The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-13

whole South and retains whatever Of the North
will not refuse to be rdconcifed u Justice.
And let us admonishIAir. EsLLnonE, TT if the
time has arrived in this Sdhtry when simple
justice cannot be maig asned ip ~ policy of an
Administration srGpofted byall the po%er and
patronage of the Executive, he can never succeed
The- questinn will have passed from the power
of Council, of Cabinet, of Congress, to the ju-
risdiction of the mailed warrior with his sword
by his side
We earnestly invite Mr. FILLMORE to consider
that this country is too great, too comprehen-
siye in soil and character, TO be sectionally gov
erned. We hope he will rise to its altitude OF
his position and cast his eyes over its past, and
look forward to the sublmity and magnificence
of its future, moving harmoniously IN career
of justice and Of peace his own name shining
among its illustrious founders and conservators
Lamartine's Idea OF Universal Suffrage;
We And in contemporary print the following
sentiment attributed TO LAMARTNE. We know
not in which of his recent writings it occurs,
bat it bears the stamp of his late political creed,
which is transcendental: -l..a, Nv 81
s.Lamartine thus writes in late publication
on universal suffrage: "A day will come, have
no doubt, when the head Of a family will depose
in the electoral urn as many votes as there are
old men, women and children at his hearth; for
in society better made it is not the individual
1t Is the family which is the permanent unity.
The individual passes away. Family remains ~
| A better sample of sound signifying no
thing" and of fallacy looking like philosophy,
never was afforded, even by Mr.. SEWARD, our
American mystifer, and proponnder Of political
riddles, Let us analyze this sounding sentence,
and see whether the philosophy is founded on
sand, or rock Ri A man should cast as many
votes as there are members OF his family, says
| Lamartine and why? because !" the individual
| is not the permanent ltnity q! The individual
passes away--family remains" Now, to feel
the force Of this reasoning, one must be made
to comprehend the meaning of the term per
manent aniiy."' We confess that we do not
Nor is his meaning made any clearer by the
statement meant to clinch it. 4gs" The individual
passes away--family remains" 1t is very true
that the individual does pass away" but we
had thought that the family was composed OF
individuals, all of whom were also addicted to
the habit of passing away" plain English,
dying and that the individual at the head OF it
was a part Of the family also. How the familyis
any more a g permanent unity" than the individ-
nails composing tor why suffrage should be
universal on that account, his exposition of
Mr.. Lamartine makes aas clear as mud ---or one
of Ralph Waldo Emerson's lectures. yaflr @7H@
% Such jargon as this is toe often substituted,
in these latter days, for sound sense and solid
argument, 1t reverses the old complaint of the
Roman satirist, who regretted that g in aiming
at brevity no became obscure"-for these new
lights, legislative aud moral, conceal the poverty
Of thei-, ideas and the -absurdity of their theo-
ries, BY a multitude ofwords. isyr1t4 s.u u.sa3
.sr tI-5rta
| I The following extract from a letter addressed
by an eminent Georgia Wing to friend in this
city, will show the sentiment that now per-
vades both parties in Georgia. The gentleman
from whose letter we quote, is personally known
to us as one OF inc most aDte, ZcalOuS ana Hiiu-
ential wings u that State. He is y resident of
Scriyen county, temporarily sojourning 10 Muir
FAY county. -.f g...a .2l,a blHu.7 nglGow 9@l
Ihtgor, fdpin Murray Co. (GA.) 9Th july, 1885,
E.9 From the first announcement of the intended
! publication of a paper in Washington City de-
voted expressly to Southern interests, have felt
a deep interest for its success sga.yga 5a.i8lai
4 h 4 am much pleased to see You are opposed to
nMr. CLAY''s Compromise Bill. !" can see no.
thing in it to recommend it to the favor Of the
South" 1t is now generally admitted by all that
we committed great error in agreeing TO the Mis-
souri, Compromise Had we then insisted on our
rights under the Constitution, and had determined
TO maintain them at all and every hazard, We
would have been saved all the subsequent con-
tests that we have painiy waged with the free
States on this exciting subject. We probably
4 cannot recover the vantage ground we then held,
Bat let us not lose farther ground by farther
cession. These sentiments, believe, are enter
tanned by a majority of the Wings of Scriven,
and presume are general with the Democrats in
the county, oniHflo> .a' ,N ''7.-s'@l-' ~
ArpnoPRIA TON BHLs.i-+All the appropria-
ton bills have been reported TO the House of Re
representatives. by the Committee Of Ways and
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