The American patriot., 1855-06-16

heard by concert, the motion of our friend the
Rev. j. B. Smith, and the unanimous response
that all unite in thanks to the "Capitol and
Railroad for the pleasures and qualifications Of
the day."
So you see, all things considered, that we Of
East Feliciana, are a "great people," Don't
want to be "press:d" into any service, but are
always ready and willing on the least intima-
ton, to take "part acih our friends" or make
battle on our "common enemies;" ride this
history, and ride again that twenty-four hour
operation, being the first to send forward re-
lieving force to succor Gen. Taylor on the Rio
Grande.
So again are we great people" in another
sense-have always been regarded-and are
as democratically invincible = have elected
democrats when it suited us" Wings"
when it suited us-and even "Know Moth
ings," when it suited us; and we will continue
to ''suit' our action to our pleasure, confding
in our friends-mistrustin all Others H.
MEssRs. EDIToRs-Wiil you do me the favor
of re-publshing the following extract, from an
article upon the result of the recent election
in the State of Virginia. I throw it out as
bone for those who are exulting in this result
as triumph to the Democratic party-espe-
cially to those who are welded to the peculiar
"stand still politics. of the simon pure Vir-
ginia school: as
"For, The victory, however, the simple tri-
umph over Know Nothingism, it is evident
that the Democrats of the old Dominion the
men of Richmond who have hitherto managed
the destnies of the State, and the men of Nor
folk and the other provincial cities who have
followed the bidding of the Richmond Junto
like dogs well broken to the leash, it is evident
that these leaders of the ancien re qime have
very little real cause for self-congratulation.
In the election of the renegade whig, Henry A.
Wise, not only Know Nothngism, but Junta-
ism, +. F. V-isn, and any quantity of isms,
sacred as the resolutions of 9S and equally en-
dowed with popularly believed eternity of
life, have likewise been defeated. From the
vrulence of his progressive hatred for the stand
still school in which Virginia has for years been
taught state and national politics, from the
innovating spirit Of his impulses, and from the
desecrating contempt he has ever shown for the
senilities of their tradition and the inanities of
their present policy, the Democracy of Virgin
ia have ever cherished for Mr.. Wise hatred as
honest in its origin as it was-for them, novel
in its intensity. 1t is therefore but slight oc-
casion for reocing,-this astounding victory,
to the men who from time mmemorial have
Rugged the backwarlness and dcgeneracv of
their commonwealth to their heart of hearts
and detested the innovator even more than the
innovation"
Judging, then, from the foregoing remarks,
the election of Mr.. Wise, although "a simple
triumph over Know Nothingism," the Demo
Gratis Of the old dominion, with the {" Richmond
iunto" at their head, will have very little cause
of congratulation in the election of 'the rene
gade Whig Henry A. Wise" If it shall prove
" from the cirulenee of his progressive hatred,
to the stand still school, in which Virginia has
for years been taught" If '' from the i,noro-
ting spirit ellis i1'pnlses, and from the des-
ecrdting contempt he has ever shown for the
senilities of their tradition and the inauities
of the present policy of the Democracy of Vir.
ginia, then, indeed, will they prove not only IAN
but g1orious yictoyy,'' calcula.
ted to disinthral that once noble old State from
the withcring influence of those men, who, for
nearly fifty years past, share Augged the back |
'cardness and degeneracy Of their common
'ceafth, ~" to their heart ofhearts," until they
have reduced her from her elevated position
of first, to the degraded condition of a, touytA
rate State in this confederaoy
A SUBSCRIBER.
Clinton ,I,Ine 1s 1SSS