Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Vevay, Switzerland County, 1 October 1840 — Page 1

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VOLUME IV.

VBVAY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1,1840.

NUMBER 43.

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The Boatnn evening Gazette, a federal paper, in announcing the proceedings of a Whig celebration in that city, has the following paragraph: “A BLESSING on the table was invoked by Rev. Dr. Park man, after which the whole company fell to work on the Crackers and HARD CIDER, other th ngs included—with their appetites not a little sharpened by their long walk. Generous as wa» the supply, it could not long survive this continued attack. Every plate was occupied, and every one got enough to eat; hut the quantity waisted bore no comparison to what we have seen on similar occasions.”

A Massachusetts Freeman's Address TO WILLIAM HE5RT DASaiSOty You govern freemen! Yes you may, When liberty has passed away; When gold has made the ton a atarO' Beside the pilgrim.lather’s grave, And moral principle is dead Where Warren fell and Sumpter bled.

TVhr no Democrat can Vote for Harrison.

Comer of Ferry and Market tlreelt , Pcrory, Indiana.

The charter of the city of Washington, forbidding any citizen to voie unless lie is a freeholder, being'about to expire, the attention of Congrets was called to it in the Senate a few days before the adjournment, by a motion on the

BECAUSE, Ho admitted to John Randolph, that he was in favor of the Alien and Sedition Laws—law? by which every foeigner. was required to bo in the land fourteen years before be coiitd vote, and by which no man was permitted to write and speak as he pleased. How do the Irishmen, the Germans and olheremigrants, like ibis? .

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part of the Democratic member*, that a new charter should be granted giving to every citizen who paid taxes iba right of suffrage. This cardinal doctrine of Democracy, without which the empire of tlio people is a mere empty name, was instantly opposed by the whole force of Federal eloquence, chicanery, and ill-concealed contempt. A motion was made to lay it on the ta-ble-K VERY FEDERALIST VOTING AYE, and EVERY DEMOCRAT VOTING KAVOn the third reading of the bill the same opposition was again experienced, AND EVERY FEDERAL SENATOR PRESENT RECORDED HIS VOTE AGAINST THIS RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.

You govern freemen! Curse the hour That brings to thee the mice of power; When pimpa in place shall round thed cling, Tho tools of some designing king, And lead thee, by thy passions strong, < To do tby country’s honor wrong.

BECAUSE, Ho rated to sell poor white men into Slavery for debt—a vote that can-be proved by a reference to the journals of the Ohio Senate for T621. This looks like friendship for the laboring man, docs it not? ~

THE TIMES.

What a commentary is this on tho morals of society. When will the Whigs desist ranking a mockery of religion, and everything that is sacaed, at their 'hard cider 1 gatherings.

BECAUSE, Ho is an Abolition candidate, Henry Clay was put off because ho was opposed to Abolition,.and Harrison nominated because he could got the abolition vote- Ask an abolitionist who ho wjll-rote for, ho wilt answer Harrison,

YEVAY,THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1,1810.

You govern freemen! Shrink the band That waves thy standard o’er the land, And silent be the recreant tongue . That speaks thy praises to the young, Rod Raisin rolls tier waves in shame. And wild Sandusky scorns thy name.

The Federal Whigs say they want a United States Bank to bring back good times for the Farmers. How goad the times were during the existence of that institution, may be gathered from the fact that ia 1820 it took ton bushels of wheat to buy a pair of shoos—wheat being worth only 25 cents per bushel in trade—where it does not take half that amount now.

Wisconsin and Iowa, the young scions of tbe West, have astonished the nation by the recent returns of the census. The population of the former is 31,000, and the latter 50,000 Souls. Three fourths of the inhabitants, it is said, are from England.

BECAUSE, ho dare not think .for, himself, and ail letter* asking him for his opinions are handed over to InaThrokingJUpminUtee, who refuse to let"them be known! The DeniocratH call HarMeonjrabecite.- Is not the above strong proof to that effect! BECAUSE, while he is a candidate of a party who hate all of)3ce-ht>Idcrs', hediaa himself been in office 47 years! s BECAUSE, Jle is the candidate of the Speculator, the banker, and the nabob. How can. he be supported by the poor mau’whoso sweat they would use; to fill I heir-coffers, witVol soiling Uteir bandar BECAUSE, He is the avowed friend of a National Bank—the great object of the'aristocracy' and the drones. .-

You govern freemen! belter far That yon'bright flag should loee each star; That sceptred'king with iron tread, Should stamp in dust each freeman’s head, Than thou, on freeman’s backs, should score The laws a Draco wrote before,.

