The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-02

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not rule themselves they cannot rule
others.
Those who were high federalists in the
days of Jefferson, that are now living
the members of the Hartford Convention
those who were opposed to the last
war of 1912, with few exceptions, form.
at this time, the bone of the wing oppo-
sition and passing strange, while they
are pleading the necessity of a United
States Bank with one breath, in the next
declare that they themselves are the true
Jeflersonians. 1t certainly requires faith
larger than grain of mustard seed to be-
lieve the whole.
The democrats, at present, are strong
ly united: their views of men and mea-
sures are uniform, but whether they will
be strong enough to withstand the COM
bined forces of the wings will not be
known until November. Ambition for
ofiice--a strong desire to speculate on
borrowed capital, and appear in style,
Though bankrupt at boaom) are potent
foes to withstand
The papists resort to images and pair
tings, instead of reason and fair argument,
to support their wishes. The What-do-
you-caH-'em's twelve years ago tried the
experiment of coGin-handbWs to cheat
the people; now log cabins and cider
barrels are dragged thro' the streets; and
what the effect will be is unknown.
The modern wings lay great emphasis
upon the word HARD-hard cider, hard
times, &c. o Temporal o mores is a
sound that have heard more than eighty
years but where is the hardness of the
present time In all my travels | see
families well clothed, and tables covered
to overlooking. And Notwithstanding the
many crocodile tears shed over the poor
laborers, when was there a time when
the poor could clothe and feed themselves
and families with less loJor than the
present?
Unless the crops of the earth - the
state of nations Prospecting peace and
Wharf.-The destruction of property by fire
and water---and the health Of the inhabi-
tants, could remain stationary, every year
alike, the prices of articles will be flucu-
ating; but in time, if left to itself, trade
and prices will regulate themselves.
Should the wings, according to their
present assurances, win the prize at the
November races, it will be by hord
straining over the hippodrome. Sore
heels they may expect, if they win the
purse. But, should that event take place,
what is the nation to gain by it!
II, according to their hopes. a Bank
should make money as profuse and specu-
lation as extravagant as they were four
years ago, would that be a national adj
vantage Was not the last lroliC of neg
Letting useful labor and dealing with bor-
rowed money the cause Of raising the
prices of articles so high that foreign mer-
chants glutlcd our markets, drained our
specie, plunged the states in debt, multi
piled bankruptcies and ruined many
If one out of twenty was made richer by
I it, were not nineteen out of twenty made
poorer In a lottery of nineteen blanks
to one prize, who would venture but
those who were desperate
In a country like ours, candidates for
the high offices cannot be personally
known but by a few of their electors ;
the chielest have to depend on what they
hear. The vehicles Of information, whe-
Their verbal, written or printed, should be
true and impartial, and the people would
vote correctly. And if they know the
principles and views of the candidates,
they will vote undcrstandingly. But
these are by-gone things. Deceiving by
!, the mouth--lying and misstating by the
pen-angelizing and devilizing by the
press, are now the order of the day. MOI
is ear-gate only assaulted, but eye-gate is
besieged by cofiin-handbills, log cabins
and cider barrels; while adcacons have
left their cold water, and now, NTH pur'
, consciences, are guzzling hard cider
being convinced that the eXigence of thu
times calls for change of drink, ant
that to usher on the millennium is so goot
r an end that it will justify any means
: which at other times would be barbarcus
, unjust and felonious.
! Perhaps the time may come wheI
e Washington will be no more place o
Y hard curses--wringing noses--challcng
: inc duels and making its suburbs a slaugh
d ter pen for human victims and whel
n the White House and appcndages theret
z will not inhame ambition and foster Gu
d pidity to extravagancy and when tn
primary elections nav be deliberate. ser