ior to either
of them in reputation as a lawyer, and chiefly eminent for his
obsequious servility to the usurpations of Andrew Jackson, for which
this unjust elevation to the Supreme Judicial bench was the reward.

"As to the house itself, if an article of the constitution had
prescribed, or a standing rule of the house had required, that no
other than a slaveholder should ever be its Speaker, the regulation
could not be more rigorously observed than it is by the compact
movements of the slave representation in the house. Of the last six
speakers of the house, including the present, every one has been a
slaveholder. It is so much a matter of course to see such a person
in the chair, that, if a Northern man but thinks of aspiring to the
chair, he is only made a laughing-stock for the house.

"With such consequences staring us in the face, what are we to think
when we are told that the government of the United States is a
democracy of numbers--a government by a majority of the people? Do
you not see that the one hundred representatives of persons,
property, and slavery, marching in solid phalanx upon every question
of interest to their constituents, will always outnumber the one
hundred and forty representatives only of persons and freedom,
scattered as their votes will always be by conflicting interests,
prejudices, and passions?

"But this is not all. The second party division in the house to
which I have alluded is political, and known at present by the
names of Whigs and Democrats, or Locofocos. The latter are
remarkable for an exquisite tenderness of affection for _the
people_, and especially for the poor, provided their skins are
white, and against the rich. But it is no less remarkable that the
princely slaveholders of the South are among the most thoroughgoing
of the Democrats; and their alliance with the Northern Democracy is
one of the cardinal points of their policy."

The residue of this address is devoted to a searching and severe
examination of the whole course of President Tyler's administration,
showing that "the sectional division of parties--in other words, the
conflict between freedom and slavery--is the axle round which the
administration of the national government revolves." "The political
divisions with him, and with all Southern statesmen of his stamp, are
mere instruments of p