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removed, his slumbering energies will be aroused, 

 and success will crown his exertions. 



The establishment of this protecting policy, has 

 been accompanied by the most untiring and vigilant 

 opposition, and has produced an exasperation and 

 acerbity of feeling, unexampled in the history of 

 our country. Time and reflection, it is believed, 

 will allay the fever of excitement, and recal our 

 impassioned brethren to a holier sense of the duties 

 of patriotism, and their allegiance. Unless the 

 present instance shall contradict all past experience, 

 the time is at hand, when the rancorous ebullitions 

 of the spirit of nullification shall cease, and the good 

 old fashioned doctrine of acquiescence in the will of 

 a majority, fairly expressed, shall be more firmly 

 established. And unless we utterly mistake the 

 signs of the times, the day is not far distant, when 

 we shall all cordially approve the principles of the 

 American System, and the South and North, the 

 East and West heartily unite in the sentiment, that 

 the American System is our whole country's sheet an- 

 chor, and New-England 's only hope of salvation* 



