Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-06-23

AitHoubo MT. f1umOuB requests MS
friend and correspondent TO Is burn this
letter" as soon as he has read il, We
shrewdly suspect it is all /" humbug !"
and that he left il at our Office for the
express purpose of having il inserted in
the Spectator.-lt would appear, other
wise, that the Post Office were the
proper place of deposite-as that is the
usual channel OF private commune alton.
With regard to the subjects of it, we
hope the good sense and patriotism OF
the people will be brought into exercise,
rather than prejudice and self interest.
TO MR.. GILBERT GRUMBLE:
Ny VERY DEAR FRIEND,
have read your piece in the Ed
wardsvile paper Of June 9, and cor
daily concur in your ideas about the
Road Law and the School Law. But
fear you have been a little imprudent in
taking any of the blame of passing those
laws off from the Yankees. Il is our
best way to cry them down as Yankee
measures; and if we say that these laws
were made by Yankees, there are a vast
many people will believe US. AS for
the Road Law, cordially despise il. Ii
is mean law, and will never vote tor
man who had a hand in making it,,
Yankee or no Yankee. l myself, who
am both rich and old, had 10 work on
the road, last year, almost as long as a
poor crohher who was not worth cent.
Indeed, had not the county commission
ers allowed very high price for the use
oil my oxen, carl, and plough, should
have felt the road tax as sensibly as any
journeyman mechanic. You may there
fore rest assured that if get elected to
the Assembly, the good old road law of
1919, which made all the young men
work FIVE days a year on The road, shall
be revived, and tho present despotic sys-
TEN abolished.-But, my dear sir, l hope
you will not insist on my making this
promise in the newspaper; for really
do fear that should lose votes by it.
There are great many poor young
men who do not like the idea of work.
ing FIVE days on the roads, whose votes
l expect to &c! unless they should smell
rat. Now these would quit me at
once, if they had any suspicion that l
meant to bring the old road law to life
again. can never get these fellows to
vote for me unless can gull 'em. And
now, friend Grumble, want you 10
Ala~tiop Cor na,Bt H. l.
about it neither. When you meet rich
old man, sound him little on the Road
Law and School Law. II he happens
to be what some folks call liberal, patri-
otto and enlightened, he will probably
tell you that these laws may be defec-
tive, but that their general objects are
good, and that they are, perhaps, as per-
feet as could be expected IN the present
state Of society. When you meet man
that talks so, keep dark. But when you
find rich old man that is selfish, sordld,
and avaricious, that's the man for me.
You need only 10 mention the words
"Road Law and School Law" to set
him all in a blaze. He will no, a,,emp,
to make use Of reason, nor will he say
any thing about that part OF the Consti.
tuition which requires that every person
shall pay tax in proportion to the pro-.
perry in his or her possession. Mos,
probably he will rail at the Yankees,
and say that these are Yankee laws; and
here l would not have you con,radic,
him. Indulge the old fellows humor,
and tell him that will see all these
things righted if can get elected.
Adieu, my old friend. Be busy, and
be careful
RICHARD HUMBUG.
P. S. shall be al Huntsville before
the election. Give my love to old Mr..
Hunks, and 10 your uncle Grihus =
N. B. Burn this letter as soon as you
have read it. r. H.
Extracted from the detailed proceedings
in Beauchamp's trial by the editors oil
the Chillicothe Supporter.
The following articles on the subject
OF Beauchamp's trial, are extracted from
the two last Frankfort papers. 1t will
be seen that the unhappy man has con.
fesscd his guilt; and it is said pam
phlet is preparing under his direction,
in which the particulars Of the horrid
transaction will be detailed at length,
"About thirty Witnesses were sworn
on the part Of the prosecution for the
prisoner, about twenty. There was, Of
course, great deal Of testimony, and