Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 41, Vevay, Switzerland County, 17 September 1840 — Page 1

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VEVAY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1840.

VOLUME IV.

NUMBER 41.

dearly beloved Brulus! Ha! 1 see you are tickled, rattier pleased than other wise. What it' your fame should be confine*! to your own province, it is stilt fame; something you can roll under your tongue like a sweet morsel, and call your own: don*t, I beseech you, ask loo much; climb the Udder slowly, gradually, gentlemen, round by round: cull the roses within your reach, before you sigh for the amaranths of Elysium. While on the subject of Fame, permit me to expiess my deep mortification and regret, that a few individuals should have attempted to pluck the laurels which I hive honestly earned, and bind them on the brow of others. This is unfair. Palmatn qui meriut /erat. Render unto Cesar the things which are Ctesar’e, and give to Brutus alt the praise, or all the censure which is justly his. If the present generation refuse to slower upon me that applause, to which I believe I am entitled, I appeal to the 'future fur my reward; and our descendants, in after years, in view of the services I am now rendering, will exclaim in the language of the Italian conspirator, •

j thing about them is commp it favt* The gentle* jnien have their clubs, ami the ladies their cote* ries. The former affect the puppyism of Bond street, and the fashionable vices of the “West End;** while the latter ape the Parisian mode, and rejoice in miniature Almacke. They are strictly exclusive, select; —tyrannical in their exclusiveness. Lets member of their order con* descending!; touch hia hat, even to a lady, one of the 61 thy people, oue of the nobodies; dare to venture forth among “The anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders! , and his doom is for ever seated—he is packed off to Coventry. Like the aristocracy of Eng* land (the peers and dowagers will-pardon the comparison] they preserve their strength and in* flu once, over the weak and pHanl dependants by this very exclusiveness. Were they to mix indiscriminately with the world, they would become at the worW, and their strength thus diluted—spread over a large surface, would become, fari pattu, impotent and contemptible. And yet the very cause which creates this Strength,, also limits its operation. It cannot, .possibly, cxen any in flu nee beyond the bodyin which it resides; it has no locomotion; it cannot even com* mand respect but from the parreim and the toady. And why! because public opinion will not permit it. The members of these petty aristocracies,, are, almost invariably, ignorant and silly‘minded people, dictatorial, overbearing, and intolerant. Disposed to scorn the humble they are themselves fair objects of scorn to the humbliest. Liberal, well educated, high-minded men, have a reverence for the little pride that scorns every condition; aodiach men would deem it sacrilege id affront, or abate the respect which is maintained with no adventitious aid, and soley by the observance of the virtues.

pie similar in every shade of character to those I have described. Skunks bo rough is not singular in this respect; every neighborhood has its aristorcracy—its clique, composed of people, generally very ignorant people, who haring a few more dollars or acres than their neighbors, affect to despise the poor and humble, and arrogate to themselves a superiority which dollars and acres can never bestow. * • '

Published every Thursday Morning,

BUSINESS.

Comer of Ferry and Market Vemy i Indiana,

t ‘ The Journal of Commerce makes the following’ just- observations in relation to business concerns and tho cause of .past depression.' The cause of iho embarrassments' of those who are embarrassed is stated in a single line—“Mey are to rich Mol t eketfver thrir heaift hulfdafler mutt oj couw he hud.'* \\ i!l iheee denouncing opponents of the Administration pretend that the superflux of m'ans which seduced them into extravagance was the gift of the Government! Was it not tho excesses of the banks that afforded such facilities to prodigality!. And is not now their compression which has chrushcd (he speculators by.the rcduciionof prices!' No honest man can doubt the name prudence on the'part of the Hank administration as has characterized that of the Government would have kept every thing steady, and prevented ihcrmnofihousands wiio now exonerate the real authors of their misfortunes, id accuse those who have taken the greatest pains to avert rhcm, and whose policy will have much influence in preventing the oc - currence of simitiar calamities hereafter;,. f r

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terms;

