Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-21
ore al land here Fog raised his voice TO lhe high

are all land here Fog raised his voice 10 the high
est key, and struck the board sharply with his
handl roR and AoAiSs1 every thing How else
can we be with tie majority! WHAT'S the New
Light Quodlibetarkian Democracy, but strctI
conformity to the will Of the majority! Against
that and that only we never gol tremendous ap.
plause.l As Levi Beardsey said, Perish Com
merce Perish Credit and say Perish Currency,
Banks, Sub. Treasury, Constitution, Law, Ben
ton, Amos, Van, had almost said perish Old
Hickory, but alicays so with the MAJoRIryl r-,r
After this burst, which may be said to be truly
eloquent, Theodore made a very happy hit in
touching upon the natural hostility between the
rich and poor, showing, with great point of re-
mark, how impossible it was for these two classes
to have any Christian feeling towards each other;
and arguing from that the great New Light Demo.
cratic piaciple, that, in every department Of the
Government, any man who holds property ought
10 be deprived Of all influence, and that it was the
poor mans right to legislate away the rich mans
possessions. DO We not know said he, that in
every community the majority are poor? that there
are two men without property for one man with
it? Ofcourse, them it follows logically that, as two
heads are better than one, the sole right as we'll as
the sole power, Of legislation Is in the poor; and
that they may make laws for the government Of the
/ rich but the rich cannot make laws for the gov
eminent Of the rich. Besides, who would be the
most impartial in such matter. the man legisa.
ting for his own property, or the man legislatng
/ for his neighbors? This requires no reply
Upon the subject of the Sub Treasury, Fog
avowed boldly his non-committalism q am not
sure at this moment, said he, how the land lies.
| wait to ascertain the sentiment of the majority,
which, without taking sides, rather incline to
think, is aganit the measure. judge from the
vote OF the New Lights two years ago, although
| confess that two years are long period for
New Light TO look back, and that it is rather over
the usual time 10 which custom requires we should
change. shall acaa for eren,s'
There were other subjects embraced in this
speech upon which my memoranda are hnper
feet; but there was one part OF it towards the con-
cluson, which was very pathetic.
TIE orator turned to those strangers amongstus
who had come over from the Bickerbray and
IMeltpenny Railroad. Gentlemen, said he, you
stand in peculiar interesting relation TO the
New Lights You are strangers and, as the poet
says,
stranger is a sacred name
Therefore it is our wish to take you in. You
have not been over sixty days in our State you
are separated many OF you, from your sweetheaftS
some of you from your wives; all OF you from
your homes; wife, sweetheart, home! Affecting
words
where is the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land, and so forth
DO not despond gentlemen--do not despair
The New Lights are your friends, and not only
shall you find wife, sweetheart, home--ay, and
children, in Quodlibet, but if you are here next
month, we will see if some OF you are not entitled
to a vote-thats all. have no doubt large por
ton of your respectable body are better voters than
you think you are. And at all events if you are
not, it becomes US as Christian People to extend
to you that privilege. go for the repeal Of all
laws which tyrannically require a year S residence
in the State before a stranger is allowed to vote
Hurrah for Fog-hurrah for Fog burst forth
in loud chorus fom the new comers
But, said Theodore in continuation 'as scorn
concealment, | must be frank with you. The
stranger should be grateful to his friends; and |,
therefore, for one, never can consent to extend
the invaluable privilege Of suffrage to an unwor.
! thy man. lie must be New Light, an ardent,
unbIenching Quodbetaran Democrat, ready to
60 in whatever way we who take the trouble to
do his thinking for him require 1t is but reason.
able. We think, study, burn the midnight lamp,
and toll, when he sleeps, and all for the good OF
the man who has no time to do these things Tor
himself, what is his duty in return? Why, TO
stand by as who made these sacrifices for his vel
rare---c iearly-undoub ly-incontestably,
"Hurrah for Fog!" again rose in hoarse redu.
plicalions on the air.
And now, fellowcountrymen one and all,
men OF Quodlibet men Of Bickerbray, and espe.
cially men Of Old Tumbedown, long my home,
and never absent from my heart, have exposed
to you frankly, freely, unhesitatingly, my prnci-
pies and professions. You see me as am, naked,
guileless, and ROBBED in the simplicity ofmy nature
Elan, another glass Of that stuff, my boy. do
not initiate my frind Andy Grant, for he is my
friend, d-nit we can differ in politics and break
no scores! do not, like HIM and the Wings en-
terrain you with irothy defamation, appealing to
your passions Or your preudices, | scorn such
stratagems. No, address myself solely and Sc
yerely, sternly, without flower, prosaicalIy,
without figure, sobery, without flight, TO your
cool temperate and unseducel capacity Of logical
deduction. Yes, gentlemen, |, poor man, do
battle against the hosts Of the rich. !, the friend
of honest labor, struggle against the huge monop.
oily Of boarded wealth, boarded by grinding the
faces OF our sterling but desttude lahoring men,
alone, strive against these banded powers, will
you desert me in the s,rle'
Never cried Elan Sucker, and Ben Inky, and
six more Of Fog's principal men, 'Never, never.'
Then am content Come welcome wo, here
is heart thar will never, or rather gentlemen, let
me say in the words Of the poet, 1T now became
quito obvious that Theodore was beginning TO be
very seriously affected by the frequent refreshment
which Elan Sucker had administered during his