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

of beauty and universal depository for general
pufing-when, in fact, it had to depend, no on
strength, or originality, or vgor, or the interest
felt in it by the Democrats of the Union at large
but upon the will and personal interest, more or
less, of the democratic members at Washington
We are not guided by any desire to please Wash
ngton, and probably we could have secured the
aid and goodwill of Mr.. Breckenridge and all 9TH
ers concerned, had we published the likeness of
several old fogies. with biographies of their own
manufacture. However, decline further trade
in soap, having on hand large quantity of the
article in the shape of grand biographies of small
men, each beginning with the love affairs of the
celebrated subject when wonderful infant, and
ending with last great oration over compliment
tary supper table, which will present to the or
gan now in the soap trade, putting agent for
the old-fogy folks of our party whoa still afflict
ed with itch of seeing themselves in print at all
hazards to their personal reputation and to historic
truth,--tLe Washington Union. We really de-
light to see these ancient persons showing them
selves up, and would have continued the operation
of shaving them in our glass-of flally sham
pooing them, inserting curl here a compliment
there, strong democratic look of impudence, Ga
little drunk in third a solemn sagacious stu
pid aspect in a fourth, as if putting his tongue in
his cheek at common sense but that, with all its
dirty little perquistes, the thing would not pay.
HiHc HB ldchry9pG--hence, the fret of the fogies
We prefer personal loss to the questionable SER
vice of telling lies about these old gentlemen, in
asmuch the simple truth would answer our pur
pose much better. What no more portraits Of
little men mo more Immortality purchasable at
the old broker office, which had sold more great
characters, and had ''gotten up" by the aid of
a clever artist, more illustrtous statesmen in clean
Shirts on copper, than America ever in the days
of Washington had been conscious Of possessing.
What frighfuEly youthful perverson OF Z" Democrat
ic principle !'-what ''wd and visionary pro-
gress !'-what infamous disregard for the ''im-
mortal principles of our foTetathers - Not a sin
gle bill Of exchange on the broken foey bank OF
fame, no. single draft on the creduty of poster
ty to be further had at the old exchange Office at
any cost Our Democratic Review had taken a
VOW of literary chastity, declared It's detcrmina-
ton not to accept the Office ola literary prostitute
and to take to its fresh and virgin sheets none
but those worthy of ImmoTtaIty's embrace
What a terribly cold and freezingly virtuous reso-
luton What a marble hearted Diana and
with such virtue and hauteur and taste, what was
to come of the old fogies? poor old fellows
too old to hope to win with worthy effort, manly
woong of ofRepubcanism, the smiles from he new
deity, they had so easily and extrayagantly OBJ
tanned at all times) from the old harridan with
her dingy, led and wizened face, her weak and
unsteady body dizened out with the huge ''Wash-
ington head" brooch, on her quadroon and wrnk-
led bosom All, me what EaS to become Of old
foges Some declared it ''positively ridiculous
Others that it was all very good in different
state of .ssociety" but with US it would not do
pay, sir was the thing
When the the Democratic Review, during each
and every year, cobbled up, put into shape, thrust
uponthe public, and sustained with its best abil
ity and the most surprising cffrontery, several
and as many and distinct, and often antagonistic
candidates for the presidential chair, violent in
diguation, not murmur or look of Jealousy
was excited in the breast of, now, the most crate
} and virtuously indignant fogy.
1t would be affecting the reader to detail
= the facial contortions of the venerable fogies, a
each came before their obligingIy universal artist
thy struggle to put the best face on their effron
terry was painful to the venerable sufferers. Some
: old gentleman sat for hours comforting and purs
ing their lips, to look implacably stern, ant
awfully democratic, and powerfully Jacksonan
e Others, stiiened up and threw back some few
hairs, so as to appear ola staesmanlike character
: on the outside of their badness, resembling, ever
IoRgo inter0alLo, the noble Calhoun. Another dis
j tinguished democrat, more sagacious and withal
adventurous, discovering steel plate copied ror
b the English one of the late Sir Robert Peel, c
, which the body had been finished, but the fac
e merely touched in outline; and conceiving tha
the attitude given by the artist for the great Brit
r ish Tory would be exceedingly dignifed for a
American democrat, and would be, wtha becom
! ing to himself actually purchased the plate, pre-
d served the body, had poor Sir Roberts head CT
= off, and his own countenance inserted in its plac
/ and the American democracy, not the club {
% Washington, but the people, the only Democrat
i. party we will s-oop to recognize, have for yeal
/ been worshiping this senseless mask located 0
Of the shoulders of British body as ga great Amer
20 lean democratic statesman - and the same may
n at any time be seen in our office
: In It's heart, it was the focus and stronghold
of pufery, of political deception, of fanfaronnad
10 of literary wire-pulling, biographical blowing an
r, Barnumage of distinguished political career
1t Buneombe, and all the vile and and contemptib
p arts and subterfugas by which old fogydom has
D long imposed itself upon the public and upon ii
lie country pressing like horrd nightmare upon tt
is young and surging bosom of the American demo-
g racy The horrid and vile phantom sat there
grnning and blowing spectre its hoary hair stream
a ing with the small devils OF every political vice,
male gorgon with legs lean and skinny, danglir
= on our sides, carelessly spurrng beneath i
: phantasmc horrors, and fists like harpies' claw
e. beating on panied and suffoeating breast
le own praises in ''devil's tattoo
Or Vices we have attacked, mean, paltry, conteml
be tible vices, which have already brought our par
" to one defeat and would now bring it to anoth
e. -wretched driveling practices we have attacked
es the practice of electing mbeces to power, becau
they are not fit for it, and good for nothing else
Ill the practice of basing suppositious fitness f
ed ruling nation, personal unftness to rule one
SELF the practice of regarding the democratic pa
ut ty as property the practice of smothering Il