The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-01-27
A Complete Retort


mond Wing, with retort so complete
and overwhelming, as the following from
the Memphis Eagle, now under the con,
troll of the Hon. Jere. Clemens, late Uni
ted States Senator from Alabama, and
one of the most eloquent speakers and
writers in the Union. 1t appears that
the Memphis Appeal, a Democratic organ
had the temerity to venture the following
curious statement:
1.-The Opposition to the Democracy
is a motley crew, ringed, streaked, and
striped, as were Jacobs cattle"
Thefollowng is the appropriate, happy,
and forcibe response of the Eagle, and
which We turn over to our readers for
their special edifcation
Taken altogether" says the Eagle,
" this is the richest exhibition of the sea
son. 1t comes from paper that has for
months been engaged in proving the en-
tire harmony of the Demo 'racy, by wag-
ing active war upon a Democratic organ
in the same city. AT least, the pleasant
recreation in which it has been engaged,
would be construed into hostlities, in any
other but the Democratic camp. 1t is
the organ of the party, represented in part,
in the Congress of the United States, by
Senior Otero, a Spanish Catholic; Ben
jamin, West India Jew and Shields, an
Irish Protestant. A harmony of race and
of religion that is not easy to excel. 1t
is the organ of a party whose President
and Secretary are at open warfare upon
one of the most important questions of
government policy. The organ of par
ty whose members agree upon no one
thing, save an equal avidity for the spoilS.
Bigler and his wing are the Jealous advo-
Gates of a tariff for protection. Hunter
and his wing pronounce it unconstitution-
al. The agrarian Johnson, of Tennessee
sits cheek by jowl with the aristocratic
Hammond Stewart, and the Northwest
ern Democracy, in body, are the warm
advocates ofthe widest system of internal
improvements. Toombs, and tle South
eastern Democracy, bitterly oppose Just
and necessary appropriations for works of
national Importance. Douglas maintains
the doctrine of absolute sovereignty in the
people of a Territory, and jeff Davis tie.
nounces it as worse than the Wilmot |
Proviso. Bright advocates the rights Of
foreigners to vote in elec-
tons, and Brown utterly disclaims it is a
Democratic principle. The Governor OF
South Carolina recommends the reopen
ing of the African slave trade, and Dem
Ocratic Congress vote it unwSe and in
quitious. Mr.. Boyce advocates free trade
and direct taxation. Mr.. Florence re-
CARDS the originator of such a proposition
Is mailman. Mr.. Gushing believes that
Dur maritime strength depends upon a con
inuance of the fishing bounties, and Mr.
Jlay provinces them monstrous impo-
ition upon other industrial pursuits.
Mr.. Soule aids and encourages filibus-
er enterprises, and Judge Campbell does
is best to imprson the whole batch from
Walker down. Mr. English makes com
romise of the Kansas issue, goes home
nd repudiates it, and comes back to Con-
ress an unchanged Democrat. Martin
AN Buren, votes the Democratic ticket,
nd John Cochrane has become an oracle ,
mong the faithful. Jas. G. Jones makes ,
speeches. Preston is ap-
ointed a Democratic Minister, and Cling
ian fills Democratic chair in the Sen
te. The publisher of the Washington ,
Mon is elected Public Printer by Dem !
,ratic Congress, and the editor of the :
tates charges him with stealing hun
ed thousand dollars ofthe public money.
We could fill volume with similar in-
ances bnt those are enough to show that
ere is no shade or variation of religion ,
W, race, politics, or knavery, that does
It find home in the bosom of the great t
emocratic party"
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