Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-02-25

any body were to ask the french hepubllc why
it did these naughty things, the said Republic
| would not hesitate to reply await for '52!" In
short, this ''52" comes around and around again
to US in these political 'Rappings' of the De-
mocratic Review, in one eternally revolving cy-
cle,-just as, in the ronda of the nursery, ev-
er and anon we come to ''the house that Jack
built" The "Peoples" will have nothing said
or done for them, but in '52'' Give them all
they ever desired or prayed for it is nothing, if
not in ''52!'' 'sThank'ee for nothing
will have '52' and ''notltin' but It,"
But why all this pother about 1852? and why
anticipated every where for exactly four years
Softly, gentle reader !-'do you smoke no hum-
bug here :" This is "'52 ~ the year to elect
a President-our friends dissertation is headed
Eighteen hundred and filty-two and the Presi-
dency" He was just going to inform us where
you interrupted him, what "'52" will do forus.
He says 1.-The American, People similarly
duped into the worship of a name merely victo-
rious," General Taylor)- similarly rent asun-
der by the conflicting passions of man who
preferred personal ambition to the triumph Of
democracy" (little Van,) yielded cotemporane-
ously with the French People the power Of
the American Republic, and the control
and use Of ats Government the o6ces,) sim
TO the hands of a party-colored faction, cele-
brated but for one thing since the birth of our
National existence, persistent defiance o. the Ma
honat witt"-(from which you must learn that
whenever the Nation elects Wing President
1t does an act despite of ITSELF and against its
own will. You must know further, that dur
ing the flour years of anti-democratic rule'' of
Presidents Taylor and Fillmore, 'soutrages have
been inflicted on our Nationality, more humiIi-
ating to our Republic, of seventy years, than ON
the French Republic of four years existence;''
'sour diplomacy has been surrendered to an Eng
llsh Embassador''- Police systems to the
uses of Spanish AGENT There have been
1.-THE permitted and consistent seizures, by hos
tile and monarchical power, of whole tracts OF
American soil, and of the most advantageous
passages between our Atlantic and Pacific States.
our ships have been fired into aUih impunitu,
both by Spanish and British ships of war; Cen
trail America has been surrendered to the Bri-
fish local authorities there has been ssthe I'M
punished slaughter of fifty of our citizens with
out a trial in Cuba; the permitted transportation
OF some hundred more under similar circum-
stances, to Europe and to Africa; the base sub
teyases OF our administration jushtyimg these
Spanish atrocities, knoaclng them to be subter-
tuges''-( from which we must infer that there
! are some subterfuges of which one may be gull
| ty aoithom knowing iD-the submission, withou,
even proper rebuke, to distinct threat of coer-
| cion on the part Of three leagued despotisms Of
| Europe; the permitted and hostile attitude Of
the British fleet, now off Vera Cruz, to blockade
| or lombard it; and last, but not least, the con-
| version Of the administrative organs and of the
| machi merry of the White House to the use o,
Austria, in promulgating falsehoods the most
cruel, and calumnies the most insulting against
| the character of man invited by the Nation r.
our shores, are crimes for which the American
Nation is chargeable before God and man, and
from the obloquy Of whach ,aoe seek to relieue the
National reputation By the election of '52''-
| There reader, you have it! and to redeem us
| from these s'woes unnumbered," inflicted by
| Wing rule, comes this same '52-anticipated bv
| our down-trodden masses, and the down-trodden
masses of Europe alike, as "For1nula oftime''-
! San abstract nonentity''-'sa Brutus," and ian
avenger'' for the last fom years. "He comes, this
Brutus OF years, to restore the will of her Peo-
pie to the rule of the United States, and to ex-
tinguish, under the very dome of the Capitol,
the imperial principles of the modern Caesar.
even throughth mantle of British purple which
enfolds them! A second Hercules, he comes, to
cleanse the Augean stable, to hurl out the guilty,
and restore nth a food Of Democratic poaUer the
purity of our institutions !!!n'
To attempt seriously to refute or expose this
tissue of preposterous and impossible Pigments.
is no part of our purpose-for it were an affront
to the intelligence of our readers. By them
they will be laughed at. Not so, however by
all-and everywhe re-not SO among the igno-
rant and infammable multitudes in our large CT
ties-among the ardent and excitable of our
youth--the thousands whom the reckless and
unrestrained license and love of adventure pre-
paree for war and insult for the calm pursuits of
peace. For that there is aUar party in this
country--a propaganda party-a party which
would acquire power over young, ardent, grow
ing people by inflammatory appeals, commonly,
but too cessful-to its love of glory-its con-
seriousness fstrength-its desire ofacquisition-
its restless love ofaction-its hatred of repose-
is too evident to be questioned or denied. This
very effusion, with all its flsian and afectation
we must suppose from the time and the place
r - Il
wishes of avery considerable portion of combi-
nation powerful in numbers; and from its tone
and temper to give expression to the views of
those who are fond of calling themselves the
g Young Democracy"-''Y Dung America''-
fifty to designate, we infer, their plentiful lack
of discretion. and to show how very far removed