True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-11-04

nufacturing State which gave so signal ma
jority to the Representatives of Democratic
principles, has deserted her faith, and now
rallies under the Wing banner In the recent
State election the Wings elected majority of
Congressman, the canal commissioners and
probably, majority in both branches of the
Legislature. This is certainly, a thorough
rout OF our forces in one of the most important
Democratic strong,holds, and an event which
we did not anticipate.
What has produced result so disastrous
Undoubtedly, the tariff policy of the present
Administration which, although based on prin-
ciples of equity, Of sternly impartial justice to
ALL, and being the only truly republican mode
OF raising revenue, was not relished by wing
of the Pennsylvania Democracy 1t can no
longer be disguised that upon this vital ques-
ton in poly there is now serious and i'm.
portant difference Of opinion in the Democra'
tic party. This division is the result of sell
fish and sordid regard foy petty local interests,
and OF false conception oflEe duty of the Fe-
deral Legislature, which expects member OF
Congress to legislate with an exclusive view
to the welfare of State, or the section OF
State which he may represent, instead of for
the general veal of the vast confederacy of
whose Government he is constituent member.
Local State interests are legtimately and ap-
propriately confded to local State legislatures.
A Congress-the federal Congress, is presum-
ed to exercise an impartial guardianship over
all the States, as a nation bound together by a
solemn Ond reversible compact.
But it is now too late to lay down principles
which should long since have been clearly un.
derstood. We have lost Pennsylvania; she
will be against US in next Congress, but in the
succeeding one we may have cause to congrutu-
late her upon her return to the faith
MIssIssIPPIs DEAD-Ay, the dead of Mis-
sissiippi, those noble hearts who left friends,
and homestead to meet the foe; who buckled
on the sword and shouldered the rife, on the
first intimation that the integrity Of the Union
was threatened by an assault upon the last
State admitted into the sisterhood. Those who
went to the battlefield but few months ago,
in the regalia and plumage of war-where
are they? In the trenches Of Monterey, on
The field of their glory, the CHASTITY ienements
of former life, chivalry and honor.
s. The spirits are broken that never could bend"
is in grief; hundreds of her chill
iren are torn from her bosom. They were
her pride her manly and her heroic, who fell
At Monterey to burnish her name upon the
page of story, and weave new bays into her
ylory.wreath When men who have been
our companions for years, and with whom we
have been in intimate association, pass from
our midst, the unbidden tear falls, and the
heart prompts the lips to utter the language Of |
ament But the ordinary process Of disease
laS borne them, coflined and bewailed, to the
Of death, and our grief is mea.
iurably allevated by the reflection that such is
he inevitable fate Of not only man, but of eve-
rything material and created. But not so with !
From her worlhiest homes, her
best and purest families, the young and the
athletic went forth to the battle. A fathers |
mothers fond and lingering EN- |
BRACE. the tears Of brothers and sisters, or the
,nnrehensive aud hearttouching farewell of |
wife-such were the adicux OF the Volun.
GERS Of Mississippi, sixty Of whom have fallen
Dr. been wounded ia the slorning Of the forii'
ied CITY Of Monterey To the mourned and
,hivalrous dead and to the gallant and mutlla-
I'd living, Mississippi owes the most generous
Iibute which country could give to 4 patri-
otism so magnaLimous aud devoted. In the
prime ofyoulh-in the noon of happiness, and
affection and hope, they gave LIFE to their
,ounlry-life, which embraces all--and the
memory oftheir fame TO the heart-shrines Of
heir countrymen. Let that fame be cherished
ct Mississippi make dealhless each name that
We publish to-day as being among the slain Of
Monterey. They were her jewels; in their
veins flowed her richest and proudesi blood,
md that blood has flowed with a generous
,rodigaliy in her cause Remember, then,
Dur noble dead; remember the homes which
hey have lsftdesolate the relatives who share,
ut with deeper and more poignant grief their