. I will now apply the knowledge we have gleaned in the course of ibis digression to the solution of the problem refered to above, and by keeping all the facts which I have narrated constantly in view, the problem will cease to be a pant atinorum to the political sophomores of Skunksborough, and others “along shore. 11 When 3Ir. P. first located himself in the neighborhood of Skuuksborough, he found among his new neighbors, a few of the friends or acquaintances of bis earlier days. -It is to be presumed that a renewal of ties, partially dissevered, by lime nui distance, was consummated. The character, politics, talents, &c., of the gentleman were undoubtedly w.ell known, and, for a time, as the event showed, properly appreciated by tho.older residents.. Among the latter, are now to be found a few of the most prominent and active members of the clique. Who, on his first appearance amongst us, bepraised and bepatted Mr. F,! Who noise'd abroad Mr, F’e abilities as a public speaker, a profound politician, and a consummate statesman! Who predicted (and rejoiced in the anticipation) the downfall of the clodhoppers and pettifoggers (I use the gentlemen's own .words] who had, before that epoch in cur history,.represented us in our State and National councils! Who rejoiced in the possession of a roan, of splendid talents, to do our slump-epetkiog, and our law-making! - Who said that Switzerland county would no longer be “the least among the princes of Juda”I Who said that Mr. FV was a quake r, and therefore his character for integrity (public and private) was above suspicion! Who raised up an idol on the '■plain's of Babylon," and with an eastern devotion fell down and worshipped at the shrine of their idolatry!. Who did all this! “Die, et eru mibi majnuj Apollo'. 1 ; ! .

THEi TIMES.

YET AY, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1810.

tlettisgs Down In Skanksborongh.—No. II. I JUin tmonL —Do they chafe roundly 1.

Andrew.—As they were rnbbhl with soap sir. And now they swear aloud, now calm again lake aringofbeilf, whose sound the windilill utters, And then they sit in council what to do, And then they jar again what shall be done.

■/Voin the Journal 0/Commerce*

OLD FLAT.

**In'lS£iM}, people bought extravagantly, of other .things besides Itoiitcs ami lands. They were also rich; that whatever their hearts lusted after must of course be had; and the tack of mercantile business since has resulted partly, from that cause, -There has however been, even during Ine past three years, a greater extent of business than any one would suppose, who was not aware that the amount both of our imports and exports has been.quite as large as usual. The course of business has been reduced 10 its simplest elements. Goods have passed through, but few. hands, from the manufacturer I0U10 consumer, instead of.being purchased a dozen lime a over, making so many different money transactions, or so many different sets of notes, ns “The most melancholy effects of the ordeal through which we have passed are seen in the prostrate condition of numbers who were for-* tobrly active and successful in business pursuits, but are now.so bitnhencd with debt, that without a bankrupt taw, or a compromise with their creditors, it is in vain. for them to attempt to rise. It is not strange that such men should feel deeply, and express themselves strongly. If they attribute their disasters to the Government, it is not strange (hat they should bate-, and abhor that Government. 1 *

Tba dark plottings of the clique are working admirably,—beyond the most sanguine expectations of the members themselves. Starvation is staring us in the face: already have they reducus to "roasting ears” and salt; and even this last forlorn hope it fast fading away. Van Bures will soon bare the corn as hard as the times, and Benton bas.latnpercd so long with the salt that it has nearly lost its savor;—what, vagabonds these democrats are!

"what were we If Brutus had not lived.” And now, gentle cousins, before I leave this part of the subject, let me have one serious word with you, apart. You must be well convinced that ail opposition lo the publication of these papers, will come with a very bad grace from you; and all attempts to silence Brutus, 10 long as his contributions please the public, were a bootless task. Permit me to assure you, candidly, that he is not prompted by a spirit of recrimination in thus trespassing upon the public, but by a desire of exposing the weakness and futility—the motives and principles—of at least one, out of the many cliques, who attempt to coerce the minds of weak, vacillating men, over whom they have usurped tyrannical rule, for the accomplishment of selfish purposes. My object ta not to throw toy gauntlet in the face of every man who docs not think as I do, but to crush prejudices and assumptions, by opposing satire .and truth to error, ami the olive branch to the spirit of persecution. VV,ho can blame me, in this enlightened ogo and'cbuatry, where men are allowed the full freedom of conscience and opinion, and where, I hope, these sparks of feudal tyranny are only emitting the feeble light of an expiring fire.

"There’s hot a blctiing heaven vouchsafes us, but The thought of them—doth wither to a curse."

