Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-09-17

powerful TO crush an Individual, or any force
he can bring to his aid. Their embodied of
fcers, stock holders, iavorite debtors in shape
of merchants, such as deal OH borrowed capt.
tai, big lawyers, and pettifoggers, located in or
about our cities and towns, make formidable
federal army and SO concentrated as TO act "in
phalanx," therefore irresistibly against the
single and unprepared toe. And | presume
il is from the fact of the consciousness oipoS-
sessing this ready strength that they are pre-
pared to muzzle the Bdefssmiths mouth and
Tell him with their usual arrogance, you must
only ''hum tune over your anvil" as other
blacksmiths do. And it is highly likely that
the consciousness OF possessing the strength
ready at all times, Preston, Graves, Profit and
Southland took up courage enough to make
the remark that, elf I'VE fail at the polls, we
will carry our point in another way"
Sir Rasp intends TO charge William Henry
Harrison of having voted for "a law to sell
white folks for fine and costs, (thank God the
project did not succeed, as the ''genus of
liberty hovered over a majority of the Ohio
Senate,) not for The higher offences alone, but
for fighting, selling spirits without license,
playing nine pins. trotting over toll bridges.
&c. tbs the principle that Il condemn. FOR,
if the Legislature of Ohio had right to sell
men for hnes and costs, might il not have a
debt.
bought TIE vaqrant alluded to by Y, but
does this prove that sanctioned the abomi-
nable law that Harrison voted for, when tell
you, rs can prove Unnecessary, that my only
object was to take care of him as my follow
ing narrative will prove. The unfortunate
man was set up for sale for one month. bid
% cents, he was knocked OFF TO me-lie was
sickly at the time-l invited him home with
me, washed his clothes, fed him fer month,
Che was absent part ofthe time, for Igave him
privilege 10 go and come at leisure,) and
when ne left | had all Of his clothes washed,
and, rs we'll as rccolect, gave him new
shirt. How much work does this humane
y. suppose that got out of my slavein one
month Why, he pulled small flax patch,
and that not by my coercion. He was away,
however, considerable part of the month,
but did not compel him to serve two days
for every one lost, nor did T! hit him stripe,
(you are shocked at whipping white men,
atho' had high authority from the fact, that
VIM. Henry Harrison, did, while Governor
of Indiana, sanction law to make those alb |
sconding after their purchase serve two days
for every one lost, and receive forty lashcs,
save one. How do You like this, after ex-
pressing your ''holy horror about the degr;,-
dation of whipping on the naked back. Had
the law which Harrison voted for passed the
Ohio Legislature. and had my acquaintance
been set up as slaves at public auction, (be-
ing a citiZen) would have bought TO the en- :,
tent of my means and set them at liberty.
In conclusion let me anXiously implore my
assailant not to think for moment that !
am fettered and hanpered by party shackles;
let me convince him that am aiming for the
great good Of our country; let me try to do a.
It-.aV he mi hp t,yp faN
have right to intermeddle with polticks-
yes sir, let me use my public eXertions to
show that every man. rich or poor, high or
low, feels for his country, and that he should
not be deferred from free expression OF op;n-
ion, If perchance, his lot should be so cast as
to become Cincinnatus Of the plough, or
worker in HARD IRON. hope that my friend
X. will pardon me for my preference for the
present incumbent who is again candidate
for the highest Office within the gift of the A.
merican people, when 1 tell him frankly, that
the God Of Nature has constructed me so as
to receive no arguments from the bufoonery
exhibited by your log cabins. empty barrels,
coorskins, live animals, and. their usual ap-
pendages.
Now, if we differ, let us differ as gentle
men, and do not try to quiet my opinion be-
cause my person is occasionally darkened
with the dust necessarily originating from
my occupation.
If ! have the effrontery to vote for Martin
Van Buren, who has told US precisely whathe
would do relative to the grand political ques-
| tons that now agitate our country (see tx
Gov. Tazewell's letter. in preference to the
great LOG CANDIDATE, with two arms
Clay the right, Webster the left, and the
trunk or body. (Harrison) refusing to dis
close any thing for the Public Eye hopeI
| am excusable.
Mr.. \ will excuse me, h pc, when re-
! ligiously tell him that cannot for my life,
see or feel the slightest argument politically
sPeaking,) in 'hard cider" and the usual e.
lectioneering tools for tie great Wing candi-
date. AS | am determined never to vote
hood winked, will you please prevail on your
candidate not to pull the LATCH STRING
OF HIS BREAST in, (not cabin.) that we
may get the secrets Of his heart, if this can
be done. Then it is possible may be less
vehement in politcks. AS the Standing Ar
my is quoted by X, will try in my next
communication TO show that VIM. II. FAR
RISON is worse than Mr.. Poinsett, ten fold
at least. SIR RASP.
~ There is to he great Convention of
! Wings in Raleigh n. c., on the 5tl Oct.-It