The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-06-03

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Mvsr Be whatme have said Il IS: tks amigo.
Aiist Of az good govsrslnisat asa nplional trss.
dom. There are great many belonging t.
the Democratic party ii this country, who
ARE Wnias but unfortunately, they are mol
laware of il. When you get to The bottom
Of their political creed, such as il Is. you
End that they are really conservative to the
/ full extent of the meaning Of the word. and
that they are in favor Of allimportant Wing
measures They would go in for the pre-
lection of home interests. and home indus.
TRY, for the advancement Of home prosperi-
Ety, for internal improvement. and everything
Ielse essential to make their country what it
should be, the Creates, most prosperous.
and most powerful nation in the world: but
alasl they don't know it. till they are told sol
As we have said, they have not. in their
connection with party, the most remote idea
Eof what they are about; they are dazzled
by the charm which hangs around that
mighty word Democracy '-the title swal-
lows up all lesser considerations; they forget
everything else. in fact, they don't know
anything else but that they are Democrats
and go in for Liberty?"
They think that Democracy is liberty?
Liberty is Law, liberty is order. liberty is
protection. protection Of your rights. pro-
lection Of your property. protection Of your
privileges. of your religion. Of your freedom.
of your lives, Of your good name;-that
every man in the nation, no matter how
poor and Insignificant he may be, may stand
upon his own soil, and beneath his own roof,
and enjoy all those blessings and privileges
which God has given him, free. unmolested,
and irresponsible This is Liberty! and this
| is THE liberty for which the Wing party has
ever been striving. and to which it viii al
ways be true. All history shows US that
Democracy has ever been the enemy and
destroyer of this kind of liberty. The trou-
BILE about Democracy is, that it is liberty
run mad: and it sinks into anarchy, and
ends in Despotism. There IS two kinds of
liberty; and there Is vile difference be-
tween them. One is natural liberty, which
is that of the savage in his widest stat.
where each man in the community is entire
II independent, and accountable for his ac-
tons only to himself; holding his life, and
his possessions. by the exertions of his own
individual power. gaining BY that power all
that surrounds him, and losing, consequent
ly, every thing he possesses whenever there
is any one else strong enough to take his
possessions away from him. The other is
political, civil, RkpUBIroAN liberty, which is
natural liberty made SO far subject to res
traint by government and law as is neses-
sary and expedient for the general welfare
and advantage of the community. Of1hese
two species of liberty there are various de.
grees, butt is only of the two extremes we
wish to speak. Towards the first tends
Democracy: and herein lies its great attrac-
ton, and its charm; it would possess, not
only the greatest possible amount of SATuR-
AL liberty that can be enjoyed consistently
with social responsibility. but it would have
little MoREl Ever weary of the restraint
Imposed BIZ constitution and laws. It IS
ever disposed to alter, and remodel. and
abolish: continually striving to lessen or to
free itself from that allegiance and obedi-
ence to any established we'll regulated code
of civil action which is SO necessary to the
Ipermaneney Of government, and to the
prosperity of is people. Il is the 'Vox
Populi'' in The most ultra and extended
sense of the term. It assumes, that it IS.
the right Of the people, notmerely to make
their own government and laws to suit Them
selves. but also, to alter or abolish them
entirely whenever passing caprice Of &
majority Of their number fancies it expedi
entto do so, Ii considers tAe people as the
source Of al power. The foundation Of all
law: their will shall be supreme: they may
make what laws they choose to-day, and
they may change them tomorrow Or. if Q
majority Of them think It best not to have.
any government At al thsy may abolish
that, resolve society back into IS original
elements, and i've d the chaos 81 perfect.
natural individually irresponsible freedom!
Admitting that there GOULD be such i
thing As rERmASnnq De cratic Govern
meft, mARRA0TRD 10 Last FOREVER, what
We ask such being its nature would be
Of its institutions what would
be the protection q life and property
where would be the assurance Of safety ii