Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1848-02-12
THE STEALTHY TREAD OF DEsPOT-
ISM.

Piles by the acts of public men, no one can be
so blind TO the nature Of certain positions
which are taken by the advocates Of the Ex
ecuiive as TO, to see that the principles Ct
despoism are surely and insideously stealing
into the minds. of The leaders aud supporters
Of Executive power.
TIE debates. in the sena I,s,upon the "ten
Regiment Bill" has reveslsd',o the public
gaze the never dying discrimination OF this
principle That has, fer six thousand years.
rode rough shod over the masses Of mankind.
The chairman Of the committee on Military
affairs speaking in opposition TO the amend.
n.enl Uttered by hif. Cri,enden to raise thirty
Thousand volunteers instead Of twenty hou-
sand volunteers and ten thousand regulars,
said, (in his reasons why he preferred regulars
10 volun'eers) that g regulars are mere por-
iion o. a vast machine, whose principle right
is the right Of obedience jefferson Davis,
following il the same trail. declared, that
9 volunteers were generally Of he higher
class! the materials were TOO high for camp
dulles The lower orders Of society are cheap.
er, and can be put under better discipline -
Here it is distinctly assumed that The vol
| nneers are no, quite the machinery that these
Democrats want! They want s." the lower
orders OF society,"" who can be better broke ia
TO serve as machines" 10 DO the servile
work Of unreasoning brutes. The volunteers
are TOO intelligent: 10 answer all the ends of
| those eho require that soldiers should have no
rights bur tie : right ol obedience" Vo'nn-
,aets, it is nc! denied, have done as good fight
ina and have performed leats of as wonderful
valor as any set OF the lower order" OF reg
MARS: but they know Git is assumed) other
rights than the right. oniy, Of impici. ODE
dIence.' Yes. thank God, volunteers DO gen.
orally know other rights than the right Of
obeGence.' They know enough of rights to
10 their duly, and when that IS done, they
have intelligence enough to know IT, and not
be the british tools Of designing power. Reg
Uiars afo wanted from the lower orders Of
ooCiCtg' tia1 'NtJ H'oJ hot NM" eHouSh "
resist, in Any manner, the designs of iytants.
Thus we see the professional Democrats
playing into the hands Of despoiIsm -warring
against Incorporating intelligence. from the
higher class into the army, because the
material is TOO high for camp duly!' Thus
the lower orders are spit upon by 'Deino-
cra;7,' for hey are The best material for camp
Duty
lie who cannot see that the willing slaves
Of the President, whether n the Senate or
elsewhere, are but the bated instruments OF a
deep laid scheme Of despotism, is as blind as
any follower Of hiahomet ever was or can be.
All hat is now wanting 10 give the despoiism
Of L9colacoism an enduring foolhold upon the
hitherto free soil Of America. is far the people
70 subscribe implicitly TO the doctrines avowed
and gloriei in in Inc Senate by Cass and Da-
vis-ths right they know, IS the right Of obe-
aiance.
We deem il fortunate FOX the people. that,
in their eudsavors TO conceal another dark mo-
tive for raising regulars, these Senators have
unwitIn2Iy divulged their real seniments.-
That o,ier and concealed motive for raising
regulars, is, simply, to give Polk the appoint
mens 0! five or six hundred officers with vol.
unleers he wonld have none to make.
BANKING IN Nav YoRK -Four or FIVE Of
the free banks in the State of New York have
failed. We Learn BY the Journal Of Commerce
that the panic had entirely subsidized AID bu-
siness had recovered its wonled composure.
We gather from Controller Flagg's report,
ana the facts as stated by him tina, the Cham.
plain bank, owned by Moses Y. Beach & Son,