Vincennes Gazette, Volume 14, Number 3, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 June 1844 — Page 1

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if From the Washington Standard. The first Polk 3on. BI H1BBI5 OT IttlXOTP. Ah Matty Van's a used up man. And Lewis Cie. he cannot pa, And as for our old friend Tecumseh, lie's lost ainidst the rumpsy dumps. There Stewart he can't iim at all, And Buck's kept quiet in his stall.The Locos are uncertai 'k They've knocked r'owi- all n i ;,t opt'olk. You'd hotter kp your Polk away. Or we will rover him over with Clay; The Copns will never stop or baulk, But cat up berries Polk and stalkArT)t!ri V BY THE WI1IO STATinn. And Wright was right at any rate, To spurn a hook, with such a bait; For Vice with such a man as Polk, E'en Silas thought too rich a joke. Have you read Cass' Texas letter?' Ye? and statesmen such as he, Would show his character the belter To iviite his name without thcC!' Tor the Vinccnnes (iszettr. The I'Ysiaale i'olif h'ian. T.V FK.M FOOT-STICK." ' Conic. I'nnk, you must go to Cork's waii me to-morrow evening. We will have a splendid party all the wit and beauty ot" Cedar county will he in attendance, and there are some line girls about tills little town of Rochester." Thus 1 was addressed by t!ie all-sufficient Doctor Pinion Bolivar Grabb, on the evening preceding the last Christmas. 1 had been a resident of tho Territory of Iowa since the first of November, but lu.d been confined to my room by severe indisposition. Dr. Grabb was the only physician, or rather, the only man who officiated as a ? sw-bone?,' within the circumference of som twenty miles : con-ftq-ienily, 1 a It ft without choice in selecting my medical attendant, and Grabb pjo:i became almost domesticated in my cjnr; r. How much I was indebted to the mragren??s of Ins practice I never could determine, but I had the satisfaction of knowing that my disease, or myself, completely monopolized the doctor's skill in the practice of medicine. Hence, up to the present time, the doctor's was the only 4 hawkeye' face with which I had become fnmi'iar. except the very benevolent one carried by a lady somewhat advanced in vears. (I won'd not say 'o!d woman') who acted in the double capacity of landlady and nurse. 1 began to feel myself able to 'stir out," and, as the sleighing was excellent. I determined to lay aside my usual dilfidence, an l, at every hazard, meet the assembled ' wit and beauty of Cedar county.' Before accompanying the doctor on our crusade of pleasure, I will give the reader an i lea of his personal appearance, and as correct a view of his character as 1 could father from external indications. The doctor is some twenty-five year? old, rather above tho medium stature, well formed, prepossessing on a short acquaintance, but enjoying all those contemptible qualities claimed as the peculiar goods and chattels of tiie creature called a dandy in fact, like the cinnamon tree, his bark constitutes his entire worth. He thinks himself a great favorite with the ladies, and. in consequence, lie moves amongst them with an air of perfect indifference, and treats their most attractive smiles with sovereign contempt. Mock dignity and mistaken notions of his own importance combine to render him obnoxious to his fellow-men, whilst his arrogance produces a like result in his female acquaintances. He talks politics because he understands partics better than his profession, and, at the time I became acquainted with him, was a locofoco because he did not sufficiently understand the interests of the country to be a Whig. Therefore, I soon learned to look upon the doctor as both a medical and political quack. Punctual to his appointment, the doctor called for me, on the ensuing evening, 3nd a pleasant though cold drive of some two miles brought us to the comfortable man sion of Squire Cork. The building was a large double cabin brilliantly lighted up by two large log-heap fires which prom lsed us a comfortable warming. The. com panv had nearly all assembled and were impatiently awaiting the arrival of the fiddler when we made our appearance. and a finer collection of ladies I have sel dom met. The doctor could not show off to his greatest advantage with an invalid upon his arm and soon washed his hands of me, to mv great satisfaction, by consigning me to the care of our clever hostess beside, the delay of fiddling Jim gave him an excellent opportunity to astonish the company with a display of his politics wisdom, and knowing me to be a Whig f? ared I might be somewhat troublesome a an auditor. Ah!" exclaimed Mrs. Cork, after I

