The Greensborough patriot [July 30, 1839]

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VOLUME I. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C, JULY 30, 1839. NUMBER 24.
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For ihe (it.rn.lioinnnh Patriot*
TO THE VOTERS OF THE NINTH
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT-FlXLUW
ClTIZBNS :
Wc take tho liberty to
address you a few words. An important
Election is approaching. Every friend
to his country and the constitution should
be up and doing. Co to the polls, and
if possible, by mild, friendly and persua-sive
means, prevail on each anil every
onoof your neighbors to do likewise.
Not a solitary rotor, scarcely under any
circumstances, should fail to discharge
this important duly to liinnelf and his
country. What right have wc to com-plain
of nbtisM of poieer if we do not
vote! " Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty." We have a glorious country
and a free constitution—these, we fl.ittei
ourselves wc love, and are ready Io defend
and cherish. A9 to danger and aggres-sion
from abroad, wc feel secuie,—as wc
conceive all parties are ready and deter-mined
Io resist these. But the great dan-ger
to be feared is among ourselves—
from auch as rule and prescribe, and who
rule and proscribe wrong* Ours is a
government of ihe people;—to get clear
of bad rulers we ate not driven to the
terrible necessity of revolution—wo turn
them out by the ballot box, nnd put in
those who will do our business in accor-dance
with our wishes, interest and the
constitution.
We believe with our worthy and faith.
fill Representative, A. II. SIICI . ..im.
that luc affairs of our general government
have not been, of Into years, administer-ed
with a due regard to the constitution
and the interest of the people.-, We have
confidence in bis honesty, "That he had
tho firmness to withhold his support to
bad and injurious measures, though sup-ported
by many of his former political
friends,—is among many evidences of
his integrity anil regard for the rights of
the people.
It is said however, that he is inconsis-tent—
th.it be ha= changed sides. 1/ t
US see how this is: If a candidate prom-ises
ui to vote for a particular measure,
and after he is elected he votes sgiuisl
it—is he Consistent I II wo vote against
him next year, arc not we consistent ?—
True, we are inconsistent us to men,
but consistent as Io measures. Are we
not justified, nay, are we not bound to
Vote against Cten our friends, who change
their measure, from good to bad? Let
Us try Mr. SiicrrcHD by this rule : when
(Sen. Jackson was candidate for the
presidential chair, he promised he would
be the President of the whole American
People, and not of a party. With him
Mr. Snurrntin agroed, and voted for
him. When Gon. Jackson was elected
he turned out of ollice fourteen hundred!
men in one year, purely because tiny
bad not voted for him,—when Washing.
ton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
and tho second Adams, in the whole
spice of forty years before, had nnf, in
all, turned out exceeding fifty. This Mr.
Sheppcrd said was wrong.—When Ihe
rxpenses of our government, under Mr.
Adams, were between twelve and thir-teen
millions. Con. Jackson said they
were b*> high, and if lie was elected they
should be diminished. Mr. Sheppcrd
agreed with him and supported him,—
but when the president swelled ihe gov-ernment
expenses to forty millions,
Mr. Siirirr.Hn said ho could not approve
of If* Who, then, was consistent '—Mr.
HIIIITKIIO is for giving us our ihare
in the public lauds, which are worth hun-dreds
nf millions of dollars :—the Prcsi.
d it u fur giving them up to the new
'• i 9: who is right hcro?.*Thc Tresid nt
! tho money of tin Stan Htriks would
si..; us boiler linn I nitcd Stafcsmonav;
would not do : who was right here?—
The President said his officers, appointed
by himself, ought to keep tho People's
money ;—.Mr. Sheppcrd said no—the
money would not be safe in their hands,
Ihat it ought to be deposited in the place
designated by congress, and besides, as
the president had the sword, he ought
not to have the purse. Now since
these officers havo lost and stolen bun-dreds,
thousands, yea, millions of our
money,—wc would ask who is right '
Is Mr. Sheppcrd to be put down because
he blames the President for sulTcring
millions of the public money to bo em-bezzled
under his very noso ? Some ask
why Mr. Sheppcrd has not presen-ted
Ihcao tilings? He foretold them
beforo they happened, and has voted a-gainst
them in every instance : could he
do more ? If he was in tho minority,
and the President's party in the majori-ty,
could he prevent it ?
