, 1840-08-15

capacity to govern themselves. and in a wan
" proper respect for their virtue. 1t never
entered INTO the conceptions of its founders
f mat man could be governed in any othe,
manner than by force, or fiaud. From these
leading ideas, have originated all their notion.
ABOUT the powers of the general Govern
ment, their disregard of the will of the PEG
ple' their legislation for property, and their
system Of electioneering. These are the
legitimate and natural results of the views,
Federalism has always entertained of man
and h's capacity to govern himself. Ii for.
gets that he is a rational creature, capable Of
discerning between right and wrong,between
argument and sophistry. Hence the appeals
10 his passions and his p~rejudices; hence the
thousand Misrepresentation and attempts
at deception which fill the federal papers
hence theinsulting cry of hard times-hence
their degrading system of electioneering.-
Man is treated like child or a savage, with.
out reason and without Judgment
The present system Of electioneering, is
perhaps the boldest attempt, ever yet made
by that party, to carry their long cherished
theories into practice. In principle q. is no,
Of recent date. Il is only in its details, and
IN the disgusting extremes to which they have
gone, TINT it is new. The memorable con.
lest OF 1900, gave birth to the present plan
Of electioneering,& it is for the people to say,
how far they will countenance these efforts
to insult and degrade them. The expert.
ment is now fairly making, whether man is
capable Of governing himself, and whether
he will connive at the miserable ~foolery, By
which The Wings hope to dupe and Gull him.
During the struggle between the republican
and federal parties in the beginning of the
present century, Mr.. Jefferson was ridi-
culed and his party insulted, in the SINE
manner that Mr.. Van Buren, is at this time.
We remember TO have heard Of one of the
pictures and paintings which were used a.
gainst him at that period. He was repre-.
scented as standing with both feet upon an
old woman, his hands around her throat
her eyes surfing from their socke,s-and
she with the Bible in her hand, begging mos.
p'teously for mercy, from the grasp Of her
infdel prosecutor. Near him stood Tom Paine
with the Age of Reason. in one hand,and with
the other on the shoulder Of his friend ex-
ultrng with flendish delight, at the spect lcle
before him. In the contes, between Adams
and Jackson, similar exhibitions were made.
Tine coffin hand-bill is fresh in the r~ecollec.
ton ofall. Gen. J ,ckson's election, WIS to |
be the precursor Of ruin, and destruction to
the political and religious Liberties of the
people. The coffin was the emblem of what
was to befal America, upon his promotion to
the Presidency, and every thing that was
dear to the votary of liberty would be con
signed to the grave on his election. The
people OF this Union spoke in a voire of ,hun-
TO those who had insulled them, with the
exhibitions. They rebuked, a, both period $.
their pretended friends, in language that
spoke too plainly their utter deiestation of
these electioneering devices, & insincere
But ever true to their ruling idea
Of the intelligence Of the people, they seek
a third time, to7 WELD with success, the
weapons, and the same instruments of
deception. Again they have recourse to SINH.
ar appeals to the lowest passions, and bases
,rejudices of mans nature. At their sOld
Conuention," at Hannibal the same
game was played, with the additions and i'm
orovements suggested. by forty years ex-
,~erience. Flags and B miners with paintin IS
md inscriptions representing Mr.. Van b.
ZEN, his cabinet and his party. in the mos,
,d'ous and ridiculous light, We are Informed.
we're for number like the sands on the sea
Leg treasurers, with bags of gold,
ooting it at a tremendous pace, courts, with
negroes testifying against white men, and
very manner of device, which the most
~partizan malice, could invent, !
q part of the machinery used ON that {
nteresfing occasion. Tippecanoe songs, {