Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-16

fess to having served 1t in times gone
by as faithfully and much longer than
did JACOB for his wife, RACHAEL; and
the Biblical parallel don't stop here,
for we have been deceived and cheated
by it quite as often-but we mean the
pure principles of Democracy, as
taught by JEFFERSON and MADISON.
We have ever had more confidence in
the sober, second thought of the peo-
pie than in mere party, and we are
pleased to see them moving in this
direction. We have great hope in the
recent Grange movement = not so
much In Its original design of correct
ing the Irregularities of trade, for
trade will regulate itself as surely as
water will find its level, but rather in
the fact that whilst investigating the
laws of trade as between the producer
and consumer, their minds may be
directed to the higher subject of the
science of legislation and Govern
ment; for, after all, it is upon these
that our prosperity and happiness de-
pend. In this way they may trace
many of the evils under which they
labor to bad Government, and be ena-
bled to apply the remedy. From the
vast natural resources of our country,
we can carry heavier load of taxa
tion and bad Government than any
other country on the globe; but be-
cause we can do SO, is it logical to con-
clude that therefore it must be inn
posed, whether or not the exigencies
of Government require it? So long
as the people saw that the National
debt was being reduced, however frac-
tionally, they were content to bear up
under their burdens; but when these
small diminutions ceased entirely and
propositions made for heavy loans to
meet the current expenses of the Gov
ernment, Notwithstanding the great
shrinkage in the appropriation bills
for necessary public works, and that
ways and means are being devised to
impose still heavier burdens upon
them, no wonder they have rebelled,
and, taking retrospect of the past,
long for the golden days of Democ-
racy. To the Changers, who are
chiefly composed of the honest tillers
of the soil, we look for much in ulti-
mately restoring our Government to
its constitutional functions and the
original object of its creation. We
are not alone in this confidence in the
people; most Of our greatest and pur-
est patriots have participated in this
sentiment, and have been largely
guided by the precepts and examples
taught them ia their younger days in
the Changers cottage, and by none
more than by the eminent man whose
exordium to his great speech in an
swer to Senator HAYNE we have al
ready quoted at the head of this arti-
Gle; and we know of no more fitting
conclusion than by quoting his perora-
tion, which is in the following elo-
quent words:
"When my eyes shall be turned
"to behold for the last time the
"sun in heaven, may l not see him
"shining on the broken and dishoa-
''ored fragments of once glorious
"Union; on States discovered, discord-
ant, belligerent; on land rent with
civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in
''fraternal blood! Let their last feeble
"and lingering glance rather behold
1.-The gorgeous ensign of the Republic,
'now known and honored throughout
"the earth, still full. high advanced,
"its arms and trophies streaming in
'their original lustre, not a stripe
"erased or polluted, nor a single star
MISUNDERSTANDING for its motto no
''such miserable interrogatory as
"What is all this aOOrth s--nor those
"other words of delusion and folly
"Liberty first and Union dftersUards-
"but everywhere, spread all over in
characters of living light, blazing on
'all its ample folds as they float over
s'the sea and over the land, and in
"every wind under the whole heavens
"that other sentiment, dear to every
"American heart-Liberty and Union,
''now and forever-one and insepara-
"ble."