True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-12-16


: TINS INrALLIBlLITY or PARrY.I
$ We have recently published several arti
cles, frankly and honestly censuring OuI
own party tor its own very evident bln1
defs These effusions have SCI idle gos
sip % The wing, and wehave been clusseH
viii this party that party, according
to The hnmof Of our quondam aud moi VEL
~ gentle critic.
we are not the property Of any party
though We claim 70 Be component mem
bers Of one great and lately ascendant
party While II ndheres d lis pood old
principles, i shall command our adhesion
70 ilself while il honOfs The really wor,
Thy, BY cOn6ding 70 them, and only them,
the discharge Of public dnties, il shall con-
linue sc receive our allegiance. But Va
are not bound % nurse lis vices until tbev
viIials IseyerY virtue, leaving MOI even
one true principle as heacon.lighs 10 Tel
deem and @ degenerate ii q future and
more Auspicious day, He Who does his
defends party measures night Of wrong
y tlle foe that il should most dread ior
ne implies BY such course, that party IS
an MEMORABLE tyrant, requiring from its
yotaries an abiec. obedience, ia blind.
idoIater-Iike faith inthe infa!libility Of lis
every act. 4 To err is human, says the
poet and ifhuman nature had no other
characteristic than its liability 10 Ell, that
alone would distinguish the species from
every other And Is man collectively
less subjectto err than man individually :
How can't be so z for if the individual
is generally wrong, what is he, in com
munity, bnt an aggregate Of error
The Democratic party, with more con
6dence in its good old principles, with
reOf the bold, manly, daunlIess Jack,
sonian spiritimbued into its organization,
might be proud and noble one veto
~ would rarely desert its banner; and
wien i did, il would be only 70 symbol
lie truth, crushed to earth, rising again."
as her Author arose from the tomb, in in
creased majesty and renewed beauty.
(" Our country, right Orwrong,' was pa
triotis sentiment, pronscted BY the heroic
devotion Of a young and gallant breast
but applyitto parly--a our .s5arfy, right
or wrong'--and the brilIiance Of our free
dom dwindles at once into the twh9SGng
ola rush light We belong to The pld
Democracy, that covered not in.the storm !,
nor modified principles TO suit the fantns.
lie whims Of the age And when that de-
mocracy shall be almost deserted when
secession after secession shall take place,
until the spoilsg form grand division in
theOnce united and pure party, we will
assist in ralIying the gallant few remain
ing in kindling anew the fires Of olden
time ia calling every patriot around the
upliited bunnerol the past, and in making
True Democracy once more ascendant.
So long as the Constitution Of our
country exists, 50 long will freemen under
that Constitution claim the right to free
dom Of thought and freedom lis express
sion. lie isa slave who will knowingly
submit 70 the seIfeIected dictuiors Of par
vi who will rally around everything
that cliques pleaseio put in nomination,
because It wears the human form, aud is
blOaled into momsniary importance by
the lavish fattery Of hireling newspu-
per. No, party, whateveriIs name, with
this nsiIs only principle, il principle it
may be called, degsneraies into a mere
junla, With the sole purpose Of monopo-
lyof the Offices oflhe land, without merit
and without desert We trust that the
party 80 far los, 10 every noble ambition,
may soon be deserted byits buzzards and
carrion birds, and that from its ruins the
Pheniz oftrue principles may arise to con.
st,ute once more The panyOf True DE.
Lei tIeso sentiment be brand
Cd as they may call them radical democ.
qcy. herslioa democracy, OF anything
.lse--lhey are ours, and we are ready to =
maintain them 10 the language ola po-
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