The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-06
From the New Orleans Bee.
PROFESSIONS AND PRACTICE.

We noticed the other day, few Of the
undemocratic practices of our democracy
protesting Administration. The catalogue
was by no means complete, for il any one
undertook to expose the difference between
the words and acts Of the present dynasty
in all that concerns democracy, he would,
indeed, have to accomplish an almost inter-
minable task. Let any man DESTROYS OF es-
tmating the real value which the admins
tration places upon democracy, pursue JEFF
ferson and Madison's political disquisltlons,
and contrast their democracy with that of
Martin Van Buren,. He will perceive, that
one is the very antipodes of the other. The
democracy of 1889 would have been rank
federalism in the days of Jeferson-and
such democrats as Buchanan, Wall, Hub
bard and fancy would have been placed
among the most strenuous supporters of
John Adams and Alexander Hamilton
There is no doubt whatever that Mr.. Van
Buren, processes great many admirable and
wholesome doctrines. He processes econo-
my-and his administration expends $40,
600, 900 year; he processes friendship to
the banks--and systematically attempts
their ruin; he processes to desire to weaken
the power of the executive; and is stralning
every nerve to grasp both the purse and the
sword; he processes to love the people and
to be the organ Of the unbiased sentiments
and sends cohorts of Office holders to cor
rupt and debase them, and persists in
schemes which they have discountenanced
and disowned; he processes to be the presi-
dent Of a people and not of a party-and
makes electioneering tours through his ma
tive state, attended by squads of locofocos,
recognizes none other than his democratic
fellow citizens" and addresses himself to
them only; he processes the most intense
horror at official delinquency and peculation
and suffers countless millions to be abs
tracted with impunity from the Golfers OF
the government, by hordes of public defaul-
tiers; he processes to admire honesty, talent,
integrity and virtue-and retains in his ca
binet two men, one of them VIGOROUSLY
branded as a shameless migrate, who sigma
liked his entrance into public life by the de-
sertion and defamation of benefactor that
had raised him from the lowest depth Of
squalid indigence,-and the other, being
who besides being somnolent and sluggish
in mental capacity, is known to be guilty
of official connivance at fraud; he processes
10 love truth, and selects as the organ of his
administration creature whose political
disquisitons would lack spirit and pith, il
they were not distinguished by their reck-
less mendacity and misrepresentation
short he processes tenets and opinions, which
If practically illustrated, would render this
government the most solid, splendid and
happy in the word. Let experience attest
the difference between professions and
practice.
If those who term themselves democrats
can sustain such an administration, they had
better for consistency sake eschew their
political title. But the truth is, the admi-
nistration of Mr.. Van Buren, meets with few
supporters from among the people. If left
to themselves they would abandon him in
hocks. But they are continually biected
to the Vaccinations of Office holders, and of
interested demagogues who make false is
sues between the wings and their opponents
and after appealing to local and sectional
preiudices, call upon the people to sustain
an administration that labors indeatigably
and disinterestedly to protect them. Thus
it is, that occasionally in the more benign
ted portions of the republic, does the admit
nistration obtain lip-serVice and mouth-hon-
or from those it deludes. But even in those
dark and dreary spots where locofocoism
reigns triumphant, the light of the intelli-
gence is beginning to glmmer. In states
like Maine, New Hampshire and Alabama,
where the administration was wont to tri-
umph with barely nominal opposition, the
| friends of reform now battle stoutly for VIC
tory, and if still defeated, they exhibit an
increase of numbers, and courageous devo-
ton, that prove their day ofsuccess to be not
far distant. Our democratic administra-
ton" will in the meanwhile continue its ma
nifold professiOns-till in 1910 it processes
itself beaten.
FROM TEXAS