Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-25
What the People Want.

The inflated boasting of the sham denloc
ricy is proVerbial. 1t matters very little
what NAV be the theme, the occasion or the
ground. it is all the same. When the party
is depressed to the lowest point, it is declared
to be at the highest pitch of exaltation when
most divided it is most united and harmoni-
Gus; when It is weak feeble, and trembling
a. in all its joints, it never stronger or more
athletic; when corruption and profigacy have
fastened on its vitals and its whole system is
gangrening, and great leprous spots are com
ing out all over the body polite. ii was never
purer or more honest and upright; if the vigor
of the American character the hearty and
sanguine determination of the American ma
ture, has urged the country forward in n
career of progress. unexampled in spite Of
democratic rule the organs and leaders at
once deafen the public and disgust the
public intelligence by grinding and spouting
their own praises for the good fortune Al
belt, it goes down; in the unusual but forcible
phrase of Mr. Unit. at pays''-the placemen.
But, to use Mr.. Units antithesis at don't poy''
the people. At long intervals the people
awake to ID realizing of this metaphysi-
cal truth, and generally manage, for q brief
space. to place the proud old democratic
ship" in quarantine. They haul down her
Haunting and deceptive banners and give her
passport up ''old Salt" Unfortunately her
crew do not unpack and purify her infected
cargo, but return with all the corruption still
fostering and the virus yet more malignant.
When they do return, their energies re-
newed for evil and that only. Thus they
went down in '40--thus again in '4S-but ..
turning in 50, they have made the past six
years the carnival of plumber. The govern
ment has thus rapidly proceeded till Mr..
TooMBs who ought 10y all means to know, has
denounced it the most corrupt one on
earth. The putrid CLEAN that once sparlled
over the orgies of the Grand Turk is ecps-
cd, and it is left for the United States to sioze
the palm of infamy, undisputod.
And yet the sham democratic press is per-
petually holding up to the public gaze ahe
purity, honesty and other admirable attributes
of the administration. The people are again
tired of it; they are awakng to a sense of the
true condition of affairs; they are now con-
sulting their wants, which are the re-
verse of what they have had. Some of the
principal of these wants are briefly enumera-
ted by that sober watchfu and always pa
triOtic Journal the National InteIligeRcey, which
we subjoin. We quite mistaken if the
people will not assert these wants. and SO
effectually, two years hence, as to overwhelm
the arrogant pretensons of the party of
denominations, and to produce a radical change
in the aspect of political affairs.
Thus the Htelhgmor speaks, and in so
doing utters the sober sentiment of a very
large majority of the people of the Union:
The people want end put to sectional
agitation, well in its canses as its effects.
ThpUI uspll- roo Ilat.1 1ntin al cI1r-
rency.
The want just and adequate protection
awarded to American industry.
They want iudicious system of internal
improvements. instead of the present partial
and spasmOdic legislation of Congress.
They want the public lands carefully hus-
banded if their proceeds cannot be equally
distributed.
They want a remedy applied to the abuses
connected with the dispensation of the public
patronage-abuses which provoke complaint
even from the party which first inaugurated
the .spnilS.eysi, teJrrdinicaI administration of
the Government, as well III the collection as
in the dispensation of its revenue
They want Justice, dignity and moderation
IN The conduct Of our foreign affairs. whether
as regards the great Powers of Europe or the
feeble States on our own continent.
They want no futher extension Of our Ter
ritorial limits.
They want the Executive power restrained
within its ancient restrictions.
They want the Judiciary, both State and
Federal, respected alike for the purity and
independence of its decisions.
They want no more Exclusions and decep-
tons" growing out of ambiguous legislation
with respect to the Territories, or other
topics Of national concern.
They want the Federal Legislature govern
ed more by the felt necessities of the country
and less by the exgences of party.
These few of the principal wants"
now experienced by the people, aud it is only
bymakng provision for them that the Dem
ocracy can assert just claim to the contin-
ued tenure of that power which they now
hold an surfrance by favor of the divisions
existing among their opponents