The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-10-17
NuHiRber 2J.

oblltefaie the memory of the past, and all
rational anticipations of the future, derived
from It's history. They believe that all the
evidences Of kindness and sympathy, all
the acts Of the Democratic Administration.
distributed through long series Of years,
all lis efforts TO circumscribe those vast
monopoliesr which, while they enhance the
prices of all the nccessaries Of life, at the
same time giving new facilities to combine
tons to reduce the wages Of labor; all its
endeayors TO give security to those wages,
by causing them TO be paid in money that
will not perish in your hands, all its striv-
lngs to prevent those ruinous fluctuations
.of the paper system, which one day delude
you with apparent prosperity, the next
plunge you into poverty and Distress
They believe that all these are either for-
gotten by you,or may be perverted by spe-
cious dupIiciiy, OF bold m Misrepresentation,
into proofs of hostility to that class fof
whose especial benefit the Democratic ADJ
miniatratlon has staked its very exislencei
in the contest With Federal principles and
Federal money.
The Federal party, now arrayed against
that administration, has undertaken this
Herculoan task. 1t has, all Of sudden,
been smipen with an overwhelming sympa-
thy for those whom it has always, in time
past, digniied With the epithets OF Sans
Culouss," ""Swinish multitude" '.Throglo-
dytes," big Paws" Cattle" and what
notl Just on the eve of a great election,
involving its issue all the rights and prin-
cples, nay, the very existence, of the De.
mocracy of which yon constitute so large a
portion just at this critical moment the
party that has, on all occasions heretofore,
laughed you to scorn, and spurned your
just pretensions, all at orce pulls of his
hat, makes you.a low bow, and cxcaims !;
"Genaemen, your most obedient, humble,
servantl. How do you dc,my dear friends!
My heart yearns for your distress, and
would give all am worth in the world to
relieve youj" shaking hands, at the same
= time, with the Sans Culoties, the Swinish
Multitude, the Troglodytcs, the Cattle, and
: the Big Paws, most cordially. Alter which
the lordly Federalist goes to a meeting of
iweathy employers, convened for the pur"
Il pose of screwing down the wages of their
" workmen to the lowest minimum possible.
" From thence he goes TO the log cabin, drinks
), hard cider, makes wry faces, pariakes in
d all the Federal mummeries, and staggers
{ home, rubbing his hands in ecstacy at hav-
ing SO successfully "humbugged the Trog-
Il lodytes."
. VIII the workingmen realize these in
% sultng anticipalions VIII they be cheated
> by these exhibitions of hollow sympathy,
q these lowand base appeals SO degrading to
q the morals and intelligence of the most en-.
II Hghtened Democracy of the world9 Will
IS they permit the advocates and defenders oil
j. their rights and their principles to be sacri-
, feed to a combination of those who have
Il been at all times heretofore, and will be
d. hereafter, their most inveteraie enemies p
Will they, last and worst oralI, give damn
II ing evidence Of the truth of the Federal as
ID sumption, and demonstrate their incapacity
al for self.goverment, by showing that they
lg cannot distinguish their friends from theiI
re enemies
y We answer, firmly and confidently, NO
If Such party and such cause,so advocated
ly and sustained, is destined to certain deCsa
y and inevitable disgrace. A few CLEANS o.
y sunshine may break through the thick mass
n; of clouds that oveyhang its prospects,reley.
ing them for moment from the agoaies Of
ID despair; but these are but indications of the
Is coming storm, which will level their tow
u ering hopes with the dust Thatlhey anti
y cipate success, we verify believe Thei'
y professions Of log cabins and coon skins,
their songs and shouts Of triumphant their
d daily and nightly debauches on hard cider,
e have, all combined, produced delirioui
e excitement, drunken phrenzy, that o5'
). sc,res their perceptions Of probability, ant