The lynx. (Panola, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1845-1845, 1845-09-13
STAND BY THE WEAK SIDE!

AND By liz WEAh OIDE.
1t may sound strange, bat il is true,
and should be no marvel, that we call
on the patriot to stand By The aoeak
Side. 1t has often been remarked that
when a mans fortunes begin to fail,
SO soon as one begins TO 60 down hill,
every body is prone to give him a
kick And this is not more true in
private and individual matters, than it is
in national point Of view. The hi5to-
ry Of the world a!tests that when Kings
have aggrandized their power so as to
dare 10 become tyrants, md when revo-
lutions have followed, Anarchy has
been the result; when wise and mode
rate counsels would have dictated. the
restraint, not The destruction of the
power of the monarch In such cases
il has in general proved true that rev.
olulons only produced change Of ~
rants.
In the management Of our own po
Htical mach he this proneness to run
to extremes inanifests itself in the same
destructive results. The moment that
the Federal doctrines Of Washington,
Hamilton, Adams, Ames, jag, and
Marshall became odious, the country
ran into pure democracy, which, was
never intended by the trainers of our
Federal Constitution, and which has
nearly destroyed all its salutary checks
and balances. The Sovereign power
which established that Constitution as
the supreme law, designed and adapted
it as a check upon that power itself, to
control and govern the action of mere
maiorities, in the midst Of sudden and
overwhelming popular Germept, and 10
counerpose the different departments
Of government, so that no election
could take place except as a result: OF
mature deIiberation and entire union
among them. Will any one have the
hardhood tocohtend that the intentlon OF
its trainers, the design and letter and
meaning of the Fedora Constitution has
not been violated, when it is notorious
that the dominant party in the land is at
this era alwas supreme over the law?
The trainers Of the Constitution estab
lished form Of government hitherto
unknown TO the world. 1t was not
what, with untiring vigilance and con-
sumale wisdom, they sought TO avoid,
either Monarchy, an Aristocracy or
a Democracy-it was a Republic. By
slow degrees and imperceptible steps, it
has now become q pure and una lutte
rated Democracy, in which no officer,
or department of the government can
for moment stand against any sudden
and violent ebuliition of the popular
will. The people now vote, as it were,
en- maSSe, at Washington, every sudden
impulse is represented, and he falls for
refusing to do today that which the
people would depose him for doing to-
morrow.
He who does not regard this state Of
things as lamentable is at war in opin-
ion with the trainers Of the Federal
Constitution. He goes against them iu
going with'the popular side for the un-
limited right of instruction. Itwas ne
yer designed that U. S. Senator
should, under any circumstances, be in
structed out Of his seat. Yet, though
the "right of instruction" is not con-
strued to mean as much, tits so exercis-
ed as 10 amount to the very thing
which was sought 10 be avoided. In
this it has now become the duty Of the
patriot to strike for the weak side, to
go for the Senate against the De mocra-
tic doctrine of the Unlimited right of in
struc:ion. Who will dare now thus far
10 proclaim himself a FederallsH lie
who does, will sacrifice himself on the
altar of popular prejudice, which has
set up Democracy as God of Freedom,
and will not'extenuate anything short
of its worship. But then he is acrong-
iy sacrificed, Let him dare the right.
Democracy is surely strong enough to
Withstand opposition. Let him dare
the right. By opposition the proneness
to excess will be curbed, and Democ-
raey held to its true uses. Patriotism,
and the true interests of the country
demand ihe curb, and no harm can
come of it. Opposition should of right
therefore be encouraged, and he who
dares it, instead of HIM who goes with
the popular current, should be regarded.