Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-08-22


his conduct both public and private ! if you do not
take "rhis declaration, fully and unreservedly
made and if you refuse to let it ''sand for an an
swer'' 'to all that is invented and circulated against
Mr.. Van Buren, - if you refuse to let it be sails
factory to you for his negro vote, his negro evil
dence, his extravaganza, his opposition to the war
and the Presumption and Graduation systems; II
you do not permit this "solemn" certificate to sat
isfy your minds on these points, we'll hunt you
down with "Cuba dogs" make you serve tour in
our Standing Army, charge you with felony con
vict you by negro testimony and then brand you
with not being "just and candid seekers after
ruth !"
In all soberness, Mr.. Editor, is it not presuming
too much upon the confidence which the people have
rcposed in these men, and is it not palpnble IN
sui to their understandings, for them to csll upon
their constituents, through the medium of this cir
cular, to take ard to be satisfied with their fpse
dirit-to be satisfied with their declardtory answer
to the charges against Mr.. Van Buren,, though his
opponents convict him Of every one of them from
the public records of the country!
Is it not presumng too much and is it not AFRO
eating to themselves an anmerited degree of i'm
portance, for them even 20 request the people to
place their round assertion on an equal footing with
the proQts, Geducible from the Histories and docu-
ments of the times!
| will answer these questions by extracting a
paragraph from their own circular, winch is per-
tnent response to the irquiries as well as glow
| ing commentary upon the banboozing policy
adopted Let the answer be written in gold
electromagnetic 6eliereS That democratic credUlity
viR be rsaE SnoHgh and silly enough to Srcalo~ thf
ChOls ~! Federal arrogance may believe just
what federal arrogance pleases, and yet think
that the recent demonstrations Of popular inquiry
will stand through ali time, as impershable memen
os, ''that democratic credulity" has been sensiby
awakened and that the true Democracy of this
Union, solemny protest against reposing future
confidence in the promises and assertions OF men
who have so insultingly and repeatedly deceived
them! with the blazing truth before the eyes that
all their primitive professions with reference t.
Jehersonian democracy, and erery one of their cap
tvating promises about "better currency, better
laws and better tines nave been openly dsre-
Carded in the wild mania for experiments. "What
| 10 IL / uSh III IhC i"hS u"zN VI ti'i' NiiS'''''
insult to your understandings ind contempt fol
your principles What is it but telling you that
you are incapable of selfgovernment" for these
men no,c, when wide spread ruin affects the land
to "station themselves near the President" al
Washington and herald through the Union, thai
you should take their assertions for q satisfactory
answer to the grave charges preferred agains
| H. ,pI b;s oIp nj e., nd at
YOU exercise the right Of freemen and refuse to be
satisfied with their declarations that You arc to be
reproached with not being just and candid seekers
after truth y!
Frecmen Of Missouri be men and inquire fol
yourselves because these circular writer's "do 10
treat you as if you possessed reason, judgment OF
memory" On the contrary, acting on the ole
Hamiltonian doctrine of disbelief in the capacity
of the people for selfgovernment and that they
becoming 'cured of their fondness for democracy
a nd that their wild and turbulent spirit" is only tC
be set in motion by addresses to their passions anC
appetites, and that when these are innaned, "they
go like wi(4fre;' acting on all these Hamiltoniar
doctrines, they have set on foot such system O
electiOneering as never was seen in any rational
|
ask any one of the actors in these sccnes"--an,
one of these e!Gctioncering circular writers, fol
whom they design their addresses Of humbugeer,
and deception, and they will tell you that they arc
not intended for the enlightened few, but for the
ignorant many"--'Or the tens of thousands ant
hundreds of thousands who want information" =
'for the remote country people, Inhabitants of log
Ic,yIJD m IDpts mot, "a.
eminent, and who must be addressed in their Owl
way and in their own syle!" And such is thei
opinion of the intelligence of the people !! "Hha
1t is an insult to them is apparent on its face
and that all the parade, and noise, and exhibition
which are infused in this circular, in regard tc
Gen. Harrson'S opposition, and Martin Van Bu
reEs friendship for the West, sis cheat and FRAUD
upon the people," will proceed to PROVE no. by
mere assertions "lulIy and unreservediy made"--
but by cridencc, the force of which people .sta.
toned near the President cannot abae and the cor.
rectness of which 'ederal arrogance" itself cannot
gansay.
That Martin Van Buren, has always rOiea agataSl
and Gen. Harrison in favor of the Graduation and
Presumption systems, and that the latter is truly
and emphaticaly the Log cabin candidate" let the
following facts be adduced and pondered well by the
citizen
1t is fact too well established that The payment
for lands purchased by cmgrants, have pelpetually
carried from these States the small SUMS Of money
which the industry and enterprise of Their citizens
have procured, and thesystem that existed in 1928
was well calculated to perpetuae the evil for
years Accordingly we find, during the session
Of Congress in 1928, a system was presented to