We ore happy to say Ihat the People
throughout the nation arc setting their
faces against these new and destructive
measures—that the Whigs bid fair Io
hove a majority in Ihe next Congress—
and that there is n fair prospect to have
our country brought back to its former
peaceful aud happy condition. On which
aide shall our District throw berweight1
on the MI!'1 of liberty and the constitu-tion,
or on the side of ihe President?
Wc earnestly request our fellow citizens
to consider—that we lay all prejudice and
party feeling aside, and as a band of
brothers go JflJJU polls and vote for the
beat interest of our beloved country.
How shall we feel, if by our neglect,
wo permit our long tried and faithful rep-lesentativc
to be trodden down and crush-ed
by the weight of executive influence?
Prudence would dictnte Ihat long tried
and faithful servants should not be laid
aside for light and trivial causes, and
their places supplied by the inexperi-enced
and ignorant, especially in times
of great public danger and emergency.
And no farmer in the country would be
guilty of the folly of taking an old, true
and well trained horse from his wagon,
and supplying his place with a colt, es-pecially
when the weight of his load and
mention many other instances in which
you profess ono thing and in practice arc
another, but this is one that you mav
work by figures for yourself. If when
you say "we" you mean the Democratic
Republican party, you ought to know
that they do not " profess one thing while
in practice they are another," for this is
one of the things you despise them for.
It is only when such men as you (politi-cal
lago's) who pretend Io get into the
Democratic Republican ranks that you
hear one thing promised and another
performed ; the great mass of the Demo-cratic
Republican party arc essentially
orthordnx and honest, and try to do what
they promise.
You uexl say that you "ha»e pro-fessed
to be attached to the Republican
party the founders uf which were Jeffer-son
and Madison. In their political
creed, that principle which stood out in
bolder relief than all others, was implicit
obedience on the part of the Rtpreunla-tire
to the trill of' hit constituents." There
is no doubt but what you have professed
io belong to the Jefleraonian creed but
that your acts and promises ugrir, is a
matter of so much doubt th.it I shall at-tempt
to show that your faith is will.nut
works. In 1834 ihe Legislature, in plain
terms, in a few sentences, and in due
form, instructed Mr. Mangum, then one
of our Senators in Congress; in l*3o
the people elected a Legislature op|K>acd
to Mr. Mangum and ready to sustain the
instruction, but notwithstanding this he
held on to his seal in the senate for about
(ico years, he did not resign until after
ihe Legislature met in \~'M which was
within a few months of the expiration of
his term ol service, and after he had as-certained
that he could not be elected a-gain.
You Mr. " "OS" sustained Mr.
Mangum in this course, and if you call
this -'implicit obedience" or JcfTersoiiian
doctrine, I confess 1 know nothing about
it-
Mr. Sheppcrd says that if the election
of President devolve* upon the House of
Representatives he trill rote for the mun
that \orth Carolina rotesfor. Yes. sir,
and you are the man who advocates his
election ; and does he say in giving his
vote for President " I will yield implicit
obedience to the will of my constituents!''
No sir, the will of his constituent* it
seems is not to govern his vote fin Presi-dent
! Were I as ungenerous towards
Mr. Sheppcrd as you are to Mr. Hill.
I would quote your own language ami
say : " But little did 1 think at ilus time
of day to hear a man tell the people thai
ho should ask them no odds—that he
hoiild exercise the despotic piivilcge of
the slate of the roads would requires selling their will aside'" I.-ok out sir
.i ,.,lm Your heels and not -our lews arc towards
' ' , , the line of Ji flersomai. Republicanism.
