Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-03-25

| ty, at the very time when all. person
! al aspirations should have been sacri
feed for the common good. The re
suit Of the elections in the Democrat
ic counties of McA1inn, Brady, o
Polk, MeNIinn and Monroe-Haw
kins--lIawllins, Green and Wash
ington-Giles, Humphreys and Ben.
ton-and several Democratic Sena-
torial Districts, all sending Whig
members, are sad evidences Of that
want of organization and united ex-
ertions which alone can lead in q
doubtful contest to triumph and sue
cess. f Our candidate for Governor
carried counties sufficient to have
.givenRs eight majority on joint bal
lot inIthis Leg gislature, and yet our
opponents have majority Of ten on
Joint ballot. The corrective is in
the hands of t be Democratic party in
the State, and it must be applied, or
the Democracy must strike theirtlme-
worn flag, OF linger on without res
pectable existence. We speak plain
ly. The occasion demands it. Your
principles for which you have con
tended in many hard fought fields
have been trium umphantly established,
beyond the reach Of overthrow They
have stood the scrutiny Of talent
Their wisdom vii, be tested by II me.
1t is for you to de termine whether,
by supineness by want of organize :
tion-by conflicting claims for polit-
ical honors-N petty divisions, and
by ingloriousN inactivity, you will
Weld the fruits Of hard earned yieto- :
ries, to a foe held together alone by
a cohesiveness produced by the mem :
ory of their past conflicts, after til :
principles for which those conflict 5
were wagcd ha ge been abandoned ~
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them.
The results Of the late elections
are now seen and felt. A Senator tp
Congress has been elected. The
State has been aPportioned into Con-
gressional and Legislative Districts /,
by a dominant pd rty, with view di
maintaining unlisputed political power
for ten years to dolne; two out OF the
ten Congress- on hl Districts alone
have been given to the Democracy,
and one left dol pbtful, when, by the
present represfnt1 1,tion, We have seven
to four. In the Legislative appor-
tionment there is even a greater dis
regard of our rights than IN the Con-
gressional. They have retained to
themselves seven majority in the
lower branch Of the Legislature and
nine in the Senate e, in the violation OF
what wf conceive to be the plainest
principles Of jus fice and equity, and
the Spirit Of the Constitution. There
is right and a wrong in politics, as
we'll assin indiviliu action. If the
justification Of a political wrong can
be placed upon Il pe grounds Of party
triumph and the attainment Of polit-
ical power, the II those rules and max
inns, established and acquiesced in by
the common Judgment of mankind,
by which party action is restrained
within the limits, wisely prevented
! by an enlightened public opinion to
individual action. will be entirely
swept away, and no measure for the
exercise of power be acknowledged
besides the unrestrained un will of a trl
umphant majority. It's easy to see
to what results such a course of poll
cy would lead. A precedent estab
lished by one party would be followed
by the other, until party would de
generate into faction, and all the baC
passions of our nature inflamed Ii
proportion to the Importance of th'
contest and the dan gers Of defeat.
That the successful party shoul(
claim the advantage is not to be de
MED. That the opposing part.
should not be proscribed is equal,
undeniable. If the Legislature ha'
been Democr; ;ltic We are free to say
whatever sincerity may be attribute
to the declaration by our opponents
the State would have been distrlcte'
with due regard to the locality, con
venience and pop pulation Of the differ
ent Districts, and with create
equality in the distribution Of politi
cal power-at It the same time retain
, ing the adyan ntage to the Democracy
Though apparently in hopeless mi
nority until the next apportionmenl'
! the united an ID vigorous efforts OF IN
Democracy can triumph over ever
) obstacle. There is a fatality alway