Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-12-19

pursuing lnclr VlilaInous S'n'h '."N -
IMPOSING on the creduity OF The Democratic
,artv; that have been filing their pockets by
laundering the nation, and that the wings, the
cal democrats, in increasingly denounclhg
hose punderers as traitors to the Constitution
md the laws, and the cause free govern
nen,s, have declared the truth there is truth
IN earth. No, there is no bmedy for the
country: the traitors dare not retrace their
,teps; they canno. place the brand OF inIamy
IN their own loreheads. In the mean time, the
nation. like a traveller who has left the broad
and well paved highway to follow The SWINE
bath in the morass beside il, must plunge and
plunge. without hope of getting through, and
vet dare not return to the sale road before ms
eyes. The real democratic party, the wings
now fighting for their country, have been chIel
" made up from the ranks Of the mlsnamedI
democratic party. The greater part oil them
were once the supporters of Jackson, and were
Of Van Buren,; but their eyes nere opened. In
New York and Virginia, ana wherever Inc
Wing cause has prevailed, 1t has been from a
that the country and its prosperity
should be The first consideration, AMI The CLAIMS
Of party only secondary.
But if the democratic leaders, by any posi-
bity, could be induced to make such sacri-
flee Of their pride and private interest, and al
tempt once more to restore that national cur
rency which was good enough for US under
Washington, and democratic enough under
Mad son, would it be in their power TO do SOL
Would public confidence, which they have ban
iShed, return again at the first sound oil their
trumpet fear it would not; that credit and
confidence, without whose aid such currency
cannot be established, are OF fearful and TIM
id nature. They insnctiveIy fly from vIo-
lcnce and fraud. Where is the unsuspectng
faith once reposed in the high integrity and
Justice of our democratic inslltutlonSi 1t rs
fled, fear, never to return. The foot Of des.
potism has been placed upon our constitutional
liberties; it has crushed them ''amang the
stour." thousand desoIatng wars could no.
have done greater injury to our country than
t ha which has been voluntarily submitted to-,
under the crushing aoheels ofthe military J"ggsr-
uom idol Of the democratic party.
The injuries done by storms, and plaques,
and wars, may be remeded; but when the pub
lie mind has become dcpraved and corrupted,
when that instinct which stool as sentinel be-
fore the door of constitutional liberty is des.
troyed, when a people can be brought to hung
their chains and huZza for their opprcssorS,
then, indeed, their case is hopeless Where is.
the difference between democracy without
integrity, or passlvey submissive TO the tyran-
ny and corruption oil its agents, and the worst
form oc despotsm? A democracy which can
laugh at the sacred obligation OF contracts, and
which can prefer caprIciously mutable sove
reign will to those sovereign laws which afford
a castle Of refuge and protection to individual
rights! Who can conGde IN democracy
which veriies the saying Of Machave, shat
power in republics is often drawn 10 a narrow.
er point Than in monarchleSl' The Senate ru-
led Venice, the committee Of ten ruled the Sen,
ate, the committee Of three ruled the ten, and
the devil ruled the three!
What reAoctlEg man can confidc in a people
who can tolerate such paIpablc acts Of despo-
tism on the part OF the Chief Magistrates, as
those OF seizIng on the public treasure, and
treating the national acts Of legislation with
such gross contempt US to put them IN his peck
ct without further noilce-a conduct which
would have occasoned a revolution in France,
and in England have brought king 10 the
block! ask, what conceivable outrages on the
Constitution, on the laws, Liberties, aud pros
perlly oil the nation, would not the democratic
party have sustained and applauded if perpe
traed by he Idol OF democracy! Have the de.
mocratlc party attempted 10 exercise any
check or control over those entrusted with pow
er; and have lhey not been content to applaud
all their acts with blind inlatua;ion? What
bind iniutualion? What prudent capitalist
will hereafter embark his property on the faith
OF Government in the hands of such party,
or place it in any institution controlled by a
despotism in disguise, and where no institution
or corporation Will be allowed to exist indie
pendentIy OF political party purposes? The
democratic party will not incorporate a nation
al bank, unless it be for party purposes, and
no capitalists will embark in such an institution
No institution OF the kind can be re.eslabished
until the whole nation shall awaken, and heare
from It's breast The htdeOWS nightmare uhich
HoO crashes ito agony and death.
That relief which was once in the power Of
the nation, when its character for moral and
political integrity was unnpaIred, OF which
Madison, GaIaLln, and Alexander J. Dallas,
line heads ol the real democratic party, in the
days of its renuwn, could avail themselves, |
fear is now beyond our reach. That sale and
certain remedy, twice resented to with com
PieIe sucCeSS, Is PeThaPS OUT Oh the question:
The democratic party would not resort to it,
If they could; no, their leaders will rather sui
fer the land TO blacken with ruin aud desoIation
than acknowledge their errors, or rather their
crimes; and they could not il they would, Tor
they have forfeited the confidence Of those who
have the power TO come to the rescue The
storm must pass on--Ihe desoIaton must pur.
sue its course. The Government has enl its
weight and sanction 10 the mad shout of des.