Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-12-17


grade the standard Of education, and re-
duce all things to its own level This i
! 10 the true spirit Of party which has al
WAYS arrogated 10 itself sail the decency
and all the intelligence" But how TAI
can the wings make good this concei'e-
boasl2
That whggery maintains a stand o.
responsibility. we are free 10 acknowledge
and that it has a holy horror Of retrograd
ing, is also true. But il has an equal hor-
ror of ADVANCING. II is the true coaser
patire parly-it is for standing still. i
is so afraid Of falling back that il would
never move atall. Innovation is its aver.
sion. The favorite motto of its wisdom
is" lei peH enough alone" The I'M
changing vegetation If the Chinese--at
one point for centuries neither falling
back nor going aheaG--is a spectacle that
ravishes true wings heart. One Of
these men of stability would have Joined
ia the denuncaiions of the Church against
the invention of Calico, when he taught
that the earth rolled around the sun--Ilot
the sun around the earth rs "all the de-
cency and all The intelligence" at that day,
maintained, This same pnrty would have
cried +" lei well enough alone" when Christ
preached his relormatsSns. II would have
raised The same cry against Luther; the
same against The immortal heroes our own
American revolution; and it now raises
the same cry against the attempts of eve
ry reiormer who starts from the crowd and
seek to make the world better and happier.
There is one claim of whiggery which
we freely accord il: this is its pretentions
10 most of the wealth and capital of the
country. Wealth is always conservative
lit is limid. Change" is a dreadful
word with the man of capital He finds
himself doing very we'll standing still. -
He can, therefore, see no sense or pro.
priety in moving, and denopnces all those
who are for moving, as having designs
upon his own boards. This is the true ex-
PLANTATION of the conservatism Of party
As the world is constituted, there always
will be the Two parties-one the timid and
the stable, loving an old error better than
a new truth, and for maintaining all things
as they are; the other the party of PROGRESS
and REFORM, who see in the improvement
OF yesterday only the stepping stone for
the advancement of to-day. As certainly
too as these two parties must always ex-
list, just so certainly will they be consti-
tuted as general rule, Of capital on the
one side and labor on the olher--on one
side, men who have already achieved or
inherited tortune-on the other, those who
yet have fortune TO win. Which will al
ways be the party of benevoIence and
kindly sympathies-which the party re.
cognlzng man in every rank as an equal
and bro,her..-it is needless tc designate
A homely and familiar story gives the key.
II was the woman that had before been
kind with her neighbors, who cried out, in
the selfish Conservatism of wealth, when
she got new kettle, " | neither borrow
nor lendl"
Wealth has never been willing 10 &C
knowledge that there could be talent, me.
rit or decency, not connected with dollars;
and, from this cause alone, we believe,
has sprung the arrogant claims OF the
wings to superior intelligence, and their
habltua depreciation Of the abilities Of
their antagonists. The facts of the case
are directly contrary to the whg preten-
sions. Genius and talent have nearly
universally sprung from the humber, ra.
Their than the prouder ranks of life; and,
at this moment, the balance of intellectual
eminence is vastly on The democratic side,
between The parties in this country -
Among statesmen (leaviug out the only
two the wings have of eminence Clay
and Webster,) where will they show CAL
houn, Wright, a Buchanan, Benton, a
Cass, a Woodbury., an Allen, Van Buren,?
Among historical writer's, where will
they show a Bancroft, or an Irving?-
Among poets, where have they Bryant?
Among novelsts, where can they show
a Cooper or PauIdingl
Thus we might continue the catalogue
of eminent democrats to the filling up Of
our columns. Yet, with the works Of these
men Ia their libraries with their songs
and tales on their lips--do The wings claim
all the talent and intelligence, and talk of
locofocosm bringing things doton to lis
own level
1t would, indeed, require dwelling up
for any thing wbiggery can show, 10 get on
a level with these names, Vic. Sentinel.
MISSISSIPPI ELECTIONS FOR NOVEMBER,
l545.--The following returns may be re.
lied on as correct. Tho calculations have
been made with care. In the general re.
turns from many counties, the vote for
Governor is not mentioned. The sealed
returns from those counties can only be