Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-05-08

mouth piece ana Nenelnenb arm OF L Oung Amefl-
ca, and died its hero and its leader But since the
great old hickory soul of him was gathered into
the choicest circles of the society of Elysum,
Young America has known no leader no fit
mouth piece no master -hand. Now it wants one
and must have it, whatever old lumber stand in
the way. And though we desire to respect the
old lumber, and handle it gently on its removal
we cannot be melted to leniency by its presuming
to liken itself to the great and living heroes of
Young America. Out fogydom out
2 We have manhoods, and our selfrespect,
if others are deficient in such vulgar and unpolite
qualities and will none of your toadyism, at any
cost. Nay, do you hear, Fogy stupid old driv-
eer that you are we are democrats-democrats
to the backbone, and we hate a man who leans
on his grandfather, or boasts kin With any one
Rather than be your toady and your organ, and
your vile conveniency, and your partisan of gene
illogical pretensions, we will c1ndescend to be the
partisan of any body who is man. We will even
condescend to be the partisan of Judge Douglass,
as Mr.. Breckenridge has falsely charged we were
We will take up even Judge Douglas, or any intel
hgent hod-carrer, if he have the needful brains
and courage, and bind ourseles to the uses of, at
least, somebody who is a man, who is in himself
something, not descended from ''iery ordeals'
and mountain crossers," and nothing else We
will say of Judge Douglass, as an mple--here
is man who neger lad a grandfather, that we
any of the ancient states that we ever heard Of
He is not as tall as Mr.. B: he does not
weigh two hundred pounds, and has no family in
hertance of *legslating" for as good men as HIM
self In short, he Is not anybody we do not even
know that he was ever born, and it may be- that
he neyerwas but that possibly he came into the
world in some outlandish and democratic fashion.
His primogenitors, from Adam down, never wrote
poetry at least, if they tried, history has care
fully, and with, no doubt, most sensitive dscre-
ton to the feelings and ears of postcriy, burned
the manuscript, instanter. Who his father was,
we never asked. All we know about him, Sin
point of fact, is, that he is good democrat, and
very queer sort OF a go-a-head individual, in his
own person, without grandfather, yet learned,
wise, practcal-and ifhe only had confidence in
Young America and its destiny, and courage to
! grasp the helm, and not stay mewing himself up
! in Washingtonian ''circlcs,' palsied by fogyism,
but resign his seat in the Senate, leave that fogy
atmosphere which doth ''make towards of US all, y
and get out among the people, put on clean shirt
every day, patronze, his barber, and abiuring the
short-sighted policy Of questioning the Democrat
ic Review about anything it does, and goa head
with will--he would make most excellent and
truly democratic candidate Who his family may
have been, cannot inform polite circles, or the
public. He is simply Judge Douglass, of Hi
nois, carpenter and SENATOR and his friends are
naturally anxious be should now renew his former
trade of 'cabinet- making" Who his father may
have been nobody probably he is the son
of gun, or an axe, or plane, or mallet for he
shayes opinions, cuts deep and strikes hard. What
gymnastc performances he may have exhibited il
his nurses arms, we cannot inform the public
Probably he was wet nursed on chisel The
possibility of this fact fully accounts for his hav
ing cut his eye-teeth so early. He sawed up his
genealogical tree long ago, and has nothing bu
himself left to put in the presidential chair He
was turned out of the university of the lathe,
proper democrat and finally, after much exertion
graduated on the bench, first carpentorial, ther
judicial. And now having more jobbing t.
do, he presents himself not with old platform
but with the materials, and the mind, and the en-
ergy, to shape, fashion, and make enduring,
platform of his own design, very democratic, very
Y oung American and very goa-head. And 81
he takes his stand as a carpenter We would pre-
fer, we repeat to play ''organ, even in this style
to without grandfather, than to puff, ant
blow, and.slaver, as old fogydom requires US
And if Judge Douglass carpenter and senator
: will not do then let us have the hod carrier, o
the brick-layer, who is himself brick or tn
joiner, to *'save the country or anybody who
f a man, and has no grandfather If the press
g to be slave, let not have disgusting old fo
t gies for masters-Iet us have at least men t
: choke us.
4 Now the difference between our management c
: this Review and that of our predecessors, is Jus
this-and the sooner candidates for the presidency
t and for everything else in the immortality ne IN
derstand it, the better-our predecessors held to
t on the presidential course, kept turnpike, 81
point of fact, on the path to immortality, admit
s ted any fine horse, small nag, rickety pony
n spawned old carrion, that offered himself on an
: principles, provided he could pay the toll, an
/, paid it. Having poeketed the funds, they CAV
him cheer and biographical ''asde, - to keep u
d his heart on his way, of length and heartiness
J, and sincerity in precise proportion to the amonr
of his toll We, too, stand on the course, as den
y ocratic care-taker but will take very goo
e care, should spawned nags or lame ponies like on
o beaten old fogy hacks, or rickety cobs, preser
e themselves for admission to tell them at once thu
e they are humbugs that they calculated to IL
ure the credit of the course, and our own indiviC
a ual credit, one of the keepers of the same ths
l. they had better 90 home and lie up; that whs
a look like strong legs in them merely wind bag
G of chronic putting that they are sno go;'' th;
IS they cannot come it, &C., d.; and finally, tha
5, without knocking us down, they cannot get IN.
IS Do they think that gentlemen wishing to be pre-
idents are so very scarce and hard to be purcha
J. ed, that we will stoop to make terms with sscal
y didate the market is so high, or burthel
II ed with few competitors, that we must silver Il
pill of liberty to get president to swallow it
sc that we must get up cautiously platform, an
carpet it over, and take out the democracy and IL
IL fire boys, to induce candidate to govern US
s Fogydom had better get rid of that mistake an
r quickly too. General Butler endorses the con
lie promise measures Indeed Well, we are muc