Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1844-12-11
says the Devil.
THE WINGS AFTER ELECTION.

THE WINGS AFTER ELECTION.
The democrats have celebrated their
victory by the discharge of cannon, by bon.
fires illumnatons and general congratula-
tons. Their opponents celebrate the is
sue of the conflict on their side by gene
raj discharge of workmen, (the opposite OF
a feu de joie, } and by industrious and con-
certed plans to cast gloom and darkness
over every business interest, and to pro-
ducs panic and reyulsion.
With hardly an exception, the whole
wing press of this State have Joined in
their endeavor to weaken confidence, i'm
pair credit, and unsettle values. They
have done this, not from motives of inte-
rest, for they can hardly hope 10 reap ad-
vantages four years hence, from a panic
so early commenced, but from a feeling Of
revenge. They would cause that depres.
sion in prices, infict those wide disasters
in business of which they speak, because
in truth, the sound stable interests of the
country have been their greatest enemies.
They would avenge themselves against
the great producing interests of the State,
and of the Union which they feel has been
arrayed against them.
The hypocrisy which such an effort ex-
hibits, on the part Of those who claimed to
have no higher desire than to benefit the
general interests Of the country, is howev-
err exceeded by the course Of the same
men in regard to aborers at wages. The
New York Tribune, the Troy Wing, and
the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, three
wing papers at extreme points Of the State,
have recommended the discharge Of demo-
cratic workmen by whig employers, and
in this they have been joined by a large
majority of their party associates. In
deed, the pretended revuIson Of business,
which they are endeavoring to prove has
already taken place, four months in ad-
vance of President Folks Inauguration,
and more then year before the session Of
the Congress elected with him, is intended
to furnish a pretence to employers, and
prepare the way for the great wing salute,
over the dead body of the 'Coon--the ge-
neral discharge of democratic laborers.
1t must have required all the logic of the
home league to induce the wing party to
undertake this work Of prescriptions; pro-
scription extended beyond aborers, and
intended to embrace all classes of bust
ness, Nothing but those particular views
of political economy, those notions in re.
gard to supply and demand, on which the
fabric of protection is raised, could have
induced the wing minority to attempt the
prescription of their opponents. The de-
mocratic party is in popular majority Of
about one hundred thousand in the Union;
OF course there are hundred thousand
more customers in the democratic party
than among the wings, The latter party
are determined since the election to cut off
this vast body of consumers hom all inter.
course of trade. They will not buy of
them, nor sell to them; they will establish
among themselves, and keep it to them.
selves-a perennial fount of blessings, and
OF wealth. The effect of this will be to
throw vast number Of these people, who
have no time to mix politics with trade, in
to the ranks of the majority, who, it is I'M
derstood, will sell to all men without first
questioning them as to their politics, and
will buy with a single eye to a good bar
gain. Thus gradually the limits of the
wing party will be narrowed, and all the
Blessings of its political protective system
and party home market will be centered
among an intelligent and blessed few, while |
their adversaries will be left, with an unl-
mted market of purchase and sale, to all
the miseries, the desoation, war, pesti-
lence, and famine of Free Trade. Aus
picious fruit of wing logic The man who
invented the word protection" to desig-
nate the extent Of the burdens imposed on
labor, was fool TO the author of this pro-
Ject. The word itself should have been
reserved till the era of this new piling up
of political upon Custom.house duties-tiil !
the full workings of the system were seen
in the discharge of 'aborers, and the pro-
mitigation Of the cdict OF non-ntercourse
with political majority.
Seriously, this proposition Of the mino-
uly to turn the majority out Of the social
and business circle, is as wicked as il is |
absurd. Ii shame will not prevent those
who have 50 acclaimed in faylr Of "protec. |