AMERICAN REVIEW. Contents for March. REMARKS ON THE RESOLUTIONS AND MANIFESTO OF THE SOUTHERN IDIOMS AND PROVINCIALISMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 221 251 A BATTLE FOR LIFE OR DEATH. Translated from the German, by Mrs. St. Simon, 265 REMARKS ON ENGLISH NOVELISTS. By G. F. Deane, 278 ORGANIZATION OF THE OHIO LEGISLATURE, 290 THREE STAGES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By J. M. Mackie, 299 AMERICAN No. XV. REVIEW, FOR MARCH, 1849. REMARKS ON THE RESOLUTIONS AND MANIFESTO OF THE SOUTHERN CAUCUS. party. Mr. Calhoun, in the South, represents the positive; the radical anti-slavery Democrats of the North, the negative extreme. In the Whig ranks, on the contrary, though there are vast differences of opinion as to the good and evil of the Southern institutions, there is but one opinion as to the paramount importance of the Union. On this first point of policy the Whigs of all the States are essentially and profoundly conservative. When our Southern friends hear of abolition movements, and of propositions for the dissolution of the Union made by abolitionist orators, or of propositions for amending the Constitution, so as to bring its powers to bear upon the liberties of the IN no questions of policy does the power and character of the Conservative Whig Party appear more conspicuously, than in those affecting the institutions of the South, where the spirit of those institutions puts their supporters for the moment in an attitude of hostility to the general government, or to the free States. By the most liberal concessions, by the most judicious compromises, and by a conduct at once temperate, firm and patriotic, the Whig Party in the South have succeeded in preserving and confirming the Union, and maintaining a true respect and feeling for it in the breasts of their constituencies. The contrast of feeling and principle in the two parties is remarkably displayed in the two mani-State sovereignties, they know very well festoes lately issued by Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Berrien, and their friends; both holding the same views in regard to the subjects agitated; but one, that of Mr. Calhoun, addressed to the South, and threatening at a division of the Union; the other, Mr. Berrien's, addressed to the nation, calling upon all good citizens to make common cause with the oppressed. Notwithstanding that we are compelled to dissent, in most particulars, from the views expressed by Mr. Berrien, yet we cannot fail to express the respect which we feel is due to him for having observed such an important distinction in his manifesto. upon what species of partisans to lay the blame of such proceedings. And with equal certainty the Whigs of the North attribute the spirit which originates threatening manifestoes to its proper party in the South. A proposal for extending the institution of slavery over new regions, could not originate with the conservative Whig party of the South, nor could any plan of encroachment upon the domestic rights of the Southern States proceed from the conservative Whig party of the North and West. Propositions of this character must proceed from the radical and disorganizing party, and, being antagonist propositions, they divide that party against itself. 15 A manifesto of southern slave |