Columbus Democrat

THE SHIN PLASTER PARTY.
A New Name for an old Thing

The whig or federal party of this country have certainly a great passion for changing their political name. Within a very few years they have changed from Federalists to National Republicans, and from the latter designation to WHIGS; they have now assumed the classical title of "The Shin Plaster Party."

We think the name much more appropriate than any they have hitherto borne, and applaud their taste: According to the principles of philology, that name is always the most apposite, which conveys the best idea of the thing intended to be described. The whigs are the advocates of the policy which has driven all the gold and silver from circulation, and supplied their place with worthless paper money, and those little tickets familiarly called "Shin Plasters." They prefer this sort of currency to hard money, it is therefore proper they should style themselves "the Shin Plaster Party," as being far more descriptive of their principles than the term whigs. The new cognomen is more appropriate on another account: The whig party is composed of the elements of all factions tacked and plastered together by a common sentiment of opposition to republican principles. The phrase "Shin Plaster" therefore conveys some general notion of the process by which this party got together. It reminds one of the shoemaker's wax,

Then, the term is so comprehensive.—There is your big shin-plasterer, your corporate shin-plasterer, and your private shin-plasterer. Your federal shin-plaster that believes a national bank is perfectly constitutional and right, and your State-rights Shin-Plaster, that believes the bank constitutional, but would like to have the constitution amended just for form's sake. There is also now and then a two-faced shin-plaster, i. e. a Jackson man, that till within a few months had denounced the U. S. Bank as both unconstitutional and inexpedient, but goes for it now because his neighbors are in favor of it. The expediency of the measure having changed so far as he is concerned. But the shin-plaster party have all this common property of adhesion—they contend that irredeemable bank paper and corporation notes, are preferable to gold and silver, which, they say, is a very vulgar and disgusting sort of currency fit only for common people.

Go ahead, Mr. Shin-plaster party, you are a rose what smells very sweet and odoriferous, by the name you have adopted!!

Mississippian.