Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-09-07

The theme Oh tnls IhSRy knhii pe tue
idea contained in the phrase tins DE-
MocRAcx or NumRERs.
Every act Of our revolutionary leaders
was also the acfofthe people. The sig-
natures, The hand writing were indeed
those IF the immortal nfifty-six;" but the
people held each arm as the hand wrote,
and sustained nike the effort that produ-
cod the bold sign manual Of John Han
cock, and The trembling paralytic effort
cf Stephen Hopkins.
When the Declaration Of Independence
was adopted by The Continental Congress,
there we're only from three to five mill
ions Of people to give the cheering hur-
rah--to pledge their sslives their fortunes
and their sacred honorn TO carry out the
great deed Of freedom which tho repre-
sentatiyes had executed, and toswear to
its ratification thro' eight years Of trial
and blood. The seaAboard beltrof settle
ments from Maine to South Carolina, ex-
tending back only to the more eastern
lakes and the chain Of Allegheny noun
tains embosomed all the endorsers to the
INSTRUMENT ID the hand writing Of Thom-
liz Jefferson. Not voice hurraed in the
great Vale Of the Mississippi-not a
transmontane echo--save the yell OF the
deadly savage foe--reached the shores Of
the Atlantic. Since that day, the Great
World Of the West has been born. The
Nile Of America has Graded upon its boz
som, and nursed and reared the Giant OF
Empire. Since then, vale has been
opened into which half the state Of Eu-
rope might be thrown, and yet there
would be room enough for other king
domsl
Should great event, like that Of the
Declaration Of American independence,
now take place in the United States, il
would be shouted forth by the acclama-
tons Of fifteen millions. From the shores
or tho Atlantic, the thunder Of nations
shouting would roll back to the great
lakes of the north, from the sunny strand
Of the Mexican Gulf it would roar along
tho vast chain Of the Rocky Mountains,
and at length die away in boarsc MUIR
murs en- the banks Of the Oregon, where
lit meets and mingles with the Pacific
Ocean. Not alone from the peaks of the
Alleghanies--from the white hills Of New
EIan.pshire--from the loftier SUBMITS Of
the Rocky Mountains -4-those prouder
thrones Of the cloud and Of the Storm
shall the wild scream Of our national ca.
gle be heard, and the thnnders Of our ma.
tional power be uttered.
--ssfar along,
From peak to peak, the rafting crags among,
Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud
| But every mountain now hath found tongue
And Jura answers through her misty shroud,
Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud
Nor IS this all. Every year now add
I one million to our population. Fiv'
years hence, every yoar will udd . mill
| ion and half 70 our population. Ten
wears hence, in 1850, our annual gain
will be TWO millions. This Is the greai
march Of the Democracy of Numbers!
The great involdtiot begins TO multiply
with the force Of geometrical series.
| We are more than we have been; we are
not what we shall be. There nfc those
now living N no may see the population
| Of our country rated at fifty, sixty, seven.
~ or even eighty millions. The great
| Eagle Of our country, the bird Of the A.
pocalypse-whose wings were given to
| ihe woman representing the church, with
which to Hy away into this western viii
derness ID avoid the prosecutions Of the
dragon Of INTERCHANGEABLE Great Eagle
of our Union banner, shall seat himself on
| The rocky crags Of the Mountain Of the
Winds IN the vast rocky chain, and shall
see On his right the broad Paciic--on his
left The Atlantic before him the Gulf o.
Mexico aud in the pride Of his heart he
shall lift his wings as a protection overall
beneath and around him. Ia the dreadful
rush Of those wings there will be "the hi
dinrs DC power;" ID the sweep of their an,
rer the 6esolati0ns Of the sirocco; IN the
| shadow Of their protection off, canopy
from the sun by day and the chilling
dews by night.
| Ofwhom Is the Democracy Of Numbers
lcomposed2 The Democracy Of Numbers
| u composed or soyersigns ID be ruled BY
nothing, save their own win in the shape
IL laws. II Is ignobIe and degrading ~
tthis government 10 talk IL rulers The
great Damocrncv IF Numbers has lis scr.
Vants 70 sce IFS will, ii the form Of rs laws
exechted; ruler, 1t hath none but she
Being who rules all things.
To rule, 10 bind, 10 ceerce this giant
power, growing more gigantic every day
lis out Of the question -save BY the res,
traints of its own lawful will. WhaAthen
shaIl ID donei The Democracy o. Mum
hers can 81 insirucied. The doctrine 81
| instructicn isdemoclalic Idsethp word
| IN III otbsf sense the D Democracy Of Nuns
lbers nsasi u iSvgh Teaching y not Co