Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1844-12-11


because he was Henry Clay, and the first
in service to his country, as the first in a
celebrity which extends to every climate
Of the civilized world
This is the point Of view which will
present itself to the informed mind, in
s'uCtod by the past experience Of the
world as the most important and the most
fatal" at is the incapacity to Judge
aud to act wisely; Its the hatred Of pre-.
eminent merit: it is the preference for
conrenial liplencss ard ignobility: Il is
the spirit to pull dorm instead Of The spl-
ri ri s,ryating superior merit which to
lhe m.al acquainted with the transactions
Of past Republics, is not merely hateful
for its meanncss, but fearful for its omen"
And the National Hieliigeacer, the head
and front Of all that is " dignifod" and
"resPeclabIo" among wing newspaper.
expresses its malured oPiaion Of tie RESULT
and Of a majority of the American people,
in the following complimentary manner
Wholly unexpected, the even. took
US completely Ly surprise, Not even for
q moment apprehondcd the blow came
upon US with a staggering force
That the judgment which has been
rendered is not lhat Of the intelligence Of
the country, no one will, we presume, be
hardy enough to deny. Neither, we sup
pose, can any doubt be reasonably enter.
tanned that far the larger portion Of the
educated and informed people Of the land
voted for Clay and Ffelinghuysen, and
much the larger portion Of those neither
educated nor wellinlormed yotel for their
successful opponents. The decision can
hardly be referred to an overriding ProYi-
dence for it is not the voice even Of the
majority Of the people, which is common
Iy (but impiously) said to be the voice Of
God. If any event lraught with conse-
quences so possibly momentous to mil
lions Of men can be properly attributed to
ACCIDENT, such surely is that which we
are now speaking off,
The IntelIigencer goes on to say;
What contempt does it not cast upon
their boosted knowledge Of what is good
in governments How unhappily but con
cusivey has it not established the tremen-
dous power which mere juggIers and noun.
ebauks exercise in the field Of politics
over minimizing and uneducated masses
Of men, while they have to encounter
opponents armed only with high princi-
pies and patriotic purposes"
How appropriate for the party which orr
ginated the og-cabn and hard.cder mum
maries of 1910, and the glee-cIu5s of 1874!
But the New York Commercial, the organ
of The "cod-fsh and cologne" aristocratic
division ofthe "decency," caps the climax
of abuse in the following extract, After
enumeratng the multitude Of good (of the
Observation-Disclosures rder,) in
store for the people in the event whigery
had succeeded, he says
But all in vain, The sow that vas
washed returned to her wallowing in the
mrc; and the people who have been saved
from national dshonor and national bank
ruptcy, from a deranged currency a pros.
trated commerce, unemployed manuiac-
tortes, an Illu aud yagauond population,
and universal distress and misery--haye
returned, BRUTE LIKE, to their wallowing
in the mre and filth of locolocoism; and
why should any man mourn over their in.
fatuation2"
The wing papers TEEN with such articles
as we have quoted, and with the most I'M
qualified abuse Of " yagabond foreigners"
of all, native or adopted, who refused to
sanction their odious schemes of partial le-
gislatjon and British policy. Let them be
remembered. " Forewarned, forearmed."