had spent about half an hour in conversation with her and a few of her matron i friends, " I sae doctor Grabb and Mary , Green have engaged in a discussion of Jsome kind doubtless political, for Mary jis a staunch little Whig she just came jover, from Illinois, on a visit. I hope she may be able to give the doctor a sound

drubbing, for he has made a tool ot my poor old husband, and has made him believe that because he was a Jackson man he must now be a Van Buren man. Let us join the company and listen to them a moment." I hesitated a few seconds. I had heard of female politicians and had formed a very unfavorable opinion of them, but had never met one. I could not separate tho idea of a 'blue stocking' from that of a female politician, and in suffering myself to be led to the group collected around the disputants, I fully expected to have ihe pleasure of making the acquaintance of some old sharp-taced, sharp-tongue J, maiden aunt, before I should be able to get away from it. When I had reached a po sition from which I could view the oppo nents, I beheld the doctor swaggering from side to side in his chair, and holding forth with all the pomp belonging to his assumed dignity between each sentence poking the ond of a cigar into the blaze of a lamp which sat by his side, and withdrawing it as soon as a new idea demand ed egress. Immediately before him, or rather beside him, for the doctor sat with his side to the table that he might enjoy the greater freedom in the use of his legs, sat a young ia'dv of some seventeen summers leaning her pretty face across the table that she might not lose a single word uttered by her antagonist, I saw at a glance tint she would prove nore than a match for the doctor, and, debilitated as I was. I could scarce restrain the impulse, even in the presence of so mav Indies, to give the company a genuine specimen ofa hearty. hoosier, " hig cheer. 1 am a bad hand at describing persons. especially females, and fear that I shall do Miss Green great in justice in attempting a description of her. She was rather below the medium stature and I think no better idea could be given of her person than by simply saying it was full and symmetrical. I he topograhy of her face was round, delicate and xpressivc ; whilst the broad expanse of her noble forehead bespoke a depth of thought at which the doctor should have trembled. Her large black eyes gave utterance to t ach emotion as it arose with greater emphasis than her -soft, mellow voice, and I felt a glory in belonging to a party in which she took so much interest. W hat their subject of conversation had been I was only able to judge from the doctor's evident desire to evade, or draw her off from a discussion of the tariff. After our approach, I think the conversa tion ran something like this : No, Miss Green,' said the doctor, 'I tell you we want none of your whig tariris. All we want is an encouragement of homo industry.' 'And how is that to be etlecled without a tariff?' The proper and only effectual method of encouraging home industry is by kiling this spirit of enterprise, or rather spec ulation, and by curing the American people of the mania called ' confidence.' Phis can be done by abolishing tho bankng system and making the precious metals the only circulating medium ; which measures would effectually place every man upon his own bottom, an 1 in place of sorrowing a bundle of rags from a shav ing machine, upon the security of confi dence, and going into some grand speculation which will effectually ruin himself. his bank and thousands of his less rascally fellow-citizens, he will be compelled to eek a livelihood in the prosecution of some honorable profession or respectable mechanical or producing employment. 4 1 think, doctor, said Miss G., that 1 could give you a better method of encouracing home industry, but you have commenced an attack upon the banking system, and I would not interrupt you for the world. What objections have you to a bank of the character of our old national bank? Was not its paper good?' Good, res ! The best in the world ! It notonlv commanded a premium at home but all over Europe! Even the Chinese were glad to get it when they refused all other paper mor.ev ! Hut what wa9 the conse quence ? A speculator goes to the bank and barrows a wad of its money and runs to Europe for her manufactures the money commanding a premium, he can make better bargains with it than any tiling else. And hence, in place of freighting a ves sel with the products of our country and taking it to China to barter fot tea. he slips a little roil of paper in his fob, and off he scampers, leaving the produce of our country to rot in the farmer's barn or the mechanic's work shop. And this leads us into the consideration of one of the most glorious acts of Gen. Jackson's life. During his administration the value of our gold and silver currency- was so regulated that the American cannot ship it to Europe without sustaining a heavy loss, our gold and silver being so adulterated that it is worth less there than the established value of it here. This has a ten dency to attract the metallic currency of Europe, and it was in view of the operation of this measure, in connection with the destruction of the banking system, thai