Since the publication of my first No, the city ' of Skuaksborough has been in an uprdar. It is terrible to a man. of my peaceable habits, and benevolent deposition, to look on and contemplate the workings of the elements of anger, malignity, and revenge. No man having any claims to sensibility, can see with indifference a community of fellow-beings affected with grindings of the teeth, rollings of the eyes, foamings at the mouth, distortions of the features, clench Jogs of the fists, and sawings of the air; or hear without shuddering maniacal ravings, anathema’s, and dreadful imprecations. The mirror lias been held up to nature, and many have shrank back appalled at their own deformity. The attitude and arms of Brutus are new to them: they are writhing under his lash, and vowing revenge, blood, annihilation, the moment they discover the real Simon Pure. And is.this my reward! Was it for this 1 watched and toiled!' Was it foMhis I burnt ray fingers raking up from the dull embers of fancy, globing thoughts, and brilliant ideas, in which to clothe you decently, before! brought you out before the world! Was it for this I spent my last shilling for a pint of oil, wherewith to trim my midnight lamp, while laboring in your service, that 1 might Impart to my writings the odor of ths pkUipiet of the patriotic Greek; and for which piece of extravagance, my belter half and nine responsibilities, were packed off to bed without even a

. Alt aristocracies, from the Venetian to the Skunksboroughim, hare pursued, and alill pur•us an established and well-organized system of policy, to secure the following objects; 1st. To prevent the diffusion of useful knowledge among the people: and, Sndly. To preserve their own body as email and select, and, I may add, as earn ed 1 as possible. The former creates their strength and the latter preserves it. Fortunately for the poor and humble, the genuis of our government, and the glorious and ever-blessed educational establishments of out country, place the rich and the poor, the high and the low, ou an equal footing with respect to the acquisition of knowledge. We have no aristocracy of learning, no taxes on knowledge;—it is as free as the air we breath, or the sunshine that warms and the rains that moisten the earth. And. while the poor enjoy these advantages in rich abundance, the pitiful pride of caste will forever receive well-merited castigation and rebuke from every intelligent member of society. But if these aristocracies, and that of Skunksborugh among the rest, cannot seal up the fountains of intelligence, and base tbcirown claims to superiority an tho ignorance of the mass; with an audacity and pres u rail on, unknown in the European system, they attempt to raise themselves above the Eternal People by denying to the latter the possession of that intelligence of which they cannot deprive them, and insolently atogating to themselves, and their immediate dependants, the exclusive habitation of the temple of knowledge. Hence when a man of talent and genius appears upon their borders, the aristocracy become alarmed, their strength and inRunco are endangered; and if they cannot mould him to their will, enrol him as a member of their order; if he has a spark of manly independence in bis composition, he is immediately branded as an upstart, an adventurer, a nobody. If they fail to convince the people by these profound arguments, that ho is an ignoramus, they immediately assume a more.belligerent attitude, and attempt by brandishing the weapons of persecution and proscription to drivo him from their proximity. Nothing superior, or even equal to themselves, can live undisturbed where they reign triumphant, With tiie grasping ambition of the Macedonian Madman, they have declared that the world will not admit of two sum, nor Skunksborough of two Solons—calling the clique one.' And yet these people prate about democracy, and our glorious republican taifi/u/ionr.’/ I have heard them, when they attempted to appear very learned, eulogising the democracy of ancient Athens, and comparing our own government with that of the Grecian state. The former invariably suffered in these comparisons. Athens, and the United States of America, when placed, side by side, by these arpient and very liberal politicians, appear in horrible contrast— Hyperion to a Satyr. Athens—with her20,000 citizens, and 400,000 slaves, is. to them, the very beau ideal of democracy: 1 haven't a doubt of it.

THE ATTEMPT TO STOP BUSINESS TO EFFECT TIIEELECTIOX. The New York Express openly proposed that all regular business should be arrested, and that politics should be taken up by every bdhikE's man as a trade, fend bis money plied in it; the confidence of miking a profit on it in the result of tbs election. It seems, from the other city, papers, that this conspiracy which the stagnation of trade would necessarily produce, has not been adopted to the extent desired hy the organs cf Harrison and the Bank. The Editor of the Express, whep |ie made this recommendation, was. fresh from the North Bond, where he spent soma time with the Federal candidate; Vbut it seems that business men' were not willing to take the indirect promise made, through Master Brooks* from the North Bend, that any cut Jay of capital should be turned to profit by Harrison's administration. The New York Herald concurs in'the statement published some days ago by the Journal of Commerce, and sends by the last steam*ers the following, as ‘•News to England.” —“Business of all kieds is gradually reviving; and those who-were prudent during the years of speculation, are now doing a safe and profitable cash business.- Evert THING IK THE WAT Or TRADE APPEARS TO BE OBTAINING A' FIRMER AND 3JOCE EXTENSIVE BASIS THAN EVER. 1 ’

