New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-02
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NovR ., 1858.
See First Page for News Items, and Fourth
Page for Miscellany
A LITTLE MORE OF DEMOCRACY
AND LETTERS.

The great original literature Of nations that
became polite has invariably begun with Poetry
that Of Locofocoism, however, has begun with
Episties. And hence, if Democracy did not set
all History at defiance, we might be led to infer
that Democracy was not destined to become po-
lite. Let us not, however, be in hurry to
come to any such conclusions for that which
upsets all laws can surely follow none. There
is no reasoning about that which has no sense
in it; and rules can only apply to those things
which obey method. Madness and Mobocracy
have none Genius and Jacobinism bright
est thing and the blackest-though opposite in
all else, have this at least in common: that they
set at naught all precept and must forever be
the only law to themselves
How should one argue to consequences about
thing which is perpetual contradiction Of
ITSELF What philosophy can apply to that
which is an incessant freak Certainly, there
is, in the succession of those material things
culation; and Mathematicans have found
Doctrine of Chances but that can't calculate
Democracy. 1t can reckon cards but moi
when they are in the fists of sharpers; il
can count the dice but in vain when cheats
are lingering them. Where roguery filings il
what false weights it likes, and folly holds the
scales, who can tell which end of the beam will
rise or fall? Where there's neither up mol
dotcn, and the bottom is always getting atop
who can say what's to turn up next You
might Is well give US treatise on the Geology
Of Chaos, or the Metaphysics of the Paradise OF
Fools, as attempt to settle for US by rational
rules what Locofocoism is going to do, or not
going TODD.
1t waS dreadfully afraid that the most illus
trious, virtuous and wise of men and of citizens,
George Washington, who even in times when he
was in fact Dictator never once exceeded the
laws, would, as President, usurp kingly
authority; and it never took the slightest alarm
at the open and fragrant assumptions of imperial
power, by Andrew jackson, whose violence con-
stantly broke down, or whose arrogance contin-
ually overstepped, the bounds of law, in even
things where noasuch necessity of arbitrary
methods existed, for his own very ends. Surely,
omnipotent rs he was, he might have ruined and
abolished the Bank of the United States, without
SEWING upon the Public Deposits instead of
making open war upon the Senate, he might |
have made it las he finally did) subservient to /
his most shameful orders in place of de- |
nouncing and hectoring the Supreme Court, he
might have filled it, by degrees, with his crea-
lures. Yet, in spite Of all his undispuised and
even wanton insolence Of more than kinulv
stretches Of dominion, and though the little
finger of his Presidency was heavier than the
whole body Of Gen. Washington's, this terrified
and that delighted Democracy the one was
Fsderalist, the other glorious Republican!
Locofocoism is prompt to believe in all theo. |
ries, provided they be unintellgible-in any
doctrine, provided the practice of It's professors
gives it the lie. 1t believed firmly in the Jack
sonian principle of Rotation, as soon as it saw
that, under it, none but Locofocos were to get
Office and that they were to be kept in for life.
It was charmed with Retrenchment and Re.
FORM" as soon as it was found that the public
expenditures $50 enormous under the profigate
administration Of Adams and Clay had been
carried up by the retrenchers from Is to SO
millions; and that the reform consisted in put
ting men of the worst character into the public
employments 1t always yields its faith to pro-
misses and professions, when it knows that those
who make them have ever been false; and in
actions, where they have always been good and
honest, it always refuses to place the smallest
confidence. Mr.. Clay was the openest and sin
cerest of men it therefore would never trust
him. Mr.. Polk was the most sneaking Of dis