Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-10-17

Siblc to introduce anew word. WbA, tnen, is tnht
something Whit is there in The meaning Of Wing
and Tory, and what in the character of the times,
which has caused their sudden revival, as party de-
sirnaons at this time! take IL that the very es
senco of Toryisn-that which constitutes Tory,
is to sustain prerogaive against privilege--to sup
port the Executive against the Legislative Depart
ment of the Government, and TO lean to the side
of power, against the side of liberty while the
Wing is, in all these particulars, of the very 0ppo-
| site PRINCIPLES. These are the leading characeri>-
tics of the respective parties, Wing and Tory, and
run through their application in all the variety Of
circumstances in which they have been applied,
either in this country or Great Britoin. Their sud-
den revival aud application at this time ought to
admonsh my old friends, who are now on the side
of the Administration, that there is something in
the Understanding in the existing struggle be-
tween the parties and in the principles and doc
triues advocated by those IN power--which has
caused so sudden revival and such extensive APP
plicaion of the terms."--Vo X p. 10.
'Among the symptoms ofthe times (said Mr.. c.
which indicate deep and growing decay, would
place among the most striking the difference in the
conduct of those who seek public employment be-
fore and after their elevation. In The language Of
the indignant Roman, they solicit Offices in
manner and use them another. And this remark
was not more true in that degenerate state Of the
mobiles of all the Republics OF antiquity than it is
of ours in the present time. 1t is not only (said
; Mr.. CO. symptom Of decay, but it is also pow
crful cause
"When it comes to be cnce understood that poll
tics is game; that those who are engaged in il
but act part: that they make this or that profess
sion, not from honest conviction intent to fulfil it,
! but as the means of deluding the people, and
through that deusioD to acquire power; when such
professions are to be entirely forgotten, the People
will lose all confidence in public men. AL will be
regarded as mere jugglers-the honest and the pa
triotc well as the cunning and the pro1igate-
and the people will become indifferent and passive
to the grossest abuses of power, the ground that
those whom they may elevate, under whatever
pledges, instead of reforming, will but initiate the
example Of those whom they have expelled. "-Vol.
q, XII p. l6O
He had listened with the profoundest attention
to the reading of the report and documents, upon
!, the Post Office and could soemnly aver that his
most powerful feelings those of the deepest
r shame and modification. During the % years in
which he had in some form or other been connected
with the Government, he never could have conceived
that such rottenness, such corruption, such abom-
nnbIe violation of trust, could exist in any
of its departments those he had inst listened to
! Che repeatedly with the utmost modification. The
guilt Of this Department open and palpnbe.
No on the floor of the Senate could be bold
enough to rise in his place to extenuate or paliate
: it. All saw and lalnented the rapid strides which
deep and Gebasing corruption had made in it. It
exceeded any thing in the history of the rottenest
y, ages of the Roman Empire. Could it be possible
LiIal any one OH attempt
sustain this Department, after listening, as they
had done, to these most extraordinary and morfv-
ing disclosures If the Committee! Should the
), President sustain, and the People submit to them
there would be forever end to our institutions :"
Vol. XII, p. 2i9-250
He believed that such was the hold which cor
ruption had obtained in this Government, that any
man who should undertake TO reform it, would not
be sustained.
:, He believed that deep political disorder exist
ed, not only in the Post Office, bn in the Land In
dian and other Departments of the Government to
greater or less extent, and which were not to be-
cured by the Presidential election. He would say
boldly in his place there, that the time had arrived
when reformation or revolution must 90 on.
"I1e stood there as one Of the representatives Of
the State of South Carolina rather as her dele
gate, for important objects; and SO long he con-
tinued to have the honor Of seat on that floor he
j would do his duty. He believed the affairs of this
country to be in desperate condition. and that it
behooved every man to lay aside party feeling, and
: with heart and soul exert himself to arrest the
growing evils"-Yol. ri, p. 26s.
> "Ihere were some things, which, taken in them
selves, we're OF so little Importance us not to be en-
titled to notice, but which, standing in connection
y with other matters, were frequently of great i'm.
> portance, and demanded attention. Whatever might
be the character Of the paper the Glohe) from
which the paragraph just read had been taken;
however low, however degraded its character might
~ YET hNo"i NC Tie organ Oh t,le ESecu-
tive will, and that it sustained, pampered by,
and dependent upon, that branch of the Govern
y ment," Vol xi, p. 27J.
owe have stood here, Continued the honorable
Senator,) barriers to resist the unconstitutional
acts of the Executive. If we carry through this
noble struggle as we ought-if we stand as a rock,
:, firm and immovab!e, against these continual viola
tons Of the Constitution, we shall De entitled to the
eternal gratitude Of our country. But on the other
hand, if we permit the dignity of this body to bs
triled with and degraded shall prove curse elves
recreant to the rights and honor of the States which
we represent here, and no longer worthy to be their
q rePresentatives.--Vol xi, p. TOT.
, "Tho gentleman (Mr. Grundy) was correct in
saying that, in the general range of party disci-
) pline, they reserved the right TO act for them.
e selves. But he saw in this House men who, by
raising their finger could make this party ques.
. ton. 1t was his opinion that they made nothing
, party question that was not connected with the
spells. The same party had been brought to
bear on the expunging resolution, the deposit
: question, the surplus funds, and which had kept
these funds where they now were, in the hands
, of Spectators, who were brought to bear on tho
people. That power was brought to bear on the
spoiIs; and, although the Senator from Connect
cut (Mr. Niles) had dissened in this case, he
t would have found it little hazardous to have
/ gone against the Executive recommendation in
regard to the removal of the deposites or the re-
y charter of the United States Bank"
Vol. xii, p. 1852.
" The Senator from New Hampshire (Mr.
HID could not expect him to reply TO him. That