Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-06-02

other employment TO which the Tree white clflZe0
may choose to devote himself. Any citizen Is free
10 quit any employment be may be following for
any other, ct his option. The blacksmith may be-
come a lawyer, and the lawyer a merchant or the
farmer 4 tradesman, or the tanner preacher,
banker, or surveyor. Any man can follow any
business for which he has preference, and change
il when he pleases. In a word, the American
Government secures to the citizen the enjoy ment
Of life, liberty, aud property, and the pursuit OF
happiness and he can buy, build, aud plant, and
sit down under his own vine and his own fig tree
in peace, and there are none who can hinder, or
make him afraid Under such state of things,
no pure-minded American citizen will attempt 10
preiudices against or sow dssension between his
fellow~citizens, because Of their peculiar occnpa
ton, trade, or profession, or wealth, or poverty
Any one who does this has the spirit OF a demon,
makes avowal of his snferiority, and makes an
acknowledgement of his own nlsanness and unworth-
mess, and display Of nefarious and degrading pro-
pensites. Any who does this is possessed of
an incendiary spirit low, groveling, beggarly
heart, filed with every mean and dsgraceful jsal<
ousy and envy, and will resort to any means, how
ever base and disgusting, to attain his selfish ends
A division OF pursuits is necessary to the welfare
and happiness of every people, and is the natural
result or consequence Of the social state. He who
seeks to stimulate the passions and enlist the preju
dces of any class of citizens, with view to obtain
political control over them, because they follow this
that or the other pursuit. is violating the spirit
of our free institutions disturbing for infamous pur
poses and selfish ends the social relations and pc
| litical equality OF republican government. Such
artiul maneuvres so disgraceful and degrading,
and prejudiciai to the public interests, that man
of probity and honor can ever be brought to prae
| tice or approve them. Unfortunately country
| is full OF characters who do practice and approve
them, and who, conscious of their inferiority,
hate base minds ever hate those whose virtues
| and noble qualities whose endowments by nature
and whose cultivation and social position is superior
to their own, and who wiser and better and
because wiser and better, more respectable than
! themselves. These incendiary demagogues scott at
| high scientific attainment as unnecessary extra
learning and, deridng all that is conservative de-
light in political agitation social dscord and change
and ready at all times to propagate any calumny
or stir up any prejudice to attain their purposes
and with slang cant phrase continually in their
mouths, lest. if judged by their conduct and the
spirit they manifest they should be taken for the
children of the devil, they constantly proclaim
ing that they are "emphatcaly sprung from the
people; yes, cmphItiediIy sprung from the peopleI"
as if there was any American citizen who did not
spring from the people. EYES," say these incendi-
airy demagogues, I'VE are emphatically sprung from
the people!" and with this Wanted assumption, and
with consummate sef,suficency, they set them
selves up the sole and exclusive guardians of the
people-ther only friends and champions, and We
| hemently proclaim that there some mystic Ogres
somewhere who are ever seeking to Cypress and
tread down the people; while, with devoted and dis
interested patriotism, these their self-constituted
guardians, ever vigilsnt to defend them; as if
American freemen, with rifles in their hands, could
be oppressed or trod down by any sort OF ogres
This is the ncendiary spirit OF the incendiary Lead
ers aud demagogues OF the new-fangled Democracy
of the progressive, tip end ofsthe TAIL real MIN
compoop Jacob's~ladder Democracy of the present
day. But for this dsinterested service they always
demand that the people shall pay them with fat and
digni6ed offices, and give them the keeping Of the
public crib and then, soon they get into Office,
they become "swelled heads, and, in the exulta
ton of their self-snfhcency, and with i'll gotten
gains in their pockets proclaim themselves "seli.
made" men, emphstically sprung from the people
and shout at the top of their lungs Hurra for Jet
ferson, and Jackson and Polk hurra for the prin.
