö 'wickfid, unjust and faithless to thc Constiluiion' - 'itisthe rankcsl Treason-'i ia oppo-ed mt only to theppirit bul to the very letter of the Constit ution' - 'it is mean, illiberal, and fanaliral'- :it places us in open warfíire wilh the South'- 'wliat right hnve we io di&franchise Southern inonf - 'what rght to open a qtiestion which Ins been cornpromised and settlcii by the Cun;.litiuion'?'- 'The moroent we do so, the So-.ith is absolved froni its aUrgiance.' Hete are some fine commonplacns, each of whicli muy easüy euggest un eniirc article to a whig editor of ordinary brains. Berore we procecd any fartlier, wc nk ouj readers to look at these assertions. and see how they will apply in another case. It ip well known that -Southern whis are, literally and truly, 'Dealh upon AbolitionLsts,' and they would mtich sooner hang Mr. Birney, merely le cause lic is an Abolilionisl, than vote for liim for the Presidency. Thus all the Southern whigs are now octing on the very principie so lotidly con'Jeriinnd by the Mercury and Tribune, nd the Northern Cloy papers. The illedgcd Ureason to the erngtit ution" is now ivowcd by one half the wliigs of tbis Union. May it not, Uien, be said, wilh equal trutb, that iheir refusnl to vote for any Abolitionist, because he is such.is 'proscription' - is wicked, uujust, fai'.hless to the 'Constitution'- is'only 'another Ibrm of advocating disunion onddismemberment of this confederncy' - il is llr: runkest of Treason' - it is opposed not only to the spirit but to the letter of the Constilution - 'it is mean, illiberal, and fanática!' - 'it places the South in open warfare wnh the Nor: Ij' - 'What right havo Southern men to disfranchise Northern men' - 'What rigbt to open a question which hns been compromised and settled by the Constitution?' - The moment the Soullwrners do so, the North is absolved from sallrgmnceVThe Sluveholders, Whigs as wellus Derr.ocrafs, do refusc to voto for uny Northern man who s on Aboütionisf, because he is such. Now, f as f iiey confend. the hole question ofslavery hns been 'settled and compromised' in the Constitution, they who would proscribe' nnd 'difsfronchise' a Norlliern man for his opinions npon the subject, must by thcir own showiii?, be guilty of the rnnkest treaf=on' lo the funrlomenial lnv of their rouiitry! But we proceed to furnish our whig friends witb topics Cüiicerninfr the Ljberty party. Tiie Mercury affirms that the influence f ihat fiiction is vastly overrated' - their course in preventing the peoplc from choosing their rulers is fast rcducing their nutnbers' - the leade's are, generilly ppenking, a pack of doublé dyed knavep, who have mannfncturod a po!itical party for (heir own selfish purposea'- 'the good amonír this faction will soon desert il' - 'a great moral enterprize is not to be prosecuted vvith sticcess by party machinery' - 'Ihere are otl er great qucstions before ihe country' - -they wül acknovvledge the futility of Ihrovving away their votes (!!) upon a party, which, f it loere triumphant in every Stale in tke Union,'wpu]d not loosen the fetters of o single sla vp, but rather rivet them more firmly.' 'It is mannged b men who are treacherous, selfish, and mercenary - men wlio would sell it to the Loco focos f they could, and do nll in their power to defeal the whig party'- who care not for the slave, nor for the right of petilion'- who 'bitlerly persecute' (!) Henry Cloy, while they 'are mild and loving' to Calhoun and Van Buren - and 'there is a wonderful tendency in thia Liberty movement towarás Locofocoism, and whethêr the Liberty party decline or proeper, the editor of the Mercury will never court its favor, nor atk its support!' This is a homily worth reading, It contains multum in parvo - nuch matter in few words. It is none of your milk and water dishes, fit only for dyspoptics and iufants, but gonuine sirong meat! VVith what consvimmate impudence the writer twits us of throwing away our votes, while the whigs throw away ai least twenty o our one! His eflrontery in alluding to the rig'it of pel ilion i admirable, after the nat'on has been gag. ged For two years by a whig Congress; and then to think that Henry Clay has octually been persecutnd' by 'this pack of doubled dyedknaves!" It is too bad, to be sure, but snpposing all these things to be so, QJwhat does the Mercury nteHd to do about it? (tT0 A writer in the National Intelligencer, styles tie Calhoun Democracy of the South, the Southern or Aristocratie Demo :racy. A 6laveholder, whatever may be his issumed appellation, mnst necessarily be an ristocrat. (C?3 Mcsmerism is oJI the rage ín New England. Lecturers upon the science abound in all parts. '