Then Why? Oh, Why! will a once flourishing people not arise, phoenix like, over the Cinders of ’s power; and over the sinking fragments and smoking ruins of other catamount politicians; and over the wind falls of , , , [Silas] Wright, and a Caravan of other equally unfortunate law doctors, and cheerfully help to spread a plaster and bind up the burnt, bleeding wounds of a sore but blessed ?! The— Southern people are hospitable and noble: they will help to rid so free a Country of every vestige of Slavery, when ever they are assured of an equivalent for their property. The will be full of money and confidence, when a national bank of twenty millions, and a State Bank in every State, with a million or more, gives a tone to monetary matters, and make a circulating medium as valuable in the purses of a whole community, as in the coffers of a speculating banker or broker.

The people may have faults but they never should be trifled with. I think Mr. [William] Pitt’s quotation in the British Parliament of Mr. [Matthew] Prior’s couplet for the husband and wife, to apply to the course which the King and Ministry of should pursue to the then colonies, of the now , might be a genuine rule of action for some of the breath made men in high places, to use towards the posterity of this noble daring people:—

We have had Democratic Presidents; Whig Presidents; a Pseudo Democratic Whig President; and now it is time to have a President of the ; and let the people of the whole , like the inflexible Romans, whenever they find a promise made by a candidate, that is not practised as an officer, hurl the miserable sycophant from his exaltation, as God [d]id Nebuchadnezzar, to crop the Grass of the field, with a beasts heart among the Cattle.

said in his inaugural address, that he went “into the Presidential Chair the inflexible and uncompromising [opponent] of every attempt [on] [p. [17]]