Mr. Benton predicted that the time was not far distant when we should see a constant tide of gold flowing up the Mississippi. And he said it with reason; for, give us no other currency but the metal, destroy our overgrown confidetCe in the integrity, ability and resources of each othfr, so that our people will become producers instead of consigners, make the precious metals of greater value heie than elsewhere, and you will find that the trader to foreign markets will discontinue paying them in money for their manufactures but will take with him the produce of our own country, and in place of trading it for silks and cloths, he will sell it "for 4 Benton mint drop?,' with which to build him ft woollen factory, or a silk cocoonery, and thus create tho yellow tide spoken of by Benton.' . - the doctor ended, the rotund form of Squire Cork gave forth evident indica

tions of an intention to speak. 4 Answer that, Miss Mary answer that,' said he, rubbing his hands in an excess of gratified feeling, and emitting a chuckle which appeared to come from the depths of his fat stomach. I shall do my best. Squire,' said she, and turning to the doctor, continued, 4 you are far too limited in your views, Mr. Grabb.' The doctor stared at her in an excess of astonishment. 4 Too limited in his views !' He felt that he had carried them as far as any man possibly could. He had carried them to China !nalf the circumference of the globe, and to go farther would be to bring them nearer home. ' You have not fully traced out the effects of your policy, said she. 4 Worse and worse, thought the doctor she evidently intends carrying the subject farther than tho 4Globe' has ever taught me to do. and if she does, she carries me beyond my depth, certain.' 4 You have admitted, doctor, that the paper of the old Bank of the united States formed the bes: currency in the world. As Jim is now tuning his fiddle, that functionary having arrived, and we shall soon be called on to join in the dance, I shall not stop to consider what made it so, but shall take your admission as sufficient evidence that if we now had a bank of the character of the old one, its paper would be good at home, at least, if not abroad. That it would perform the function of affording us a good home cur rency is admitted by all; and now, if I prove to your satisfaction that the meaures of the whig party will so situate their proposed bank that it can exercise no influence over our foreign relations that they will afford a more ample protection to home industry than your plan, which, you will admit, is precarious at best, and that they will afford the government an increas ed revenue, will vou renounce locofoco ism, and support your honest convictions by voting the whig ticket (should our territory, in time, become a state,) at the next presidential election ?' The doctor felt that this was carrying the war into Africa with a vengeance. He had already began to fear that he was no match for her in argument, but the idea of succumbing to a petticoat had nev er before entered the hollow dormitory of his cranium. 4 If Jim could only get his confounded old fiddle tuned now,' thought he. looking wistfully towards the corner of the room where that pearl of his pro fession had stationed himself. 4 1 am triumphant, thus far, but if she is allowed to come down on me again I shall be routed, horse foot and dragoons. She has put a direct question and I must answer it! Confound the fiddle I' 4 Y-e-s,' said he, fetching a long breath. and withdrawing his cigar from the blaze of the lamp, which had converted an inch of it into a live coal during his abstrac tion, 4 if you can satisfy me that the whig measures will effect those results, I shall support them, by my vote and influence.' I he last two words were pronounced with great emphasis, and seemed to reinstate him in his good opinion of himself. Leaning back in his chair, he consigned his cigar to his teeth and Jiis thumbs to the armholes of his vest, drew a few whiffs and felt that all his wonted complacence had returned. 4 Proceed if you please.' 4 With your permission,' said Miss G., ' I shall give you my argument in the shape of a syllogism : the first proposition being that 4 The whig tariff will prevent the proposed whig bank from exercising the slightest possible influence over our for eign relations my second proposition is that 4The whig tariff will afford the amplest protection to home industry,' and my third or conclusion, that 4 The whig tariff will yield the government a revenue sufficient for all its wants, independent of all other sources.' 41 At present, I cannot stop to review your, or rather the Jackson plan for en couraging home industry, in all its effects, but should we ever meet again, I shall do so. At present it is not my object to tear down locofocoism but to impress upon your understanding a true knowledge of the simplicity and sound policy of Whig measures Whig Bank and W'hig Tariff. First, then, of the tariff, bank and commerce. To consider them separately, and also, their connexion, would be to take up more time than Jim will allow me. There, fore, one view, and I will leave the proposition. To make the manufactures or products of foreign countries of greater value here than those "of our own, would be to build up a homo commerce, to the

