Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-03-09
me The reason, and then I'll tell yoo

So you see asked convention man
what made him want a convention, and
be begun TO tell me a long rigmarole
about the county commissioners, and SAID
they oughtn't TO be like they are, but
they ought TO be Just court of justices,
and not get no pay nor nothing. never
lei on, but thinks If they didn't get no
pay it wouldn't save as much in 90 years
! recken as the convention would cost,
and then couldn't have any choice about
i, but all the justices that the leg sla-
ture might choose TO appoint, would be
the county court, and don't see as our
justices are any smarter than other folks
but however you know this is what |
thought to myself And then he said
the Council OF Revision or whatever you
call ii, that ought 10 be broke up, and he
Sid LAWYER Kane said il was bad thing
and would sometime or other lurn out
SO. That's a 10 one says |. Now
didn't hear Lawyer Kane make heap
of long speeches 10 the old convention
about this here Council OF Revision, and
tell 'em it would he The safeguard oil
our liberties ami all that; tor didu'l 90
to kaskia to see about some business
/ had taen N the I.aad Office, and then
went IN TO the old renoh barn whore the
Convention met, and heard their speech
es, and Lawyer Kane didn't talk about
nothing else when | was there, and il
WAS nim that 60, II IL. When said this
! couldn't get aay thing more out OF my
convention man, only he grnmbied some.
| thing about the legislatures sitting every
year--and mol ing Nanddlia. Now thinks
/, Il he legislature don't do better Than
| they have done, ,hey'd better not meet
only once in four years, and at any rate
may be we'd b ter get used to the har-
ness FIRST before we nngear, else we won
know low to work any bctter--and as
! Tor moving Fandalia, IFS all sham, be-
| rause nobody Cant agree about where II
shall be put. Al last ne said he wanted
70 have negroes brought INFO the state
Oucaase then here'd ne more money,
| nd he could sell bis land VI he wanted
! o. or his corn, or any thing else. Nav
links |, may I've th, man don't know
al land don't sell as high in Mis-
e3an as il docs here, and that corn
5on' bling hall as much hardly away
N the country n Missouri as il does
N our back settlements Bat then !
thought | Wouldn't say nothing TO him
only Ia think abou il. BIZ, only think
Mr.. Printer! got book tather day
III OF the post office MAT one ot'our con-
tunpesmPu cant o,n II ,0,. raport ri
tie Secretary OF the Treasury, and i, TOLD
now much land was sold al all the Land
| oitces, and | thought, thinks |, now II
, puot see which sells the most iaad, the
ttee states or the slave states, and TOOK
a piece of paper and cas-, up how much
there was, and found thai the free state,
JUS! bete cen the Ohio and the Misss
slpol and The Lakes, had sold hrat
more land last year aud year before las
taan all the slave states put together.
cant pun II down lust IN order like d
sch lar, but if you'il only look you can
see, and wish you'd print II, for m ay
be the congressman don't send 'em 10
every body. Bal didn't mean to ak
about this, | was going 10 tell how the
ahu-c0neeniionlsts talk'd, and WHEN
ask d them what was the reason they
didn'i want it, for though you see | was
not IN tator OF 1t, YET | wanted 10 hear
wat ioks sad on both sides, and they
SAID a great deal about slavery, and had
a heap 10 say, bat then | needn't write
any OF ii here, because you We printed
mere than | could ever SEQ answered.
But one thing that | always though
queer. OF was tbs: tina: The Conyenllon
p4pet IN your town used to publish pieces
10 iaYor OF slavery, and now it says tha;
Wat,s not what they want. Don't you
remember, Mr.. Printer, when they pub
llshcd piece from the Kaakla paper
that went on 10 say thai scripture was 10
favor OF il? And don't YOU know how
mad The printer was when be found out
that it was all sham and somebody was
only making jesse of him At first he
liked II mighty we'll, when he thought a
convention man wrote ii, but then when
he found out il was all romance, he
didn's half like ii. couldn't but admire
to see how nice the convention PAGER
turn'd oil when that long piece came
out about the Ordinance of '87. When
read that piece | thought to myself
here's thumper for you, it you beat that
| I'll give Up And SO looked sharp 10
see what they'd say, and 10 and behold
they don't pretend to say word agains,
il, bot turn il off by sayn, that they dldn't
never mean to have slavery. For my
part don 7 care grain of corn whether
they want slaves or nor, won't vote for
a convention now when The constitution