■ of the most enthusiastic and numerous meetings ever held in the Union, recently came off at Baltimore, to celebrate the passage of the Independent Treasury bill. It ia described as being the largest meeting ever assembled in this country. U was addressed long and eloquently by tbo Hon. Jas. Buchanan. When it was announced by the officers of (ho meeting, that the distinguished Senator from Pennsylvania, who, when a young man, BORE A MUSKET AS A VOLUNTEER TO DEFEiND THE SAME CITY OF BALTIMORE from the attacks of the British army, would address, them, thcro was an out-bum of enthusiastic feeling perfectly astounding. The real enthusiasm of democracy is fast sleeping away the pretended and false zeal of the hard-ciderites.

Rather Totrou.—The Wisconsin Enquirer, in speaking of a bail storm which recently passed over a portion of Milwaukee county, says that it destroyed crops of ail kiods not harvested, breaking windows, killing pigs and poultry, besides knocking down one or two men, and a colt! Some of the ltt*il stones, says the Enquirer, we are informed on authority not to be doubted, measured eight inches and a quarter in circumference, and weighed five ounces.

■ A German writer observes that in America there is such a scarcity of thieves they are obliged to offer a reward for their discovery.

You govern freemen! You, who hold ‘ • Communion with a monarch’s gold,- * And purchase manhood’s dearest rights - With orphans’ tears and widows’ mites, While watchful tyrants shout buzzahs And glory raid the fading stars!

Harrison songs are multiplying like frogs in Egypt. One of the last commences after tbe following fashion: “Possum up a gum tree, Cooney tn de holler, Ole genral Harrison’s Berry fine ekolar.” There is another abroad commencing thus:— “Possum up a gum tree, Cooney in de holler; Tell me Mum’s opinion, I'll give you quarter dollar!”

Yon govern freemen! You, who dare . ■ The gallant Croghan’s bright wreath to wear, Who, moved by duty’s sterner calls, ' Defended old SjnduskyVwalls,* And swore that e’er he turned to thee, A bloody hearse his car should be!

BECAUSE, the only reason urged by his friends- why. be should be elected, is that he drinks hard cider, and-ltyesin a log cabin, when both are;false,-eonteniptable as they are. • BECAUSE, He :endeavors to appropriate to himself -thd'honors of older .and better soldiers. He.endeavora to, prove hints elf the hereof the Thames; When that credit belongs to the gallant R. .51. Johnson.

You govern freemen! dreadful jot. To boar so deep, so foul a blot; A bankrupt North—a ruined West— A dying South in crimson drest— A houseless home—a voiceless voice— A heartless heart—a choiceless choice.

BECAUSE, his greatest “.victory” the battle of Tippecanoe, was gained by the best blood of Kentucky/whoscgalfant volunteers were butchered on the spot pointed put by the savage foe. BECAUSE, lid resigned his commission in the.gloomiest period of,the war, when tho services of all.men we re; wanted • .. ' ' , BECAUSE,'He endeavored -to injure the stinding of Gen; Jackson, when the country believed old.Hickory to be tis preserver, . BECAUSE. Ho was publicly censured by the', .WOMEN OF CHILLICOTHEon account of his cowardly treatment of 5Iajor Georg o.Croghan. BECAUSE, his name was stricken from : thtf resolution of the American Senate appropriating medals to himself and Governor Shelby. , . BECAUSE, He belongs to the party which addrersea itself to the ignorance of men, who would make the laboring men believe, if they could,* the vilest falsehoods and misrepresentations.

Maine Election.— By tbe following extract from tbe Boston Morning Post, it appears that but little change Ins taken place in the Governor’s election since 1838; and that there can bo doubt of the re-election of Governor Fairfield, The Post says:— “We have returns from 4<5 towns, comprising nearly the whole of York and Cumberland counties, which are given in the table below, compared with the vote of 1838, the last occasion on which the strength of parties was tested. "Fairfields majority was then 2,09*2; bis majority this year will probably fall a little short of this. Clifford, the Democratic candidate, is elected in tbe York Congressional district, and, aa was expected, Smith has lost tbe election in the Cumberland district. The democrats of Portland, notwithstanding the unparalleled exertions of the whigs, have made a nett gain of SO since 1633. Democratic Yotk, it will be seen, is sound to the core—the vote of both parlies has fallen off a little, but tbe democratic majority will be about the same as iu 1838—the two towns to bo heard from.(NowfieId and Lebanon,) then gave a democratic majority of 11. The democrats have elected their entire ticket for county officers.

