The Southern Banner

For the Southern Banner.

Mr. Editor: A writer over the signature of "a democrat" in your paper of the 26th April, gives us an amusing sketch of the McNutt tactics." With the writer we have no controversy. but would just call the attention of the Whigs to the picture there drawn of the standard. and of some of the "yelpers" of the democratic party. Passing over the "gold lace, gold buttons &c. let us notice his description of "many democratic Editors and Bank Commissioners." Reader stand a kimo and brace well your ribs, he tells us they resemble "fice with their tails so tightly curled that their hind feet are elevated several inches from the surface of the earth." We are not sure that a democrat has given us the correct cause of this singular posterior elevation; were we permitted to guess we should say perhaps they concluded that they could transform themselves into bipeds merely by assuming an erect posture, but having the big-head when the attempt was made the hinderparts not possessing sufficient gravity flew up first, or if this suggestion should seem rather fanciful we know it is the nature of fice to be proud and to curl the tail tightly over when they occupy only an ordinary station among the canine race, but supposing them then to be dignified with the ennobling title of "General, Colonel or Bank Commissioner" who does not see at once that the lighter end would unquestionably fly up higher; moreover "fice" have a natural propensity to "yelp" or bark at every strange noise they hear and as the democrat standard seems latterly to crack and jar not a little, we suggest the propriety of employing a Turner to set up a whig standard, upon which the wheel of State may turn more glibly and do more business with less yelping

Whether "a democrat" is of sound mind and memory and speaks the truth in soberness, or whether he has taken cold or is afflicted with dyspepsy, liver complaint or spleen, causing him to be troubled with phantasma animi is none of our business to determine; we leave the question open for the investigation of the democratico-physiologists.

B.