Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1858 — A Confession—A Contrast. [ARTICLE]

A Confession —A Contrast.

Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, in one of his recent speeches said: “AH the oppoitiou measures of which the South has complained in the last thirty years she herself inaugurated. Washington and Jefferson, in the matter of Slavery, set the evil example. The North borrokved it from tlrnm. The Bank of the United States originated with the South. | The ■South, under some of our leading men, was godfather of the tariff. And it was the shine With the intermit 'improvements. Theh if the South has done these things and undone them, has she not the power, if still united to control!” This is the style of argument now used by the leading fire-eaters, in favor of staying in the Union a while longer. So lbng as the Democratic party can lie kept in power by aid of the united South, their most ultra demands are expected, sooner or later, to be thus secured. What a commentary is the above confession of Governor Hammond, on the modern shami called Democracy! The policy of 'Washington and'Jefferson is here as boldly •denounced as are the measures of the Republican party—of which, in (act, those glorious old statesmen are conceded to be the fathers. Most pitiable is the conceit wlith which such men as Hammond and Buchanan arraign those founders of our government as mischievous and propose their own profound wisdom as a substitute for the mistaken? notions of Thomas JelTerson and George Washington! Great is modern Democracy.