Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-10-13

are wiling to see more OF this momed tyranny.
CURRENCY.
For the Democrat.
MEssRs EDlroRs, Among the catalogue OF
words that are almost peculiar to federal editors
Of the present day there is none ,hat they appear
10 lay so much stress on as the word experiment"
any thing that Is proposed BY the Democratic party
either in the State or Federal Legislatures that de-
vlates from the old beaten track no matter how
much gooc reason and argument it may have to
support it, it matters MOTT is enough for them to
know, that it is something new that has been re-
commended by the democrats to raise the shout OF
'erperiment," Experiment." until portion Of the
people who are not very conversaut with the liter
al meaning of words, are induced ITO think it must
be some dreadful monster, whom they fear will lay
the whole country waste. These sapent gentle
men invariably borrow their fancy ,rords from file
leaders, and they during the debate last winter,
on the Independent Treasury Bill, had to abandon
argument, and resort 10 the suberfuge Of denounc-
ing it, because Gas they would have it) it was an
experiment" as though experiment was crime
ut(J VI CObiSCt HdU ~ IC-GCIlO lllt WOIuS vi
master. But does the assertion of these gentlemen,
that the provisions contained in the independent
Treasury Bill are new and dangerous, make it SO
1t assuredy does no;-for it must be remembered
that these gentlemen do not stop at little things
The Independent Treasury Treasury bill recon-
mends nothing new, it simply proposes that the
revenues of the country should be collected again,
as they were by the republican party in 1889. Adj
hitting that it is an untred experiment, is that any
argument why we should remain with craven hearts
hanging on to a system which has been proved to a
demonstration, to be dangerous 10 the liberties Of
the people! because we must adopt somteing new 7
this is strange doctrine, indeed TO advance to a
people, whose governmental whose liberties--whose
all that render This Nation the glory and admiration
of the world, has been the result Of experiment.!
The people arc no longer deceived by the tricks
oil dcsinging federalists their catch words have had
their day--,hcy have already lost their efect--they
will feel their reaction at the coming elections.
On reading Mr.. FoRREsr'S Grafton, was l6rci-
bly, struck with the patriotic and eloquent manner
in which he rebukes those WHO dread experiment. -
You will oblge lme by inserting the following ex-
tract from it. Your oft serv't
"To JEFFERSON belongs exclusively and forever,
the high renown CT having framed the glorious
charter Of American liberty. To his memory the
benedctions of this and all succeeding times are due
for reducing the theory Of freedom 10 its simplest
elements, and in few lucid and unanswerabe pro-
POSITIONS establishing groundwork on which men
| NAV Sccurly raise a lasting Superstructure of Ma
tona greatness ond prosperity. But our fathers
in the august assembage OF 10, were prompt to
acknowledge and adopt the solemn and momen-
tous principles he asserted With scarce an al.
teraOn-wlth none that affected the spirit and char
acter Of the instrument, and with but few that
changed in the slightest degree its verbal consruc-
tion-they published the exposition of human right.
to the world, as their DeclaratDn Of American
Independence; pledged to each other their lives
their fortunes, and their sacred honor, in support o
the enenls it proclaimed. This was the grandest
the most important experiment. ever undertaken il
the history of man. But they that entered upon i
were not AFRAID oil new experiments, il founded OF
the inmutable principle of right, and approved b,
the sober convictions Of reason. There were no
wanting then, indeed as there are not wanting now
pale councillors to fear, who would have withheld
them from the course they were pursuing, becaus,
it tended in a direction hitherto untnod. But thel
Ntlt hui ~ III hCClICu ny tllC S0duOW1 uOuUlS dn(
tnid suggestions OF craven spirits, content 10 bt
/ ashed forever round the same circle of miserah,
expedients, perpetuoly trying anew the exploded
shifts which had always proved amentaby in
adequate before. II such men, the very name o
Q experiment is sound OF horror. tits spell which
o conlureS up gorgons, hydras, and chlmeras dire
They seem not to know that all that is valuable il
life: that the acquisitions earang-the discoverie
/ Of science and the rctnements of art--are the re
suit Of experiment. 1t was experiment that besow
ed on CApMUs those keys of knowledge with which
I we unlock the treasure house of immortal mind
f was experiment that taught Bacon the futity {
the Grecnn philosophy, and led him TO that heaven
scaling method Of investigation and analysis, o.
{ which science has safely climbed 10 the proud emn
o ence where now she sits, dispensing her blessing
TO all mankind Ii was experiment that lifted New
: ToN above the clouds and darkness Of this dlrDf
: sphere, enabling him to explore the sublime mech
anSm of the star and weigh the planets in the
; eternal rounds. 1t was experiment that nerved III
S hand of FRANKLIN 10 snatch the thunder fror
:, the arnory OF heaven. Il was experiment Tim
gave this hemisphere 10 the world II was FX
y PERTINENT that gave This continent FREE
e DOM.
h Let us not be afraid, them to try experiments
: merely because they are new, nor lavish upon are
n error the veRerallon due only to truth Let us n,
8 be afraid 10 follow reason, however far she NAV Il
verge from the beaten path of opinion. All the i
> ventNns which embellsh life, all the discoyerie
which enlarge the field Of human happiness, are bu
the various results of the bold experi.npntal owe,
. else Of that distinguished attribute of man II wr
the exercise OF reason that taught our sires bos
IS simple elements of freedom on which they founde
q their stupendous structure of empire The resu
is now before mankind, not in the embryo form
a doleiiu experiment, not as the menN etry of Vi,
n onary statesmen, or the mad project 81 hoi bra,ns
!. rebels, it before them in the beautiful natpri,y
u established ac, aitcStel b sixty years of na,iopa