The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-21

ing its Bullets on such miserable pretenders,
and scattering them in every direction, like
chaff before the winds of heaven. Then did
we behold the hardy tax payers, the nobility OF
the SOIL coming forth from their retreats, shout
ing "Hurrah for Old Tip and Tyler too" and
making, that has been going on since the COM
mencement of the extra session, we should ere
this have seen in all their fulness the fruits Of
such democracy as Washington, Madison, jet
ferson, Monroe, and host of such noble spirits,
were proud to profess. Beneath the Upas tree
of selfshness and mad ambition the democracy
of which we speak has been unfortunately made
to pine and wither, but we thank Heaven that
the desoating effects of this noxious growth
will be of short duration, and even now we see
the harbingers of the approaching era of an all
pervading and invgorating restoration. The
honest men of the land, the conquerors OF 184O
are not to be duped and mised, permanently,
by the hollow professions of self-serving poll
tclans who would make every thing, even the
liberties Of their country, the convenient vic
Tins Of their own sordid ambition. We go for
democracy, in its truest sense, the democracy
that recognizes the supremacy of the popular
will, and not the pitiful advancement of needy
hunters after place. We go for the democracy
that was sanctifed at Lexington and Bunker
Hill, at Saratoga and at Yorktown, and not the
democracy that delights in dark cabals and mis-
cradle intrigues, in committee rooms and Con-
al chov hor No cor
the democracy the voice of which is heard in
tones of thunder, sweeping through the wide
valleys and rich savannahs Of the North and
South, and that is echoed from crag to crag, from
the hills of Maine and New Hampshire to the
time-scarred SUBMITS of the Rocky Mountains,
as free and as glorious as the winds and the
bright sunlight of Heaven, and not the demo-
cracy that fawns and hatters, cringes and plays
the sycophant to secure influences as base and
as venal as its own vile purposes. Give US the
democracy that has made our country the adm
ration of the world, that acluated our father
old at the council board and in the battle field, the
democracy that stands on the broad platform of
the public good, and we ask for nothing better.
Away, then, with the pseudo cant that whines
of equal rights, whilst it climbs up on the shout
ders Of its dupes and catches at power let it be
attained by what contemplate arts it may. We
abhor the empty profession that seeks its own
elevation in aspersions against honest worth
and intelligence, and would build up its own
prosperity on the downfall of others, even al
though that downfall be procured by the mean
est imputations and declarations unsanctioned
by truth and honor. The democracy that has
in view the greatest happiness of the greatest
number, is, with us, hallowed and revered
principle; to it we bow with no empty lip-ser-
vices, but with the most heartfelt feelings of the
deepest sincerity, and we reject, with contempt,
the mock parade of love for the People, that has
not even wit enough to hide its selfishness and
ambition beneath the scanty mantle OF deceit IN
which it tries 10 envelope itself 1t stalks about
our streets and saunters with measured, stealthy,
pace through the recesses Of the Capitol; let the
People seize their betrayer and hold tup to uni
versal scorn and detestation.