Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-10-26


date to the White House on the freeman's ticket.
Here young and said, " the Van Buren,
and Calhoua policy will destroy the country if he's
re. elected; and a national bank will destroy the
countryn Hard Cider Harrisons elected. So we
shall go to ruin either way, unless elect Mr..
Birney. England finds she can't conquer this
try by powder and lead, so she's trying it with
peanuts and gold"
Joshua Leavitt rose and said I've Just been out
in the Northwest and seen $50 900 square miles of
a rich country, prepared by nature to grew wheat,
all filling up with foreign emigrants and free labor
We must mingle with them and Americanize them.
This tract OF country is bordered east by New York.
south by the Ohio and Missouri rivers, west by the
Rocky moustans, and north by the Canadas. II is
all Free and the home Of free labor. Compared with
the sckly growth Of the slave states Of the SOUTH
its growth is that of giant. Talk Of Kentucky or
Tennessee, or Mississippi, or Arkansas, governing
this country-talk Of the west-why il is the great
free Northwest that viii soon govern the United
States.
heard wing friend say he hoped Arkansas
wouldn't go for the wings for the sake Of the
spectability Of the party.
Well, to make this north western country what
il ought to be, Americans must go there. They
won't go unless they can make money. They can't
max, money un,., s thew 90, u,rke for IN. wbs.,
which gluts the land and has been stacked seven
succ,ss;ve wear, IN the zelda and nona sold We,
our government has done nothing TO get a market
far them. We've had six expensiv. embassies TO
make markets for tobacco. We had ore embassy
.;x wears 70 get money for few slave. wrecked on
British colony; but not to find market for the
astonishing produce Of the great north west
We've been thirty ve,rs toilinr to keen a market
for cotton; but not an hour for wheat If our gov
eminent was honest; il our statesmen had ewes,
thew void see that the most important benefit thew
could render this country would be TO find market
for the produce of the north west, If they did this
we should have counter balance for all the fri ghta
fluctuations in the cotton market I remember the
distress oceasioned twenty wears arc by n fall in
mi, market. Then came rise and a season of inn.
u.n.. snecu,.,;on. then ev.rv body ran mad in cot,
ton .necula,;o,, and IL went up-un-up-apd At
l.s, down II com.. And know me. who are moor
70 This hour who can date their ruin from the fall
Of ,o,too in ,s2,
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If had GOOD market. for the free labor avr;eul.
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hor nav Do our statesmen. webster Cl,x. Cal
how, q, wise .xnee, w. can control them mueb
Longer. No. they know better: although. like good
o,d King Uezeki.b. thew prav tia, th,r NAV be
.o,cs IN their sax
Henco thew direct the attention of III. people TO
other exciting subjects. draw them off like Ierer-
deman man. Tor fear thew .hould be- as wise as them
.elyes For if all other topics were quiet the pco
pe would concentrate their attention on slavery and
abolish IL But other subjects are not the bottom OF
the evil Of which we complain for have long seen
and known In, the fluctuations and distractions 10
trade. commerce, and finance, will never cease in
,b;, eovr,rv NATL slavery is entirely ersdioated
tn. so,,bsYn m,u have long desired 20 bring
aovr IN. nr;ce of real estate. SC in the north TO
,ba, AZ their oup sterile lands in the south, and so
thew try the gag law The tariff was first q southern
,,..sur.-,he slavebolder, saw IL would enrich the
rr., .,,,.s .otL,v made war on their ow. measure.
,nd hence the Infamous compromise. w. should
correct ali this By sending proper mcs 20 represent
a. in Congress. If We had sent proper northern