Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Vevay, Switzerland County, 22 October 1840 — Page 1

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VEVAYi INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22,1840.

NUMBER 46.

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and secondly, (hat my remarks were not iniended to apply to tho whigs of Switzerland county in general, but exclusively to the members of a certain clique which has long existed, and now exists, in the city of Skuoksborough;—let these facts be remembered. The members of this august body, if we take their own boastings and crowings for evidence, constitute, emphatically, the keystone of the county,—the great political lever by which all movements are effected. This declaration, whether true or false, is as insulting to the intelligence of the people of the county, as it is injurious in its effects, to the interests of the whig party to which they ostensibly belong. Before these dog-days of party excitement dawned upon us, the vague, general, sweeping denunciations of the clique against the measures they opposed, and the candidate they desired to defeat, were regarded, when regarded at all, as sure indications of the triumph of tbo opposing party. Who docs notknow, who will deny, that the people of the upper part of the county of both parties have always regarded the opposition of the SUunksborough clique, as ruinous to the faction whose interests they espoused! What candidate for office, for the last few years, has not considered the opposition of the clique as an excellent auxiliary to hisown electioneering! These facts are notorious, who has the hardihood to deny them/ This political paradox was first made known to the writer, and its tendencies commented upon in many a sage homily, bygentlcmcn who arc now hand and glove in political

of an achievement bo sublime as ibe accomplishment of a glorious destiny for hia fatherland, ,:wliilo the name of an enemy to hia country will descend to posterity blended with the execrations of a betrayed and indignant people. And let no man suppose that his sphere of action is too limited, bis arm too weak, to make or mar the beautiful fabric of self-government, which the world for the first time now beholds with wonder and applause, and which despots regard with fear and trembling. It is not a violent and general collision of the elements of destruction from without that wo have to dread; it Is the slow, gradual, undermining process of seif-cor-ruption, the dropping of the water upon the stoop, that ought to arouse the patriot to eternal vigilance. Intestinal commotions in communities and nations, like family jars, have always been more destructive in their tendency than injurious from without, inasmuch as the danger resulting from such commotions is seldom suspected, and no remedy provided to avert or repair the evil. Domestic differences, if conducted with that fairness and honesty, which ought to characterize the friendly discussions of the members of one family, like the strife of dements in the physical world, will result in tbo purification of our moral atmosphere, and restore harmony and peace to our noisy and distracted councils. It becomes, then, the stern duty of every man to assume a conservative jurisdiction over the social, moral, and political movements, which affect, either directly or remotely, the little community of which be is a member) and so far as he is himself concerned, when" bp honestly differs in opinion with his follow men, let bis pride, bis desire be to let candor and uprightness of heart guide him honestly in the path of truth. Let not the desire to triumph over his neighbor, the wish to hurrah for victory, the redress of private grievances, the gratification of personal malice, or t&e wish to oppress with petty tyranny, prompt him to adopt a course of conduct at the price of his good name, his principles, bis virtue, and bis patriotism. With these maxims and teachings green in our memory, let us calmly review the course, adopted by a few of our fellow-citizens, before and since the late election in our county. 1 &11 state nothing but what I know and candidly believe to be true; what 1 have seen with my eyes, and heard with my ears—seen and heard with deep coromlsseration for the actors, and with fearful forebodings, Ksuch things are persisted in, for their ultimate influence on the destinies of our country.

delegates and central committee, in the late political struggle in the county, in all their acts and all their sayings, were actuated by honor,

