State rights and democratic union. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??, 1839-10-23

same since the establishment OF gOVeInment--
how could il otherwise be? Can Truth, vir.
tue, philosophy, falsify themselves. and roll
back the intelligence of humanity to that
era, when fear reigned despot over savages,
when il the combat was not carried on oy
swords, it had its contamination in the trick.
ery of perfidious men. The principle that all
of government belongs to all men, gives no
room or holds out no incentive for snch sa-
cI:leglous course-for the first false or DIS.
honest step into the sanctuary OF the constltu'
ton. If not treason. brands the aggressor with
everlasting infamy Democracy does not on.
" tel an individual, you are no bondsman,
Sir. YOU were born in state of freedom, you
can 90 up and down and when and where you
please,-it is more than all this, when teach
ening man the dignity of his nature, the
might and stretch Of his energies, the know.
ledge of that wisdom the liberality of gov.
eminent ever fosters-alluring even the
most obscure youth Of the mountain and the
valley, to look out on the genius II Democra-
cy, TO survey her in her true colors, and see
the pTOudest names Of state, enrolled IN the
letters of uHdying lustre, around about her.
Indeed, the spirit of mankind struggles for
liberty, the soul forgets her divinity in its abb
sence and surrenders itself up to all the hab-
nudes of mere nature;. We must have it
thank God, we, for one people, may boast
this tact, and although We may hear rantlng
coxcombs, and other STRIPPING seers, who
Won d have us credit their cant, tell U.S.
nay boast # it, that if some little measure is
not legisated on, to meet their worShips
within, that our liberties are going! going!
gonep Away with such trash, we have tasted
liberty and can never be deprived Of it.-De-
mocracy founded our Constitution, and De
mocracy will never destroy tit rests upon
truth, and that can never decay or fall into
ruin,-it was built up by blood, cemenied by
virtue, and has the voice of heaven for its
voucher.-And, indeed, as long as our gov.
eminent shall continued to be carried on in
the good old democratic way, we have no.
thing to fear; it is impOssibIe.-It is not
novel thing, one Of Yesterday; no! it has its
bearings and It's enslgns, it has pedigree
and lllustrIous ancestors, il has its gallery of
portraits, its monumental inscriptions, its re.
cords, evidences and titles, its glories and its
victories! Democracy is the freedom of all
mankind = Federalism the well.being of d
feW-the one eleVates us to universal equal.
ty, the other abuses power it does not un.
Gerstand, and the extent of which it will not
learn. The one looks for the greatest happi-
ness for the greatest number, the other wants
the greatest happiness to number for itself.
The government Of the United States has
now been administered for more than fifty
years, with one short interval, under the
guidance of republican rulers, and surely a
nobler spectacle of moral granduer was never
exhibited by any people.-We have PISSED
in this, "waIs, pestilence and fam;ne;" we
have braved the fierce resolve of Instruction
airy tumults; we have passed all the tribula
lions of nation under the protecting shield
of Democracy, and yet find ourselves as be-
fore, one people, one government, happy,
contented ard fond Of our liberties.
Democracy contends that we want no more
government than that which is absolutely in.
dispensable to secure to all men their rights
and independence--to keep the strong from
depressing the weak, to enforce that natural
justice between man and man which even
instinct nculcates.
The great. the mighty party possessing
this creed, does not look upon government as
splendid mass of republics, piled one upon
another like the stones of a pyramid, to raise
a cenotaph to the independence and SOW.
ereignty of the states-but as a monument of
their united poweI in cases Of foreign alarm,
declaring its purpose to be the common de-
fence and general welfare Of the whole.
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