Washington telegraph., 1851-12-03
From lie ifaterta.sa Ia. Pieaaaat Wlir.
POLITICAL FALLACIES.

In the cunning tlisiees u partisan war.
iafe. the =o.eallsd Democrats hase great.
ly Ile advantage Of then opponents, aud
IN nothing has tins supeaofil. been more
plainly pefeeptihlc ihan m the art.
iul employment of eetlhn political iaila.
eies. which have ever been their fehance
N procuring p1oselYtes We do not
uieaa 10 ssY that there Ire ne aFiiul aud
INSCRIPTIONS politicians among the
Wings. but We % most positively believe
TINT n putty they asa much more dis.
pbsed 10 tely upon tie truth aud justice
Of Their tenenls, 10 lie exclusion Of trick
and artiice. thar their opponenls.-
llgilUs tho aVtie-s .-s..isez fii-sfi if-s1 e.
ten been given ios the Introduction OF the
fnlIarips wc have mrnuoned, one oi the
most Important OF which is the exceed.
,ur popular name which they were qnl
eby allowed to adopt although they had
no more right 10 ils exclusive apptopHa.
,ion than they had TO dub themselves the
Americans, ~ the "twO legged animals
without feathers" THIS is a seli.eyldeut
2ropo,ilion-oue that rcqurcs no process
Of reasoning 10 every candid mind
But we will mention one single fact,
which will display the ladicronsness OF
tins assumption IN It's proper light. 1t is
this. One Of the most prominent leaders
Of tins exclusive Democratic party,
conspicuous aspirant TO the Presidency,
a Democrat pr cDcciieHse. a very Demo.
cmt OF Democrats, is well known to
have made the declaration that, II be
had one drop ol Democratic blood in his
veins, he would have resource to phe-
botany. aud nd himself Of the "pcrlous
stuff" forever. Aud there are many OF
the leading men Of the rorty who, II
they never uttered a similar declaration,
may well be supposed to have conceived
II. s,nre il Is matter Of universal noto.
nety that they inhibited hatred 70 Dtmoc.
facy with their mothers mill. aud DIS
played It IN all theig actions. uniil Il be-
came politically convenient to receive
coat OF Jack son. OF Van jnren, or Polk
wh,tewash. aud, with the old STAINS OF
Federalism thus covered over. to come
lonh into the wofld again bright, brilliant
Democrats, as good at new U temporal
U mOYcS
The skillnl angler adjusts his bait most
carefully to the species OF dsh he hopes
to capture, aud our Democratic "hshefs
Of men" have, with equal dexIerl'y,
adapted the external appearance oi their
doctrines TO the tastes Of those whom
they desired to catch. They saw the
k,np.governeG countries OF the old world
pouring their hnIf-slarved millions Into
the lerlile valleys OF the new, and they
had no difficulty IN perceiving that these
millions would cause the well.balanced
scale of party ascendency TO preponder-
ate in whichever direction they might be
induced TO cast themselves Now, De-
mocfacy is u government in which the
people are the only sovereighs, had been
the very day.dream of these em'grants,
as far as they had any aspirations at all
Of a political nature. They had felt The
iron heel Of oppressIoE--the result ol
nionarchical aud ansloeratic institution,
Upon lhelf Deuueu HeHN9i a"u - ''tN'
racy you'd be to them bur another name
lor hbsry, security aud happiness De-
moeracy, then, must be "the walehword
aud the cry'-lhe bait to catch these
foreign voices, aud swell the votes OF The
oarty lnto triumphant malontIes' Ho"
easy to persuade the unsuspecilne
emgraut that by becoming WING
he would only change one t1rm o
arI.tocraey for another. ave are th
Democrats, aud our opponents oil cours'
= are no, Democrats, for you see they az
opposed To Democracy, and must there
fore be aristocrats aud enemies to repub
lIcanism" We have heard Just sucl