The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1853-05-20
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complete and entire defeat tlag has ever Yet
1befallen ii. The result was contrary to all
anticipations. and 50 tremendous and over
|wheIming ID its character, that even the
most sanguine Of our opponents, confessed
themselves astonished and surprised. Now
that the great question is settled, and the
excitement attending its decision has sub
sided. and men can again return to sober
thought and reason, uninauenced by the
jealousy, prejudice and bitterness which are
the inevitable coneomitants Of active politi-
cal opposition, it may notsbe aninteresslng,
nor uninstructive to devote few moments
to the consideration Of the causes which so
operated In effecting our defeat, and also to
speculate little upon what may be the pos
sibility of our achieving permanent VIC
tory in the future.
To arrive at any definite comprehension
Of the nature Of the causes which have
operated so effectually against the Wing
ipurty. it win be necessary to begin the con
temptation of those great. fundamental prin-
ciples by which the political movements of
the whole human family have ever been ac-
tuatcd, and which have remained unaltered
in their nature, and identical in effect, from
the commencement of government down to
the present time,
The various political measures which are
points Of issue between the two great parties,
vital as they are in importance, have but
llihle effect upon the result Of Presidential
election in this great nation, now. They are
merely waves upon the surface of the deep
heased up by The throbbings of the mighty
tide beneath them. lie who would fathom
the currents Of the ocean, casts his lead be-
yond the breakers which roll upon the shore
and he who would discover the causes
which influence and actuate twenty millions
of people Stewards one great and common
obiect, must look beyond and below the
mere political preferences, differences and
.expedtencies which only lie upon the sur
face, and penetrate down to those vast sour
ces and springs of action which create, and
govern. and impel the whole. To every
reasoning mind, it is sufficiently obvious
that the mere measures of national policy
which constitute the articles Of faith of the
two prominent parties Of our country. can
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have but partial effect in directing their
cause or action in general election; for It'll
is melancholy fact that near four-ffths Of
our freeborn soyercigns who exercise the
glorious privilege Of making their own gov
einment, have not the most remote idea of
what they are about. for what they are vot-
ing. or why they sustain one party or the
other, and indeed they do not care. 1t is
for the title, merely. that they go; and their
comprehension of the meaning of the words
Wing or Democrat, so far is@they under
stand them. is, if We may be allowed the
expression, natural rather than acquired.
This is more true of the Democratic party
than the Wing. Ignorance. we may say.
is the chief corner stone upon which the
whole superstructure of Democracy is built;
that, of which they make boast, is SO eyi-
dent as TO scarcely require demonstration;
their party comprises majority of what
they call the common people of the nation:
in their ranks are array ed the ignorant, the
unrefecting, the projudiced, the needy and
The vile; these constitute their strength: and
the resi- of the party are-~those who do, or
are disposed to, make tools of the others, in
the hope Of effeetiug. through THEIR folly.
their. own personal aggrandizcment and
power. This, in the course Of our remarks,
We trust to make evident to all who win
listen to US eandisIly; that it is through ig
norance that they triumph. that ID thatyery
triumph lie the germs of their own destruc-
ton. and Of OUR ultimate success, or Of our
total ruin as a nation. We wish to show
what Democracy Is, and what it has been;
10 show how other nations have suffered
through its introduction, and fallen by its
power. we wish to show how attractive it |
has always been in its appearance, and how
deadly il has ever been in its effect; how we
are running into the same danger. and how
terrible will be its consequences. We would
show the esil, ,-and endeayor to point out the
remedy.
What IS modern Democracy 2 From The
beginning 81 human government two great
parties have existed; o., rather, two great
opposing principles, which have come down