Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-07-21

Doastlng OF their victories and success
from them these accusations and bos,,
come. True, by their bank schemes \,
MICS, &C., they may scare or seduce M
weak and mcrconary, but cannot shak
the pillars of Democracy. Va
The high handed unprincipled measure
OF the Bank aristocracy to rule the couDK
try, putting all law, justice, morality and
principle at defiance; by their lying, bro
misses and non-performance have caused !,
reaction in favor of sound principle,
that must he felt. AS an evidence n
this, the News and Courier, paper puL#
llshed at Portsmouth, New Hampshire
has hauled down the neutral colors and
run up the broad banner of Democracy
And nearer home, the Examiner. npbN
llshed at Mobile, has come to the support
of sound doctrine. The talented edito,
OF that Journal in announcing the change,
says:
I'VE have been solicited by several
Of both political parties to make the
change; and our reasons, for adopting
the side ofthe Administration, will be
frankly given.
"We have been accutomed to vote
with the administration party. and 10
approve, in the main, its consistent and
firmly established rule of action. We
have received. with suspicion, the oft.
repeated and reiterated cry,that all our
evils flow from its policy. We have
seen the country, under the same gov.
ernment, the same laws, and the same
principles, attain yigor and respecta-
bility unexampled in its former history;
and what three years since induced
health, cannot now be productive Of
weakness and disease; misfortune. it is
true, has swept like sirocco over our
country. II has also destroyed british
prosperity, Frustrated commerce thro'-
ughout Europe, and extended east as
far as India. Can this have been the
consequence of that word of terror, the
Specie Circular" or any act, or com
bination of acts of this Government?
The commercial world, in its gigantic
operations and hazardous speculations,
is subject to these GIBBS and flows of
prosperity; and they have been obser-
we'd to occur, almost periodically, in
greater or less degree, ever since COM
merce assumed her new and compare
tive universal power.-Never before
has so great-so tremendous result
been attributed to SO small cause.
We do not believe that there is any
truth IN the hollow cry.
Again. A partial reaction has occur
red among the friends of the Admins
tration:-the cause of which may be
adduced almost wholly from the affects
above stated. As men return to rea-
son and calm reflection, things will as
sumo their beaten track-the wisdom
and firmness of the administration,
midst calamity, will then be apprecia-
ted, and It's ranks will be swelled with
its misled opponents.
ut is a truth which may be obser-
we'd in all political warfare from the
time that partizanship first sprang to
existence, that the so,tts," or, in the
present posture Of affairs, the wings are
liberal of disinterested professions, and
their policy is perfect, in as far as the
DRY is less easily refuted than facts, and
advice is more readily given than prac-
tised. Hence, they have the adyant-
age of those in power. The latter have
been cast upon stormy seas-when the
old landmarks Of property have been
rooted from their foundation, and socie-
ty is undergoing change from its We
ry centre. These revolutions make
the period dangerously momentous for
governments and laws. Lawgivers are
now like pilots in boisterous sea. with
no land in sigth, and almost without
hope. If the ship of state can be TAX
en- safely to port, even though her sails
be rent, and her yards broken, judici-
Gus and thinking men will applaud him
who has the helm, although trifers and
land-lubbers may see nothing but un-
skilfulness in his conduct.
"The whigsresemble those who stand
on cliff viewing the struggle. eff
such a thing had been done,', say they,
"such an obstacle night have been a.
probably whilst they
were trying to steer in one direction
the pilot may see hidden there death
staring reefs to dash his frail bark to
destruction. This is the difference be-
tween those who counsel and those