Lei us arouse and awaken. Now . the Yo„ „, . „ , „ith ,„ kn0H. , f v„,_ ,,,.
tiino! Lot no one bo indifferent, i dc-jluding to ihe individuals you address)
pend upon another. Lot neighbor see who assume io be our political insirnc-ncighhor,
arul confer together, li.it we | «°f».'" what arc the prir.ciphviir- which
may not forget our duly. Let every one the Republican of '68 nnd 'OOdrflVi from
, the Democratic Republicans cf (he prw
bc up and doing—and every one vote as m,, ly , , ^^„,.,. ,,,,„, i)(. ., ,,„.
though the election, the eharicter of our | fortncosror why change the name ? " 1
lake tflf responsibility "f saying llinl
llicsc indiviluals ha»o never assumed to
next Congress, and our liberty and pros-perity
depended on his voic! Every cit-izen
can spare time enough to go Io the
election. Then wc entreat one and all
that he go and vote, though he leave his
furrow half ploughed in the field.
Your Fellow Citizens,
MANY WHIGS.
Juhj llth, l«:lfl.
■B"^—■—■•■—•«■■*■—™^
[roll THE PATRIOT.]
be nolitical instructors: 'hey enjoy in
cotuiiiun with otlu r freemen the right io
■pctk and act, and have whin it became
necessary given freely and independent-ly,
both publicly and privately th"ir views
in relation to public measures and publie
me.n. As Io the difference between 'u
Republican nf '"■$ and ''.19," and " Dem-ocratic
Ri publican of lite present day,
they arc esscn'ially the same ; the only
difference, is Ihat federalism like a dis-ease
pre;. u,g on the human system at dif-ferent
stages it may require different
treatment. ThcR- publicans of'88 wore
Struggling against that spirit of tyranny,
To the Author of the communication in tho
" Patriot" Of the Kith of July, l-««l, ad-dressed
"To David S. RokT, Blake W.
Bruwoltand Richard P.CaidwolL ufltock-inghain.—
and James Kerr, I,. A. (iwynn • wll e i haunts overt government and seeks
and Let! Walker, ofCaswcll:"-. ,0 |MI„| ,„ .hackle's of despotism the na-
Sir—Although your communication [tural rights of man: the Democratic R.-
plainly shows that ;.on have a much bet-' publicans of the present day are engaged
let command of words ihan of ideas, 1 ;„ t|N MRM |10|, oaose. Mr. Jefferson
have concluded to takn a brief review of tin a letter to Col. Arthur Campbell, du-ll,
lest you might consider yourself nog-; ted in 1707, said :—" It is true that a par-beted.
You commence your epistle ss j ty has risen up among us, or rather his
follows: "I have taken the liberty of] come among us Which is endeavoring to
addressing you by name that your alien
lion may be drawn to this communica-tion,—
the object of which is to ascertain
from you decidedly and niicqiiivoc.il!.,
and without any indirectness or equivo-cation,
whether WO and thoscwho profi :s
to act with us arc governed by principles
in our political conduct, or whether it
separate us from all friendly co.ni-clion
with France, to unite our destiny with
(treat Britain and to assi mulato our
government to theirs. Our lenuv i;i p ir-mittiutf
the return of old lories g vo the
first body to this party ; Iii' v have Keen
i increased by Krge importations of British
mi Tenants and factors, by Amrricin
only mere profession of one thing while merchants dealing on British Canital,
we practice another:" When you say Iand by stock dialers and Banking Com-
"we," if you mean yourself and tho mud. | panics, who, /<// the aid of the paper mi-cm
whig party, with which you act and \ tern are enriehing Ihemstleei to the ruin
vole, you could easily have answered the | „/'//„ country, and swaying tie Oovi HI-question
yourself j ion, who sign your-! incut by their possession of tho printing
self "A Republican of "OS" well know prows winch their wealth commands
tii ii you and your (ihe whig) party do and b) oilier means not altogether boo-profess
one thing while in tutiet .•■• lou'oiab' r countrymen." And in a
■ n- another. In support nf this assertion letter to Col. Monroe dated m 1706, Mr.
