Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-05
DEMOCRATIC HARMONIES.

All truth being eternal and invariable, all truth is
necessarily in concord with ITSELF Hence Demo-
cracy which is the highest form of all human truth,
must needs be the most perfect Of all harmonies,
never Earring In word. as some sweet musician
hath said, doubtless in praise of Democracy
&. From harmony from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began :"
that is the frame of Democracy a frame mysteri-
ously knit together, as the most learned professor
Of the times hath explained, by single law-"the
cohesive power Of public plumber"
Democracy, then, being truth the most immuta-
BILE and harmonious we were, of course, greatly
amazed when little while SINCE forgetting all their
Oregon and Tariff and Harbor bill concords, the
Democracy,
'Likc sweet bells harsh and jangling out of tune,
fell to viilying each other about the late dismissal
of three.months volunteers by the War Depart
ment. We had expected, in our simplicity, full
peal of counterpart on the occasion, such Han
del himself would have been lost in wonderment
at, and that on the signal flourish of the rsi-fdders
bow here, deafening concert of praise would have
burst from the whole Democratic orchestra:
Let the deeptoncd " organ" blow
To the fu-voiced choir below.
Judge, them gentle reader, what was the astonish-
ment with which we found that the " fuIl-voiced
choir below in Louisiana were ding just what
the deep-toned organ up here blessing!
Under the very natural amaze, we penned pa
ragraph not pleasing, il seems, TO some Of this me-
lodious company for, behold! one of them hath
writ US letter, and further TO punish us sent US
pamphlet to read, no less than twenty-four pages
a document drawn lit appears) chiefly from the
columns of the Union,' and charged to the muzzle,
Of course, with voeys of those death-dcaling argu-
ments with which the great official battery always
doube-shots its guns
Now, our subscription-list being moderate we
will not desoate it, and make an end of large part
OF our readers, by dealing out upon them these fatal
columns Of the onion. We will rather suggest
that the War Office shall send load of them to
General Taylor, as a new instrument of terror and
destruction, sort Of ammunition which. hurled at
the Mexican lines, will be to put to flight every
soul they hit-thats, who reads them The letter,
however, we may venture, Jess fatal, to give,
tempted as we are by the unexpected honor Of a
genuine, unaduerale Democratic correspondence.
Ii is as follows
70 the Editors gf the National INTEL gence
TnunspAY, AUGUST -, 1916.
GENTLEMEN In your paper OF this morning Is given a
paragraph from the New Orleans Jeersonian which you
Introduce with these remarks,
'Ihe New Orleans eersonian the leading Locoloco pa
per South after noticing terms the dismissal
Of the Louisiana volunteers falls most merclessy upon the
Secretary Of War Ii for deny the justice OF the
Jecrsonans indignation the sudden disbanding OF the
volunteers question, II any part OF our business to
defend the Secretary Administration from the assaults
OF their partisans but must say that we think It
hardly fair TO make scapc-goa Of the unfortunate Secretary
for odous transaction, in which he presume, the
organ Of the Government" The plain inference then,
is that the "unforunate Secretary" is far relieved from
sodium, IN proportion only TO the probability that the
odous transaction only participated IN by him the
organ Of the Government leaving least the " Gov
eminent cupabe Of the ojous transaction" The under
signed having less sympathy for the unfortunate Secretary
and believing fully that he has been this occasion
least the scapegoa and moreover believing the intcrpre-
taon OF the in the case and the consequent
the Government therein through his Department have
been entirely his oua, thinks hardly fair TO abandon tho
subject without further investigation; for, although
may not be part Of your business 10 defend the Secretary