Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-06-16
VOLUME II--SUMBER sS.

when foiled Of their arts by the popular sense
really cxerled, 10 blaspheme the People, when.
ever il refuses to let them be its priests and |
speak its oracles.
The next member Of their "plalicrm" boasts
Of their respect for ''lhe popular will" Let US
see. Did they respect il in 1910, when they |
cried out that the people had been "corrupted," |
that the people were "drunkl" Do they respect
it any where, except just where they have ma |
jorityl Let the people any where vote against
them, and they are At once, if rich, sgmalized
as "arislocrals:" il poor, as "drunken." Is |
there no "peoplo" in Vermont or New England,
or New Jersey or Maryland, or Nonh Carolina |
or Kentucky or Ohiol Will there be none in
New York, when il shall, next November, vote
agains. ,heml Do freemen lose their respecia-
| biliiy when they cannot consent to support for
the Presidency Mr. Polk, who made the Mexi-
can war; or Gen. CASS, who, besides being a
forward advocate Of all that, wanted fliy-lour.
forty war! Do freenen lose their rights when
they cannot approve all the measures, no matter
how illegal or foolish, Of those in powerl If
that be so, then how is this Government not a
despotisml We (poor "Federalisls," as the
4 friends Of Mr.. BUCHANAN, of Judge TANEY, Of
Gov. WALL, of MARCUS MoRToN, and so many
other excellent "Repubcahs" style us) had
really thought that the "will Of The people" was
worthy Of freeman's respect, because they
whose collective vote decided that twill" were
all, Singly, free citizens, independent, equal,
sovereign, just as much each in himself as all
together. In our simplicity, we do not know
that they had no free voice in those public mat.
ters which are said TO belong 10 them; we were
I ignorant that they must, under penalty of being
treated as political Outcasts, vote as The Maga-
gers Of aso-called Democratic Party" see good
to order. We were not aware that in this bOas-
ted commonwealth, party held together, as
openly declared in the Senate by an eminent
man who has reason to know them, "by the
cohesive power of public plunder;" the party
(as another high authority has more succinctly
and frankly expressed) of the "spoils," has on
ly TO put on the empty name Of democracy"
and placard its adversaries as "Federalisls," in
order to take right the fullest and most entire
TO abolish the citizenship, the equality, the pub
lie franchises, and the good name itself Of all
who are unable TO think as commanded. This
exclusion is effected in various ways, some Of
which we had briefly sketched for insertion here,
but want Of space excludes them. That which
is most notorious, however, is the ruthless Pro-
scription under which all who will not lake the
: name Of "DemocrOi," be they never so devoted
to The Republic, TO its institutions, its glory, and
> its welfare; be they never so otherwise merlto-
rious or qualified, are, under all the pretended
forms of freedom, stricken from the privilege of
I holding any national Office or employment, just
i as much as The Jews and Catholic Irish were
$ once incapacitated 10 hold seats in Parliament
: by laws long the same Of the British statute
books, but now abolished there.
But the Wings, it is minated in this same
candid platform" do not profess an equal sub
missiYeness 10 the popular will. Well, perhaps,
it is so. But The Wings, il seems 10 US, make
0 guile as loud professions of blind submission to
1.-THE peoples will" Of prosIrate admiration for
c "Ihe peoples intelligence, honesty, and patriot
= ISM" as men can do who respect either them
: selves or the people. Flaucrers, cozeners, and
slaves, not the sincere and manly, ever abound
= in this SORT OF wheedling. ltshould excite sus-
d picion, not confidence. The People" are buV
men, and quite fallible, like the rest of mankind.
= Except TO the base, who worship The p0,oer oI
+ the People, and who would equally worship that
G power were il a Kings, the People are not Del
ties, 10 be odored; and, if they were, would not
II it is TO be hoped, be such shallow ones as tc
6 measure the sincerity of their adorers by the
: nosiness Of their prayers orlhe quantity of emp
: ty incense which they burnt upon their shrines
: scottish King takes his greatest flauerers for his
e truesl friends; but wise sovereign knows his
u worst and his most worthy subjects; those by
II their being constantly courling him on thei
% knees, these by their standing erect, serving him
T. and telling him of his errors, not his vain per
D Geclons of majesty or might, or a.knowing
1r ness. If kings may be caoed, so can the sove
l. reign people. The true powerof either suffers
n and is even sub ecl 10 be lost by nothingso mucl
10 as by their listening rather their own passions
'e and pride, and 10 The servile and selfish wht
u play upon them, than 10 the sincere voice o
'e those who love them. Demagogues are but III
10 same fatal hatterers Of the sovereign people VIII
would, were that people monarch, be his sup
ie plest, most cringing courtiers. Wo TO eithe
King or Commonwealth lhat won by their obSe
y quiousness yields The sceptre 10 their hands!-
IL A tyranny ensues, an abuse Of all The pubi
r powers, for the same bad ends Of The syco
plants, the lawners, The avorites, who, by din
c of humoring and deceiving, have mustered lhei
re master. And, as such surrender Of their au
az thorily 10 mere minons conducts kings TO th
g. loss OF their crowns, TO revolution and downfall
10 like that which has Of late lighted upon Euro
o. pean princess, so does it lead a duped people o
'n 10 regular despolism, the lorcibIe and permI
III nent establishment Of an irresponsible power
Us founded originally on compliance with all thei
=. lances, but soon 10 scorn and trample on thei
IL. soberest will and dearest happiness. This
! not quite yet fixed condition of things among'
r. us; but, if usurpalions and misgovernment q
u' wide and arbitrary us those which Mr.. Polk hu
81 er pursued without interruption during his reig
81 81 can be applGuded by the great political and doc
:" trnal Party Convention Of those who have S
- long msruled US, and can thus be held out
y the country, in effect, as the formal promises
III their nominee, it is surely time for the Peop
S. aroused and undeceived, to fling off this dom
'c nation, and re-asser before it be too lale, the