Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-14

less pOpulace OF ne arts OF INC JdcouiiS, ~ "''
we learn from impartial history, the walls OF raris
were at that moment covered with addresses TO the
People against particular individuals, with insnua-
tons that the majority were fected NTH drisfocracy
some of which papers were anonymous, some sign
ed by RoBEspIERRE, the g cat-tger IN countenancc
and disposition and others by MARAT, the "patriot
mar excellence, who was said to love carnage like
vulture, and to delight in human sacrifices like
Moloch, God Of the Ammonites."
Hitherto spared as we have been, by the bless
ing Of Providence, from the horror of such scenes,
what attentive observer has not witnessed the same
cruelty Of party spirit exhibited, in bloodless form
indeed, even in own day, in the exultation, the
literal clapping Of hands, upon the news of another
unofending head being chopped off" to crafty
g the party" and, above all, in such denunciatons
as the above, not plaearded upon the walls, as at
Paris, but ostentatiously made more public by be-
ing placarded in the papers of the party, and Of
fcially transmitted TO the Secretary of State-as
much as TO say, Have at your own head, Mr.. Sc
creary if you do not promptly respect this mssive
We have not yet indeed witnessed that horrible
excess of party rage, under the influence of which
the Mob broke into the prison of the Abbaye, sub
sequently into all the other prisons of the City Of
Paris, massacred without discrimination the prison.
ers, many of whom had been committed on the
merest suspicion, and many at the instigation Of
private hate by the members of these Jacobn Clubs
the body of the citizens Of Paris, paralyzed by as
spectators Of these horrible ouages, peperated by
handfnls of individuals. As yet, we are spared such
spectacles, suggested contrived, and executed I'M
der the direction of affiliated Clubs differing very
little in their character and principles from the
democratic Associations" of whose ambition and
aim the above is, for new beginners a promising
sample. Who can doubt that, if the United States
had central concentrated population to be acted
upon--instead of the body of the people being, as
most happily they are, spread over great CONT
nen and for the most part out of the reach of per-
version and contamination by heartless demagogues
and hunters Of the spoils such great cities breed
to what towering height of power these Demo
cratic Associations might not aspire?
How much reason, in fine, have we not to rejoice
that in the diffusveness of our population, and the
diversity of interests resulting from variety of sol
and climate may rely for protection against the
most deliberate combinations political demagogue'
against the lawful authority Of the Government, and
much more, any organized attempt by affiliated clubs
or political associatioss of which the Dorr rebellion
may be cited as an example) to pull down the Go
vernment itself!
But it's not the less the duty Of all good citizens
according to the parting injunction of the Father o
his Country, to frown upon g all combinations ano
associations, under whatever plausible character
with the real design to direct control, counterfeit
or awe the regular deliberations and action of the
constituted authorities OF this description are
these Democratic Associations" which already
undertake to dictate to the Executive his course in
regard to appointments to office. Whether estab-
lished in New York or in Georgetown; whether
clad in hame-colored apparel and with torch-ligh'
professions making night hideous, or more peace,
ably assembling in "Odd Fellows Hail. to pass
resolutions far more "odd" than the Hall they as
semble in however innocent they may deem their
own purposes-they are in danger, (again using The
language of the Farewell Address, in the course OF
time and things, of becoming "potent engines, by
which cunning, ambitious, and unprinclpled men
will be able to subvert the power of the people, and
to usurp for themselves the reins of Government
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