Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-02-28

.piracv was nearly matured, and was only de-
tcc:ed the evening before the movement was
to be made, by one olits members turning IN
former: and but for this premature dcvelope.
mcnt might. perhaps, have succeeded IN ITS
Ultimate object. Though there was no
doubt as to the guilt of the prisoners, there
was much as to the fate that awaited them.
The criminal code ofthis country is cx-
ceedinglv severe, but justice has to wait on
policy. Office is not held here as IN the
United States, for the exclusive good ol the
governed, but for the agerandlzement oI
the incumbent, and place is as much an OBJ
iect of bargain and sale, as real estate
Salaries arc allowed, but not realized; the
holder, therefore, takes good care 20 lndem'
nifv himself by venaity and extortioh. The
aflluent individual purchases impunity, whcr
his crimes should subject him 10 Legal AMI
madversion, and the man of rank and intiu'
ence compounds by going into retircmenttc
enjoy his "oium cum dignitac," till by ca.
PRECIOUS revolution of the wheel of fortune,
his adversary may be compelled % change
conditions with him; wo TO that ill-faied
wight who happens to incur the displeas.
ure Of power, without the means TO brlbe,
or the "magni nominis umbra" 10 overawe
il; for six or ten years he drags the ball and
chain," or for the same term becomes the
tenant of cherries dungeon.
ho, lIvocfo1 Of oil
thority-so that he can impose no legal or
moral responsibility upon the Mexican gov.
ernment, by any foreign relations or ar
rangemen;s he may enter into. He has
lost so much of his influence, that intelligent
foreigners residing here, regard it as prob
lematical whether, even with his talents Tor
intrigue, he can ever reins.ate himself IN
power. Indeed, some think his safety would
be endangered by return TO this country.
The well informed part Of the community,
who are the resident Spaniards, and those
of Castilian descent, are almost uniformly
opposed 10 him, and his strong hold lies with
the unsophisticated natives, whom he has
gained by popular appeals, liberal proics'
sions, and grandiloquence, when pratlng llb-
erty, and all that sort Of thing. He is a
demagogue of the first water, and no one
better understands the arts adapted ad cap
tandum vugus; he is one efyour chameleon
politicians who can with wonderful facility
accommodate the complexion Of their prlnc-
pies 10 the exegencies of the time. Like
others of his class, he endeavors to cement
his power by so identifying with his own,
the interests of his leading partizans, as to
make their prospects depend on his own
aggrandizement; he constituted himself, and
not his country's good the nucleus ofpoll.
tical organization, and but for his San ia.
cinto. this "most attenuated thread" fpolltl-
cal chicanery would still bind together the
discordant elements of a party, possessing
nothing IN common but an insatiate appe-
tency for the spoils. His glory has depar-
ted, and the spoils have fallen into the dis.
tribu,ion of other hands, and thitEer have his
late sycophants betaken themselves.
The prevalent opinion of the Mexlcans,
is that a rupture is about to take place be-
tween them and the United States, and they
are so infatuated as 10 desire it.
But Imust now conclude the present pro-
rracted letter, by stating that the Natchez ar
tived here on the 9th instant. and the Bos.
ton sailed hence for Pensacola the I'd, hav-
ing, as passenger, Judge Ellis, late Charge
d'Affaires near the government of Mexl-
co. LEANDER.