The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-04-18
"THE CALLED JADE WINCES. -

article which appeared in the Democrat week or SO
ago, in relation to a secret combination inside the
Democratic party It's ridicuc however is too limsy
to disguise the wrthing under which 1t was attempt
cd or to conceal the restivcness with which II was
, afflicted We thought the Courier had been working
SO long in its owners harness, that the CALLED and
chafcd places had become so we'll hardened and used
to- them that it would hardly finch ut any thing but
II seems to he quite tender indeed and even attempts
to screen itself whether blow is directed towards Il
or not.
Why has the Courier taken upon itself so much
anxiety about our article. or the bare mention of n
secret organization within the Democratic party
and attempted with It's usual characteristic bainagc
TO rcntc it, its fvortc resort whenever IL can't say
any thing better, and that is quite often! Surely
RI the Courier don't imagine that we intended to insn-
f uatc that 1t belonged to such a clan? And yet II
would seem that ii has taken every word we said to
itself How is that? l. 1t guilty or not? If not.
why fret about it! Why cringc and writhc and
even attempt to sport in its pain, at the bare men.
ton of the thing though 1t in perfect med
ley of guilt and burlcsque If the latter was quite
sufficient to hide the former that fummery was
tho only medium through which to reach the public
intelligence, and misdirect the public judgment?
But we shall trouble onrsclf very little about the
Couriers nonsense. A few specimens we may he par
doncd for exhibiting The Courier says of ils, 1--WE
think we know him. We think it does. and We
think We know the Courier and never knew any
thing more than common about it. if that. But we
Will give the extent of its knowledge of u.s. /. SAYS
1--WE think we have heard before of his untiring and
devoted services to the Democratic party. or rather
that portion of the party composed of himself and
his fathers son. Perhaps So but IL we had been As
devoted to that latter portion Of nc purity the Co-
rier, we might also have grown'as vigorous from
sucking treasury pap at Baton Rouge and Washing
ton as the Courier, and. perhaps. have exhibited as
much bgoted pomposity well fed patriotism is in
the habit of displaying in all such weak headed in
dvduals
A to our devotion and services to the Democratic
party, however feeble we acknowledge them to have
been we cannot admit the Courier to be a compo-
tent Judge and therefore shall not care in the least
as to what estimate 1t may suit its fancy to place
upon them provided always that II shall not attempt
to estimate them in comparison with those most de-
voted and most vigorous services of its own which
have resulted in such wonderful and splendid fri
umphs of the Democracy in It's own immediate neigh.
borhood, during the last two years or So Nor has
our devotion ever become so intense especially to
that latter portion of the Democratic party, as TO
cause us TO boh Democratic Convention and then
sdle back about its close and beg forgiveness and
pardon for making n fool of oursclf
The Courier thinks we have seen something ssro,u,e y
No doubt the Courier has and we might have seen It
had we been with it, circulating among the inner
wheels. But we belong to that great outer wheel
turned by the strong arm of the great Democratic
masses, and which is always turned in the right d.
rccion so look ont all We inside 'wrascls' or cle
planis,' or .whaes" or whatever else YOU NAV con.
ceiyc yourselves TO be, You may be split out before
you know it.
The wit Of the Conricr grows excessive and at
length turns poetic. In the cxubcrcnce of lis simple
glcc it cycaims,
perhaps it is SIM
For MS to sit and grin,
At them here
Not at all, such employment was well and appro-
priately chosen and no one will deny. we presume,
that 1t isqntc becoming; besides, If its grinders are
not too rotten and the odor it cXhaes is not too pun
gent, 1T may make itself vastly amusing to those who
appreciate such monkey freaks especially rs a tail
is all that is wanting to complete the delusion
After this poetical effort of the Courier, it seems
to have suddenly collapsed exhaustion naturally
and a weary drowseness cnsued. The
consequence was inevitable and that old monster
appartion which has so continually haunted i:-"a
great southern party," at once doomed up before its
disturbed and arighted vision, causing it to mutter
something ncoherently about Janners golden letters
and the Presidency of 1860. It's sentences, however,
are so disjonted and unntclligible that We can
make but little of them. We know nothing of the
onrier'sgrcat southern party. We know of but one
party of the South-the great State Rights Demo-
cratic party If the Courier knows of another party
IT has doubtless found it among some of the inner
circles
We hope our readers will excuse us for the forcgo
ing cffnson. It being in reply to most ridiculous
TRADE of the Courier in respect to oursef of course
we had to adapt it to the Courers capacity as shown
in the few extracts from It, which we have exhibited
In conclusion we have only to say that whatever of
ambition we may have shown ii has been audabe and
Whatever of deuoton it has been render
ed to principle. Whatever of services to party they
have been disintcrested. Never having been ap-
pointed to public Office cannot boast Of the pari
oism inspired by official patronage and yet, some
how or other an unwaverng adherance to, and sup
port Of the great principles of the Democratic party
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