Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-03-24
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1thas always mattered less With the
Democratic than the oppoftion party
gho is its representative and Exponent.
We look to The hing spoken. not 70 the
person speaking We are not plastic
enough to be shaped into any sort OF Pc.
litical monster that the Ignorance, con-
ceit or caprice Of one or half-a-dozen pO-
litical asses may, in their semi-annuai
spasms of wisdom, choose. We are not
political vegetables that one winter kills.
ont. We are not political tadpoles that
a month s sun win turn into frogs. We
don't run through the scale of political
passions in six months, and satisfy the
insane bigotry that last fall demanded
mobsbruised foreigners and roasted
catholics to appease the same appetite
that to-day proposes TO satiate itself with
a distribution Of the lands. We have
mo such rapid mstempscycbosis which
turns the catholic screamers of last fall
body, soul, lungs, principles and pock-'
Iets, into the Land 5Sersdners Of to-day.
On the contrary, our candidates repre-
sent principles, sprung from our history
and confirmed By. our. experience. If
the man isn't safe, the principles are
Suppose one man is ffantically furious
for mischief against these principles, he
HASN'T the strength 10 destroy that which
thousands Of his equals'sustain. Sup
pose one man. makes himself eccentric
and absurd, his influence is lost in the
consistency and dignity Of the whole
mass. Suppose selfish passion governs
one man, fits harmless whilst patriotic
sentiment governs the whole The Dem
ocratic man is not the party, nor is the
petted and favorite district the country.
The political mass governs. and mot 9sthe
man; the principles provide for the wants
Of the country, not ola section
-. g.
z 1t is impossible for the mass to become
as corrupt as an individual may. 1t is
better, therefore, that the individual
should submitto the mass, than that the
mass should submit to him. tits better
that the party shopld swallow the man,
than that the man should swallow the
party, To the contrary, however, of
these political axioms, Garlic has literally
swallowed the Know Nothing party in
this district. His digestion of the thing
has nedit-wild thirst for Office, down
with catholics and foreigners, and all
into aselfsh plan for him to get into Of
fee, and IN. ayariciods PLAN for his see-,
ton to get railroad ora school house
out Of the con6scation of the public plum
der, He goes over the District scream
ing the land bill. ! Those whom he has
swallowed echo and shrek the land bill /
The party is what the manis-they don't
govern Garlic Carlile governs them
Far from having any political destination
to which Carlile must follow them, they
are content passively to. follow. Garlic
over any track, to any destination that
his zig:zag political engineering may
lead. They have no principle; no con;
sisteucy that Garlic may not break down;
and after being consistent for three weeks
in shrieking for his land bill, they would
be Just as consistent in shrieking against
it next week for his advantage, or their
own. Nothing is too venerable or dig
nifed MOTTO be retouched by 'Carlile's
hand and after submitting their district
politics and party faith to his1shallow
they would eyer trust him to
adapt some improvements of his own to
the federal machinery. They follow his
changes, Iape his faith, and end by CATCH
ing his diseases. The man has-the pc,
litical ock,jay for every thing but land
shrieking, aud his initiative followers
must have the lock-ia too