Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-07-15

greatness for people or happiness for mankind.
Evidently, then, the first murderer, Cain, was the
original benefactor Of individual man I; and Nimrod.
the " hunter Of men, that earliest conqueror, was
the primal benefactor Of nations. ..The savage
whom you would reclaim will not be won by sweet
distractions No: send him not holy and
selfdeyoing missionaries; give him not the mild
light of the Gospels that is "sweet abstraction"
Show him not laws; teach him not arts give him
not knowledge they are all but sweet distractions
No pearls Of divine and al-subduing Truth to the
swine of savage life, the poor child Of Nature, the
ignorant barbarian. No distractions for him keep
them for home use for, though the Red man can
not be imposed upon with them, many white
man can.
Butthe Exposition proceeds to show how, in Gods
providence and by his instgaton the savage must be
humanized: 9 his native woods and lettering hours
are too dear to him for him to be tanned by any ge-
tie influences, no matter how gradual: there must
be compulsion before there can be victory" you
must snort let loose destruction uponinferior
nations less advanced in order to bring them up to
your own level standard or whatever it suits you
to measure them by. For, proceeds the lesson, in
metaphor drawn from the mercess processes by
which we extract crops from the inanimate earth,
The rugged soil must be subjected to the tearing
ploughshare and destroying fire, before it will bear
fruit" you must harrow up people, or plough it
under, or even burn the old seeds out of the beds.
if you want to get good democratic yield out of
1t. Oh admirable, pure, and, above ALL most re-
publican precepts These, then, are the frater-
nizers, the cosmopoles, the friends of " universal
man, the stay of the unfortunate, of the oppress-
ed, OF the " down-trodden," whose sympathetic
bosoms have painted for suffering mankind every
where. and most of course for the unhappiest, the
feeblest, the most degraded of our species Why,
what scourge Of the earh what crusher of nations,
what blood-imbrued conqueror, ever yet dared to in
suit the world with such an execrable doctrine of
determination? And this is Democracy is it?
These are they who preach the sacred, indefea-
sble rights of man." his equality every where,''
+" no matter what complexion an Indian or an Afri-
can sun may have burnt upon him :" YEA this is
Locofoco philanthropy, Locofoco progress, Loco
foco democracy la philanthropy, that would,
merely TO reign, soak the entire earth in The blood
of Its children, and conquer mankind, in order to
govern them afterwards, as it has governed the Uni
ted States, by prescription and the spols--a pro-
gress that would carry back to the dismallest era
when the barbarian globe was ever given over to
strong-handed violence, and when might made the
sole right-a democracy which is to erect its re-
lentless dominion upon the systematic slaughter of
all the weak, the lowly, the unchrisianized, the de-
Drpespd aI I I'M
then, is the consummaon, at last set plainly before
us, OF all those social visions. of those promised
Utopias, of that continual advancement, of that
blissfnl optimism, of that growing perfection of
:" the greatest happiness of the greatest number"
" enlarging the area OF human freedom and of
establishing every where the largest liberty" with
which the fancy of the hopeful and the ignorant
has been fed so much, to make them look for better
things than sober Law or cautious Reason or limit
ed Authority can offer Democracy We had
thought genuine Democracy to be the idea of love
for man every where bounded TO no cline nor
race, nor region nor Sect nor circumstances nor in
sttutions; but and an affection for all that
bear the image Of Maker, all that taste his gifts
and, with the light Of Heaven, have received an in
oiShooiS sse " oSoh 10 III UlelT OWL way,
at such time as Providence, and not mortal pre-
sumption, shall appoint, impiously and hypocriti-
cally taking Gods work out of his hands, and de-
stroyng under pretence of blessing their fellows.
Are we Deites, that we should set about such a
business Has Fate fallen into her dotage, that we
are TO assume her inscrutible office
But, soberly now, what does all this blasphem-
ous scheme amount to! To the urging on our
people to national career which would be as in |
sane on their part as wicked on the part of those
who advise it. Fiends themselves in their utmost
ingenuity Of internal malice, could plan for us no.
hing more baneful to mankind, more fatal to our
selves. The bitterest thing ever said of Roman
-apine by any of those who fell beneath it was, "Ef
'un sohfadinen facio,t, pacem appellant stealing
which strong thought, Lord Byron has put il into
pirates mouth, as the excuse for his crimes
''once free, It's mine horde again to guide,
Friends TO each other, foes to all beside.
"Yet there we follow but the bent assigned
g BY fatal Nature to mans waring kind
" Mark where bis carnage and his conquesis cease
. HE makes solitude and calls IL peace"
II is precisely what the freebooter states as the
apology for his guilt. which Locofocoism now holds
ip TO us as virtue and benevolence except that
what the robber modestly entitled peace" Loco
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