Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-11-09

AAGhD ANOSA- @ olLS0AdI
constrast to the appearance of its busy sur.
face a few years since, when the views of par
ty leaders were ~oracles and when the rigid
ly disciplined cohorts of partizan ambition
marched steadfastly to the polls, under the
banners of Democracy and Whigism. To a
great degree the old party ties have been
severed, and new ones have not yet been
knit. 1t is a time of leisure in the political
arena, and every ambitious mortal, who can
afford to pay his landlords bill, is staving
through his district, making speeches, de-
claiming in favor Of his own darling, and en-
tering a pepper and salt philippe against his
neighbours scheme or personal hobby and
as the best medium through which to reach
the public ear, he seizes the political trumpet
and blasts away in the political arena.
The old leaders of the disbanded clans,
fearful of being hopelessly snowed under by
these modern t%rumpeters, "cry aloud and
spare not" from the great city even to Jeru
salem, every one of these young shiboleths
grasping with a frmer hold the coveted bator
of popular dominion, for which there is suct
an active, schoolboy scramble. The glitter
ing thrones Of political power which has 81
long shOne resplendent with the Jewels of
dozen wordy contests, are vacant, and trem
BILE and rock under the ercestruggle between
ambitious demagogues all eager to vault int
the seat of the rulers and law givers Will
the dear people," "the good citizens of tn
State" pause mid their daily avocations, t
lend a listening ear to the confusion wors
than COMPOUNDED that comes as from som
Heaven cursed Babel.
y Some may lament this state of afairs-fo
~ourself we can seeno great danger threatened
1t is not an agitation like that fermenting
Europe-it is after "Jonathan's" peculit
style-more democratic-a vastly preferab
mode of settling the question as to who sha
be the rulers in Israel and what shall be Il
: state and national policy. Fearful morta
. may croak about such agitations, as beil
demoralizing to society, and possibly tn
may be of a dangerous tendency, but t
%veriest ninny knows that they are not o
: hundreth part as inimical to the public we
l. as the putrid stagnation of Despotism, or t
l. volcanic eruptions of revolutionary fires,
of which unhinge the peaceful swayings
: society, fructify the greedy earth with
Il man gore, and make day and night hideo
with the wailing lament of heart-broken w
n ows and orphans.
IL Tn more steam there is blown off the Il
> danger is to be apprehended of an explosi
II of the national engine. Then, let everyboc
4 both great and small, bawl, below and hal
without rebuke from any one let ev,
political surgeon, ecclesiastical doctor or
cial quack, every unbeliever in the abil
r and willingness of the Good Lord to gov,
> Ills people and save them from their 81
g bring forward his "world renowned Pa
10 cea," proclaim its merits by the divine al
~ tus of his own brass, and insist ~valorou
~ upon an experiment. There is safety
. the multitude Of Councillors"-and if
{ Nation keeps up a well devised system of
p.rimenting, why, some poor souls will re
IL the kingdom come in advance of others,
after all, who knows what may turn u
Peter Funk is the Grand Pacha of this
pirical century.