Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1841-11-27
Extract from an eloquent letter from


You are pleased among other kind ex-
pressIons, to give me credit tor frmness
IN breastlng the storms Of political adver.
sIly-and while ! acknowledges my SEN
SbIty to the compliment, permit me e.
extend II TO the great body of the Amer
can democracy, who now, as always here.
toiore seem to have taken COR their motto,
me Roman maX,m, HCrer to despair of he
kepnAhc. II ever there was reason for
giving way to despair and tegniny 10
doubt the capacity Of the people for self.
! governmental was just ooe ycnr ago, when
the democratic candidate for preslden-
cv--nnd that candidate such n man as
Marin Van Buren--was beaten, and
doublY beaten, by a conglomeralion Of
heterogeneous masses, Cemented bv no
prlnc'p'e, united on no measure, stating
no object, but cnmorous for "ciangc,n
| hrkle Aihenlnns. and pushed on bv the
| applications OF means Whirn every friend
10 mo dignity ct man, 10 the purity OF the
elective franchise, aud to the preservation
OF republican government must look hack
upon with sorrow and regret. That such
a man representing such n rause-assnil-
e" oF su'h means-sh"uId have beer 50
'"o'Y oea'en' was indeed cause Of alarm
to many, and pnouoht to dishpar,pn all
WV" u'u oo' 'ohilde IN PnbIlr virtue and
'n'r'I3ence' and ~ redeem'ng virtues o.
The "Sober, second thoughts oftfc pcople p
n,l' our DemorrhrV dld not despair.
"eV look copFa!r from deteat-b'easIed
me Storm 2rapplHd the foe again and
ue'orH me moon has twelve times 'fRcd
hrr hoinS," the tide of battle has turned
- the topmen Hy-and democracy is her.
self again.
Tive extra session which was called 70,
he purpose of consolidating federalism &,
crushing democracy, has ended in the ,ri.
umph Of lis Intended victims. Never did |
the end more disnppuint the heginplno
than in the case of this short session. L. |
three months, the position Of the party is
reversed THEA vic inns, vanqu;shrd-the
vanquishcd, yc,arious.
The summer has been evenrn,. Larce
deeds have been done. Events have ia
ken their course, and henreiorrh. the
march Of democracy viii be onwnlds, fri.
umphant and glorious
Federal whjygprrv has had tic re;gn
An hundred DAVIS il ,eirned in II q halls -,
LEGISLATION. and rioteg il ,ha oh,sa of N.
gotten power, Inexoi,,inn Of i,s enormi
ties, il Inns chained itself dawn far -,
hundred wears, in the dark chambers of
the dead. T. tax. sauanaer, borrow and
gag, was its daiIv work. The twenty.
one millions in money and means which
we lett them, they found Insufficient 10,
ten months service; and to mike i; still
more insufficient. they take away the
land revenue of the treasury. and besfow
ltupon British capitalists. Twelve mill.
IONS were borrowed, which Il will cos, the
people sixteen millions to pav back. A
lax bill has been passed, which inhic's
burthen of eighteen or twenty millions
per annum Oh the people, to raise eight or
ten millions for the government, to snpply
the place Of the tree or lolr miIilons1
bestowed upon the British Macy ten
millions OF imports, heretofore free and
lightly tiXe have been subjected to bur
then OF t!Iy per cent t. the consumer, in
IN order to raise twenty per cent for the .
goVernmenl-amnug them, many articles
OF necessity and comfort--and the few ,
which have escaped now, are TO be recap.
tnred, like fugi'ives from Justice, TO ,
be more heavily l,aded at The next session. =,
len and coffee are among these tugi,ives. !,
ne salt 'ax--ln'qnitons imposition, the t
revival Of which in England, by Sir Ro- :,
bert WalpOlr, was one Of the snecifipd