The daily Butte record., 1858-07-10

ouainted; and which has extortet IN sub
stance the oft repeated declaration that the
government Of the United States is a won
derful and inexplicable illustration of gov.
ernmentai success upon the popular basis OF
representation or republica nism.
| II is indeed prodigy; and because a
prodigy, it is not free from an excen.ricity
Of form and inclination which disturb con-
lectures as to its moral greatnes, and per-
petuity.
Precocity Of development. in the great
| book Of natural laws, is almost uniformly
followed by premature failure and decay,
and too often the rue holds good in its ap
pication to those moral and social laws
| which govern association and indicate a con-
cession to uthority.
There is therefore, by analogy, reason
for the entertainment Of fear, that the
cousummately beautiful government. trans
mitted to US by our noble and virtuous an
cestors. has acquired, in its unaccountable
prosperity and -ucces, those evanescent ele.
ments that tend to an early and unpropitious
decay This is the point to which as good
citizens we ought to direct our attention,
for the purpose, if such signs exist, to do
our utmost in averting n destiny so humii-
ating to our pride, so calamitous to our in
tesests and so fatal to the heart and soul Of
human freedom.
We believe it to be hey ond dispute, that
the more nearly government approximates
democracy in its proper meaning. the more
liable is it TO be injured by the spirit of
dema magogueism, and in proportion rs govern
ment falls into the hands and rule of dema-
gogues. just in such proportion will vi.
cous and grovellng subservency to wealth,
corruption and licentiousness take place.
And now as honest American citizens, de-
voted to a government which has done so
much for us, inbued with deathess desire
to see its progress strengthened in all the
avenues of national purity and grandeur,
can we, dare we deny that our great nation
al interests, the hallowed constitution, good
name and our national patronage, are fall
ing rapidly into the hands of INSCRIPTIONS
money serving dcmagogucs Ifit were not
so we hope in God, that some sagacions phi
anthropist will come along. who can explain
the golden idolatry Of the age, which dis.
graces Congress with bargain and sale by
their own record and which stabs and cru.
cife- the very decency Of government, by
the purchase Of the legislature and the ex-
ccutive department of n sovereign State,
with as much ease, and by. the same system,
MS you would buy calves in pen, asses in q
drove, or sheep in a shamble.
There is much reason to believe that the
American people are running mad upon the
subject of wealth Gold and silver are fast
taking the place ef truth and virtue, and
the wonder is that the voice of God has not
ere this proclaimed us the hopeless and lin
cal successors of Ephralm, altogether be-
yond the saving powers Of His Cancellation
and grace.
| 1t vas unfortunately left to the United
States to place before the world, in full and
disgusting portrai;ure, that most detestable
grovelling and debasing of all forms of ars
! tocracy, the ari,tocracy of wealth A prin.
ciple 50 mean, n sirocc0 so deadly, worm
so destructive, that virtue, pety, integrity,
honor, love of country, ancient glory, intel
ligence and learning, seem to succumb to its
approach, like so many unheard Of AMI un.
necessary qualities in the organization of
government or in the accomplishments of
national family Of tho Miss McEhmsey
school
Under the reign Of such n pestilential.
such a nephitic, such an iliotic form of ma.
tonal aristocracy. it is not wonderful, that
more notoricty and attention is awarded to
n Fancy Dress Blll-Costumes obligatory,
than to the sublime. heroic and mmortali.
zing subject of uniting in perpetual and
electric alliance, the )mmerce and political
prosperity of the Atlantic an Pacific oceans
by rails of iron aud wires Of lightning.
| There is really nothing so sacred that this
modern Vandalism will not desecrate and
destroy. 1t has almost crushed out patriot.
ism; quite entirely overridden that kind of
venorat0n which was wont to linger with
interest upon ancient usage that human ex
periencc had tested and pronounced good :;
it has quite extinguished that love of virtue
which our foreflthers supposed they had
transmitted to their posterity; it has per-
vaded society with an impatient contempt
for law and precedent and An especial aver
sion to that kind of wisdom which nothing
but age aod experience can accumulate; it
has-Goi save the mark and assuage the
misery Of the confession--it has inaugu, ated
an anomalous, modern Legislative character
which sneers at the honest hand of toll, and
treats with contumely and insult the gener-
Gus spirit of hard and necessary labor
Again, again. oh. horrible it has used the
sacred corpse of Washington, to enhance and
ratity the chances of u mere pecuniary spec
ulation
There are painful and bitter truths which
the trumpet tongued press is impinging up
on the tympanum Of mankind. The world
is being daily informed of that tide of de-
struction which is inundatiug and desoil
ing the fair fields and beautiful gardens OF
a free country, which is dshonoring our
name and depressing the hopes of those po-
litical philanthropists the world over, whose
lives are but the emanation of a coucentra.
ted prayer for the emancipation of man from
all unnecessary bondage.
Fortunately for us there is conservative
and recuperative force in the unsuspicious
good sense aud sterling honesty Of the mass.
es, and in the nucleus of honest official.
who dare not yet be nsulted by bribe. tha,
yields the promise of rolief in the furture
aud gives us encouragement to believe in the
re- establishment of that heroic virtue, that
matured judgement and incorruptiblc pat