INDEX. their admission, in regard to slavery, shall not affect the question of their admission; 4. That the powers of the General Government shall not be exercised in impressing any particular system British Policy Here and There. Commerce with America Illustrated, 518. Who feed England! Introduction to Vol. VI., 1. Memoirs of the House of Orleans. Rise and influ ence of the House of Orleans; aristocratic society in France previous to the great Revolution; Court of Louis the Fourteenth; Madame de Tencin, the mother of D'Alembert; her origin, life, and character; Madame de Genlis, 258. General Winfield Scott; his services in the organ-Memoir of the Public Life of Edward Everett, 484. Memoranda, Ethical, Critical, and Political, 468. ization of the Army; his conduct of the war in Mexico; embarkation and landing of the troops at Vera Cruz; movement of the troops through the enemy's country; the rights of private property respected; cruelties and dis- orders suppressed; severity and justice of the Hints toward Conciliation. 1. That it be accepted as an established principle, that the power of protecting, ameliorating, or abolishing institutions of caste in a State is inherent in the people of that State alone; 2. That the absence or pre- sence of castes in any sovereignty or territory, asking admission to the Union, shall not be a bar to its admission; 3. That our knowledge of the mode in which the people of any sover- Morell's Argument against Phrenology, (T. Colden Memoir of John Caldwell Calhoun, 164. Mr. George Payne Rainsford James; his poems The Spanish American Republics. Causes of their The Danish Question, (the test question in Euro- The Tariff of '46. Review of the Letters of the The Genius of Sleep, a Statue by Canova; a To the Political Reader. Article on the Danish Twenty Sonnets of a Season, 564. The Great Ship Canal Question; England and The Poets and Poetry of the Irish. St. Sedulins; The Nameless, 181. Thomas Jefferson, 33, 182. Annexation of Terri- U. Uses and Abuses of Lynch Law. Art. II. Murrel, Unity of the Human Race, 567. W. What Constitutes Real Freedom of Trade? (H. great machine of production, 456. Doc- THE AMERICAN WHIG REVIEW, No. XXXI. FOR JULY, 1850. INTRODUCTORY TO VOL. VI. THE first page of a new volume-the sixth of the present series, gives occasion for a few remarks upon the course which we feel it our duty to pursue, as conductors of the Whig Review. Our efforts will be directed toward the re-establishment of those party lines which have been in some degree obscured by sectional agitations. The grand doctrines of beneficent protection to every species of labor, and to internal as well as to external commerce, are beginning to be argued from new points of view, upon grounds more practical, and from a more home-felt necessity of reform. For nearly an entire year, discussion has been paralyzed, and political action suspended, by the slave controversy. The policy of our political adversaries has not been wholly unsuccessful; the policy, namely, of dividing and weakening our ranks by hurling sectional jealousies amongst us. Had it not been for the solidity and VOL. VI. NO. I. NEW SERIES. strength of our principles and the vastness of those Interests of Labor which they sustain, the terrible agitations which have prevailed during the past year, would, doubtless, have torn the party into many hostile factions. Prudence, calmness, and intelligence, have averted so calamitous an issue, and while those whom we oppose find themselves without a single principle of organization, we have only to remember the great truth, that governments exist for Beneficent and Protective ends, as well as for Offence and Suppression, and with this thought, we become at once united and firm For the course which we have felt it necessary to pursue, in admitting articles and biographies representing both extremes of opinion, in regard to Slavery and its extension, we must beg leave to refer our readers to the first page of our last number, where it is distinctly explained. 1 |