The “Whig Party Editor of tho N. Y. Herald, who is abundantly able to judge of die honesty of the leaders of the federal party, having long acted with them on political matters, and being familiarly acquainted with their mode of operations, says in his paper of the 30th insl: —"They are fore-doomed to perdition, and it is a waste of time and labor to try to avert their fate. The party ta cursed with a set of self-constitu-ted leaders, men without patriotism or princi-ple-grasping, mercenary intriguers, who will move heaven and earth to promote their own selfish purposes, but never lift a finger for the good of the cause.”

You govern freemen!'God ofgrace, Look down in mercy on our race; Forget not, ia thy wrath, the sires Who fed in blood tht altar fires, And raised frdth.sea to distant tea - The holy spires that point to thee.

Ho, freemen! by yon Defend the soil he died to save. , Hurl back the asp a haughty king Would place beneath your Eagle's wing, And let your glorious anthem be—“I, like my father, will be free.” Washington, September 6,1640.

General Harrison a Hero. —The Boston Post tus cunts up Harrisons claims to be called a

Look upon ibis picture.

It has been suggested by a cotcmporafy that the Whigs ought to celebrate the battle of F on Stephenson as one of Harrison’s victories, inasmuch as lie was only rigid mifei farther off on that occasion than at the battle of the Thames. It wouldn’t htrT'bad idea, that’s a fact. But there are O/numbpr of battles yet to be'celebrated, which Ol/Tip “fought, bled, died, and groaned” In, (fir shine where near,] and of. course this will hWa its turn among the rest.. Lay low and keep dark! \ ’ fow ahd| — We learn . from the Cinjaer that Gen. Howard, of Indiana, ty lis/week, and attended a Detng, Where he was generally and enca)led upo j to address tho meeting; jtfte mott eloquent speeches, made position of the federal whig system of many other enormities committed ami /now committing by that faction, in their cndeavbrs to obtain that power of which they have been deprived for forty years, and which they) would use for the purpose of destroying the gryat interests of the country, and establishing a mammoth bank, with a capital of 100 millions, and a charter for 50 years. The editor says', 'General Howard is an orator of the first grade; the language pure, strong, and effective; and his manner collected, persuasive, and familiar.’ ‘

In a debate in the United States Senate, Feb* ruary 1C, 1827, on the project or establishing' a naval school, Gen. Harrison thus remarked: ‘I (eel proud to sty that the defence of Fort Meigs at which I commanded,chiefly depended upon the ic : ontiffic exertions of a man in whom it is due that his worth should here be attested by me. I allude to the late major Wood, a than who combined many valuable qualities, and who bade fair to have risen to a high point of professional eminence. Your commander had not sufficient science to have successfully defended the fort without the assistance of that individual.’

Why every Democrat should Vote for Van'

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The last war was declared June 18,1813. The first movement of General Harrison, with the North West Arm; was in May, 1813. He re* signed and went home, May 11, 1813; just one year in service. The war continued, in fact’, till January 8,1815, though the treaty'was signed at Ghent December 34, 1314. The severest struggle and nearly all the.Iand victories, were after Harrison resigned. Thus General Harrison was one year in the war, and then left his country to struggle on, in her darkest hour, for one year and eight months , while he, as Major.Ben Russell said of him in his Sentinel in 1813, had “left the army for the com* forts of the settled country.*’ What a hero and patriot! .

BECAUSE, From a poor, friendless and tinaided boy, who labored during his youth as a hireling on a farm, he rose to the highest office to the world, by hit own merits , and by his' own exert iont; thus proving that no matter how poor a man may be, in this country, ho may rise to the highest distinction, if he pleases, by his good conduct and intelligence.

03>An eminent statesman, speaking of the hnmhuggiog methods of electioneering adopted by the partizans of the present day, expresses the feUawlng ytat and noble sentiment*.which admirably applies to the “/og cabin” and “Aard cider'' or modern whig party:

TORE COUSTT. 1840. 1838. Fairfield. Kent. Fairfield. Kent. Total, 5(107 4101 5322 4321 Correspondence of the Boston Morning Post. Kennebuuk, Sept. 15,1840.

