The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-12-08

elections in the north and north west, are about
as ludicrous as their demagoguish assertion Of
being 'the preserver ofthe Union, the special
guardian Of southern rights" &c, have been
specious and insulting Butwe are not disposed
| in the hour Of their discontinue and disaster
to taunt our old opponent for the endless cata-
logue of shortcomings and receptions which
have.distinguished its profigate career, further
than to warn the people against hereafter sane
toning or reposing confidence il any preeept or
s.srand measure" national or local, which may
be advanced by the chief wire workers Of de-
mocracy, and advocated by the obedient grind
ers Of their organs. They have been weighed,
found wanting, and, therefore, are undeserving
of credence or respect. It can neither be dis
been the sole aim Of all the movements made by
the democratic leaders during the past ten or
twelve years, and right well does the present
preearious, we may say perilous, condition Of
our political institutlons-of the federal Union
demonstrate the manner in which they have
performed the work. They have been in full
possession of every branch Of the government
for many years; they have revelled on public
patronage and enriched themselves, their re-
latons, their plant dependents and their submis-
sve tools out of the public treasury; beyhave
repealed all federal laws they decreed to be in
furious to the country, or prejudiclal 10 the de-
mocratic party; they have ordained such laws
as they judged would benefit the country, or
could in any way conduce towards the perpe
tuiy of the tenure of democratic ofiice-holders.
| They have done and undone whatever they
| thought proper, either as measures of national
policy or party success. Yet they have failed to
retain their own power, the confidence of the
people, or to establish harmony and good will
between the two great sections of the country.
More than this, they failed to redeem any Of
the multitude of promises they so readily gave;
and now, their organs are filing the land with
the dismal dissertations and doIeful homilies
sent forth by their chef-priests and echoed by
obedient bellows grinders, on their past glory
as party, the sublimity of their great 'prin-
cpes, !" the delightful 'harmony and unity"
which binds them together on all national''
matters, to say nothing of the innumerable oc-
casions on Notwithstanding to their showing
they have reestablished this government; and
''preserved the Union!" While these sorrow
ing notes are doled out by the o1ice-holders
and their "official organs over the downfall
oftbeir power, they invariably accompany them
with prognostications of a mighty storm loom
ing up in the distance, which is to knock into
cooked hat the continent of North America and
obliterate forever the Union of, the States. In
deed the people at large are given plainly to
understand that, in the event of the national
democracy" and the present unprincipled race
of office-holders losing power and place, the
federal government shall no longer exist; that
its timbers shall be pulled down on our heads,
and its foundation rooted up. But the demo
cratic organs have, very SINGULAR y, neglected
to inform us as to the aDAergore of the discom-
future Of their party, the Devastating storm and
threatened destruction Of the Union. Where
fore this aspect of things? Simply, because the
"great and glorious democrats" Pierce, Buch
anan, Walker, Douglas, Van Buren,, Wise,
Reeder, and their confederatcs, in their unholy
intrigues with the abolionists and freesoiers
for laid and comfort" in the shape Of votes,
have worked the ship of State into perous
position amid rocks and qucksanls, and have
neither the skill nor the nerve to work her in
to secure haven. A hangering after Office led
the democracy to build the Buffalo PLATFORM
and similar craving led them to found the
black epublicans--Van Buren's "solt-shell"
democrats were the architects of both. An
admirable idea, that the dissolution of a corrupt
and unprincipled party-like the democratic
managed by demagogues, who are devoid of
any higher aspiration than desire to get into
and remain in Office, must inevitably lead to a
bloody civil war and the destruction of the
American Union. The rise or fall of such re-
markable 'patriots," cannot in any way affect
the destiny Of the United States. A continent
whose first discoverer was led over the track
less ocean by an instinct SO far above his rea-
son and the spirit of the age in which he lived
that the hand of God alone could have sustained
cheered and directed him as he was borne along
in his fragile barque, at The mercy of the wind
and waves. A unique government, the nature
of which was not the result Of the ordinary
working Of human mind, but ray of light
! thrown broadcast over an astonished world by
the genius of forcst-born politicians, clad in
! home-spun cloth, and successfully defended
against the abIest generals Of the strongest ma
ton in the world by a backwoods chief, whose
military experience and fame did not surpass
! that of the commonest martinez of the mcanest
army of Europe. That backwoods chief sheath
ed not his sword until he had conquered the
| foreign foe and native traitors, and driven from
our shores the invading hosts. Since that day
our advance to power and greatness have never
been equaed by any people. In these, and
i in all things else, the hand of Providence has