cupinc; for wbai are they training their tools, joind, and poking-sticki, antT jelling their houses in order against the November election; for what do they ring in our ears talcs of battle, blood, and-revolution when the smell of gunpowder is afar offl. Is it for. the triumph of Whig principles, or the great cause of human liberty! Is U to secure the ;p'ermanency of our iuititu- ; lions, or the liberties of our country, by elevating Gen. Harrison to tbo Presidential chair! Bah! they "'know ndf'wbat pure disinterested patriotism is; they are already squabbling about the loaves and. fishes, and dealing dinners, in | perspective, from the little crumb which will drop from the executive table into the lap of Skunksborough. They are hugging one another and boasting of what they will do—oh!* what they will do—in the evcnlof Gen. Harrison's election. God send they may be victorious! I love to sea. little souls gratified, children stuffed with bread and fanner. 'I hope Gen, Harrison will throw the crumb into their insatiable maw! and I intend, myself, to suggest to the Gen’J. the means of keeping them in proper subjection; for they' are a rebellioba set, and U will require a diplomatist as sage a» myself (h—e—ro) to instruct our next President how lo'dispense bis favors amongst them, so as to please all. This .would be kind in Brutus, .Vent. I will send a copy of tbo Times containing this article ■ to the General. ♦ * * *. * The reader will discover that I have mingled no party feelings with the remarks which I have presented in ihs two preceding article!. I have looked on and observed the exertion! of both parties; I have seen much to praise, and much to condemn. I now intend to suspend ibe publication of these articles fora time, A number of very pretty stories of the sayings and doings of the Skunksborough clique, yet remain untold. It would require more space than the columns of a newspaper to lay before the public, even in prUo, the real state of things in this place. At some future lime, I will probably select, from the ample materials in ray possession, a series of Tales illustrative of Life in Skunbsborough. In the .mean time, .I will give the clique a chance to discover the real name of the dreadful Brntai. It must be a matter of paramount importance to them, to know the ‘‘fellow’* who has dared to.tell the truth respecting them; the “rascal” who has had the boldness and independence to lake their pure nomci on his unhallowed lips, and tell the world a little of their history. Yes, it must be worth something to I know ibis man. It has already cost them twoI delegations to Vevay, and one to Cincinnati, besides beeping an agent in tbo former place wboio. business it is to bold the Vevay Times office under surveillance; to say nothing of rejected newspaper articles, subscription papers, begging petitions, secret caucuses without number, dec. dec. Well, what sum can they raise amongst them! Any thing handsome! Say about as much as they offered Lawyer B-— of Cincinnati, to exercise legal acriinen and ,delect some flaw in rnj, writing*, da which, to base an action against the Democratic Central Committee of this county; and for which generous offer of .patronage the legal, gentleman was kind enough to laugh at them. ' Wbai say you, gentlemen of the clique? Deposit a decent sum to my credit In the hands - of some, honest, disinterested' man, and Brutus ' will give'you big real name, and at the sametinta transmit an order to the holder of the money to pay over the amount to the poor of the county, or some charitable mslitolion within theState./ .. . • • \ , * . Madame Rumor,,dear good Iady,.in her usual sweet, winning, obliging way, has conveyed to my ears the astounding report, that Brutus has lost a number of friends by the publication of tba Skunksborough Papers. ■ Frieodsli friends!! God help me! If the lost were my friends, where shall I find my enemies! I appeal to history! tell mo yo reverend chroniclers of the past; tell me yo gossiping dames; tell mo O Skuokiboroughians! a single solitary friend that Brutus has lost. Prove to me that they were friends in need, friends indeed, and I will mourn for their departure. .Lost friends! it is a most excellent joke,—a belter never escaped from the lips of Joe Miller. Friendship that hangs on a thread so little is unwonhy of the name. I have labored among those bttt/riendi,— labored faithfullytoiled with mind and body;—and what has been my reward! Let the lost friends answer; 1 will not affront them by answering for them. It would have been better, far belter for me, in mind, body, health, and pocket, had I never listened to the syren voice of these friends,—

