The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-01-04
From the Democratic Review for December.
Why every Man ShoHId be j Politician.

Never be last at feast nor first at irav.-
Sound philosophy. Our good folk, our worship
ptn oil the almighty dollar seen 10 interpret the
ajag4 thus Never be first to undertake SER
wee to your countrys nor last 10 aninadvert up
oa those who do. 10 them, money making is
aPrrprtua feast politics perpetual fray.
Siopand think, gentlemen. Is not your money
making 50 Intimately bound up with politics
that, as a mere calculation Of business il would
be well for you to think OF it-Wtli for you to
Try and get at the principle Of the thing We
mean no disrespect TO the men who are power
iul upon 'Change-ao slur al the Spuit OF trade
10 that spirit We owe our unparalleled march
at empire. But wc are forced to speak the truth.
Something more powerful than our viii, always
compelS Us to say what we believe or know
i is, therefore, remarkable fact, gentlemen,
ch men. great merchants, magnitcoS, that the
mechanic. the tradeSman, the laboiing man in
America Is commonly better reasoner ia poll
ics than you-any ot you--aTe. Shall We hint
the rrason! He stops and thinks. He reasons
oa things for himself. BY shrewd, though
often rude logic, he arrives at great truths which
always escape your finer Sense. Thus he is
almost invariably a Democrat: for Democracy
Is The logical sequitur OF all just political reason
ing. Thus, too, HE hard-tsttd are no lovers
ol"Sms;" no followers OF new prophets; no
s'Ickrrs for small distinctions. They stand
upon broad ground. Their Democracy is ma
uonal; it is American: it embraces the continent:
ignores The imaginary geographical lines; II IS
UNIVERSAL and catholic. As truth is the first,
lie last, and every part Of real greatness, and
'be people always discover il In the end, lis
coDntertetS never long impose npon them. So
happens that the great men Of the people
-'heIr Idos-such, for instance, as Andrew Jack
>oh'aIe IN their lifetime commonly hated by you
"lo have not time 10 stop and see into the char
aolrr OF such man as the people have. You
d'- 10 loo great haste to be rich at the expense
81 'ae people, and he, or such as he, put stumb-
ing blocks in your way, by ''removing the de-
posts from your "United States Banks" or
setting up "Su5-Treasures" wherein the peo-
PrsS money NAV be kept for the peoples uses,
instead Of Mr.. Blddle's aud the @fnancItrs.'-
But, 10 you when hr is dead, Uheu he has bad
quiet cousummation," and s.malice domestic
,a Ian not harm him further, how you renown
"S grave! it becomes one OF your MrCcas. You
make pIigrlmages to it, You applaud his vlr-
'uVS 10 The echo. You would even give five dol
l"'S 70 raise monument to him, so liberal is
your late-learned admiration. What have
you 'oFgotten, Dives, that be was Democrat,
very Titan Of Democracy. scaling the heaven
=. !ouf exclusive privileges, and pulling its Ju-
P'er from his marble Olympus in Chestnut
s,se'! Have you forgotten "Perish credit per-
,>' Commerce." but yet the Republic lives pure
s 1,u undecided the great principles Of mans e.
..'"ai rights live on immortala Come, those
"%rS ,l,T are worth thinking Of 1t is worth your
ru''e' too, to inquire curlously how you came
" ".lsS lhe light which was in them, and never
-, I'LL ITS anrole hung above the quiet grave
politicians '''s0'