Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-05-08
COLU M B u S.:
Wednesday Morning, May ), 1852.

Young America.
Below will be found some extracts from the De1ao-
cratic ReUieto, for March. We cannot as we desired
to do, give the whole article it being lengthy for
insertion in our columns. We have presented some
of the slaShing paragraphs, and from these the
reader conclude what the spirit and temper of the
whole is 1t is time that old Hunkerism, alias, old
Fogyism, ceased to rule in party ters and hail
the advent of the ReUiesc a favorable omen We
take this occasion to recommend the Review to the
consideration of our friends. 1t is worthy of patron
age
Young America is not the offspring of old fogy-
dom. Being wise in our generation, and being
determined not to be burthened with more fathers
than there is any need for, we declare that the
young democracy either in its principles or its &C
ton, has connection either in blood policy con
sangulnlty or look, with those antIquated, stiff
cravated personages who have hitherto regarded
themselves as the owners Of the democratic party,
as the holders Of the key of its prnciples-which
they lock up draw forth Just as ii suits them
and to what extent it suits them-who have been
incubi and mere clogs upon progress and Repub
lican Advancement who individually are deficient
in everything, excepting questionable InedocTity;
yet who have, from the over-generous prodigality
of the people IN piping times ofpeace, obtained
positions as a boon and as a charity, the contlnu
ance of which they now claim, in times of mmi-
nent peril, and to the detriment of their benefac
tors, right and who, in the party, have
been drones, toying idly after the genius of the
Republic and slipping thankessly the honey, and
sleeping in the domciles earned and reared by the
energy and the soldiership of the people.
The very kindness of the democratic party to
them in past times, however mistaken or over
done, gives sanctity to their foies, and an i'm
punity to their ncompetency it would be ungener-
Gus in to disregard farther than is necessary to
Justify ourselves in the course we have pursued,
and are bound in honor to pursue. No party
which has ever been known in the history of the
world, excepting only the Democratic of the Uni
ted States, could have existed under the pressure
and parastlcal ruin of so vast aggregate of IN
capables, that which we have had the uneXam-
pied honor of supporting.
Immortal principles of our forefathers n'-old
fogyism ever deficient in originality, purpose, aim
unless selfish one-in capacity to grapple with
the time, to conceive the necessities of the time,
or measure the desires or wishes of the people
among which it lives-has nothing for liberty
or progress, even policy, but to humble over
'the immortal principles of our forefathers."
They did not sit idly the grave of their fa
TIERS rafting old bones, and saying fethey die
well--we can do more" They did more
they justified their existence on earth by reclaim
ing earth to freedom, and by assiduous work s.
must any party which would Justly succeed them
sions from his principles or from the principles o
his party, is unfit to profess them to belong t
It. This want of faith IN democratic principle, IL
the rectitude and inevitable success of its de
velopment, has been, and is, the vital weakness
of our party during allits defeats. We want NJ
man, who shivers at the idea of his own thunder
to grasp, with shaking hands, the bolt. We wan
no advocate who is ''afraid' of the most utter de
velopment of democratic principle; for an advo
cate not convinced of the justice and truth OF tn
cause he assumes TO defend, is of more aid to hi
antagonists than to his friends, and of right be
longs to the former. We want no dextrous or tim
orous defence-for the infdel priest makes but
poor missionary.
1t proves what we have asserted that old foov
ism assumes the rule of the people as a right
that it coneeives it oWns the party and the Re
publIc-that all blessings and boons must com
through it-thatit ''ameorate the people'' O
not as it pleases,. and that the people should b
very much obliged to it, if it settles its famil
uuarrels with ITSELF gets into the White House
and begins to try Such besotted folly become
well the ancient section and the advocate. But a
for the people, we incline to believe that 1t wi
t'ameliorate'' old-fogyism after the most approve
fashion, and that over-soon. The American pee
pie may endure folly in ancient favorite, bl
not insult either from him or one of Its qadS1 rel
resetatyes
In those golden days of the Democratic Review
which Mr.. Breckenridge has so warmly praised
in contra distinction to its present unhappy error
lin those blissful days for small politicians, whe
as has been for years, and is, at present, the eu
tom of our cotemporary, the American Wing Re
view,-any gentleman could have beautiful ma
of his countenance, tastefuly decorated, and set o
IN Its pages, together with gorgeous and higf
fown biography, enumeratlng events this hard
memoried world had altogether forgotten, or ha
never remembered, and distributing virtues abou
as prodigally and as falsely stonecutting al
tist in the eptaph line of business-in those spler
did days of literary independence, when the De
mocratic Review not the organ of any poit
cal principle or party, in any sense but the fac