destruction of our disadvantageous intercourse with the old world. This object can only be effected by laying a duty on those productions of other countries which our own will yield us, sufficient to make their cost to the consumer greater than the productions of our own. Thus, for those fine French boots. 1 suppose you paid '' 41 Five dollars," said the doctor, elevating one of his feet until upon a level with his face, that the whole comp.any might admire his neatly booted mud type. 44 Mr. Briley, what would you charge the doctor for a pair of boots of the kind he now wears ?" inquired Miss G., turning to a gentleman who had just joined the listening party. 4i I could not make them, and furnish the materials, for less than seven dollars ; and even atthat, I should not realize a nett profit sufficient to buy thread to make the second pair." 44 1 suppose," resumed the fair politician, 44 that the importer paid the manufacturer two dollars for those boots, the existing duty, the importer's profit, the retail merchant's cost of transportation and profit, finally makes their cost to the consumer five dollars being two dollars less than

our own boot makers can make them. No financial operation will remedy this evil it fails both in theory and practice. It is not the policy of our government to lessen the wages of the mechanic or reduce the farmer's income; on the contrary it is the duty of the government to sustain and augment, if possible, the wages of labor in our country. And this can be done by furnishing the people with a good home currency, such as the bank of the United States, and by protecting our mechanics from the competition of the old world. The bank and tariff will effect both these remits. Thus, had the govern-J ment charged the importer of those boots a duty on them sufficient to have made them cost you Briley's price, you would not have bought them, because. Briley makes a more serviceable boot, and your own interest would have demanded that you should patronize him. The retail merchant, not being able to sell French boots to you, ceases to buy them of the importer, who, in turn, carries no more U. S. paper to France to buy boots with. And thus the Whig tariff will operate on all foreign importations ; and merchants, or speculators, as you are pleased to call them, in consulting their own interest, will use the paper of the U. S. bank to buy the manufactures of our own country, render- .... , ' i mg u exclusively n nomc curronc, . Hence, the Whig tariff operates on the j currency of our country diametrically op posite to its effects upon foreign goods the one it keeps out of the country, the other it keeps in ; and. the foreigner who wishes to buy our sugar, cotton, tobacco, or other pio luction. not being able to get our bank paper, must pay us in gold or silver you perceive the polcy of main taining our prices and thus, and thus only, can the yellow tide spoken of by Ben ton, be made to 'flow up the .Mississippi anl shine through the interstices of the farmer's purse.' " " Good ! Good !" exclaimed the fat Justice, 44 I'm a bank and tariff man ! D'ye hear that doctor ? I say, I'm a bank and tariff man !" and grasping Mary's hand he gave it a squeeze that brought tears to her eyes. The doctor frit himself a used up man. The Justice had hitherto been one upon whom he could impose his second hand opinions with perfect impunity who believed everything he asserted, and. who, he hoped, would lend him the weight of his influence in procuring his election to' the Territorial Legislature. He felt that all was now lost his teeth met through his cigar die lighted end dropped to the floor and the other he swallowed in a vain endeavor to gulp down his ill-humor. Jim drew his bow across the strings a fewtimes, and the poor doctor felt that his reprieve had at length arrived. He was just rising to offer his arm to Miss Green when the bridge of .Mm s tiudie oounuen across the room and dropped at his feet. The fates had evidently conspired to annoy Grabb. He hesitated between two impulses the one to run away, the other to break the fiddle over Jim's head. Contenting himself, however, with placing his heel, with great emphasis, upon the unfortunate cause of his disappointment, lie resumed his easy posture and resigned himself to his fate, whilst Jim. with a verydull jack knife commenced operations on a hickory chip. 44 As to mv second proposition." resum ed the lady, "'that the Whig tarift will afford ample protection to home industry, 1 think I need say but little, as my argu ment on my first proposition will apply to this one. And, indeed, I should not have spoken of protection, but passed over it as admitted, had you not lavoreu us wun uie sophistry of Benton, Jackson, Sec. How- ... . - t ever, as it is denominated a v nig mcas ure. and Jim's fiddle has discontinued its issues, I have no objection to going into a short discussion of its internal effects, as I havp alreadv shown its external. Thai in limiting our foreign commerce, it would build up a home trade, in facilitating which a national bank would be an efficient arrent, is also apparent, and our object now is to discover how ihi commerce is to be supplied. The producing class, it is er roneously contended, have ever exceedet the wants ol our consumer?, aiid y u iocc