BECAUSE, from his earliest youths he has gone for his country with zeal and energy. All the principles of the Democratic party, have over found to him a supporter and a champion, white all tho federal gull traps and falsehoods have been “by him as sUuncWy and as effectively op-, posed. BECAUSE, although the unceasing object of federal virulence and rage they have never been able to detect one blot in his public character, “to mingle admiration or gratify hatred.” BECAUSE, Ho has always raised Iris voice against tho onward strides of the money power. BECAUSE, He never hesitated about-avow-ing himself againsf themsdness of the-Abolition-ists, and ns utterly opposed to all their schemes. BECAUSE; He has never shrunk from an avowal of-his political creed;. His letter to Sherrod Wiilmnis and .his whole history, prove that he is hot a lonaticiinder the ctntrol of keepers, or fallen into second childhood. . '' ' > BECAUSE, During tho late threatening difficuhies between this country and England, ho managed the affair so paujoiic like and so fearless of consequences, that his own enemies placed,' by their own votes ih Congress, ten millions otdollars at his disposal,as the sinews of the expected war,- and authorised him*to raise an army of fifty thousand mcnl .BECAUSE, In his public transactions, no vote of censure was e ver preferred against him, on account of neglect, malfeasance or deficiency. BECAUSE, having risen from naked poverty himself, he is the fit .representative of tho poor laboring men and mechanics. •

Dear .Sir—The votes of York county, as given for Governor and other state and county officers, are all In except Elliot, Lebanon, New field, end Parsonsfield. The'towns include all the strong holds of federalism in the county, and exhibit a nett gain for them of sixty-three votes since 1838.* The democrats then, carried the county by 093 majority. The democratic majority this year will be about 1000. This is the, town where the grand log cabin farce was played off on the 4th of July, and the voters feasted at the expense of the bank nobility. The result is that the democrats have made a nett gain of 4 votes, Nathan Clifford, Esq. has been re-elected to congress by .a majority of not less than 101)0 votes, —probably more. 1 have not time to give you the details by this mail. Your obedient serv’t. P. CUMBERLAND COUKTT. 4840. 1838. Fairfield. Kent. Fairfield, Kent. Total, 4959 5321 5053 5191

Then on this*

In a speech at the late celebration of the seige of Fort Meigs,Gen. Harmon thusspeaks olhimself in connection with that seige—‘Feeling my responsibility, I personally supervised and directed the arrangement of the army under my command. I trusted to no colonel or oiher officer- No person had any hand in any disposition of the army. Every step of warfare, whether good or iil, was taken under my. own direction, and of nono other, as many who how hear me know.’ >

“If I understand my own feelings, my chief regret in witnessing such degrading exhibitions, arises from a consideration of the opinion which foreigners, who hare not the same reasons to respect our political institutions that we bare, are likely to form of the character of our people, when they see that conspicuous man among us can promise themselves any advantages from at* tempts tb delude their fellow citizens by means of such monstrous absurdities. This regret is, however, I confess materially diminished by tho conviction that the people will, in the sequel, as they have heretofore done, convince those who attempt in this manner to operate upon their credulity, of the folly of seeking to accomplish, in this country, political objects by such discreditable means.”

Why did Harrison Resign?

Breckenridge, a partisan of Gen. Harrison, in his history of tho war says: ! -“'We regret to be compelled to add that this distinguished ofiiccr (Harrison) not long afterwards (the battle of the Thames) retired from the army tx coxssquexcE or being placed in an INFERIOR COMMAND. His services wore thus lost to the country during-the remainder of the war. For the act which induced Gen. Harrison to take this step, the administration [of Mr. Madison) and particularly the Secretary if War, (Gen. Armstrong) were much and justly slaked.” • -

Firtnisos.—Here is a(ru/A, any how, from the great Daniel: “Violence, scurrility, invassion of private character, and a systematic disregard of truth, are deemed 'essential to the presses that oppose the administration,’*— Daniel JFebslert

Do you bear that, boyi! Here is another from the same:

“If tbit parly [whig] meant to maintain either its consistency or it* respectability inch papers at the .Mai rauil cease to bo its organ.’*— Danitl Webtltr.

General Harrison an Abolitionist*

Here no hare the authority of a whig biographer of Harrison, that be was opposed to Mr. Madison and bis measures, and iu consequence of It retired from the army in the midst of the war.