who, gentlemen, but the clique. Yei,t|ie clique did all this. Mr. F. was known to be a man of talent, and likely to be aman of property. Here was an opportunity not to be lost; here was a probable augmentation of strength, which they must secure. Need I say that the clique courted his friendship; threw out baits for him to nibble; need ! say they nioved heaven and earth, in a qniet way, to make him one of themselves; and nil this, and a great deal more, ioilfi the certain knowledge /.Vr. F't political opwiont. But it was soon discovered that Mr. F. was just as independent as he was talented; he was too high* minded to act with the little souls in pursuing ' little ends fay Utile means; he would not soil his fingers doing their dirty work. He would not become the tool of the clique. Alarmed at his obstinacy; dreading his .power should he openly appear as their avowed enemy; stung to madness at beholding the inroads he was making in the confidence of the people;—the clique determined to crush the aspiring politician. Their Own safety demanded it. The.people of Skiinksborough must not .know that a better roan than any' member of the clique; nay, than all the mem*, bers put together,' dared to exist within their jurisdiction. 'It would be a death-blow to their authority; .their tools and,dependanto would revolt ; Skhnksborough .would'.ha in.a; blaze' of moral anarchy and confusion. no,'such a state of things must never occur,—Fisher, must be put down. And long and zealously did they wage this unholy warfare; and to mask their real design they fought under a poliiicat bannor. But will any man pretend to say that the contest was one of principle. Will hardihood assert that the game which the clique played whs a political ouel Political or private predilections for Air. F’s opponent did not, with them, operate in favor of the latter; thoy*were actuated solely by the desire of gratifying their personal hosttl? ity to the man Fisher. All this was well known to iho cool, reflecting men of the Whig party, residing in and near Skunksborough, before the election, and many becamedisgusted at the mode io which the contest was conducted, and split their tickets. Now, when we have no candidates before the people for county officers, wc can calmly review these matters without incurring the charge that we wish to make political capital out of them, or use them for oUctionoering purposes. The contest js decided, thn county has spoken through the ballot box, and all grievances of a public and political nature should be consigned to oblivion. • And while we Heartily respond to this sentiment, we trust, for lU6 sake of human nature, that no body of men—nb clique—will again attempt to deceive tbelr fel-low-citizens by substituting private grievance for political principle*. mctm.

Harm; thus cleared away the little .rubbish which obstructed my puh, I will now proceed to the proper subject of this article. 1 hear it often propounded) as a problem of more difficult solution than the squaring of the circle, or the discovery of the longitude, why the politic til opponent* of Mr. Fisher, in Skunksborough, are almost without exception his personal foet. A few of the Sol on s of our city have in* deed attempted the solution, by ascribing this personal hostility to the skill and rapidity with which Mr. K. launches the bolts of that tremen* don 3 sarcasm, for which be has seldom had an equal on the stump. It may be said of him, as an anonymous writer has said of an English exchancellor, “there arc-no political bowels in him. He gives no quarter, and no sooner has he razed the fort, than ho turns to torture the garrison.” All this may be true, and, to a superficial observer, or to one not acquainted with the characlerand motives of Mr. f’e political opponents, may appear quite sufficient to account for that inveterate hatred with which he is regarded, by the members and tools of the clique. But to an independent, clear-sighted man, like myself, (excuse my modesty!) this solution is unsatisfactory and absurd: unsatisfactory—because it will not harmonize with all the facts, anil absurd—as it attributes a degree of sensibility to the members of tho clique, which they certainly do not possess. The real.ybns et origo of this hostility—the quod erat demoiuirandum' of this psycological problem, is inseparably blended with the general character and principles of a portion of the people among whom, in the course of human events, Mr. F's lot has been cast. A knowledge of their character and principles will constitute the premises—the first two members of the syllogism, from which the personal hostility to Mr. F. may be logically deduced. Let it die the province of Brutus to enlighten his readers on these subjects. It would be regarded as a piece of gratuitous information were I to apprise my readers, that society is every where curred and embittered wiihliitlc-soulcd, despicable characters, who can see nothing good beyond tho circle in which they live, move, and have their being;—nothing noble; honorable'/refined, talented, or virtuous beyond the magic lino of demarcation, which bounds the selfish,monopolizing little world over which they rule with undisputed sway. They arogate to themselves the exclusive possession of at) the virtues, and all the graces, which refine and adorn the human character. They style the ms Ives the good society, the elite, the beau tnonrfc/the iome6odiw.of.the place. Every

routing ear for supper. Yes, blind and mad as well as ungrateful! Cannot you see that all this - is for your benefit! Is it nothing that a man of my talents and acquirements,—a namesake of • the mighty Roman

