Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-08-14
TIE ENQUIRER.

FOR n ENQUIRER.
This is a rainy day, and have been looking over the
papers. see Il great many accounts from different
counties about the Democratic party rallyIng and or
ganizlng, making speeches and adopting resolutions,
&c; but have met with nothing from the county OF
Lewis. | wonder, why some OF our leading men don |
write 10 YOU, and let you know how we do business
away here in the back woods. Perhaps you would not
take it amiss, lta plain man was to give you some account
of what is going on We are for the most part farmers;
a great portion of our country is newly settled, and
settled by poor folks. We have not much time to at
tend public meetings, only such as are really necessary,
for we have our land to clear, which is heavily lin.
b cred, and our cabins 10 raise, which require the ASSIST
ance of our n]cighbors, and this year we have been
Obliged TO cut cur harvest on the same pr'ncipic, Tor
gram il 50 plenty that no one will work Tor gram, as
tley used TO do, and money being scarce, we are
obliged to cconnm:se, or VIC would he Jerkcd up before
the Magistrate, and that's a kind OF meeting we don
like. Now, sir, when we attend our harvestIngs, ana
rolincs. and raisings, (by the way, if the log cabin
ramc took we'll here, old Tip would 20 ahead by along
WAYS, for more than half the people III our county i've
IN log cabins, real ones but, as | was gong to tell You,
when we meet At our raislngs, &c, We talk a lttlc
about politics, and sometimes 4 Wing Comes along
and makes Il speech for us,-nGt just such a speech
as lhey used to make Il few years ago, though they
say they have not changed their principles; tlry
tell US that modern Democrats are the same as old
fashioned Fedrralists-but all the old Federalists o!
our county, 10 a man, we see hurrahing Tor HARRISON
They now profess great veneration Tor the doctrines
and Resolutions of 80, as explained away By their
author in after life. They express great sympathy for
us poor tenants Of log cabins, and say Gen. Harrison
lives in one, that some of the Government officers
would Mt use for 4 horse stable. They accuse Mr.. Van
Buren, with all the calamities that have bciallcn the
nation; say that he is grasping at the purse and the
sword: living himself IN a style that cell pses the Mo.
rarchs of The East, and viii in 4 short time reduce US
10 the condition of Russian scrls or Havana slaves;
that relief IS only to be found IN the election OF Old
Tip. Sometimes they make out such tale Of eHtrava-
Gancc, rrudirrlty, pride, corruption and dchnuchery
connected with the Administration, that some OF their
own party will cry out. ''thats a natarnally lie Tins
we call using themselves up; and sometimes a Demo
crat comes along with the papers, and proves it all to
be lies: thcn they 'abSQuatulnte.' Now, Mr.. Printer,
wc Democrats are little slow in believing al! these
Wing gentlemen tell US. Some of rs are old enough
to remember what was sad about Mr.. jefferson. lie
was to burn all cur bibles, and turn all our churches into
hrothrls: and they had great ugly pictures with the Devil
and Tom Paine on en-, and Jefferson c%owhidlng an old
woman. And Their General Jackson, his administration
was To be a continued scene OF "wnr and strife, end
less "war and strife the three great sconrges oil me
Almighty was to ne preferred 10 the election of a Mat
,ary ChicitaIn. And then, when We talked Of Try
inc Mr.. Van Buren,, oh, he was a Magician, had no
PRINCIPLES, or was afraid to avow them, a non-commtt-
tai think they called him Now, sir, rccollect'ng all
The @ things, we have concluded Ia stick 10 little Mar
lin: he has stood up nobly for Southern rights, ard the
Abolitionis,s cant get along while he Is there, ana ne
has rrncrouslq thrown himself into the breach 10 save
rs from the curse Of bank dominion. Thes" critters
will now have 10 do whats right, and then the people
will have confidence in them; if they wont, they Will
have to 10 to Texas. We sometimes ask these Wings
what remedies General Harrison is To apply, aud
what is 10 be his financial policy, and they con-,
mcnce talking about generous confidence, ana zen
us we must jmdec the future by the past-wha'
he will do by what he has done-and our ih'iiHS
Immediately turn back TO The laws of Indiana and
Ohio, for selling out poor folks who were not ao!e 10
pay a fine and cost, TO his speech in favor OF "d '"nn
Adamss Standing Army, to his plan OF making sol
dicrs out of all our little boys, at the expense 81 ths
General Government, and the resolution he onerrd'
proposing to change or alter the Constitution oil Tue 7
States, in order to embrace so wild 4 PROJECT, ana u
rive the General Government authority to tram ana
discipllnr the militia, concurrenty win tne S.a'eT
We recollrct, too, his votes IN favor OF Tue iai'h uo
Internal Improvement, his method OF applying nc
Bank bonus, called the bill of abominat'ons; the IN
s,rrc,;ons GOTTEN IN in the Ohio Legislature, advising
CONGRESS not TO pay off the debt oil the nation iasr
than their previous engagements wouid i'fu".; =
remember, too, that he SAID he would sign d D'i I,''.
,crinr n Bank under certain contingencies, e'Pec'a''y y
il would facilitate the collection u me "" - ~
thai he once considered it a casumny TO be caiiet
friendly to slavery, and declared he had been a membe
ot an Abolition Society, from a boy. we fecoiiect
! ,oo. that he received his first civil appointment from
old John Adams, when none but Feds were thought OF
and that he was placed at the head OF the V. ticKet, 4
an Elcctor, in 1924, in opposition to MIR. Crawford AM
, the hero Of New Orleans, and that he received his ap
; Monument to Columbia, at the hands of the man, who's
! leading policy was not to be tpalsied by the wall OF III
CONSTITUENCIES and, lastly, he was in favor OF In
j Proclamation of old Jackson, as explained by Dame
: Webster. Now, Mr.. Richie, it would require
q rood deal Of generous confidence to suppose ina
General Harrison would make a Republican res
: dent, and YOU NAV set down Lewis county o ~
I; Little Magician by 300 maioriiy.-'Beuet PEE! 81
s ills we have than Hy 10 others We know 0 . .
may be meal, but it may he something !" ~, h.,
lish quite so we'll" Now, Sir, | should be dohe' Ou'