I will coll your attention to tho faej, liiai Jeflerson says t "You will see farther,
\(,n profess to be opposed In giving il■■• that «•■• arc so coimdetilt/ saddled and
public lands, or Ihe preccd' of til ir bridled, awl thai the Hank is to com
tali s to ihe aeir Stat s, while in pru-ticc pletchj mounted on vt Ihat ue must no
■ it urging tin election of Mr. Shep-! trhere .hep mil guide." Where arc you
nerd, "1 beg pardon for being compel-1 sir? Sorry am I to say, you arc extol-led
to use his name") iran rofrd to triet I ing "u Bank," and " the Bank*" instead
of following the example of Jefferson in
warning the country against their cor-rupting
and ruinous consequences! You
arc supporting Mr. Shcpperd who is for
a Bank, but could the voice ol Mr. Jeffer-son
arise from the tomb, it would again
as it did in '96 warn the people that they
had been "saddled and bridled by the
bank " aud to rally against it lest the
same consequences should overtake them
again.
In '99 and '99 Mr. Jefferson and the
Republican party were struggling against
the federal party, which had seized with
its vulture fangs tho very heart of civil
and religious freedom, by the sedition
act which deprived freemen of ihe liber-ty
of speech : the Democratic Republi-can
party of the present rfny.have shown
by resisting the Isle attempt made in
congress to deprive a portion of the free-men
of this country of the liberty of
speech, that they aro engaged in the
same cause- Is it necessary for me to
iraco the similitude any fartherT No;
bide your face and blush, and never a-gain
have the audacity to try to palm
yourself upon the community as a Repub-lican
of "eo I—As to a change ol name,
if Ihe old name is not attached to the
Democratic Republican party of the pres-ent
day, it is not to be found attached to
any oilier political parly extant; as to the
addition of the word "Democratic" which
iou wish to know something about, I
take, the liberty of saying, Ihat the Re-publican
party were singularly fortunate
in its selection, the word conveys well
the idea of a government where the sove-reign
power is in the hands ol Ihe people,
and in addition to this, it is the only word
that could have been selected that the
federal parly would have refused to rob
us of; it is true thai vourselfaud some
others of your parly have attempted to
take this, but to the federal party gener-ally
it is a hitter pill,—they could sooner
adopt "jacobin," " agrarian," " Icvclcr,"
or f ven '• loooloco" itself.
■ You complain of the course pursued by
Messrs. Brown and Strange, and seem to
think that they ought to bate resigned,
and apply to Ihem the following exprea-sion
: •' In the days of Jefferson or Madi-son
such a representative would have-been
scouted from the Republican ranks
as some unworthy, pettifogging, special
pleader,—much more worthy to practice
in the porlii us of a prison and screen
vice and crime fiotn merited punishment
than tu he the distinguished representa-tive
of a free people I " I *ill now quote
the logic which you seem Io flunk justi-fies
your abusi, it is this : 'III should
say to inv representative, / irirA aotf to
resign, I request or desire that you should
resign, or conform to my Irishes,—and lie
should say 'I will neither resign nor
confirm loyour wishes,"—why not ? 'bo-cause
you have not ii.sliucted me to do
so'—what would you say to such a paltry
quibble !" luu hive no doubt read the
iv"solutions passed by our last I, gisla-ture,
if you have not you certainly ought
to have done so, hi fore you speak so
harshTl of the course of our Senators; but
'w.iatif I ted you. that after selecting
iffur oirn language to it.street it is i.ol lu
Ti- found in ihe resolutions: If you can
Tu d in the Resolutions i iiht r of the coin-ins
.da vuu hate u-• d, I pioiitse to ack-nowledge
you a Keiuibiieau ol I lie *89
creed : they contain no such commands
and you know it. How many uf tie
Whig members who passed the resolu-liotis
will call them instructions' And
if they hud been understood as uislruc-lions
they could not have passed, lot It
IS notorious, that many of the uliigs who
Voted for them denied the right and said
.hey would not vole to instruct. If tho
R* solutions are instructions M seems a
littb singular thai they are wanting both
in form and intmtion to make them to.
