Western courier. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-06-22

Catalnes who may see fit to treat The laws
with defiance, and endeavor by violent
oulbrcakings, to thwart the measures Of
Of the government, in its undertakings
TO weather the storm now raging over the
whole commercial world. This shout Of
triumph is occasioned by an attempt on
the part of the patriotic merchants Of the
eastern cities to evade the regulations Of
the Post Office department, in requiring
money for postage! Such conduct ON the
part Of any administration, as it touches
the pochet, is sufficient 10 dampen the pat
rioitism of these high minded men ofstrow
who are continually calling upon the
General Government for a dispensation
Of its favors, while they loose 10 oppor-
tunity, however mean or triling, for vent
ing in return their miserable spleen. In
times of difficulty like the present, when
we in common with other nations are la
boring under peculiar cmbarrassments,
and when the country requires every man
to do his duty-these are they who are
always behind hand. During the last war
with Great Britain and at the time Of our
anticipated rupture with France-such
were the men whose situations were alone
to be consulted. Patriotism and the hon
or of the nation were called upon 10 give
way to their pockts Pulled up with
seeming arrogance-ignorant OF, and dis
regarding the operation Of these unlyer
sal laws linasmuch as they arc not made
solely for their present exigencies) by
which alone nature is governed, and
through which alone all government is ad-
ministered. They are seen pursuing a
course Of conduct, at variance with the
requirements Of Law, ard the peaceful
execution Of those wholesome principles
which extend alike, equally and impair
TALLY TO all, the blessings OF free govern
ment. 1t is on this same account that we
hear daily Of the complaints and mur-
murings Of airing, would-bo aristocrats,
who look with affected disdain on those
who have more political honesty or integ-
rity than themselves, and seem jealous Of
all equal legislation because, forsooth, it
is not especially for their benefit! And
where arises this outcry at the present
time? Where are they who seem so fond
Of crying up panic and distress, instead
of coming forward to aid it? Who de-
light in pictures of gloomy forebodings
and whose fertile imaglnations love to re-
vel amid scenes of destruction and decay
who picture in gloomy coors, ,unbroken
"solitudes" and sigh in prospectu, for
"desert wates of water?" The answer
is on every lip, and we would wish moth
ing further to prove the indemnity of the
whigs-the panic makers of the present
time, with the party against whom the
Democracy has ever struggled. Such
are the men who compose the Federal
party of this country. Such are they
who always in opposition to their country,
in times of peace are for war, and who in
times Of aggressions upon our national
honor, clamou. loudly for peace, who re-
fused to aid the government when q for
eign foe was invading our soil-who then
as now, in time Of trouble, opposed and
endcavored 10 weaken the energetic arm
of the executive. Whose motto is 'SI'he
Constitution and the Laws" yet they lose
no opportunity Of infringing upon the one
or trampIing on the other, when either
comes in contact with their caprice OIL
will, by whom the voice of the people is
not acknowledge and in whom no sem
blanco Of Democratic principle can be
found:
Are these things true, Fellow Citizens.
or are they false? Have you not seen.
and that but lately, all order tramplcd on,
and violence openly threatened and involl'
cd upon the person of the chief magistrate
of the country? Have you not heard Of
fcors Of government, who have repeated
ly been honored by the people with the
stations they sustain, according to the con
stitution and the laws, reviled and threat.
ened, through the mercenary columns o.
whig hireling presses for the faithful dis
charge of duties imperative on them by the
same " constution and laws2" Are the
scenes of the last war and the traitorou'
opposition then manifosting itself, yo
fresh in your remembrance? Ifso, wha
think you of the virtue, patriotism, anc
integrity of our opponents? Do not thei
present actions accord we'll with those
which have ever charactisod them? d.
!, YOU not see the same turbulent and malig
nant spirit Of opposition to law and order
manifested, as you have before witnessed
in that party who are fond of monopoli
zing all the talents ' decency and order
who harboured a foreign enemy in al
attack upon their own altars and iitesidr
who refused to celebrate the naval vic
! tories Of America over the mistress OF The
} sea, and resolving that it was "unbecom
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