Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-09-09
From the New York Evening Post.
Z Ruined Again


Is this the seventh or twelfth time that
the United States have been ruined by a
more rigid application of democratic prln-
ciples in our federal government! Our
minds do not dwell much upon such sombre
things, and we cannot therefore remember
the precise statistics of national distress
and overthrow, but the impression with US
is that the United States have been most
distinctly and decidedly ruined more than
| half dozen times since the first year OF
the present century. Every four years,
according to the political almanacs Of the
wings, brings round period of the most
disastrous confusion and embarrassment.
The body, polite and commercial, is stab
bed TO the heart, and perishes miserably
under the stroke of violence.
In the year 1900 the country was first
ruined by the election of Thomas Jeffer-
s,n as President. AS this was the first
rain, it was very confidently. predicted that
tie country would never recover from the
shock. The whig~6f that day predicted
that the subject of so much violence was
100 young and too tender to allow of any
reaction. Years rolled on, and these pro-
phets died with their eyes strained to catch
glimpse of the coming ruin.
/ la 1912 there was to be another ruin.
War was declared, and the wings of that
day predicted the defeat of our army IN ever
ouarter-the destruction of every ship in
our navy, and the bankruptcy of the CO.
vernment and the citizens. The young
subject survived the election of Jefferson,
but now her ruin was to be complete.
All know how gloriously our country
triumphed in that war. But what the cleo
Ition of Jefferson could not do, what the
war with Great Britain could not accom-
Iplish. all with tenfold greater disasters,
was TO come to pass in consequence of the
election of Jackson. "War, famine and
pestilence," were to lay waste the coun-
try. So predicted the wings. A cry OF
ruin was sent up from every wing house
in the land. Wings CRASHED their teeth
in rage, or bowed down in sadness, hope.
; Iessness and despair. But when he laIo
his hand on the United States Bank, thell
distress broke over all restraints. The
terrible, the fatal hour OF the country haC
now oxy,r1Uy IL was--Oortaffily ruined
There could be no mistake about it thl.
time. The deposits had been removed
from the United States Bank. Hope wa
> about to take leave of US forever. Clay
Webster, and the other wing leaders of th
" Senate, wore countenances OF trIghtful an
ticipatons. The 'great Canal Of New
:. York will now become a solitude, and lax
r r Erie desert waste of waters" declared
: member of the Senate, and the others de
picted similar scenes. Delegations wer
constantly going TO Washington TO con
} vince the President of the public distress
= and save our poor ruined country. w
must quote the following apt remarks fror
= the Trenton Post, describing these scenes
: "But, alas! our ruin did not stop here
The monster must be wound up! Th
decree has gone forth from the man VIII
- never vet had shrunk from danger or froI
duty. The monster must be destroye
: the proud money king must be brougl
= lowl Alas! for our poor, lost, doomed
ruined country! Every business man
:, the country must now 60 down. Ho
> could merchants ever collect their debts
How were we to negotiate eXchanges?-
oeI What was to become of the great and 81
a. rious credit system?
awe cannot revivify those dolelul time
n. We cannot recall the sackcoth and ash
n. which dwelt in the vacant ,look-in Il
ne tone and conversation of the mercanti
er circles-which hung like so many sad ba
n. ners on the walls of our political Zion.
mr. was utterly impossible for business men
nd get along--they must give up; Mr.. Mich
no 60 70 q
re York, and the merchants must get dov
on their knees before him and beg OF b
nd to save the poor, distressed, down trodde
re- ruined country.
"Reader, do you remember these thing
I'D Can you recall to mind the time when
be Courier and Enquirer proposed to send
army of 10000 men to Washington,
ept order to drive the President from his mol
yer firmness by physical force? Do you S
in before you the armies of committees
of machinery of the whig press--the SIN
nts pot-house politicians-the great mercha
lch all crying ruin! RUM! ruin!!! 1fso, y
lge have learned something of the applanC
- of whiggery and the means to which
sometimes resorts in order to accomplish
+ to purposes"
ent Five years have now passed away,
and ring which the country has escaped
ing particular ruin; the democrats have
lm, control of the government and the VIII
are in minority. A cry of ruin n
tant therefore be expected about this time
hey The circumstances conspire to favor
and the grand explosion only awaits
) of passage of some important measure
CONGRESS- This has occurred in The