The l.i [.'i. Intiire may express an opin-ion
forirsffr"without intending tooperato
on the course of tbu Siooetbr; it may ex-press
an opinion lo show that it doc s not
relinquish »oine prineiplo upon which
there may be a difference of opinion be-tween
the Senator and the Legislature,
but hi uig unwilling to dispense with Ins
sen ices ou ibis account, leaves him flee
io his own vol.lion, to comply or uol—
The Legislt tore may instruct, and when
it has done 10, it has always used manda-tory
expressions,—and in thatevent there
is no alternative but " implicit obedience
or resignation.'1 Bui thai all expressions
of opinion by the Legislature arc to be
I understood as instructions I utterly deuy^-i
; The Legislature of South Carolina at two
• successive sessions passed Resolutions
(almost unanimouslr) approving of an
! Independent Treasury, but still Mr.
• Presion one of her Senators has remained
' in his sent and voted against the in* asure:
II lie first Resolutions were passed one
lone tear before Ihe North Carolina R.s-
[olulions were, ami I have nevi r heard a
Dt-mdcralic K» publican contend thai Mr.
• Preston was inslruotcd :—have the wings
, "iintiiid.il that be was ' Ni; not one of
Ihom. Hut you, who I think I have shown
; to belong to the "shcpperd and Mangum
j and not the JeiF-rsonian creed, are tin-
1 c.1 Ihat ought io complain, lor yon and
lour party sustained Ml. .Manguui when
ho refused ti> obej instructions, and now
vnu condemn our Senators for not rc-aigning
when they have not been instruc-ted.
If Ibe whig Legislature intended
the Resolutions as mandatory, why did
they refuse when respectfully asked by
members of the Legislature and by the
Senatora themselves, to como out and
mako the matter plain! Why Sir, the
whig leaders knew that if they put the in
in a form so as to be binding on our Sen-ators,
that tbey could not pass, and the
resolutions were accordingly framed in a
sftape to suit such of their party as were
opposed lo instructions, but in such am-biguous
language, as tbey supposed would
enable them to pass the resolutions off in
some places as " instructions," and in
others as '' no instructions," as it might
happen to suit their purposes. 1 ssk you
the difU icncc between ilus sort of legis-lation
and the dark ages of despotism,
when laws were suspended so high lhal
thoso upon whom they were to operate
could not read them ? I-ay your hand
upon your heart, pause and reflect, that
if you lend your coun'cnancc to such a
precedent how long before your statutes
upon which your properly, your liberty
and your life depend, may be found in
the same shape!
You complain of Mr. Hill for the dec-laration,
thai if honored with a seat in
the House of Representatives, and the c-lection
ol President should devolve upon
ihat liody that ho will vole fur .Martin
Van Buren. I believe with Mr. Hill
that when it is known who arc to be can-didates
for tho Presidency (as it is at
present,) that il is both hianst and Hi
publican for the candidate fur Congrees
to tell the people without "equivocation"
who he will vote (or ; when ibis is done
tho people understand Ihe representative
and the representative understands the
people. In the event however, Ihat the
individual prefcred should lint be
of die nuniLcr Iroin whom the selection
must be made, or a change take place in
the- minds of the people of the district,
tbey have the right lo instruct the rep-resentative
for whom lo vole aud it is his
bouuden duly lo yield "implicit obidi-ence
to the trill of his constituents or re-sign."
In the absei.ee of an unequivo-cal
expression on the part of his constit-uents,
Ihn Representative must of course
exercise his own judgment. Mr. Hill
is in favor of Martin Nan Buren for Pres-ident,
and if the election devolves upon
the House of Representatives and Mr.
Van Buren should he one of the number
from whom a selection is to bo made
he will vole for him unless instructed lo
do otherwise ; and if instructed he will
"obey or resign." This is true doctrine,
and is in substance what I understand
from Mr. Hill to be his views upon the
subject, however differently it in.iy suit
your purposes to represent them. -Mr.
