The native American., 1838-02-24
LIGHT CRITICISMS-THE DEMOCRATIC RE-
VIEW OF WASHINGTON CITY.

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VIEW OF WASHINGTON CITY.
We stated in our last number that we intended
: to take up the g Democratic Review and United
States Magazine" for dissection, SO far as we
could venture upon the delicate operation. We
commence the task with great good will towards
its Editors, for we know them personally, and
hold them in high esteem; but, we regard their
I. work as dangerous to the peace and permanency
of this country-not because it is The Democratic
Review, but because it wells under that high name,
designs and opinions black night, and terrible
in their effects upon our Republican institutions
We choose not to view this Magazine as the
exponant Of the present Administration, or the es-
pecial and belted enemy of the Opposition. We
have no evidence that it watched all night by the
well, and that its knighthood and gilded spurs were
given by the King himself, whatever they may have
received in the way of spiritual advisement from
their Ladye Love; but we maintain that it is no
thing more nor less, than the voice crying in the
wilderness, g Prepare ye the way of the .4ien!''
Every page is stamped, wherever there is an
opening for the declaration Of opinion, with the
widest nightmare pranks of the mind, and
schemes talked of, which if adopted, would hur-
ry us all to David Jones' Locker, in the twinkling
of an eye.
In the first number, articles appear that worry
the reader by their prolxty, and embarrass and
mystify him by their tautology and veiled-prophet-
ism. In one article there is an evident and en-
phatic interlineaon Of the editors, in which they
hold out the hand Of greedy welcome to the he
roes Of every cline, whether their laures were
won upon the bloody field of unrighteous and
mercenary battle, or gathered in the rural pauper
houses established by Government. This one
sentiment stamps the book as hostile to the Ma
| tive American interests, though there unin-
territorial arguments in the " Retrospective view Of
European Politics" written by foreigner, Mr..
Grund,) that are all we want upon our side OF
the question.
i In number two, the article on the ssSupreme
Court Of the United States,' rejoices that the
Black Dwarf of Party has grnned in triumph in
that hall, and torne to pieces the sacred robes Of
high, independent justice.
We cannot rejoice in the shadow that may
have fallen upon the Supreme Court: We dc
not clap our hands together in gladness, to fine
thatthe purity of national lovefor the whole coun-
try, is to be suppanted, matter Of settled po
Icy, by the adulation Of power, tie corrupt and
degraded adhesion to the hand that binds the gold
en- collar around the neck. The writer of the ar
ticle on the Supreme Court, whom we under
stand to be Mr.. Charles Ingersoll, of Philadelphia,
mot having obtained the fact from the Editors
we not bound to lock the literary secret in
breast) is opposed to the venerableness of thu
! Supreme Bench, SCOTS at the reverence for ole
rules and ordcrs-for old opinions-for old wis.
dom and old virtue. Is he aware that he SCOTS
at the dearest doctrines that we possess? Does
he reflect that he SCOTS at the memory Of Wash
memory as People-as great as our power as a
Free Nation He can scoff and sneer down
every thing, and finally amid the wreck occa-
stoned by his ridicue, he can march his foreign
myrmidons on to consummate, by usurpation,
the ruin he had commenced by a sneer. We
fear it is the design Of this work-this mock and
j false Democratic Revew--to NOW down the gold
en- harvest raised by our fathers, and to sow the
rich fields Of liberty with weeds of foreign origin.
We are led to this belief by the fact that there
has been, within the last few years, an evident
increase of foreign opinions in this country.
Their crude and ill-judged system of Republican,
ism, dwarfed into black hearted anarchy and con
fusion, we have marked from its bud to its blow
ling.
j The proposition in the third number, to make
the election of President every year, is SO ridicu
lous, that we are tempted to pass it by; but thai
there turks under its desperate madness, the sub
tie venom that forms prominent feature of the
work.
The Editors of the Democratic Review have
mistaken the spirit of our people: they really do
not know enough Of their habits: they have horri-
bly, slandered the great genius of the .4mericn,
past, when they think they can bring about such
an insane order of things. no elect our Presi.
dent every year! Who ever heard the like! To
keep the People forever in storm, and all about
a puppet-to make them village-politicians all
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