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good faith, and patriotism, and by these alone. The doctrine of expediency is not to be found in the articles of faith of one solitary whig, who loves his country, and sots nothing in the belligerent altitude of parlies, but the ultimate good of the cherished institutions of the republic: and if the men to whom the power of nomination was delegated, iftho men to whom was confided the all-important trust of guarding the dear bought liberties of freemen, abused that power, betrayed this trust, the execrations of a trusting and deceived people will sooner or later burst with terrible indignation on their guilty beads. If at any period of the contest, these men saw a danger Impending aud warned not their fellow citizens of its existence; if a further knowledge of the abilities of the candid ales sustained not the character of tfieir first promise,, and the people were not promptly apprised of the fact; if, finally, any delegate, or any member of the central committee, entered upon the duties of hit office with the determination to despise the interests of tho people, the welfare of bis country, and bend all the energies of bis mind,-and insult the dignity of his station', to accomplish selfish and mercenary purposes, and gratify private malice; how will such a man excuse or justify bis conducll by wbat sophistry will he defend bis treason, when arraigned berorethe tribunal of an insulted and deeply injured people! If these seemingly hypocritical cases were presented, in the form of charges, they could be proved to be

THE TIMES.

VEVAY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1810,

invite the attention of our readers to a communication on tbs inside of the paper, over the signature of “A convert to Deuocbact.”

It breathes the pure sentiments of a patriotic spirit. ■ 4 ,

American Claims on Foreign Govebnuents. —We ere happy 10 learn, taye ihe Globe, by advices from Valparaiso, that our Charge d’Affairs has succeeded in obtaining from the Chilian Government indemnity for the seizures of American property by. Lord Cocubase, when in the service of that power; and that there is a reasonable prospect of an early liquidation of the other American claims. This is another proof that the eye and the arm of a Republican Administration are every .where extended and exerted for the protection or vindication of American rights .

Vexay Timet. Joltings Down In Skankaboroagh.—Xo. m.

bungling and tergiversation, witlitho very clique which but two years ag-o they condemned as disgraceful to the community, and whose acts and sayings they declared would be fatal to even a good cause, and destroy popularity fargreater than any that the clique could ever possess. Be-

as true as they are grave.; .The writer has no

“Comtne si cartouche se ploignait qa'on Peat ac case' d’avoir vole'. 7 ’ Voltaire.

now, and indeed never had, any thing to say against the members elect to the next General Assembly: they are both entire strangers to me: I know nothing of the gentlemen but what rumor has reported. 1 sincerely hope that they will prove, by their acts, their speeches, and their

“Is tt a fact,” said my old friend Jerry Hawthorn, "that you poor devils are actually forced to live on corn and salt, or ia it merely your way of telling tho story/-* “Literally true, my dear sir, no hyperbole;— and we have not yet reached the culminating point: times have become so very flinty indeed since that loco-foco humbug, the Sub-Treasury, has been ia operation, that it is to bo feared we will not be able to procure a sufficiency of even that very meagre fare throughout the winter. Alas, what are we coming to! But walk this way, Hawthorn, *’ said I, leading my friend firs into the pantry, and from thence to the kitchen “look there Jerry M

fore the line of demarcation was "strictly drawn,’

and before men met conclave, and re* solved, with the garb of patriotism thrown around them, to sacrifice every thing for the take t>/ party, the vile machinations of the clique, which in an enlightened community, and under & free government, must ever be fatal to honest and honorable men, were viewed through the proper medium, and.all their cjtcrescnces and distortions, stood forth to the eye of tho impartial beholder in bold and disgusting relief; but when it became expedient to sacrifice principle, virtue, and reli* gion itself to effect party purposes, the Jews and Samaritans, who formerly had no dealings, clasped to their bosoms their ancient opponents with all the warmth and tenderness of a political embrace;—verily, tho millennium is at band. The wbigs of tho neighborhood,.nil good men and

votes that the confidence of the people has not been misplaced. What opinion I have formed respecting them is based on (expressed declarations of delegates to the convention, and members of the central committee, who know, or ought to know them well: and I have been shocked to hear these gentlemea (delegates and com-mittee-men) express wtprtto/e, onehen by fAemtehet, opinion* dumtlrically'oppoted to those fe-

tcndtd for the public ear, sndwhichthey rcUiH ed in public, ad libirum, during the canvass. And yet such is the fact!—do they want proof! It it to be found in thotestimooy of many hoobst, independent men, of both pirties, who have heard the Janus-like declarations of the delegates and committee-men. Warm supporters of at least one. of tho members elect, have labored like a mountain in trarail, to prove that (bo State would be ruined (!!) if the member to the lower branch of the legislature were not elected. Not once, but frequently, bare they exhausted their own lungs, and the patience of their auditors, in describing the qualifications, the integrity, and the legislative wisdom of that candidate, and the next moment they have turned round and sneered at, what they called, the puerility of his views, the “bald, disjointed chat” of his speeches, and his total want of political knowledge. What are we to think of mcli meat How will they answer to (he people for tbit delinquency—this total perversion of principle, this shameful abandonment of duty!, Wat it not their prerogative, their duty, in the first place,'

