Independent Democrat., 1843-11-04


upon any point of doctrine whlrh he has
embraced upon reasoning, sha low d
course, and nirrow, or else il could nevei
have been sqeezed into his miserable in
tellect. Henee, any speculation iha
soars above the mind and fifth which h.
has been accustomed to nose and root f j
| his opinions, he looks upon as Visionary
4 paradoxicai" even &without examination
and turns up bis ugly snout at it with q
grnnt of profound conte,HpI
Poor creature! "Res recipiantur dG
modum recipientis - Who ever expects
him to praise disinieresled aci, pro.
found discour,e, noble self.sarrifcing
character? II wound lie al war with his
interests, which find nothing invilipg, ex.
cept the filth that offtnds every one hui
himself aud his pc u.lar species which
unfortunately, too much abIund in tie
world.
] These ideas have sprung up spontane.
ousIy in our mind, upon The perusai OF a
late number OF the "Washiaston Globe, "
containing a brutal attack upon Mr..
Brownson for being bod enough u dliier
with his own patty, and particularly with
General Jackson, on the subject of pollt-
cal sovereignty.
"He" General Jackson) says Mr..
Brownson, "app, ars in his administration
to have regarded the people as above the
constitution and laws, and to have held,
that he secured the highest possible sane
tion of his acts, when he had secured the
popular appreciation formally or informal
Iy expressed"
THIS is the head and front of Mr.. Brown
sons offending, and in this, MIR. BLAIR.
with his usual oeep penetration into mo-
tires, finds conclusive evidence, that this
eminent gentleman 'has been br!bed for
several years past by the wings to utter
'peslilent opinions for the purpose OF
breaking down the democratic party !'--
ave believed them" Gn lS4O) says Mr..
Blair, "that this man Brownson was en-
ptoyed by the enemies of The democracy,
to put forth his pestiient opinions, with a
view to the very use they made OF them.
We arc nor conrinced that The suPpoSttion
,coS rcH foundai."
"We," "wen--Alr. F. P. Blair of the
Globc--cunvnced IF .this-convlnced that
a man, eminent as a thinker, OF abilities
acknowledged not only In America but in
Europe, where Mr.. B.air prababIy never
was, nor never viii be heard Of, n gentle
man, a scholar and Christian, the latchets
of whose shoes the editor of the Globc Is
unworthy to unite has been brlbed to dliier
from his party as u constitutional soc.
reignty and Gen. Jackson's opinions there
on. What can evince m"c pnlabe
state oflunacy than his language ana this
Leiief, imply, if rea? and if this convlciion
Of Mr.. Blair be expressed 10 deceive 9th.
ers, and to injure fellow creature, a wrr.
,hy good man, what but state Of mental
and moral depravily could have impeiled
to such brutal mallce? Yet who behe'e~
that Mr.. B.a!r re ily en- erlains tie opIn
ion of Mr.. Brownson here expressed, and
whom does he imigIne SO near his own
state of maddened bigotry, that he can be
persuaded into The belief VIII ch is here 50
confidently expressed, w'lhouta single rea-
son to sustain ii? We can readily suppose
that any one who has surrendered h,m.e e f
10 Mr.. Richie, Mr.. B'air and few other
kindred old women of the parry, should
entertain the c9nvictipn, as the touper
gentlemen has recently expressed II, tina.
zone half of the m jorIty who yn'ed
against Mr.. Van Buren, " re brll ed and
the other half were intoXlchted with ci-
der!" but we say thai, except Mr.. Btalr,
there is not another man IN the United
Skates who believes whit he here says oi
Mr. Brownson-certnlnly, no Other man
would have valued his reputltlnn SO little
as 10 have made such as aht upon ag"od
mans character. This is one oI ihose re.
voting examples Of coarseness ani.malIgs
nifty, to which We I'd recrled, when We
said some time ago, ih.t The pers nal vIo-
lence and proscriptlve spirit + the Gi"be
were one of tue heavIest nilll-stones,
which in the late pres dentlai contest hung
about the neck OF the administration. am
paired its utility and tended 10 defeat Mr..
Van Buren's election. Who IN the un-
try but feels dishonored, when the igneble
vencmous reptiles, whose mserable de-
lormitles Of mind alone make them dlstln-
guishable, are Sc. IN h gh plases, glven
authority. and allowed, with the eight Of
official name TO embolden them, 10 craw
over and defile the pua,ions oil menf-I
Who but deprecates The election OF pres
ident, whose patronage is destined to re
vitalize the famishing hyenas, wolves and
carrion crows,who follow tue party march
simply to fill their bellies with what they
can obtain by stealth, or byvIolence?-I
What true hearted American bun bushes
at the thought, that the low, abusive and,
we may add, the illiterate spirit oi the
Washington Globe should express The fiji