Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-07-01

into tyranny TOR men VII soon accept the most
arbitrary government rather than have none J so
the Democracy had hardly gotten the reins Of
mower into their hands before they discovered
that institutions of every sort-a Constitution, how
ever perverted Judiciary, however disappointed
a Congress- however dragooned-were only SO
many lets, SO many distractions of form, at least,
to their will; and that hence the easiest and surest
way 10 get rid of them all, in an age when all men
are mad for Liberty, to spread every extrava-
giant doctrine, every Jacobin theory, every Utopian
vision, whatever could unsettle mems minds, pro-
perry, and the laws SO that while the country,
through all classes and conditions and secs of men,
went at Bullets with itself, and tore every thing to
pieces, the OSE-MAN Power might stand cooly by,
hold the stakes keep up the fight, and remain at last
by their mutual destruction, the sole victor Hence,
since Jacksonism began, we have constantly had
the seemingly incongruous spectacle Of an Execu-
tive all the while seizing upon power after power,
and yet cnllvating Abstractons and encouraging
every movement which, under the idea Of " Pro-
gress" and the Largest Liberty could run over
settled Right and sober Law.
The truths which Genius alone could at first dis
cover, Philosophy presently renders practical and
by-and-by the humbles. capacity can act upon what
only the most piercing intelligence had OWNED.
Gen. CAss compartments and will pursue this policy
OF making Liberty STAY ITSELF Bred Federast. he
makes all the better Locofoco for that, after all,
appears the strongest stock upon which to graft
this. LOUIS PHLIPPE's father, prince of the
blood. when he turned democrat, took the name of
Egalife Equality and outwent every thing else in
the French Revolutionary race for unlimited Free
dom, the Largest Liberty Gen. CAss is, to be
sure, slow horse, and yet-unlike others of that
sort-somewhat given to flying the track he was
not as forward as some other leaders, in avowing
the doctrines of Dorrisns-the most headlong Of
all the forms of Radicasm but he has al least got
the start of all his competitors, in assuming Dorrism
as the drum-tap that is to send him off upon that
four miles course, for which the Baltimore Conyen-
ton has backed him.
There being no profession Of Dorrsm in the
" Platform and it being somewhat anomalous
piece of orthodoxy for catechumen to add at his
pleasure articles of Faith to the confession which
he is accepting, our readers may imagine that the
Dorrism is only an inference and that Gen. CAss's
letter of acceptance cannot contain any distinct de-
claraton of this sort. We beg attention, therefore,
to his closing paragraph, (he sth, the cream, the
essence, the aniD,us of which is in the final SEN
tence
GAS party, odght not to mistake the signs Of the
times but should bear mind that this is an age Of pro.
gress-o advancement in all the elements intellectual
power, and in the opinions of the world The General
Government should assume powers. It should exercise
none which have not been clearly granted by the parties to
the federal compact We ought construe the constitu-
ton strictly, according TO the received and sound principles
Of the Jefferson school But, while rash experiments should
be Deprecated the Government is stationary in its prin
cpes OF action, and refuses to accommodate its measures
within its constitutional sphere-cauousy indeed, but
wisely and cheeruly-to the advancing sentiments and
necessities OF the will find lis moral force impaired
and THE PUBLIC WILL DETERMINE TO no what the pub.
he authority itself should readily do when the indications of
popular sentiment clear and clearly expressed"