■our latest mouse, Our lost of mice, I fell you, bos been found Starred in the pantr/; nod the reverend spider, Solo living tenant of our humble hall, Who, trained to abstinence, lived the whole summer Upon a single tty, he’s famished too; The cat is in the kitchen-chimney seated Upon our lost of fagots, destined soon I To dress our last of suppers, and, poor soul, It starred with cold, and mewling mad with bun- ’ ger.” 1 am quite hysterical on.the subject; I would cry, but mine is not a weeping muse, and such light griefs are not a thing to die on. But come, the corn is parched and tbs skunk's grease mixed, —won’t you dine with usl”

It is known to all my readers that delegates representing the whig partizana of the county mot in convention at Vevay last spring,* and nominated candidates for Slato and county officers. The democratic party did the same. The acts of these conventions met the approval, generally, of the members of the respective parties. The manner in which the whig delegates from this section of the county were appointed, is still a matter of wonder and mystery to the whlgs themselves;—but this U of no consequence now. 1 will presume that the delegates were armed with full power from their constituents, (if they had sny,) to act in their name and behalf, on all subjects which might be laid before (be contention. If this were the case, it is but fair and I reasonable to conclude, that the acts of tho convention , the nominations more especially, were made with tho advice and consent of the delegates from this part of tho county; and no man j will have the boldness to say, that they would advise and consent to the nomination of gentlemen, in whom they could not rest the most implicit confidence, —men of talent, and experience in matters of legislation, especially versed in a knowledge of the principles and tab lies of the party by whom they were nominated, and quite aufaU in the questions of State and national policy on which the two great political parties are at issue. We may at least be permitted to affirm, that the candidates were more particularly the favorites and pets of the whig central committee. This body—tho very neuclus of the party—tho focal object on whom all eyes were turned—could not for a moment harbor the most distant suspicion, that the principles over which they watched with all the jealousy, and faithfulness of a very Cerberus, could by any possible concatenation of events, receive a blemish or a wound from the gentlemen who were before the people of the county as the candidates of the whig party. Such an idea were preposterous. It may be affirmed with equal safety, that the delegates to the convention and the members of thecentral committee, would not permittbe disinterestedness and purity of their patriotism to be suspected by nominating and supporting gentlemen whom they considered mere party tools—gentlemen of convenience—man ignorant of the first rudiments' of whiggery—mere tyros in the art of legislation. .This is not to be mentioned. The conclusion of (be whole matter is, jhal the honest men of the whig parly.believed tbit their

true, dreaded this coalition; they foresaw nothing but what wes portentous of evil to their cause, ami yet willing to sacrifice persona] feelings, and old recollections to what many of them honestly believed was the cause of patriotism itself, they tolerated, suffered, (I can use no other term,} the embraces of tbe clique, and received the kisses of this modern Judos on passive and unwilling lips. Such were the feelings, and wchita vwAwes, wUwUgaveaapemua appearance of strength and importance (for there was no reality in it) to the political fugling of tbe clique in and about skunksborough. They became on a sudden, and unexpected to themselves, an integral part of the whig body politic, (formerly they were only an excresence on its

