Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-04-23
Democratic Review.

UemOcTatIc heNAS w.
The Democratic Review for March is on our table,
and is decidedly a fast periodical although rather
slow in coming. Its leading article is headed Con-
gress, the Presidency and the review" 1t is bitter
in the extreme and has a dashing spiashing and
flashing vein of savagery which makes it piquant as
pepper sauce, and with little really nutritious
qualities. It il down upon certain gentlemen on the
shady side of ffty> denominated IN the fashionable
slang of the day. old Fogies, and it, rather its
present propretors turn fercely upon their prede-
cessors who were old Foges also
That progress is essential we know, and that as
republic ceases to progress so soon are its
liberties in danger but we must confess, that We
had supposed progress to mean some advance.-some
improvement upon our predecessors-not the total
abandonment of all the advantages to be derived
from the lessons which their experience might fur
nsh. 1t is much easier to tear down than to build
up, much easier to denounce than to construct and
this we think the Democratic Review will discover
Folks able Secretary Of State: and the distinguish
ed gentlemen, who in the same Cabinet presided
oyer the War and Treasury Departments, well as
tie gentleman who is essentially identified with the
growth of the West and whose victory the Qun-
Rtupe alliance in 1871 stamp him both as true patri-
W XII anu otutcSLIdIi;
can hardly be regarded by the American people as I'M
beetle Or Old Fogy = and yet these men, to wit Blu
chanan, Marcy RobertJ Walker Cass, and such like
those against whose character and standing the
50 Democratic Review" runs such muck. 1t can
only find with any sort of common sense,
and that is Judge Doug asa very clever, talented,
and worthy genteman-worthy certainly, Of more
discreet advocate. But presume the Review is a
good speculation, and it kicks up FUSS will get
readers and subscribers, if not from accordance of
sentiment, at least from curiosity.
1t is unfortunate for Judge Douglas chances at
the present time, that the Review has taken the
it has The result of war of one against ma
ny, can easily be foreseen, and although MIR. Doug
las himself is sincerely believe, above using such
weapons still, as public man, he cannot be com
pletely separated from his friends nor avoid being
implicated to some extent in the odium of their
course.
The dashing style of the Review has attracted
some attention, and excited some feeling which
however. must subside, there is no solid founda-
ton for it and the enterprise will comparatively &C
down, CT the writer's be forced to moderate THEN
| tone
Energy and progress are the essential elements oil
all Democraces, and Democratic Governments must
act in accordance with the inherent impulses of the
people, else they cease to be, in fact, governments
but it must not be forgotten that all prevalent ten
denotes, without some checks or balances are prone
to run into excess, and that fxity of principle anc
for ascertaned truth and the facts which
are the Developments of experience, are even more
essential to a republic than to any other form O
| Government Thnra is - p,odiup, in oil oc
prudence would say, that in order to avoid the dan
gers of fire, it will hardly be safe to jump into the
sea and be drowned. To avoid the errors of FEEDER
asm it is by no means necessary to plunge into the
wild sea of unconstitutional change and innovation
for boys to denounce old and experienced states
men Fogies.