Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1841-10-23


Is SIMPLE machine as was ever u,sntet yf tlN /.
class OF men, who have more confidence 10 81 .
results Of political man9uvrng than "a The toe
and voluntary sutlages Of the people-oi men. .
who believe with DR.. Johnson, 'iha' chance sal /
cleo, a better mayor than a mob Ii was Ihely /
destitute OF what We perhaps bgotedty. regard a.
essential IN party organEat,on-o basis of oen-
mon principle. 1t IS ridiculous, IN answer to
this charge, TO point TO the staring capitals wheh
appeared at the head Of the leading papers, OF Ia
the harangue OF some prominent partisan, inaStntrh
as they are Of sufficient variety to SUIT political
wsalhsr-cook at any point Of his reVoluilon,ss
they might be quoted upon all sides OF any quss-
ton, and are, moreover organs merely u different
sections OF lhe party, and no, oil the party asa
whole The charge is conclusiVely proved "
the fact, that the Harrisburg conNent'o., the oaN
authentic organ Of the party made no drc'atainn
of principles by the fact, that resolution oitlr-
ed before H. by "A delegate from kenIucky, iF3
an address should be issued TO the people Of he
United States, embodyng the principles aud
measures Of the party, met with such cold re.
centlon that it was silently withdraw. It's
plain, thai the object was to leave The question OF
nrociple in a state Of glorious uncertainty, to
unite men IN opposition, whom II was hopeless 10
attempt 10 unite upon any other point No other
policy would have held out the remotest hope OF
success. There were no common doctrines
| which could be published, no common measures
which would meet with general approval, ana
no candidate in the whole range of the party,
whose lsilh If at all known, would hays bee re.
| grded as orthodox. 1t was VIGOROUSLY BY
! means Of the non .commual principle, that men
from The zenith and men from the nadlr, Bank
and anti Bank, strict Construc,Iorlsls and hugh
Tariff men, Jackson Tppecanoes aud cut and
outers,' Fedcrahsls and Democrats, net aud EN-.
brnced each other. TheIr political creed was more
Va lous than their religious. Men wete admitted
! to the same baptism, who m more could have
united 10 tie 50 ne declaration Of principles, than
CALVIN and Luyola IN tie same confessions OF
faith, OF u malerallsi aud II transcendenlast
upon the same theory of IDEAS, BY meins of this
policy, thee was put together pioce Of Jonery
50 GROSSLY nd-nled and whImsically dove l0IeC
"a Cabinet 80 varluusIy lnlald-such piece
diversified Mosaic sub II tesselaed payemen
here bit of black stone, and there bit Of
white, that it was indeed vety CURIOUS shoN,
! but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsafe 10 stand
upon THIS culpabIe negect Of the great organs
Of the party, 10 publish 10 the world their pnncr
pies, put II in the power OF It's subordinate agents
TO practise all the arts Of deception and deluSou,
to conceal the real faith Of the party or to ms.
represent II IN such manner, As should concill.
ale tho divers views AID interests OF the Opposl.
ton. In one quarter Of the Union the Wigs
represented then candidate as a friend, IA auo'hcr
an enemy 10 National Bank-hete be vas an
abollionls,, there u STAKEHOLDER -u the East
.haupevn 81 du"cot,o 'aJ~ss'y, !" tt,s 1.'.if' q
foe 10 the Tariff.
at would be easy 10 show, that political or
ganizalion Of this kind is corrupt and dI'honeSl-
that no different rule applies 10 our conduct a
part,zans than as individuals, TO parties than t,
men lft IS dishonest to Obtain the goods OF 4
man under false ptelences, If It - dishonest by
The ats Of trlckery and deiuson TO lnveIsle mn
of bis tune. his labor, and bis money,ll Is equdll,
dishonest to gam his political cooperation by tn
same means; TO invege him oi hts sympathy
his vote, his influence. |, would be easy TO shn,
lha, such an organization is the prolific patent q
dlshonor, fraud, hypocrisy, political c"trup'lIt
national decentralization. Bdi we are not Intu
ding to waste our breath upon this point, to en-
gage in so Quixoiic an enterprise, as to max
political parties amenabc to the laws OF morallt
or Of honesty. Our censure Is directed to I'll
culpabe want OF foresight which did not, IN lh
inception, detect the weakness and instability c
such an ed,fice. 1t is not against the dl.honesy
but against the folly Of such an organization lhO
our Iatce IS in rest. If our voice had been "a
, tentaI in that convention, we should have assae
the policy Of organizing without some sure bas
OF principle, some manifesto Of The doctrine
which We ma n,ained, and Of the measures K
which we were conendlng. II we had dIscarde
all regard lor.lruth, it we had condemned III
opinions OF all honorable men, and could on
use such arguments as a Machavcl or Ceh'
nac de MedIci might consistently adopt, "
should have sad, You are pIeieInng tempofar
to permanent good, you "rc securing m,
, menary triumph by want Of confidence IN 1t
popularity Of the great principles wrh which lh
party is identified, by means, which will hefeattt
exclude those principles from any share Of popr
lar fayor.-Your victory will be like that
Pyrrhus, your ruin II your triumph IS not on
" OF principles devou,Iy believed and thorough
, understood If your only cohesion IS opposition
: YOU wil crumbe INTO atoms the moment that W
are in pow er. And what is worse, your disIneu
berment will be final. For, when the peop
; once discover that they have been enlrapped
your heterogeneous silence INTO the support
d doctrines which they dlsbelleved, and OF mea
q ures which they dsapproved, they will orey'
" lose all confidence in YOUR integrity and homo
all falih in the principles you profess, and vi
i hereafter be lnsen-ble to all arguments VII {
), may be urged in their supper They viii b'ar
you as hvpocEitcs and decevers--lhey Will Ioil,
Z the whig name with that universal deteslaIl'
. which is hcaped upon those who abuse sac't
. trust who employ confidence as a weapon again
: he confdlng, with the hiss winch welcomes
fraudulent trustee or dishonest guardian, WI
I the relentless hatred with which the dupe pu
sues his deceiyer the victim his swnder,
70 Such arguments were scotned; the par