The Madisonian

THE NEW COALITION.

The amalgamation of the Calhoun-nullifiers with the abolitionists is one of the most extraordinary characteristics of the times. It forces the Calhoun-pro-slavery men into a most humiliating attitude—an attitude which, if it is maintained passively, evinces either the most detestable hypocrisy, or the most abject cowardice. What then has meant all the swaggering and bravado we have heard about dissolving the Union and lynching the abolitionists? Was it intended to build up Mr. Calhoun's fortunes at the South; a mere fetch to cheat the people of the South into his support, and lead them to the brink of a precipice more awful than any yet this Union has seen?

What else can we infer from this peaceful laying down of the lion and the lamb together? The Sub treasury must be carried, and Mr. Calhoun must be elevated at all hazards! The abolitionists, "with their wanton malignity," as Mr. Pickens said [may] "harass and wound our feelings;" we will tamely submit to it, if they will co-operate with us in establishing the Sub-treasury. That these are their feelings, is the lawful inference from their conduct.

Says the Fincastle (Va.) Democrat:

"Of those returned to the places which they have heretofore filled so creditably to themselves and useful to the nation at large, we are gratified to see the name of Doct. Duncan—a man blessed with talents of a high order, and who possesses the requisite independence to speak his thoughts freely and fully."

What sort of a "Northern man with Southern principles" is this Dr. Duncan, whose election is the source of so much joy to the Southern Sub-Treasuryites. In his letter to the Abolition Society of Ohio, published in the Cincinnati papers, Dr. Duncan pronounces "slavery greater in its immoral effects and corrupting tendencies, than all other human evils put together." "A moral and political evil within itself, or intrinsically so, of the darkest and most damning character." "An evil that has, does now, and will in time to come, while it exists involve in it, as well as in its present possession as in its future operations, crime, fraud, theft, robbery murder and death," and then the Doctor declares that the "anger of God and the vengeance of Heaven seems to rest upon every thing upon which you cast your eyes," in the slave States; and invokes "curses upon the heads of those who sustain such an institution."

"We are gratified," to see him elected exclaims the Southern Sub-Treasuryite, and "we are equally as much rejoiced to hear of the defeat of Mr. Legare" who is the able and eloquent defender of the South.

How soon, under these circumstances, we may ask Mr. Pickens in his own language, will the South "lose all the feelings of freemen, and sink as a people, into the despicable destiny that awaits a coward race?" "The present crisis" must be improved, nevertheless, answers Mr. Calhoun.

Do not the Calhounites and the Van Burenites walk hand in hand! And who are the yoke-fellows of the Van Burenites elsewhere?

The Cincinnati Republican says:

"We know not how the abolitionists voted in Maine and Pennsylvania, but this much we know, abolitionism and Van Burenism went hand in hand, in Ohio. Abolition in Ohio, is the hand-maid of Loco-focoism. If the Enquirer is at all sceptical with regard to what we assert, we are prepared to prove to his satisfaction, and to the satisfaction of every Southerner, open to conviction, that Van Buren has been pledged by his friends to the Abolitionists of Ohio."

And will the South support a political Abolition party? If not, then avoid Loco Focoism as they would a pestilence.