Kentucky Gazette

"After all the experiments that have been made, mankind are yet in doubt on the subject of Government. America may settle the question."-English Writer.

All American politicians would appear to be the friends of a democratic government, but many of them, in this aspect, are arrant hypocrites. There is a large class of citizens of the United States, who are openly hostile to a democratic form of government, and the politicians who represent them secretly favor those measures which tend to deprive the people of political power. We often encounter individuals who sneer at democracy as mere humbug, and who pretend to believe that the nation is benefited by every measure which serves to concentrate the political power in the hands of a few. So thoroughly imbued are their minds with such questions, that they cannot believe that the leaders of any party are sincerely democratic in their principles. Were it not for the influence exerted in the councils of the nation by those politicians who represent the interest of the great mass of the people, we have no doubt that the present form of government would soon degenerate into an aristocracy. It is the duty of the people, therefore, to take care that they are always thus faithfully represented.

The United States are the theatre of grand political experiment, which may settle the question with posterity, respecting the durability of a democratic form of government. If this ever be destroyed, it will not be done by popery, or by the importation of foreign laborers, or by the predominance of any religious sect in the community; if the democratic form of our government is ever destroyed, money will be the cause of its destruction. Should the wealth of the nation ever be concentrated in the hands of a few, the political power of the nation must be in the possession of the same hands. For this reason, the people should always look with a jealous eye upon all those institutions whatever, which are established for making money or for regulating the currency; and likewise upon all those institutions, in which the management of a large capital is committed into the hands of a few directors. America is to settle the question respecting the practicability of a democratic form of government; let the people, therefore, carefully study all the dangers to which it is liable.-Ib.

Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Webster.
Happily for the country, and for the preservation of those principles which led to our independence, and predominated in the formation of the constitution, the election of Mr. Van Buren is beyond the shadow of a doubt. The vain hopes of that heterogeneous mixture of repulsive elements, facetiously termed the whig party, have evaporated into thin air. All these "available candidates" united, or rather disunited, will not be able even to transfer the choice from the people to Congress, the darling project of the bank combination, and the last plank to which it has clung for existence.

It has ever been the unfortunate policy of New England, or at least of Massachusetts, to be in opposition to almost every successful candidate for the Presidency. We oppose every administration at the beginning, place ourselves obstinately in the minority, embarrass as much as possible, without distinction, all the prominent measures of the government, and thus foolishly deprive ourselves of all influence, and even of all sympathy. We change sides, it is true, just as an administration is going out of power, or a dominant party breaking up, when such a change is entirely useless, and when it only serves to place us again in opposition to the new party and the new lord of the ascendant. And thus we continue in eternal hostility with our own government, to our own injury, and to the injury of the general interest of the country. Instead of uniting against a common foe, and sustaining the country's rights and the country's honor against foreign encroachment, we are always found giving aid and encouragement to our enemies, and weakening the protective arm which is stretched out for the maintenance of our rights. It is time this course was changed. Such an obstinate and long persistence in it, does not argue well for the wisdom and foresight of northern statesmen.--Ib.

The Democrats are carrying the day everywhere. Old Virginia has toed the mark manfully, and left Whiggery in a most forlorn condition in the Ancient Dominion. Every effort in the power of man to make, has been made by the opposition to gain the ascendency there—but it was all fruitless-Democracy is triumphant; the new Legislature will contain a considerably larger majority of members favorable to the general administration than that chosen last year. and Governor Tazewell resigned in just time enough to prevent his being, &c. Rhode Island has done nobly: the Democratic majority in joint committee of her two legislative branches is twenty-two. It is as hard to find a Whig there as it is to catch an Indian in Florida. Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut train in the same company, and Massachusetts will enlist next Fall.-Ib.