Shcpperd I* for Mr. Clay but will casi
Ins lute for the individual that receives
the vote of th I Stale. Suppose Ihe peo-ple
should dasilo lu instruct Mr. Shep-
;i rd on Ibis auhjcOJt, what would he say
to tin lu ? Why il would be this, "I prom-ised
lhal my vole upon ibis question
should be governed by the vote of the
Slate and net by my cou-lituents. But
in the face of these facts you say in your
communication, " I have determined.
with many of my neighbors, party or no
party—io sustain the sound |KIlilieal
maxim—that the Representative shall o-bey
the will of his constituents—to view
every man, -.ou as well as nil others :.s a
political heretic who dares to avow ihe
detested and detestabledeoleretiofl made
by Mr. Hill. I would abandon Thomas
Jefferson himself if he were to make
such a declaration." Yes you would aban-don
Thomas Jeiiorson If he were to make
auch a declaration, but you will not a-bandon
Mr. Clay and Mr. Sheppcrd for
doins Ihe tern thing itself. Did Mr Clay-vote
with Kentucky in 1*24 ? or does
.Mr. Sheppcrd in the next contest scree
lo be governed by tho "sound political
maxim" "that the representative is
bound lo obey Ihe will of.lus constit-uents."
If you intend lo create the impression
that Mr. Hill said at Wentworth " lhal
he should ask Ihe people no odd-—lhal he
should set their will aside, and substitute
hi* own aristocratic, despotic wish" you
arc mistaken,—he said no such thing,—
nor nothing Irom which you could rea-sonably
draw such an inference.
You wish to know whether Ihe six in-dividuals
you address will give in lo Mr.
Hill's political heresy ? These individ-uals
are no heretics themselves, neither
will they knowingly vote for one, but
from tin- best information I have been a-blo
to obtain, not only the six you ad-dress
bu'. also a respectable majority of
the district will vote for Mr. Hill; and
if ion intend to pronounce them all here-tics,
I suggest 'o you the propriety of ta-kingthomin
largersevrro'sforyou lill find
it a tedious busini ss lo take them by sixts.
|!v way of advice or instruction, you say.
-•their course mav be for wed or tor wo
—they will be "scrutinized"—"marked as
collar men '—"marked as men wlin will
aid a tyrant to crush our libciiies!"—
Hold lour temper fi How, it is too soon
in the day lo attempt lo threaten freemen
into submission : this looks loo much like'
malice prepense—Reason is tho more pa-tent
weapon, use it. I suppose you will
"mark" the sir as objects of whig pros-cription,
will vou' who will undertake it I
The Mouse that made the motion in coun
cil to boll the cat, would have underta-ken
to be tho instrument locatry it into'
effect, as soon as you would undertake
tho job yourself. You d i in your produc-tion
" llogan't Creek" and in this you
miss the murk about as far as you do
when you sign it" A Republican of'08."
It would be as difficult to find your place
of abode nn I login's Creek, as it would
to find your principles in tho creed of
Jefferson. Excuse tbo liberties I havo
hastily taken, for nothing personal is in-tended-
O.TII C'F N.iTt-mi's Jour.M:\ ■«. ,-.
P. S. Mr. Sheppcrd must bo 'in '• a
had row for stumps" if out of a whole
Battalion in Rockingham he bad not
one friend to inform him of (ho lutisler.
The Raleigh Standard has issued an
cxtrs, which, we are told, is to be found
in every nook of tbu Slate, for the pur-pose
of showing that thu Administration
has been a model of economy for tho last
ten years, and ihat all the extravagance
and waste in the disbursement of (lie na-tional
revenue is attributable lo the
Whigs! " Cutting blocks with a ra*or"
would be an easy task in comparison v itb
proving these posilii l.s. First nfieol.O-iny.
In l-^*, the last year of Mr. Ad-ams's
term, the tcholc expenditure ol the
Government was 135,450,478 0^, out of
which 813,169,498 07 nf the Public
Debt were paid, leaving 118,386,041 45.
