The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-11-30
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A newspaper relic a much intefes
Is In the possession OF the senior ed
tor Of the Nail 1t 10 . copy Of th
Southern Democrat Issued ct CahaWb
Ala, March "a. 1888, and edited b.
VIM. L. Yancey, % long famous u
Southern politics, and by q. w
Clark. @. w. Clark II the father-in
law Of the editor Of the Mdii, and
was from him that the copy was oh
tanned. A perusal of ifs column
shows, that hre-eater though Yanc,
may have been, his utterancss q
Newspaper man, were singulafly dig
niflsd and temperate. The pepes I
neatly and compactly printed II tn,
form Of Q flve-c0lumn, -four page sheet
l4XN, and 10 nothing II not political
though the muses. are sweetly invokeC
on the flrst page in an ode TO spring
In the good old times which In ouI
fancy we picture as the happy days O
the Republic, they ran politics pretty
much In the same way We do now
The Democrat has . letter dated st
Washington, February "a, 1888, which
takes up men and things and dis
cusses them vigorously.
SIS il not bumiliating to see the
floor Of the Senate become an arens
for the Infatuated gladiation Of Presi.
Dental aspirants. Gen. Jackson when
he became q candidate for the Chief
Msgistracy, with the high feeling Of Q
gentleman, resigned his senatorial
seat, and awaited In calm retirement,
the voice of the people.-Let me tell
Mr. Clay, that the first honor In the
gift Of the nation, Is not to be won by
desperate assault. THE Kingdom Of
Heaven suffereth violence" but the
Presidency of these United States 10
not to be carried by storm. Through
what causes did the present incum-
bent reach his exalted station, but, rs
you % opportuuely cite, from Mr..
Forsyth. his good sense and admira-
BILE temper? The American people
appreciate and esteem such qualities.
The clear sense, and calm sagacity
which they have Inherited from their
English ancestors. and which, per-
haps, more than any other causes.
have made the Anglo-Saxon race 80
In the various pursuits of
life, render them. rs body. averse to
violence AMI exaggeratiOn. The i'm
FASHIONED veIiciuence Of Gen. Jackson
was admired only IA q characteristic
Of the old soldier, who had rendered
the State much service in the tented
field" II Is melancholy to see years
stealing vigor from the frame, vet
without bringing moderation to the
passions, or dignity to the bearing.
Increasing violence IL sure indica-
ton Of diminishing force. The mon
uments physical and intellectual
strength, bequeathed to us by the
great artists Of antiquity are charac-
terized by q mild dignity, Q certain
grandeur Of repose. II il melancholy
too, to see age striving with the petu.
lance Of childhood, and a women's
passions for honors which can do lit.
lie more than gild the tomb; to wit
ness such Incorporate ambition for
the first seat at banquet, though the
sword Of DainOcles. hangs, ever i'm
minent.
"Mr. Allen, the young senator from
Ohio, made his regular debut on Tues
day. and a very distinguished one II
was. On the question now before the
you will deem his views
rather ultra, yet sincerely adapted and
ably sustained. He and Mr.. Pierce,
of New Hampshire, have barely
passed the constitutional age, and
both give promise, or rather proofs, of
high excellence. The latter is OF a
noted old Republican family In his
state, and In worthy of his parentage
His late speech on the abolition ques-
ton, merits the obligations of the
South.
I'm all its movements, let the great
party of the Union never
forget the imminent danger Of d.
vided councils. Should its divisions
,y accident, bring the Federal party
INTO temporary power. the fruits Of
ong years of combat will be lost for
,ver. A simple majority In Congress,
With q Federal President, will suffice
o fasten upon us, for the life Of q gen
ration, nay forever, the dreaded incu-
,us of q National Bank. It will hold
Up Its chartered immunity against all
Such an institution,
}, In Itself. perjury upon the con-
Mr.. Clay once denounced,
nth bitter scorn, as "vagrant
'ower," the right to establish II.
Which Is sought through SO many
lauses of the Federal compact. A
reat National Bank will be corrupt
ng TO our habits, desOlating to our
disastrous to our liberties. |
The experience of England. IL begin
Ing to repudiate such an Institution, |
ven with All immense funding, ami
financial system. II !.
nwise, too, In the extreme, to make
ne prosperity of a whole country de-
end upon u single establishment.
ven surprising perfect honesty i'm its
lllible and irresponsible managers
! single mistake, then becomes of en-
fatal consequence--TheI
hole system, to it's widest circuinfer-
nee, sympathises with the central
The principle of artii
ial regulation, in commerce and n.
ance, has been exploded BY all the
reat writers on Political Economy.
/ Is behind the age
Such regulation IL confusion, such
paralyzing. But, lift be in
lrious to the whole country, besides
eng q fraud upon its Institutions.
ow much more fatal il II 10 theSOuth?
he absorption Of capital, and CEN
'Alization Of business. effected by
his Federal instrument, II has been
Is the principal cause
the commercial decadence of the
States. Before the Revolu-
on, and for sometime afterwards,
he commerce of that portion of the
nion which supplies the products of
lercantile exchange, was proud and
roeperous- What is IL now? Ask
our dwindling towns and desolate
arbors. The system of which, q
reat Federal Bank lie the root and
uit, has made the grass grow In your
arts, and the ship to rot ct your
harves. How, then, i ask, can any
,uthern man be 90 recreant to the
Iterest Of his country, rs to abet.
trough personal preferences or party
20, . fiction bent on the establish
lent Of an institution 30 precious
hat man Ii an enemy to the South
Id to Liberty, who can adopt a
'urse SO paricidal There is, too,
mother consideration, which should
EVER be lost sight of. Although the
,od sense and good feeling of our Re-
,blican friends a: the North, have
therto repressed the Abolition cru
de, We cannot be blind to the fact.
ut II has made great progress with
rye glasses of the people, and an
,unces the most formidable designs.
. should, then, without exaspera- .
on, but with equal moderation and I
await the course of those
ents. Let us cultivate the best
Dlings with our Northern confeder-
-. aud do nothing TO aggravate the
IL of which we complain, But pPu-