True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-08-12
SCARCE A TRIUMPH.

SCARCE A TRIUMPH. The revenue tariff,
contrary to the complexion of affairs a week
AGO. has passed the Senate, but its success is no
triumph to the Democratic party, but humll-
iatinq. a notifying evidence of discordant
couuses. With united 'front.' we might have
carried every measure triumphantly and at once
through both houses of Congress. But how
has it been The great principles proclaimed
in the Baltimore Convention have been the
cause of contentious debate; Senators and Re-
representatives. have violated the pledges OF the
delegates 10 that Convention, to carry out those
principles with unanimity, and thus the moral
force of UNION has been lost to our cause.
A Revenue tariff was one Of the great prin-
ciples of Democracy. 1t was the raIlylng cry
of the party in the last general election; in its
name, States were politically revolntionlzed,
and a victory of principles was achieved having
no parallel in the history of the Federal Gov
eminent To the present Congress the eye OF
the nation was turned with hope; the distln'
guishod era, it was confidently believed had
come, when ALL the grand Republican Princl-
ples would be put to the test Of experiment.
when Revenue Tariff, an Independent Trea-
sury reform in the economy of the general
Administration, would signalize forever andbe-
yond the furture cavil of faction, the SUPERIOR.
ty of true republican principles. But how in
significant the result, compared to the magni'
tude of the jusly-grounded anticipations A
prolonged session of Congress has been dis
tinguished mainly by conflict of opinion be-
tween Democrat and Democrat, upon the &C.
kn9wledged principles Of the party. Measures
upon whose wisdom the Democratic majority
of the people had emphatically decided, were
debated, redebated, considered. re-considered,
and encountered by the fluent gasconade of
members whose patriotism dlmned before the
glare of selfish ambition. Where, then, has
been the promised unanimity2 Surely, not
in the recent passage of the Revenue tariff,
saved from defeat by the instructed vote OF
Wing Senator from Tennessee and the casting
vote Of the Vice PRESIDENT Another such
a victory, and we are lost !"
Let the PEOPLE retrieve the disgraces Of the
Goth Congress; let them elect men upon their
MERITS alone to federal offices, and let Them
be men who will not shrink from responsible
ty in the hour when responsibility is greatest
DIFFICULTY IN PRosPEcT.-.The Oregon
question is yet unsettled; the 2nd article OF
the published treaty does not limit the privl'
lsge to the HudsOns Bay Company Of the
free navigation Of the Columbia river to a
term Of years. The language of the treaty
in reference to this important matter is OBJ
scure and indefinite, and Sir Robert Peel
has so construed its second article as TO give
to the Eudson's Bay Company the free navi.
CATION Of the Columbia forever This is a
concession which the American people would
never submit to, and if such a surrender Of right
was at all contemplated by our Government,
it had better retracet the step at once
A TALE OF WoE. A New York paper
contains the doleful history Of a love affair
ia which very young man sent his soul to per-
dIton for the sake Of an memorable lady, who
did not happen to love him with devotion
sufficiently romantic. His name was Brad
banL The girl eaPtivated his heart without
either effort or wish to do so, and the enamor-
ed swain became obtrusiVe in his attentions.
The lady found it necessary to slight him. He
sent her billet doux, declaring that if she did
not relent and come 10 see him, he would poi
son himself the ensuing day She regarded
the letter as quixOtic explosion Of romance
with which her quOndam lover was sureharg-
ed, and thought his desperation would cool Oh
within reasonable time. But the poor devil
was sincere IN his suicidal discrimination. He
poisoned himself with arsenic, and died the
death, not Of the righteous, but Of a common
rat
70 EIihu Burritt, known as the learn
ed Blacksmith, arrived in Manchester,
England, on the 10Th ult He intends
travelling through that country on ex-
actly such a horse as was rendered to
the poet, Goldsmith, by generous friend