focos (the Squire shook his head at her, as if he would say, 4 don't call me loco foco, if you please,') are continually asking, 4 what will we do with our surplus produce if the Whigs succeed -in abridging our commerce with Europe ?' My answer is, that in our intercourse with the old world, the balance of trade has ever been against us, until within a very few years until the disordered condition in which locofocoism involved our finances, rendered it necessary that our consumers should deny themselves many of the luxuries they had been in the habit of indulging in ; and thus equalized our trade, not by increasing our exports but by decreasing our imports. Now. as we have imported nothing but manufactured goods and exported nothing but raw materials.

the balance of trade being against v.-. proves, that our consumers will furnisi an ample market for our productions, and all that is requisite , to render that market available, is to manufacture our own raw materials to encourage our home manufacturers. This the Whig tariff will do to admiration, by keeping out the manu. factured goods of other countries, and keeping our raw materials at home, or ex changing "them for gold and silver if taken abroad." At this moment Jim's fiddle proclaimed its restoration, and the doctor sprang from his seat as if electrified. 44 Well, doctor, as Jim has interrupted me," said she, accepting his offered arm, 44 I shall refer you, for an argument on my third proposition, to the effects of the tariff of 182S." 4 4 Hurrah for the tar i if, bank, and a whig Administration !" cried the Squire, after the graceful form of Mary had mingled in the dance. Then turning to his friend, the shoemaker, he continued, " I sav, Briley, I like that boot story, hugely it's neither right' nor 'left' but a 'straight'boot story, which fits the bank as well as the tariff, and, for a'l I know, she may draw upon all the Whig principles. I tell you Mary Green's not only the prettiest, but she's the wittiest and wisest rirl ever was in these parts. Aint she. Bob?" 14 Well she are, boss '."drawled out the six-footer to whom the Squire had addressed the question. 44 ! calls her a political muscalunge, a reglar whale, and that gander-legged doctor 'o yotir'n han't no more business with her than my pup had with the bar I killed this mnrnin." 4- Well." said the Squire. 44 I have always been a democrat " 'So've I," ss.i.1 Bob. 44 Rut I'm a VI hig now.' 44 So'm I." echoed Bob. 44 I've heerd men talk jist sich siuiT, and thought to myself 4 hos, you can't blarney this 'un!' But, who can help hut believe what a purty gal says cus me if I wouldn't cut a fourth o' July over any man's eye, who wouldc'tbe what Mary Green says he orter." Their conversation turned upon the bear Bob had killed, and I left the group. I saw that the doctor would like to get out of the sneak, and proposed, at an early hour, that we should return to town, lie was overjoyed at my proposition, and having introduced me to Miss Green and said a few pretty things about our similarity of political faith, etc., we sow our host and hostess, received a pressing invitation to call as soon as we could make it convenient, and departed. 41 Damme, Frank," said the doctor, after we had driven about half way to town in perfect silence, "I think I shall change unpolitical opinions and " 44 Good !" said a voice from rearward. The doctor brought his horse up so ?uddenly that the poor animal almost pat down upon us at the same moment that the sudden stop brought the gaunt form of Bob (who had been standing on some projecting portion of the sleigh) upon us from behind. 14 Get out of this, you d 1 locofoco eves-dropper, cried the incensed doctor. 41 Don't call me locofoco, said Bob, as he regained a few stories of his original heighth, 41 you may call me eves-droppcr. but I shan't stand it to be called locofoco! Mary Green's made a Whig of ine, the Squire, Briley and every body." 44 Hurrah for Mary Green and her principles," yelled the doctor, 44 I think we can make room for you inside. Boh." Before we got to town Bob had promised to vote for the doctor, at the next fall election, as the Whig candidats for the Legislature. Should I continue this story, the reader will learn to what cause 1 am indebted for being able to depict the doctor's feeling and thoughts under various circumstances. Yours, F. F. Hvroi S.MiTir, upon whose shoulders Joseph has allowed his mantle of prophecy to fall, was one of the delegates to the Locofoco Convention that lately nominated J. P. Iloge, Esq. for re-election to Congress, llyrum is said to have asserted, before the Convention, that he had re ceived a revelation from the Lord, that the 2.00 ) .Mormon votes in the district were to be given to Mr. Hoge. Was there ever greater blasphemy or hypocrisy. jlton Telegraph. Can anv one tell what 'imaginary fears' are?