. The Lexington, Ky. Observer of (he 27th ultimo comes to us in mourning for (lie death of Captain , John - Fowler, of that place, who died on the 22.1 ultimo 'In the 8oth year of his age.. He was burled. on the following Sunday, the military companies, the .Hi^onic-lodges’, the hose and fire companies, and the citizens generally, following tho body to ihc grave. Captain Fowler was a soldier of- the Revolution, and a member of Congress for a number of yeah. A man of better heart never breathed than the veteran whose death we find thus noticed in the Pennsylvanian. We have not received the Lexington Observer, which has put on mourning aa a mark of respect for the deceased. It is creditable 'o that print so Tar to consult the public feeling fur the deceased patriot. As a vehement partisan print, in behalf of Hareisox, we could scarcely have expected it to do honor to the remain s of one who, throughout a long life, bad continued a devout, indexible Democrat. This venerable man had recently excited the ire of the Lexington aristocracy by his statement of tho fact tha; Harrison wore the black cockade in ’OS, when jthoy were in Congress.

DEATH OP A VETERAN*.

r “who made the dagger’* edge surpass The conqueror’s sword in bearing fame away!”

Is it nothing, I say, that I should condescend i—stoop down from my dignified position, to notice the little mole-hill at my feet! h it nothing for you, gentlemen, to be shown off and patted, and trolled out before the world under the guidance of so distinguished a chaperon as myself! The fame ofshuoksborough has already reached tbs Atlantic shores, a tide of emigration will immediately overwhelm you; tho value of your mosquitne swamps and frog-ponds wilt be enhanced; you will become rich in spite of Van Suren and the hard times: gentlemen, you are made men without knowing it. Aud havo you □o ambition, no longings after immortality, posthumous fame, &c. Arc.

■ “Ob there's a deathless name!— A spirit that the smothering vault shall spurn, And, lute a steadfast planet, mount and barn.—”

■ Have you sever thought of" all 'this; and are you not aware that a greater man than flkunkahorough ever saw, has said or sung something like the following: . . ■ “ tlla pleasant tore to lee one’r name in print, ' 'Twill make one great, or clw the ti—l’i in’t.’* Titi# couplet is quoted from memory, and mem* -ory you know is sometimes treacherous;—but no matter*—whether misquoted or not it is amply sufficient to'convlnce you that thoroad t o great.jiett Ilea open before you, and (hat yotl have ad* tapced at least one step therein* Kara not all yoor natnes been fingered by the Hafckeded by the devil and committed to. paper by the preemanf Has ndt “the art preservative •of all arts** dons Its best to wrest yoar ; names ■fronroverlutfDg oblivion, and emblazoned them «B- ifjd.filfirntl scrolf of fame: and to whom I do yea stud indebted for all this bit I yonr own

Facts me Stubborn Things.

The OppoFition affect to believe that defaulters are in favor of of the Independent Treasury. How comes it then that theprincc of defaulter?,. Swabtwout, president of (ho great Concernslive meeting at New York, fulminated violent denunciation# of the Sub-Treasury, wl/ch were industrially circulated throughout the country by the Federal party! Indeed, ao popular did this, and his refusal to execute lho law 'which prohibits the receipt of irredeemable bank note*, make him_ with Whiggery, that-some of their papers actually proclaimed him the Whig candidate for the Vico Presidency, llad'ho not been detected in the mean time, he would doubtless have been a very, prominent candidate before the Harrisburg Convention. -

Short Colloquy.—“I say. Jack, what makes tho Ti ['pies carry ibeir handkerchiefs on polCsl” “Vy don’t you Jinow. They are kcepia* ’em to vipe their hie* with next foU! n

For ths troth of those observations, ( recommend the candid reader t'oloob around in his own neighborhood} ho will (herd dlic’ovtr peo-