Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-06
THE APPROACHES OF DEsPoTIsM.


In fact, do believe that it in the power Of Con-
to stop the war at the present moment The thing has
gone too far the loud camors Of the people would drown
voice Congress raised oppose granting supplies and
continuance OF the All they do is, delay
in idle debate at the rate of eight dollars day Let such
idle consumers Of the peoples money be carefully Marked and
let them at the close OF their terms retire 10 their homes
again to the peoples money again in Washington
The people will know what to do with them"
Ne,o Orleans Mercury
Here, in respectable newspaper, published in
one of the largest commercial cities of the United
Staes-in an age of intelligence-in "a Republic
whose people profess the peaceful doctrines of
Christianity, (most truly says the Cincinnati Chro
ncle,) we have announced the same spirit, the same
principles, and the feelings, identical in all re-
spects, as those which converted the Republic of
Rome into overshadowing Military Despoism !
Two thousand years of progress, of improvement,
and the apparently firm establishment of the Ame-
rican Republic, have not changed the Juror of pas
sion or the mental subservience which actrlates
portion Of mankind, even in the United States.
Animazed by the grossness of their passions, and
made slaves Of by the decisions of the imagination
they are as unconscious as the moths round a
candle of the certain doom towards pLtich they
tend.
Hear the taunt which is spoken to the Represen-
tatiyes of the People g Go home you hare no
business TO DEBATE! ~ Caesar has crossed the Ru-
bicon, and the Legions follow him! You, Repre-
sentatves of the People, have no business to hes-
tate The DICTATOR in Washington has proclaim
ed war you have nothing more to do The Pro
Consul in Vera Cruz will direct thesupplies the
SATRAp of Puebla will take charge ofthe lines the
CoNsULs in Mexico and New Leon will command
the armies Of the Republic Hurraf for the Die
tator Hurrah for the Consuls! G, home, you
Representatives of the People, and tdl your con-
stituents-farmers on their lands and Mechanics in
their shops-lovers of liberty and friends of reli-
gon-Democrats and Whigs-that yoe have no
thing to do but TO vote supplies, and ther have no.
thing to do but to pay tares Tell then that, and
there is no power here but "Casar and his
Legions -
This is the plain translation, the downright Eng
lish Of the Neac Orleans Mercury. 1t is tie picture
Of a free people, drawn by one of their ediprs How
do you like ii
There would be room for fears and sacness if it
were not that the PEOPLE have yet the p,wer, and
are of different mind from what the ignorance of
the Mercury supposes them to have For eighteen
months the elections have been steadily gong against
the war makers ; and Notwithstanding allhe buster
ofsuch newspapers as the Mercury, and al the noise
and smoke raised by the President and his Cabinet,
the Representatives of the People ,ciH inquire into
the war; and they WH arrest its progress unless its
objects are clearly defined, and brought within the
limits of the Constitution.
The PEOPLE are not the fools they are taken to
be by these vapid busterers When the farmers of
this country are asked 10 pay hundreds of millions
Of dollars to march soldiers to Mexico they will
inquire what it is for. That it is to put epaulets
on the shoulders of the Presidents pets or 10 con-
quer provinces for the Presidents Proc onsus will
not be sufficient reply to these inquiries Depend
upon that.
However small portion of the people may adopt
the mental language Of the Mercury, and crouch be-
meath the dictation of President, it is nevertheless
mark Of the degeneracy Of political virtue, and
dangerous symptom of approaching despotism
There is hope, however, in the great body Of in
telligent people in this country that these insdious
approaches of arbitrary power will be seen and re-
sisted before the nation is found in that fatal and
death-dooming embrace which has DESTROYED 50
many other nations.
The Moral Power Of the country is awakening
without regard to party lines and out of Evil we
shall see Good educed.- Cincinnati Chronicle.
The Cincinnati Atlas states that Mr. Barnes, one of the
IelegPhersin the employ of Mr.. oRely, in the office in
Thai rIy IL