The free trade papers in this country are very fond of quoting advice from British writers to our government in support of their theory. It must require a verv firm confidence in the ignorance of our people to suppose that the motive of- alKN this good counsel will escape their sruti113-. England has for years aspired to manufacture for all the world. She wishes to supply all the markets of the world s.s with her goods, and draw from them their e v specie in payment. Very naturally, she desires no formidable rivals in manufactures ; and it is for her interest in some " r

way to curb the rising gre. :ess of every nation whose manufactures promise to rival her own. For many years she has enjoyed a supremacy almost unprecedented in this great branch of national industry. Her goods have flooded the continent of Europe, and found their way ir.to almost every port in the world. Thus she has made all other nations tributary 10 her commerce and manufactures. But now she is threatened with formidable rivah. The German League, through its tariff regulations, manufactures for thirty millions of people formerly supplied by Great Britain, and bids fair to rival England in some of the principal markets of Europe. The United States, under the operation of a protective tariff, is likelv to have no fur ther need of tho looms and engines of England, in as much as she is rapidly be coming able to manufacture for her ovn people. She finds all her interests pro moted by this home policy. Her agri culturalists find a ready market. cloe at their door. for their surplus produce, and escape the payment of freight for three thousand miles in the good they wish to Miy. Commerce, though ti e direction of it may he changed, becomes less hazard ous and quite as profitable. Labor of all kinds is stimulated and rewarded. The millions we have been accustomed, under a policy of one-sided free trade, (for that is all any nation has yet enjojed,) to pay to the laborers of England and other nation? of Europe, now go to our own la boring population, and effuid them the means of comfort and happiness. How ever out sympathies may be moved by the sufferings of the paupers of other lands. we must not forget, thai it is notour busi ness to legislate for their relief. It is our first duty to secure our own people, thoe who have cast their lot upon our shores, who take part in the responsibilities and duties of our political institutions, against the same calamities. We are to legislate for America and not for England. Acting upon this principle, our country is rapidly acquiring the ability, not only to supply the wants of her own people, but to rival England herself in the markets of the world. That the fact is acknowl edged to he so, and that the apprehensions even of shrewd English statesmen themselves, are excited by it, may be learned from the following extract of a speech recently made by Mr. Ewart, M. P.: " There was America, wh se manufac tures ere extenung themse ves with co lossal strides, which always marked the onward progress of that gre?.t country. Whatever we might think of our own manufacturing supremacy, there was one nation which follows rapidly in our steps, and will possibly overtake us ; a country whose people had sprung from our own soil, who were descendants of our own forefathers, and who possessed so much of English energy and perseverence, that they might be aptly termed not only English but ultra English. Cheers. That nation was the United States of America. That was the nation with which we had now to contend in the manufacture of those articles in which we had hitherto maintained an easy ascendency in the markets of the world. America was thus the most formidable manufacturing rival we had to fear. And at this moment, while we had failed in extending by a single treaty the sphere of our commerce and our trade, we heard only yesterday that the United States had concluded a treaty with the States of tiie Zollverein, with great advantage to herself. Was it to be borne, then, while our rivals were employing all their energies, and exerting themselves suc cessfully to obtain equality with us, if not '.ctnal superiority over us, in manufactures and commerce, that the Parliament cf Engand should continue their slumbers? Americi had opened herself a market of twenty-seven millions of people for her produce. Is it any longer matter of surprise that England should advise us to relinquish Protection? AT. Y. Conr. and Enq. Dogs in Constantinople. I have not remarked on the dogs, and yet they aio peculiar to this place. None are suffered to enter the houses, consequently, all aro without homes or owners, yet the street are tilled with thousands, that howl all night and attack any one not provided with a stick. They subsist on charity, have their own police arrangements and districts, and will not suffer an intruder. They are ugly, rough, reddish beasts, half wolf, quarter jackal, and a quarter dog. This tribe adds considerable to the drawhacks of Constantinople. Marchioneii Lon do n dtrry's' Xa rrative: Colb u rn . Ho who would cheat the printer out of his hard-earned dues, is as destitute of a ou! as a baboon.

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