Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-06-10

+e. necessarily us who speak 40 well az ,h'
he .t6 whom we speak. When. then. we 1
of what Ia usually said about The virtue n
i. intelligence Of The people aII n hnnhi
we do hot uss The word in itz Enfepe
!, sense. and mean IL speak dispafaginely
the intelligence Of plebeians as dlatinguis
ed from Politicians, Of The 'basa born"
~ distinguished from the ''w,ll born !" +
The distinctions here implied do not esl
In this country. and Should moi be fece
nized even in nur speech. When IL es,n
to classes. we confess that we rely
g much I'll The intelligence Of pfoletaries
II en- The virtue and Intelligence Of tnpita
lists, and would trust our mechanics 4
a quick and ns FIR ne we would our me
chants and manufacturers. y
= = Z = y n y
He whp IN n monarchy will fnttot III
monarch. or IN 81 Htis'oe,ney viii fnw
fettHd The gfeat. will in n iniecratv nai
! Ter The people . and he who .lII ilhttef III
people IN n demoetH"f, would IN NH ntIa
toeraev fwn refund The great. and ~ mon
archy. lntter The mennteh. Tile dnn,e
gogue is The ~csurtisr adapting himself /,
circumstances. And yet. Hattefy "a b.
sweet, That he who can SCREAM, lsndeat il
praise Of the sovereigh people. md Witt
conscience does mel stick eveh nj The bias
phemy Of "Ves f,opaft esi rou Del" vii
be pretty suite Of receiving The lAftssI
share Of their confidence and favor
another pfeef Of their virtue, intelligence,
and capacity
Whoever amang lie expresses any want
Of confidence in the people. notwithstands
ing their apparent forbearante. 10 suppos
ed 10 be their ensmy. and is sure 10 be
read aut Of the Democratic Party OF to
be laid upon The shelf, ill abine difficulty
occurs In which liis sifeng aehse md stern
integrity become Indispensable,
y = 40
But onee mersl What Ii The ground Of
This confidence In The virtue. intelligence.
and capacity Of The people, Do we really
mean 10 say that ihe people heiihg ,ndi
vidually or collectively never do. aud new.
er can dc any wfeng ! Whence. then.
eontes ell this wrong Of which everybody
is complaining ! The people are vittuous-
whence. then, the vice, the crime. the mi.
morality. the iffeligIhn which threaten 10
deluge the land What need of swords.
pIstolz. bowie knives. la,ls. psnithnsiar'es.
pains. penalties. law lndgrs, nnd sxecu-
~tiriera I Whnt need Of schools. churches.
teachers, preachers. prophets. and rulers 7
NJ ,tt.tttF la ~. t..nl So erall,t a.. txt.ta..l |
that nothin@ among ia Ia wrsng, Lot
alone private life, 20 merely into public
life. onter the bal Of justice and leg,sla.
t~ion~-is all right here I No every. body
complains everybody fnds somewhat 10
condemn some one thing, some another.
And yet who has done this Of which every.
body is complaining I The people. What
we from every quafter. but dsnnna
stations Of this or that measure Of public
soliey . Of the ptoa,gaoy Of the Govern.
nsnt. or oil lin administration I And after
III WIN Ii in fault I Whose la the govern.
nent ! The peoples, The people bfs 40,
and Of eplitHe The government and
Il administration, The laws and their sxes
nre lost what il,a people will they
hoild DO, II il moi strange. If The peeplr
ways perceive Tho right, and tsreelylnF,
do It. that nevertheless where they
re Hupreme. and whatever Ia done, IL
enc by them, there yet should be 80 mueh
done I.
but tdteliihg Tie inte |ligencc Of our
ImeEican people. we would ask with et,ll :
,ore emphasis. where have they shown IL /
n y = We demand Of the Htntea,nan
Tho publicly beast. that during thelf whole |
.ont'nuanea in office, ''thev have made
their duty 10 ascertain and boH n the
i'll Of the people :" we demand Of them. !
herein they find this intalI,ble popular I
'ielllgenoe on which they bid ua rely 1~-@ 4
he people. we shall be told, rejected the
der Adams. elected and s,,#tnined Mr.. II
'~flarson. BE II SO, aud yet. will Hny one
II na, wherein The policy # Mr.. Jeff
N, so iar rs It bore on the practical tia y
nns Of the people. aud their every day "
interests, differed essentially trnm :
al OF Mr.. Adams1 They rejected tL4 q
d Federal theory Of government, II Is -
Ne, aid adopted the Democratic but 1t u
ay be Il very serious question, whether n
latter theory, as the people understand o
is 20 much in advance OF the former M 81
o sometimes imagine. We shall be told r.
at the people sustained General jackson a
his anti. bank policy but il was Genl. Il
and not his policy for they re- d
sed to sustain his successor Who pursued a
Ith singular consistency and f%ir.nness The o.
mo policy and they would have sus. st
med n new bank. Ind not MIR. Biddle's W
nix failed ut tho very moment it did, fe
alarm and distress through the W
nd. Nine tenths Of our business men cl
now fancy that we can add to the m
salth of the tohntry BY increasing the N
per circulation, and attribute the pro- ie
ut etnbarrassments Of the country to The OF
mt Of confidence, when in fact these OF
ibarfassments have resulted almost sole. AZ
from IN excess Of confidence and can "
relieved, not by any increase OF conf. W
nee. but Of that which gives to conf. &C
nee a solid bas's-soIid cafitaI, +"
We may be told, as we doubtless shall C,
by our democratic friends. that the er-
$ we have pointed out, were not, and W
, not the errors Of the people. Of whom al
IN 7 "Of the peoples masters of bank. IN
!, STOCKHOLDERS, corporators, self. h poll al
ians, &C. and who are these 7 Arc
y not people And how came they to at
the peoples masters? And why do the CT
ople, if they are so wise and yirtuous, tr
TO be controlled by them We tn
MI be told. that the principal measures ou
nets we have cnndanned, have heen ra