Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-06-10
DoRRIsM IN FULL BLOSSOM.

We are indebted to our contemporary at Baltl-
more for the subjoned pregnant article If any
one of our friends has thought that in our alluson,
some days ago, to the wild and disorganzing views
and principles avowed Of late years by the Demo-
cratic Nominee for the Presidency, dealt rather
harshly with him, or that we overrated the danger
of his principles obtaining ascendency in the Gov
eminent, let him read this article and then sit
down and calculate how far, under the Presidency
of such Fatalist as he, this Government will he
from the Despotism of the Mob, and how Tong
how many years, months, or days--we may expect
it TO survive its fell dominion
FROM BALTIMORE AMERICAN OF JUNE 6.
In the concluding paragraph Of his letter of ac-
ceptance addressed 10 the President of the Balt-
more Convention, Gen. CAss uses the following
language:
GAS party we ought not to mistake the signs of the
times but should bear mind that this is age Of pro-
gressof advancement in all the elements of intellectual
power and in the opinions Of the world The General Gov
should powers 1t should exercise
which have been clearly granted by the parties the fede
raj compact We ought the constitution strictly
according the received and sound principles of the Jer-
school But while rash experiments should be depre
Gated if The Government is stationary in Us principles Of
action and refuses accommodate its measures, within It's
constitutional sphere-cautousy indeed, but wisely and cheer
futo the advancing sentiments and necessities of the age
it will find its moral force impaired, ard THE PUBLIC
WILL DETERMINE TO no ,chat THE PUBLIC Authority
itSE should readily do, when the indications of popular
,inent are clear and clearly expressed"
Whenever the Public determines to do what
The public authority itself should readily do" a
crisis arrives not much different from revolution.
Ii is not unusual with some who claim TO be states
men to magnify the power Of the people to the de-
probation of the Government which the people
themselves have framed, which they sustain, and in
the body of which they have political existence
Such appeals 10 the turbulent propenstes of civil
lied men imply most derogatory estimate of those
10 whom they are addressed.
To discriminate between the people as mass
and the people as body politic formed into an or
ganzation of nationality with institutions and laws
and rights and duties, is 10 make distinction be-
tween chaos and order which the mind may readi-
ly do in abstract ways but to make that distinc-
ton real, would be TO dissolve all elements and leave
civilization 10 begin her work anew.
General CAss probably wrote the paragraph we
have quoted without having any particular meaning
other than TO say something in eulogy of democra-
cy, which he understands about well as a courer
comprehends King, where the one is parasite
and the othera despot. He has played desperately
for the nomination by virtue OF which he is now
candidate for the Presidency; and should he be un
fortunately elected to that office, he would go into it
committed TO all those ultraisms by which he has
courted popularity, and which are dangerous 10
The peace and prosperity of the country.