The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-04-22
MIsCELLANEOUs.
Prom the Allssisslpplan.
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GENEALOGY IN ARlSTOCRACY,
WHIGGERY AND IT'S TENDENCIES


WHIGGERY AND IT'S TENDENCIES
The practice Of tracing out the line Of
deCeOls which has added so much in keep
ing alive the arstocracy Of blood, seems
have xisted in The earliest periods Of which
history Or tradition furnishes any account.
Alexander Of MacedOn claimed to have de.
scended from Hercules, and traced bis ped.
lgFee Ia his deified ancestor through The
lapse Of thousand years and lhirty-eighl
successive generntnns. The arisOcracy
Of blood is, therefore, sustained By ancien
usage, and hence we can feel some 1T l.
respect for it; but how abominabIe is tht
arIsl, cracy Of wealth, and how iNexpTes,I.
bly, beneath all contempt is the ndulatiOn
which is paid 10 the money kiOgs. There
are periods ia the history Of Bank Whigge,
~ which, il appears TO US, the independent
men Of that party must blush 10 recur to
We alIude to the periods when NICHoLA
was the worshipped Of the whig press, aDo
The great AM Ot the wing party. II isl
fact which none can deny, that no man il
this country was ever 90. slavlshly id0l.se'
as was Me-. BIDDLE, yt.e Whole Bmk
party up , the very tune Of the bursting
u his mons er swi ding shOp--lhe Unne
s ales BANK. lie was IT the head Of Ih'
aristucracy Of wealth. What q miserabI,
fate was his! ShOFO Of his lucks by Ih'
great man Of the democratic party, Andrew
Jackson, those whO had worshIpPed him be
fore, now deserted him, and he was permit
ted t. die Of melancholy al his residence.
A pdalusia. Ia the days Of his glOry--hI,
bank pow er--nO circumstance, however
trivial, could have lrantpired in relation tc
the man who welded The rag U,oney sceP
ire, which would not have been copied inIo
every wing paper in the Union. Was he
sick, lhe deepest anxiety was expressed;
did he ipst, all laughed. His words were
received as proverbs; his nod comma nded
the mnving mass Of his party. II . smile
was emo gh 10 elevate any man; his (rOwH
was destruclinn. Alas, his bank being de-
slroy ed, his rover was gone, and this m1n
whose stamp bit few years before would
ha We pa, grs al army in mnIinn, was per-
miIled 10 die of melancholy at bis residence
lew miles from The city, which he had
ruled. An obscure paragraph did away
some corner Of those news papers, whose
columns whilome had leemed with songs o
praises to his name, announced his dealt
thus:
"Died at his residence On-inSt., Mich
olas Blddle, E.q II is said that he had
been melancholy for some time"
And this was the end Of money king
NM even The poetic name Of his residence
was thrown in to grace the scanIy r,quiem
Le, Us turn from the spectacle and look al
Mr.. B,ddIe as he might have been.
ichOias BlddlO was a man literally en-
lowed by bOnnleOus heaven with inieIlec-
tual gifts. II,s strong mind had been vel
cultivated, and he cherished taste for IIi'
ersnre and the fine arts. tie was educa-
ted for the bar, and was a good debaler.-
tic welded a pOIshrd Pen-wFnle elo-
ouer Z, vigorously, grncetulIy. His fam
,ly-hls father and his bnthers, had all
,eN cd rhe cnun,ry in high sIaiIons. tie,
himself, would have done sn, had he not
tasted Of Rauery and prOstnu ed his ener
sies TO the rearing Of an uIIstucFacy found
ed on wealth, in bis native land. And here
we will end these rambling re fecli"ns up.
on the tendencies Of " LiggeTy to arisl"c-
racy. having shown the hearIlessness OI
The woFshippeTs Of money power, and cum
celvIrg that no argument Is necessary "a
pIove The inevitable tendencies Of banks
and banking, To build up an sriSIOeracy 81
wealth, rather THAI the aristOcracy Of in
tell,uence in the country.