Tho locos insist upon this—and we admit that the General will be an Abolitionist of the first water, alter the 4th of March next*

Do you hear that, Major! Head over your in* famous abuse of the Hon. Isaac Hill, if your stomach it strong enough to take your own vile Ehysic.and tell its how if Daniel didn’t once in is life, st least, : “(ell the truth and shame the darll.” Ask Richard!' <

A good one.—The following sentiment' was given at a recent Democratic celebration So Delaware county. New York, by Eleazer Alien, a revolutionary soldier and.brother to Ethan Allen:

He wilt abolish alt sinecures. ' He will abolish all extravagance in the public expenditures. He will abolish this thing of a specie oorren* cy for. the office holders, and paper currency for the people. - , Rkuirks.— A Harrison organ (the Cincinnati Chronicle) gives us thus the items of the Harrison reform. .He may certainly begin at home. First, let him abolish the sinecure of $6,000 per- annumwhich he has held far many years, in a clerkship. Secondly, let him reform the wasteful and negligent and incapable disposition which sank more millions, in his two years’ prosecution of | tho war in the Northwest, than Were ever before destroyed in this or any other country, iu campaigns were such small amount of force was employed.- ■ .. Thirdly: To abolish this thing of a “specie currency; 1 ’ he has only to carry out generally, as regards the Government the plan which ne has already brought lobear upon it, as security for his defaulting son-—that is, take land from all defaulting officers for money used by them, and give them credit for,iwemy years for any (balance in th’eiy *

Wo find the followingquesiioni and answers in one of our exchanges; What was the purport of the alien laws! To drive all foreigners from the country. .What was ih'e pnrportof the sedition laws! .To pnnisKmenfor.lskingptlt against the officers of the government;'; Who approved of the alien and sedition laws! John Adams, an old Federalist and modern Whig. • ' • ' ' Who appointed General Harrison to office! This same old Federalist and Modem-Whig, John Adams. f What is.General Harrison? The candidate of the ancient Federalists,and modern Whigs for Prei : derit.

, "The Wins party of 1840 — Ring-streaked andnpeckled. In ’93 they wore the black cockade and supported the cursed *gag lavs' tied a* bout Jefferson, and fought against Democracy. In 1812, they aided the British red<coa1a,und groaned, over our splendid victories; and now by shouting ‘log cabins' and ‘bard cider,' they are trying to elect a'candidate without principles, and who, as far as 1 can learn, always had the ‘cannon fairer’ when ho went into action.”

Daniel Webster, in 1829—“General Jackson ie a third-fate man.”

Daniel Webster, at Alexandria, June 11,1840 —“General Jackson is an extraordinary man!” - , ; [Borton Pott.

' A Hero Gone,— Died, at Woburn, Mass., on ibe 12ih'uli, Limit. Sllvanus Wood, a Heroin* lionary Patriot and Penaioner in the 03d year of Ms a*e. Ho was-in tho battle of Lexington, ApriAs* 1765, and had the honor of making tho firei prisoner in the Revolution. On the 4th of July, 1840, he partook in the fcaittints of j,hc celebration of ouc Independence, at Lexingtonon which occasion he emeted into its spirit with all tho patriotfsin of an American, and vivacity of youth'. He was invited by the whigs of^Woburn, to- attend their buffoonery celebration'of' the 4th of July, at Concord, and promptly, declined, aaying'unhe committee that waited upon him—“Yoti .cannot deceive tne.by assuming the name of whigs.**»- He bad bia reason" to the - last —blessed ..lifa children,, who * were collected around-hia bedside, and died wdh the strongest assurance ofendUirftliciiy.”** M *on * ott \

Test ojGood FloobI—The following wilt ascertain the quality of flour: —“Flour which is pufo aifd unadulterated may bo known by your seiaing a. handful briskly, and squeezing it half a minute; it preserves the form of ihtf hand in ono piece, although placed rudely on the .table. Not so with that which contains foreign substances; its adhesive property, is weak, and it falls-to pieces immediately, ..Tho whiteness - of flour is no evidence of its goodness; the different materials used in Adulterating flour have a tendency to whiten It.”

The following important item of political intelligence appears in a Boston fedor.it paper: . « Tip! Tipn TipUi— Those Miniature gold Cider Barrels at Lincoln & Reed’s, are all the,go with the ladies. Wo hold conversation with no ladj who has not one of tbeso ornaments about her person. That's poa.V

Ridiculous.-— To hear one of the peace party of 1812, pratsiug God. Harrison for bis ‘services* during the tear! '

■ Ohl oh!l oh!H we shall positively fa i n t . Bob bring ns the smelting Wide.

“One bumper at parting)” m Ihe man said whin he ran ngaihal a po»t. -