Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-01-13


Of the Federal State doctors, are not eHlv lch
cacious, bu, calculated 70 ocCmvate tie evil. .
They prefer more solid diet more substantial .
susleuance.
Under these circumstances, the despa.nng
Fedealists may collect as MANY thousand dollars .
as they can, and 90 it as secretly as they please
il Will not aid their falling cause. They have al
ready four out off five Of the newspapers ia the
Union, besides nearly all OF those OF the great
towns, m their service, and vet they cannot take
the Government either by assault or by siege.
We predict that the defeat they are deslined 10
experience will be the most signal It has ever
been their lot 10 endure GLOBE.
Extract from The address Of \. II. EVERETT,
before the PhieymeIIGR Society Of BroUH
University, on The An ot September last.
Our country, too, gentlemen, am proud to
say, has justified in a similar manner her claim TO
legitimate descent from the same common unccs-
try. Here too. as in England, the . De Of public
opinion, and of learning H. expression, has al
ways, even at the highest floods Of popular excite
ment, kept itself pure from all STAN. TO thus
we owe IT, gentlemen, that whenever the reign ol
Law has beea temporarily interrupted, Religion
and Morals have thrown lAe,g sacred shield over
property and the private relations Of lie. 10 this
We owe il, that personal night, ntrNeY KIND were
in general, preserved nyIulatc through the te1o-
utonary war, aud through the dangerous CrrIS
that proceeded the establishment OF tie federal
Constitution: that they have since been preserved
nvlolate or with little infringement, through
period ofnealy half century, under greater free
dom from the restraints Of positive law, than was
ever enjoyed by any other community. lhs,
gentlemen, conSdcraS the highest. the GROWING
glory Of our country. When | reflect on the
situation of that country, territorial and political,
and compare It with that Of others, see much
to admire on our side, and little to covet IN the
condition OF even the greatest and most favored
nations Of the earth. This vast expanse OF terri
tory,-wih its exhausess iertillty,-Is wealth
of waters, woods and ryerS,-us .loud-capl
mountains, boundoss plains aud ocean lakes
this tide of population, which is constantly pouring
itself out in IA lerizing flow upon the bosom OF
our continental paradise: this uneXampled sue
cess in agriculture, manufactures and commerce !;
in policy and war: IN every useful and ornamental
branch of art and science: this family OF new
nations, rising one after another into being, as by
encAantment, in the depths OF an uneXplored
wlIdeness--this hitherto untned principle OF Re
preventative Democracy, quietly working out It's
beautiful wonders,--SpecloSd mTatWd, IN each
above all, this Union Of the States, winch buds
them together in one golden and trust, sever
lasting cham Of perpetual peace:-theso gentle
men, are elements and outward demonstrations OF
our national greatness. am proud,--we must
all be proud,--oi all these advantages. But
when | look through and under them to the ioun-
dauou of the system | behold something that
awakens a sun more lively sentiment OF sau5lac-
ton and national pride, mean the noble mod
Grafton, with which the people, released from al
most evry positive restraint, submit themselves
spontaneously to the higher law of Their own
sense of duty mean the care OF education, the
mutual regard for the rights OF others-he respect
| for the outward observanceS Of rellglon--he
deeply felt faith in its solemn trUths,-the hgh
and healthy tone of philosophy and literature IN all
their departments, which make up together the
moral and religious basis of our political lnstlIu-
tons. When | contemplate such state OF socI-
etv, acknoledge that our noble ialherS' 10 "hoih'
| under providence, we are indebted Tor H. were e.
dual to the task they underook,-that lotest OF
all humane enterprises the foundation oil an I'm
pire. When recoect that we, their children,
are charged with the duty of maintaining and per-
petuating such state of society, am oppressed
with the weight of responsibility that deyolyes up
on us and feel that we can have no solId nope
of success, but in a constant reliance on that rock
of ages upon which they rested. acquieSce
most fully in the conclusion which has been
drawn by the most intelligent European traveller
who has vet visited our country, as the general
result of all his observations and researches Il
am convinced says NJ. de TocQUEyILLE' "thal
the greatest natural advantages aud TIE best Po-
liticaI institutions, will never secure the property
of a nation without morals, while these VIII couiI-
teract the influence Of the most unavorabie cf-
cumstances and the worst laws. J ne importance
of good morals TO national success, IS run u
which all study and all experience constantly
brings as back. find It placed IN my nhhd liNe
central point in which all my enquiries ana renee
tons terminate. Ii have not mmessed upoa ON
ers the degree Of influence which attribute to TIE
moral habits of the Americans, IN ma'na'n'ne
then political iuulutions, have failed III the PFA
cipa object Of my work"
TIE EXCHANGES.
The Federallsts have stood upon Two CRANE
pos tons first, that nothing but Ihdeu 0'a'o'
Bank could effect resumption OF specie pay
ments secondly, that nothing but the same oaLh
could regulate the exchanges, These are TIC
positions Oh which the whole Federal PaIy have
stood since May Iast aud what are the facts -
Why, that Jorer3" exchanges - lHhLh PEI
cent. IN favor Of Inc United States and that 10
n,esflc exchange is nearly al par hus every
thing desirable in exchange Is already elected
without the aid Of National Bank and ina
specie payments viii be resumed III ie" mol'l'
IN DESPITE OF all that can be done by the Bfl'sI
Bank of the United States to prevent 1t. Sup
pose Congress and the country had gwen way