The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-09-23
THE DEMOCRACY-HARD HANDS AMI
INDUSTRIOUS MINDS AND BODIES.

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INDUSTRIOUS MINDS AND BODIES.
The Democracy naturally consists Of those whose
labor supports Them and of those who occupy the
middle walks Of life add are neither poor nor rich
ofthose who are labor industrousy and
Of those who with some income have yet not enough
TO exempt them from degree Of labor. Among
rich men ia our country there are many in the ranks
of the Democracy; but probably no, more than a
third Of the whole. And to the honor of tho rich
Democrats be it spoken, that notwithstanding the
strong temptation which the possession OF wealth
brings with ii TO swerve from the Democratic
creed, they are generally fervid and decided Dem
ocrsts as any Of hei brethren They prove lha'
there Ii no natural necessity that men should denounce
the Dem c. attic creed because they are or become
rich that there is necessity to desiate from Tor
that eason but that is false education pride the love
of CASTE fastid business Of taste, and, IN many In
stances secre, dstrus ofthe capacity OF the People
Of our country for self government that esiranges
them from tho Democratic creed In others II Is pro-
badly mere personal preference
But in our caunry the amount Of mems knowledgeis
BY no means propotioned their wealth. Educaion-
not difused sufficiently ye,s still literally dhuscd
rsmuses, disting ushed for nothing but their luck in
making money. and totally contemplate tor every
thing but their gold. If ten thousand Of them were
to emiqra,e from an American community to Ton
ouin or japan, the public would not miss them lfor
any good they did, for any good any reasona-
BILE man ever expected them to do.
But how is il with those who live by their labor
and upon limited incomes necessta,ing some labor
Even those rich could not live without Them
but for their strong hand, and dilgent abors their
splendid houses and rich furniture would have no ex-
istence. All their Injuries originally derived
from the plying hands Of the poor and the liberal ex-
pendnure of the men of moderate Yet neither
from prose nor poetry observation of Others or any
ssnsbility of their own hearts, have they ever de-
rived the Lesson beautifully taught by the poet
"AlI is the gift of industry; whste'er exaIts,
Embeilishes, or renders lite delightful
Pensive winter, cheered by him, sits by the social
fire.
And happy hears the excluded tempest idly rave
along.
His hardened fingers deck the gaudy SPRING
Without him summer we're an ard was'e-
Nor 10 the autumna mon his could thus transmit
Those full, mature, immeasurahle stores
That waving round recall my wandering song.
If any one wishes then to know from whence
comes the crowd of Democrats, that, as in the late
election in Maine, startIe their advesaries and dis
concert their reckonings. we may from the above
premises easily find the solution. They come
from the workshops and the cornfeds, from the
pioughs and looms, from the modest cottage
and we'll cultured farm. number Of them
have little Of this worlds goods, that some
Of their opponents have designated them "trog
lodtes" in allusion to ancient nation of that name
that were said to dwell in caves. The idea is, in
decd, fictitious; but the Democrats, whom they thus
endeavored TO twit for their poverty, have shown
them that they could stay long enough above ground
to PROSTATE them at the polls. The ordly aristo-
crat,
"He cas- his coach, he cas- his horse,
He draws bonnie silken purse
As long as my arm where through the steeks'
The yellow ettered geordet keeks "
But even all his dazzle does not induce the Demo-
erat to forget,
"The gowd is but the guinea's stamp,
A mans man for a that"
We see, too, why Democrats are opposed to
Bank Of the United States They do not wish to lose
their hard earnings by fictitious paper. So large a
bank may easily make immense over issues; and IS
the honest share holders they aware Of the
mismansgemcn, and swindling practices Of the rich
directors and their favorites, who keep all hugger-
smuggcr with respect TO the Banks affairs until they
quarrel with each oher about their malpracccs.
Then, when IL too late TO profit those who have
honestly invested their money, they We'd with each
other in stripping the old hsrot Of her tswdry rags
and hardly treated her with the common decency due
to one who had granted them many OF her IA
vors.
Without divinstiop, therefore, we can discern by
careful and intellectual application Of our faculties
to palpabe facts, how II is that the Democrats multi
ply on election day far beyond the numerical force
given TO hem in the estimates OF their adyersaries
The Intelgepccr Of Saturday las, furnished an in
stance Of the power of Wing arithmetic II dimin-
ished the Democratic vote 10 Maine from 4s 900 10
10000. This wa, playing one part Of Phalarz' re-
divivu. II was docking the man because he was too
long the infection Of the other cruelty will no doubt
not be chargeable upon the ntelgencer in the case
Of the Democrats. e. elongoting him IL too short.
In sailing upon such smooth ar thmetca sea as this
men voluntarily part company with all the exact SCI
ences, for which IT is well known that some men have
great disgust or naptitude, and FOR this the Wings
arc notorious in regard TO election returns or political
calculations sbou, these days.
On an election day, we find the ground crowded
with Democrats as Unexpectedly to their opponents
rs many traveller bebolds the towering prairie
swarmng with life and animation wher, he had ex-
pccted only to see few wild animals grazing by the
wa, side. While musing on his solitude like many
goods Wings on election day, much in the stain Of
Alexander seIkirk on the lone island of Juan Fer.
nandez-
81 must finish my journey alone
My right there is to dispute;
From the centre all round to the sea
am lord Of the fowl and the bruie;n