The North-Carolinian., 1855-08-18
What is Dem0fracy!'


We have seen the above question quoted and
discussed in some of our exchanges with a ire
qucncy, which of itself, would imply an abiding
soiictude to find correct answer. But the
result of those enquiries together with the meth
DDS adopted for the investigate plainly show
that other motives than those which generally
lead to Investigations, influence the minds Of
those who elaboratcly ask '' What IS Democ-
AsceEz--;ls>rs il mystery ahnut Democracy:
it never shrinks from nvcsti CATION; it has ncv-
cr sought conccalment of its principles by as
S,miny a new name after defeat; it has never
changed its principles to secure acccssons to
its ranks: it never rolled cider barrels, built
log cabins, and wrapped itself up in coonsklns
| to humbug the ignorant; it never was rcbukcd
| bv the nation for claiming to know everything
and then to concilliatc public favor, profess to
| hnoar mothin"; it never degraded its votarles
| from the position of freemen, to the condition
of manaclcd vasSalagc, by swearing them to
submit to the dictations of partlZan dema gogncS,
thus implying want Of fidelity which must be
secured by an oath, thereby rendering them po-
iticaIy and consttutonally, unfit to ming'e
| with free men around the ballot box. Don't
know what Democracy is, proudly exempted
from all the above named political enorinitlcs
in this day of cxccsses in political cnormties:
| But perhaps they only constitute "cS0ftt'
political Righteousness. Well let us see wheth
er Democracy has done anything in the way o
a posiiirc political Righteousness, to make ltsel
known to those enquirng gentlemen. 1t hush
ed the rrowl of the British lion the higl
seas chokcd off the tories and circumScribcC
tyranny upon Continent; vindicatcd th'
honor of our flag abroad, and secured its respec
in every nation; it has demonAfnfed to the uni
verse of fmanknd, that man is capable of self gov
crnment; it is the essential political element 0
our continent, from which spring our civil an'
religious privileges, which have made us th
greatest people the has ever shone upon
| p |.
men where have you been all this time? Don
YOU t.. ke he papers?- EtncasHe (Ia.) <Dcmncyat
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| BR1MsroSE-It is probable that sulphur o
). birthstone would never have been known i'll
natural state, had it not been for the eruptio
of Mount .Etna and Mount Ncsuvius. ]
: 1858 there was a violent eruption OF Noun
! .Etna, in Sicily, which attended by a
a1.-sarthauake whereby sixty thousand perso
2 twcre DESTROYED The birthstone which is no
i sold in the markets of the world, is principail
e derived from veins produced on that memor;
+ bic OCCASION The sulphur is eNhaled from tn
y volcanoes at the time of their activity ana III
d up sacant spaces in the lava, or frothy pumc
n stone When this is quarlicd, and dug out,
forms the birthstone of commerce. When til
birthstone is melted and cast into sticks, 1t pr
duces the red sulphur of the shops; and wl'e
: the brimstone is boiled, and is vapor allowc
to csc pt into air tight chamber, the varle'
called flowers Of sulphur is the result: 1h's
the natural sulphur; and is considered ny mo
chemists as an element in its primitive conc
ton: some, however, with good reason, view
with suspicion, and think it a compound lod
. Birthstone, in its natural state, Is only 1oui
t. at the foot Of volcanoes; but III comhiha1i i'
: there is scarcely any substance SO universal
diifused.-Erchance.
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Runaway wIFE.-A physician named l. nom
IcIo
the chief Of police at Boston on the oth III
for aid to recover his lost wife, who suode'
10 disappeared from her home one morning.
= number Of weeks since taking with her g
siderable amount of money. He traced hcf
Boston. and fonnd her name registered at g
of the hotels: but she was not in the house, Il
no trace of her can be found. He seemed al
property he possessed
What fool he is +.