! cples 1.-THE five oaves and two fshes) Of the De-
mocracy"
| Why, Mr.. Chairman, there is no such word in the
English language as "Self-made" The thing is al
impossibilty There is no such word as "selfs
made"i any dictionary or in any language that has
ever existed on the face of the globe. living or
dead. The thing is simply preposterous Thus
these demagogues and tricksters preposterously
assn ming to be 'sell made, having obtained pos
session OF the "spos official abuse first stealthy
at length becomes open and barefaced; and when
the people these their selEconsttuted guardians
and sole defenders revealing in public puuder, and
that they in their disinterested patriotism en-
rching themselves at the expense of the people at
the rate OF hundreds and thousands and tens oil
thousands of dollars, and that the public expendi-
lures are run up and enormously increased by mill
lions upon millions of dollars per annum, they be
gin to doubt that all is not right But their euqui
res are stifed, their misgivngs hushed, by deafen-
ing and Simultaneous shouts from every fat office
Lard nAf .f,oas al,
and whipster and from every affiliated, gorged and
Venal newspaper press, Of the party. "Fellow-
citizens" they say, "the country is in DANGER the
ogres are upon you: from point OF view we can
see they are dreadful and ferocous than ever;
they are certainly ready to devour you now-no
mistake this time. They are about to tread you
down. to Cypress, TO vctimize you, and swallow you
alive forever! But We are counteractng their per,
nicous and dangerous machnaliOns; are pre-
pairing to crush out their prOscriptve aud persecu,
ting spirit Stand by us-all right here-the cita'
del IL safs-never mind appearances-we will ex-
plain at a suitable time-cant do il nova crisis
is upon us--the country is in dangeri Don't mind
the tricks Of the ogres to induce you to mistrus
u.s. Every mothers son Of US is of the D, o.
pie We Bre the defenders Of your rights and LID.
ertesl We are the only hope OF the country! We
mean to stand by the principles lbe five losves and
two fishes OF the party to our last gaspl We have
confidence in the people Hurra for the Dsmocra
cy hurra for Jefferson, and Jackson, and Polkl'
Thus these political demagogues and tricksteri
are ever fertile in their expedients 70 deude the
people, and are ever ready 20 conjure up again anC
again the dreadful ogres Of their imagination, anC
in their public harangues and through their news
paper press scatter prejudice, Misrepresentation
and humbug, to subservs their debased and debas
ing purposes; aud expect to brighten the people By
the horrible ogres OF their schemng brain, WICKED
nurses conjure up "buggabOos" and hobgobblins I,
brighten children And truly such tricks might d.
to brighten very little children but will hardly Prov
sufficient to delude or frighten grown up men!
Mr.. Chairman, said DR.. A all this corruption, o
which have been speaking, has been practiced
and is now practicing, in the name Of Democracy
What shameful PROCLAMATION Of that namel Will
these men the name OF Democracy is Il mere pre-
text, for they have long since repudsted, in prac
tice, the principles which that once time honOre'
party name indicated and defined. All else but tn
name the piebad party who now assume it hav
changed, disregarded aud spit upon. And wer
Andrew jackson and James K Polk now alive, the
would recognize the present leaders OF the calle
Democratic party Especially in Virginia and Ten
nessee, where Henry A Wise and Andres John
son are the political leaders aud fuglemen) as Sc
OF lmposlors and Jewellers, tme-servers, anJ trick
sters, 20 whom every disorgAnizing sentiment an
practice and vicious propensity in politics may b
fairly aud properly attributed with envy, wrath
hatred, malice, and all uncharitAbleness eontinua
ranking in their hearts against every body an
every thing which comes in conflict With or seem
to be adverse to their political progress and inordi
nate aspirations. What Andrew Johnson, th
leader Of the old line Democracy Of Tennessee an
he progressive Democrat and the man who Willie,
James X Folks administration In his filthy Augeai
stable speech, and of whom President Pc K tol
Senator Hopkins L Turney that he " had rattle
see ten Wings in Congress than one Andrew John
sonl' And new is il not nice, and nicely absurd
for the friends Of President Polk 10 be urged ap'
expected to follow this tnei. political leader
even TO the tp-end Of the tail OF his progressive
| nincompoop, Jscob's-ladder Democracy TO TAX
! / this man Andrew Johnson for n leadsr as the sue