The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1855-05-12

sears the cyc-balls of the masters Of Europe.
With what joy, then have they seen this no
bic prospect suddenly covered with gloom ?
How the London Times can now exult at
the spectacle Of o great people calling aloud
as it were, for the accurscd demons Of pro-
scription and and intolerance, and invoking
the did Of those vile passions which cover
more than half the world with religious in !,
tolerance and political darkness2 Already
can we hear the monarchist, who believes
in Churches and State as q chief essential
Of civilized government, turning to those
who practice in the light Of our experience
and declaring: Behold your cxcmplar -
See how the Catholics are traduced in the
United States, the scat Of exclusive democ-
|racy and liberalism See how they are dis
franchised-how they are insulted--how
they are tramplcd under footl When they
vote they cannot hold Office, and when they
hold office they are elected. Ii not this af-
ter all, a noble vindication of English pol;
icy; for who can doubt that America will
find her true refuge from all such danger
in the capacious bosom Of an established
church 2" II .,f.st..5 II e.a,
Emigration to the United States has long
been a difficult problem to the European
governments. At first they were eager to
part with their surplus population. More
recently, however, it appears that emigra-
ton to this country not only adds and
strengthens us, but gradually weakens and
limpovcrishes them. Every day returns to
the Old World those ungrateful trophies Of
experience in the New World, which tell
the oppressed what a refuge is opened to
them here. For the first time, Great Brit
ain, when she turns to her people for aid in
her struggles with other powers, finds that
they do not and cannot respond. Emigra-
ton has decimatcd her resources, and much
that was left has been wasted by misgov-
crnment and discomfort. She cannot fill
her thinning ranks with English hearts,
and she sends to other lands to beg and
buy her TROOPS. Such ore some of the teach
ings of experiences; and such some Of The
causes why England is glad to find SO strong
an ally in her hostility to emigration as
those who declare that only Americans
shall rule America" S+t..t
1t is amusing however to sec journal
like the London Times echoing the know
nothing cry against the old leaders," The
war recently opened by that print upon the
leaders in Great Britain was a war upon
notorious "incapables; not 50 much indeed
upon those who were old as upon those who
were incompetent, untrustworthy, and unfit.
The Times assailed the scions Of the nobil-
'Iity, the sons of aristocratic families and
the exclusive spirit that shuts out the mid
ding classes. The cool SHADE of aristocru-
y," said The Times |" is orcr M" But what
possible similarity is there between the So
called old leaders of the democratic party
in the United States, against whom the
Times and the know nothings have united,
and the padded peers, popinjay ministers,
! coxcomb statesmen, and perlumcd heroes,
that are fastened like so omany lecchcs upon
the people of England? There is scarcely
a leading intellect in the democratic party
Of this country who has not carved out his
own destiny, and who has not risen to dis
tincton by the display of those command
ing talents and that executive ability which
as all past and present experience shows,
have established the democratic party as
the only party fitted to govern this country
according to the trnc principles Of the con-
stituton. That the London Times should
hate these leading minds in natural,
/ They are the men who have resisted foreign
aggression, who have sustained the nations
honor at all hazard, who have never in the
darkest hour quailed before any exigcncy
in which sound principles were imperilled
and involved, and who have contcnded
against fanaticism Of every hue, from the
abolition spirit that assails our Union from
Exeter Hall to the intolerance that gathers
vengeance from the bloody records Of Eu-
ropean prescription. We can readily inn
agine the anxiety Of the Times to see these
"old leaders" " put down; but what dis
honorable and mcan-spiritcd spectacle it is
to see that great paper dcnouncing the fin
eapables" that crush and mislead the Eng
lish people, and at the same time asking
elevation to station Of tho know nothings
who are indeed, the incapables' of the
United States? Even if we give it credit
for sincerity in its demand for real talent
in Great Britain, what must the just reader
think Of its clamors for mediocrity, igno-