This sum, not one third of what Mr. Van
Buren now requires, was sufficient, un-der
a prudent Administration, to defray
all the demands of the government, and
yet the cry ol "oXlraVBgaiiCt," vocifera-ted
by every corrupt throat in llio L'uiun,
displaced Mr. Adams and elected in lits
slead one whom Mr. R»tclnc proclaimed,
and truly loo, -a curse to Ihe natiem'—
Did Ac economise ? Yin, verily, as the
Quakers say ; lie economised from thir-teen
millions a yoar to f-:vj-i l,u -• !—
Did the demagogues continue .to cry ex-travagance'?
Not they ! They were
-baring the plunder, and were as uiulo
as a fish. Van Buren succeded, as the old
Hero had commanded. Has Ac ccono-'
miscd ? The Report of the Secretary of
the Treasury states the expenditure of
(he last year to be 810,420,218 08 ! out
of which (here has been no national debt
paid, lor none was due. Do the support-ers
of the Administration cry "cxtiava-gancc"
at this astounding announcement
of profligate wastefulness I l-'ur from it:
they are straining their throats and their
consciences lo invent and promulgate a-polegics
for their masters and poyrna •
lers. and in their extremity Ihey chjrgo
the Whigs who have been in the minor-ity
for len years, and lln refore unable Id
carry • single miasore into i-ff. ct, with
all this scandalous waste, Thisissss to-ed
effrontery, acting from the iuipuisua
ol desperation. ■ • • • —The facts of thu
ease are these, am! noi x Iras can disprovej
tiiein. The late and present Adminis-
Iratlons iiaie ivaati d from fifteen to twen-ty
millions annually to corrupt the peo-tde
and scenic their own elections. No
sophistry can pul down truth; and Ibe
lal'orii / *•'i.^e..^ from whose hatd earn-ings
these fifteen or twenty millions
have been annually M rung, will s-oon, u •
ry soon, denounce the faction that has
so lonii ruble d and deceived ilium.—
.Yi-ie/.i / ;i Si.it-tntor.
ConsisUncy.—Dr. Montgomery in lii*
slump speeches makes a great bug-bear
of Mr. (lay's proposition lo give ten per
cent, to the new slati s in bis Land Dill.
and charges him with endeavoring lo
plunder III" old stales !—and yet the Dec-tor
supports Mr. Van Buren ir/io ilfor-giving
the WHOM to the new s.'irrV-t."—
Yes, he says Mr. Clay is for depriving U8
of ten acres in the hundred, and thorc-t'ore
he " would mil touch him » ilh a ten
foot pole." Mr. Van Buren is for" plun-dering"
ihe old statcfofthc tcholc hun-dred,
and yet he would hare the people
embrace him as a marvellously proper
man I! W hat sort of consistency is ihi-'
Certainly the freemen of ihisdistrict will
not be thus wheedled by the Doctor.—
Hilltborough Recorder.
Extra Standards.—We art iiifoimed
from various sources that blxlia Stan-dard's
are overflowing the whole Con-gressional
district. The Clobo ton has
of late received an additional impulse
in the way of ol a circulation among ui.
Alt ho' they have been cautioned and
warned and almost spurned fur fheir fol-ly
and imprudence interfering with 'U-J'.-
lier's game of ambidexterity, .• t b.
is their impale nt zeal in his i , - ■ lhal
lie \ caunnt I" ri Irani d. Lil ■ i!.- .\- -
who thought Ii ■ could fri k ihuJI tu ■>
-how Ins awkward fondm ,- fui ins in: -••
n r. as did the spanii I. Ihe Standard has
been rebuked but *-: (' 1 be cmtinu - io
prance about and paw his favorite
with bis graceless I ••■•.■■—Salishirj
IVafcanutn.
"Rational Amuiemcnt."—Wo learn
from a Wi -tern paper that a Hog Itaee,
for a purse of fifty dollars, came oil st
\\'i -i I'mon, "bo, on the '-.'Dili ult.
There weie five entrances for the pursi,
,..,; |t| - nr«i • S;-d b' en it trj-i . -.-