The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-06-05

movement throughout the Union to give
eclat 10 their nomination by a simu!ta-
neous shout TO the military glories, which
after an oblivion Of twenty five years,
are now for the first time discovered To-
be worthy Of commehoration IN feasts
and in song. We have accordingly
seen vast assemblages collected togeth-
er, at great labor and expense, not to
respond to any Principle,o or listen to any |
argumenet, but 10 drown the voice Of rea
son in the shouts Of revelry, and lead |
captive the feelings Of the people in q |
seaseless excitement. Huzzas for the
newly found hero, annunciatous. Of his |
poverty, of his residence in log cabin |
and love ofhatd cider, The hauling of
miniature logScabins, aud cauoes, and
cider barrels, through the streets, the
rolling Of balls. and the display Of ban
ners with unmeaning notices; doggerel
rhymes and vulgar pictures; the drink
ing Of cider, the mumbling Of ginger
bread, and initiating the cries of birds
and beasts, with other mummery and
mockery, as disgracelul 10 the country
as it is insulting to the people, are the
new means ofelectioneering, by which
it is vainly expected TO induce the CON-
munity to surrender itself. like the
charmed bird, to the jaws of the wiley
serpent which stands ready TO devOur it.
BY arguments like these, it is expected
TO persuade the freemen Of America TO
surrender their right 10 know the poliii-
cal opinions Of tho candidate, and take
him, for better or for worse, gagged and
guarded as he is.
To these means Of influence are ad-
ded money without stint, abuse Of Off
cial station and privilege without res
train., and'violation of the laws without
reserve. The Harrison party in Con-
gress are leagued in greet election
eering Association, with its Executive
committee" appointing subordinate
committees throughout the Union; rai-
sing money by tens of thousands TO sup"
port presses to magnify their mock he
70, libel the the Administration, and
scatter deluson through the country;
practising the most unheard Of abuses,
getting subscribers to newspaper un-'
der promise that they shall receive il
under frank violating the law by actually
; franking it, and devoting their money,
their talents, their privileges, and their
time, not TO the buslaess of Legislation
r for which they were elected, but 10 an
! -unscrupulous and unceasing warfare up.
on another department of the Govern
ment. The public business is delayed
the public faith violated. and the ordI-
nary operations of the Government OBJ
structed, that the session Of Congress
may be protracted; thus furnishing the
influence Of public station, the facilities
of The frank and moneyfrom The Treas
ury, 10 carry on their electioneering op.
erations. 10 come cases electioneerlng
tracts franked by members of congress
weighing more than they had right to
frank, have been falsely marked "pub'
lie Documents" 10 secure their free
transmission; and in others, the frank ol
members has been boldly forged. Wba,
would be said of the executive officers
here, ifhey were to form such a club,
appoint such committee, aad resort to
such means? Would not The very meu
who are now committing abuses and
ourages thousand times more aggra>
vated than any they charge agaIus, the
Administration, sound the tocsin if a.
larm upon thousand hills, and star,le
the country with the threatening dangerl
And are these combinations less alar.
ming, less corrupt, less dangerous, OF
: less criminal, in one department Of the
Government than in another.
7 CONTEMPT FOR THE PEOPLE
, lies at the bottom Of this whole scheme
of slectioneering.
The Harrison party showed this con-
!, tempt in presenting" "a military chief
, tain as their candidate, after having 70
years denounced The elevation Of sucl
: : men as worse for the country than war
r pestilence and famine, or any othe
r : scourge.'
They show it by presenting a shan
! hero TO the people, and endeav oring t
persuade them that he is a real one.
, They show it by asking the peOpl,
I. to vote for gagged and guarded can
= didate. who "will answer the questions
ofneither friends nor foee.'
They show it by their log-cabins
> cider-banels, pitchers, canoes, balls
: bauuers, and parade, riot, and drunken
! !, ess; fit only to amuse, if they did no
Il disgust, London populaCe or Par
> isian mob.
They show it by their incessant an
= moustrous Misrepresentation of tb
. acts Of the Administration, and lhei
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