New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-20

sapc,imonious pretensions IN chastity IL
is stupendous confidence machine con-
stantly rolling on, whose managers swinoie
at every step. The term " Democratic
sanctifes every enormity and every inlqu'-
ty which they choose to perpetrate. Many
of them, though the biggest rascals out OF
the State Prison, mount rostrums, pen
stupid essays, and dilate in the newspa-
pers with an air of mock honesty smooth
faced, sleek, white cravated, superfine pre-
tension of regard for truth, Justice, and
popular rights, that would shame all the
moving spirit out of Quaker meeting for
= month. unless it was the spirit of indig-
nant rebuke and condemnation. The devil
grins at many exhibitions of Loco-Focoism.
What. for instance, can there be in the
spirit that animates the Satanic Press IN
common with the spirit of independence
of reform and benefceuce, that gave this
nation its existence, and to-day animates
Ten thousand hearts all over the world, with
passionate desires for the amelioration OF
human conditions, the freedom of mankind
from slayish subsection to self-coustltuteo
rulers. and the advancement of human So
cietv! The ultimate idea of all which
finds compendious expression 10 the term
" Democratic" when applied to political
parties. Pah If spurious Democracy
in this country is an idol that the artless
worship, so is it the SOrertign to the cring-
ing, the obsequious. the mercenary and
the corrupt; before whom they bow, and
at whose feet they offer their gifts as they
would offer them under other circum-
stances to Sultan or Car.
We labor hopefully for the overthrow
and utter destruction of the great carcass of
sham Democracy. in the confident belief
that what it covers and actually repre-
sents is really one of the most offensive
things on earth to every enlightened mind
that is warmed by the impulses of a gen.
erous heart. We see In it nothing but the
fossil remains of once living thing. 1t is
to Us but the embamed body of once fair
and beaming nature, instinct with fer
vent soul, and martyr spirit, but whence
the informing and inspiring genius has
forever fled.
"Why should this worthless tegument
endured" Democracy par excellence here,
to-day, in this year of grace 1852, while
protesting progress, and the welfare of the
people, and the guardianship of human
rights, is the most ruthless trampler upon
those rights, the most Indifferent and soul
less spectator of the urgent wants of labor,
the most inveterate conservative, anti pro-
gressive organization the country holds.
1t makes 1t its greatest aim to do nothing,
unless it be to encourage the growth of
a sort of hen-roost robbing disposition
toward our neighbors. So far as the in
teTest of labor is concerned, what does
Democracy" propose, but to let it alone,
to take care of itself. Our people fail to
obtain the natural and just reward of their
toll, and when Democracy is asked to con-
slider those interests, it looks wise, shakes
its head, and declares that Democracy as
expounded by the resolutions of '96, and
more moderDly by Father Richie and
Father Abraham, and other shining lights
down South, is not permitted TO
do any such thing. That to be guilty of
so heinous an act as that, would be very
aristrocratic and 1" federal" Thus SYM
pathetic, thus helping, thus fraternal, and
we may add, thus sapient, is democracy"
where the vast and vital question of the re-
wards Of labor is concerned. This is its
answer to the toiling millions whose inter-
ests 1t processes to espOuse, whose ears it
is eternally trying to tickle, but whose
backs it will not do the first thing to cover,
nor whose bellies will it move a finger to
fill.
So, too, is it in regard to the urgent de-
mands of millions of our population for
the benefcent exercise of the power of
the Government to facilitate internal
transportation over natural channels,
where Government alone has the full pow
er to act, and upon whom devolves the sole
duty of acting; and for such protection on
our vast inland seas as shall render measur-
ably secure from certain peril, and often
from swift destruction, the uncounted
millions of value, and the endless stream
of population that is borne upon their ca
PRECIOUS bosom. Here, too, does fossil