Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-04-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
From ne Repstjlc.
Another POunce upon Old EOgy-
ism.

as much Of it as promised to be entertain
ing. We have been very much entertain
ed, too; and as the circulation Of the Re-
cicao is probably not so large as it will be
when Young America becomes fully alive
to its merits, we know not that we can
serve the country better, o. amuse our
readers more, that by giving ,lem a few
elegant extracts from its pages. We sup
poseit will be duly brought upin the House
of Representatives in a day or two, and we
think it may be well to have few texts
printed ior the use Of the me:abers. We
do not see that lis contents can be salts
factoriIy discussed, however. un,ilitis laid
upon the tables Of the House.
The crack article Of the number is en-
titled Congress, the Presidency, and Tie
Reeiep;;" and it indeed makes every thing
crack again. In the FIRST place. Mr. Brcck-
enridge Is demolished; then Judge Doug
las is defended from the charge OF con
vivance, or completely, an responsibility.
between him and the Reeiey; then General
Butler is killed over again: and Governor
Marcy is clapped under an extinguisher;
and Mr. Speaker Boyd is put into an ex-
hausicd receiver; and the mcaas az qua is
given by which Democratic no,abiIiiies
have been in time past immortalized in the
Democratic Reoieao, by means Of steel en-
cravings and purchased biographies
We wish the present proprIetors, by the
way, would send us file of the Reciep
for the last year or two, or as far back as
may be convenient, that we may under
stand who are the individual nohodies that
have been thus buying for themselves
niche in the temple Of fame. Young Ameri-
ca discusses them with vengeance, and
we should be pleased with an opportunity
Of aiding in quiet way their laudable el-
forts for distinction. Bless US, fthese De-
mocrats would all turn out and tell what
they know of each other, juat as the Re
rieW instructs us in the secrets of old cogy-
ism, we should have such revelations as
the world never saw. or heard of, or
dreamed ofbeiore! 1t is clear enough that
the days Of old fogyism are numbered; and
If Marcy, Buchanan, Boyd, Cass, Butler,
Wool, and their associate old fogies do
not all ground their arms and go in for The
candidate of the Democratic ReeieY be-
fore the meeting ofthe Baltimore Conven-
ton. then they will be the most migrate.
ful and unthlnhng set of gentlemen in the
world. They are doomed to be swallow
ed whole by Judge Douglas, and they may
as well submit with good grace as bad
one. "If "M-. Marshall of California, Mr..
Smith of Alabama, Mr.. Soule of Louisiana,
Mr.. Wilcox Of Mississippi, and Colonel
Polk Of Tennessee"-whom the Re3iew
seems to rely upon as the representative
men Of Young America-if these gentle
men, backed by" Young Washington" and
the ReCiev. cannot nominate and elect a
President for these twenty-three millions
Of people, we should very much ike to
know scAo can be trusted in such premi-
ses!
There are some passages in this article,
we are sorry to say, that are not cractiy
fit for family reading-a little too French
for Saxon maiden-but, with the advent
OF Young America. we shall probably be-
come accustomed to this new style. We
think in one or two instances the illustra-
tons are drawn from sources that nothing
but the sentiment of Democratic progress
could reconcile to American ears; but we
shall find it all right, no doubt, by the time
the contagious" islands in the Atlantic
tinental empire. Nobody but an old fogy.
however, would object to these somewhat
highly-colored passages, and we should
not have alluded TO them bat that we dc.
sire to present the cause Of progress in eve
ry aspect, that all may know what we are
TO expect in the good time coming"
But we are gossipping, while We with
hold from our readers the beauties of the
Reriew. And first, we will examine what
the new Democratic editors say Of their
Democratic Predecessors Mr.. Brecken-
ridge had compmentcd the latter at the
expense of Mr.. Sanders and his coadiu-
tors. The RcCiea0 retorts in style ofabuse
tbatis really Bentonan:
THE REVIEWS ANTECEDENTs.
In the times, and under the management
spoken of by Mr.. Breckenridge as SO Jif-
lerent from the present, the Democratic
ReUicv was not only ga mere partisan
Sheet" but the most determined and IN
consistent Of partisan sheets. 1t was the
partisan Of any who pleased to employ i,
for the time being. To be sure, it may be
contended it was not steadiast or consistent
for two issues together, even in its folly;
for, with distinguished impartiality, it
changed its partisanship every month, pre-
cisely as the Wig Rceie,o still exhibits its
chameleon hues, according to the por-
traiture of each successive individual who
may have been SO ludicrously egotisiical
as to desire the Immortality, in its columns,
of being depicted, in fall face, as quack
politician, or Moaatt-pil and Townsend
sarsaparilla statesman. These pill and sar-
saparilla statesmen, principally Of the old
fogy class; these pill and sarsapa-
rilla statesmen, we say, mere advertisers
of quack medicines, viz: their own per.
sonal and political virtues and claims upon
the Democratic party, really owned tho
Democratic Regicw in the days so admired
by Mr.. Breckenridge.
Tho Rcriclr, then, every month presen-
ted new pariisanship for some newly
discovered celebrity and old .togy reprcsen-
tatire, ac1o could pay his bill in round num-
bers. What should have been the great
representative Of the Democratic party,
the tutor and mouth piece of the people,
the guardian of their liberties and the ad
wiser Of their course; what should have
been. we say, the manly and abovc-board
utterer of the unuttered. but deeply and
lastngly-fclt, ideas of the Democracy of
this Republic and Of the world. became
and was, under such hands. the mere scac-
enger ofpolitical garbage, tie mere cagraut
partisan efhoary and boasJal incompe-