The Shasta courier., 1861-03-30

PICKETT TIRE FAMoUs.-Pickettha has written
pamphlet on the crisis, Weappend an ex-
tract which will give the reader an idea of
his political philosophy, or rather of his men.
tai hallucination
Our nippant writer's. especially the assminc corps
editorial, often assert-that because banker q
merchant, artisan has faithfully attended 70
his calling. and succeeded well in money making,
it is primd facia proof he viii attend well to public
business, and manufacture wholesome laws. The
very opposite is true The law-making and dis
pensing power should be vested in those few only,
fitted by nature and position, to render such high
service. No State be well governed-Hlata
says--rhose Philosophers are not its rulers, or
whose rulers do not philosophize. And no country
was ever rightly ruled, save by Aristocracy; by
men outside and above the mechanical manual
labor ranks, and wholly disconnected from the pol
uting field of trafhe. Hence the necessity Of
recognized FatliciaR orler-of titled and cststed
class. with the oeF open their upper strata, for
merit developed in the lower,
Pickett, if he were not little mentally
obfusticated, would see that we already have
!. titled and estated class. with the door
open to their upper strata, for merit develop
ed in the lower" But the estates have to be
won by merit and labor, and the titles ae-
quired by talent and luck. The wealthy of
our nation constitute our estated class. ~
Our President and others high in Office are
our g titled class" All or nearly all came
from the lower strata. Lincoln came from
the fat boat and the plough-Hamlin from a
printing Office, as also did Buchanan-Iack
son from poor Irish widows cabin, and
Douglas from the cabinet makers shop. And
all the result of ''merit developed in the low.
err strata,
A SouTH CARoLINIAN, writing to a gentle,
man of Baltimore, thus rebukes the young
puppies of the University of Virginia who
burnt in efigy Gen. Scott:
So the gallant little gentlemen of the Uni.
versity of Virginia have burnt in efigy Win
field Scott Brave Young America Who
can doubt, after such an exhibition of nation.
al feeling, whittier such rulers would lead
us?
They have distinguished themselves by an
act which would have been deemed cowardly
ifnot disgracefnl to the British in the war Of
1912, No doubt the illustrious Scott is much
humbled at such an evidence of disapproba,
tion, He might well say, as did General
Barnwell, of South Carolina, who, when ac-
cused by the nullifers in 1881 with being a
" submissionist, .'traitor," etc., etc,
Indignantly replied; :" Here am l. with sew
en- wounds upon nay body, received in defense
ofmy country, called a traitor by young ras-
calls who are seeking to destroy the very lib
erty fought to maintain" All hail to our
noble old General. All reFErapce be paid to
the venerable old hero of Mexico, the true
patriot the lover of the Union the good and
faithful servant of his country; the hero of
half century of service. May God preserve
his life to do yet more for his suffering coun-
try,
May the glory due to the pure patriot wait
on his declining years, and when his noble
career is finished let the starry banner of tho
Union-never furled by his country's foes,
but which ever waved in triumph where his
genius led-be the well-earned funeral pail
to cover from our mournful gage the inani,
mate form of the never-conquered Scott,