Reader, do you remember the expression of Liston’s face in a certain scene of “Sweethearts and Wives!” If you have forgotten the indesacritable physiognomy of (be lamented comedian, you can form no idea of the serio-comic expression of Jerry’s countenance on receiving this invitation. The dying dolphin exhibits not a greater variety of hues than mantled onjhe face of my well-fed friend. Ho looked foolishly, sheepishly, angrily, sympathising!/, and lastly he stroked bis “fair round paunch” and cast at me a most significant and very wolfish glance with bis great red eyes; and, throwing himself in a theatrical altitude, he stretched forth bis right band, and exclaimed with great emphasis “Dine and be d—d!—I don’t mean to bo coarse Put that’s the penalty, to tay no worse; —“ and Jerry flew off at a tangent. The descent from no pudding to politics is easy; we tumble from the one to the other with a "/acilit detcemut aterni,” as the poet says. I do not mean to insinuate that Virgil had any reference to politics when ha penned this phrase, bat things have changed since the golden age of Augustus; and if politics, now-a-days, are not really avernut itself, they may bo very aptly represented by its nearest neighbor

surface,) and when raised to “that bad eminence” by the sufferance rather than tbe partiality of their political associates, no good was expected from their exertions, and, as the event proved, these expectations were fully realized. So it will ever be, such it has ever been, with those who act without regard to virtue, or principle, or patriotism; with those who battle for victory alone; who know not, care not for what they are contending, and reckless of consequences, blind to ulterior results, are swayed by passions and feolings which neither began, nor with honest men continued the contest.

lo nominate a suitable candidate; aman in whom

the j could confide; a man well versed in a know* ledge of tbe great questions.of Stateand National policy which convulse.and agitate the conn* try; a man who would) at least, faithfully-repre-sent tbe opinions of tbe Whig portion of the county! And what man can do justice to opinions) which, according to their own showing, fie does not understand! Well, have tbe delegates and committee-men done all thief Tbs Whigs of Switzerland believe they have, and I was a long time of tbe same opinion. 1 yet hope they were wrong, they were certainly hypocritical, when they privately aButed tbe man whom they ptib/icfy recommended to the good graces of the county. The reader has heard their own testimony; it is evidence they cannot dispute. Let tbe delegates and Committee-men of Skunksborough explain it if they can; deny it they cannot. Is their conduct honorable (o themselves, or will it be beneficial to the county! It has placed them in a aituaiion which is certainly not an enviable one. Such men are a disgrace to any party, I care net by what name it is known. They are a clog, a stumbling-block to the Whigs, if they are Whigs at all, which I much doubt. They are not Democrats, for the Democrats have disowned them; they area leriium quid, undefined and undefinable. i

It is evident that the power for good to tbe community, exerted by any class of citizens, will always be in exact proportion to their intelligence and virtue. This is a trite saying, but it Is not more trite than true. Of alt countries in the world, our own, splendid beyond all parallel as it is in physical greatness,-wilt never reach that glorious destiny which its foes dread, and its

friends hope Tor, without the intervention of a great intellectual and moral agency. Our institutions can be sustained and carried forward to this destiny, not by physical force, but solely by the intelligence and virtue of our citizens. It is unnecessary to dilate further on the.truism: evidences of the influence of moral and intellectual causes on national existence and national greatness, arc to bo found written on the historical page of every free government, from the most ancient to lha most modern, they are those most zealously recommended and inculcated by

"That scorching region Purgatory height» la my list article I offered some observations ou the causes which operated in favor of the successful candidate for the suffrages of the people of this county, during the recent contest for political lupremacy. Some of ray whig friends have misapprehended the obvious intention of the writer, and given a latitude of application to those remarks, which a candid perusal of the article will not justify. In reply to these gentlemen, I beg to assure them, in the first place, that I have not entered !ha arena as a political gladiator; it is the want of political action, political principle properly so called, that 1 condemn;

nThey found me poor, and—kept me w,” and if the publication of the Skunksboroogh papers has burst asunder the bands that linked ni feebly together in “friendship*! sweet cbmrannion,” I will fall on my knee*, morning, night, and noon-day, and deronily th* n k for aU his mercies. BRUTUS* l;

And now for what are they battling; for what are they threatening poor men who have the independence to think differently from themselves; for what are tbe bristles of (be whole herd, body and tail, raised'like quills upon the fretful por*

the founders of the American Union. A halo of glory wilt play around the name of every man, however humble, who honestly labors in behalf