The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-10-29

II General Harrison was elected, to PAYS
: law for congress to assume the debts Of
s the states.
And more than all, il was even sale, my
: friends, that went TO England to see the
holders OF these state. bonds; and tina,
! saw lir Barring. and made. arrangements
5: by which was 10 get good fee, proyid-
edl would use my influence to yet Con-
). gress TO assume The state debts. loud
/ and derisive laughtsr.)
!! Why, my friends. never heard of the
thing till heard of j. in my sea, in the
! National Councils. ! know no authority
. possessed by Congress, by which it can
! assume the debts of, the states. No one
ever proposed such a thing, excep. one
man; and Ill tell you who he was pre-.
! senllv. No one supposes il constitution
, al. would as soon think Of proposing
to put every man, woman and child in the
country on the pension list as to propose
such a thing. ~.
/ But one man has several times not on.
ly mentioned this matter, but recommend
ed the assuming the State Debts! find
itAat's LEVI WOODBURY.! peal on
peal of laughter and applause.)
~ And in one instance the government did
assume the state debts. When there was
money in the treasury, Mr. Van Buren, re-
commended that Congress should buy the
state bonds issued for the. state railroads
and canals. (Here a. loud voice in the
crowd cried out, "Nns Van Buren,. was
Woodbury. ,..g IL,
ask MIR Mr. Van Buren's pardon. /
meant Mr. Woodbury.. For as. one star
diflere,h from another star in glory, SO do
men differ from one another. And will
not do injustice to Mr Van Buren, by COM
pairing the two men. .a as.
In one instance have said it was done.
You know that Mr. Smithson left a large
legacy TO be applied to certain purpo.
ses in this country. Well, Congress pass
ed law. promising solernnly thai the mo-
ney should be kept safely and pro-
perly; and yet Mr. Woodbury. went and
put it into the weakest state bonds i'll the
Union. arkansas has the ,Uholc of 1t.
(Derisive laughter and cries of oh, oh.
And now he 10 begin to talk Curling
his lip contempsuously) about the assum-
ing The State Debts being wing measure.
CHEERS. He who was the first to pro.
pose and the first to do it. (checrs.) Ask
Mr. Wright about that. Laughter and ap.
planse.) He'll not deny it. He can't
But he'll say there Mr. Webster modula.-5
ed his voice to initiate Mr. Wright Seen
tlemen, | don't justify it; but the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, no doubt, acted to the
best Of his judgment, and it isn't for me
! to Judge him in his official acts (Tu-
mnltuous shouting, laughter and cheers
In dismissing the subject, I'll repeat The
question; whether government that seeks
/; to enlarge its power by every means, and
| in every possible form-that seeks to OBJ
tain the disposal of large military force
that supports a system to reduce the
price of labor--that has one currency for
the government, and another worse than
nothing for the people-that exhausts a
treasury by jobs, and evinces no desire to
replenish it in proper manner. | repeat,
whether a government that does these
things, has any right to your support as a
democratic government, and then leave
the subject!
And now let me observe that you have
two men before you as candidates for the
presidency, Mr. Van Buren, and General
Harrison. | shall not say much about
them. We. all know what General Har-
rison Isl. He is the son of one of the sign
ers of the Declaration Of independence;
he comes of good stock; he was bred in
good school, where he. early imbibed
the true democratic: principles Of Mr. JEFF
! ferson; he has proved himselfJa brave man
by his defence of his country against for
eign and domestic foes; and he has well
and ably filled several civil Offices for his
lfellaw citizens. ~ s7a al.;sst Il
iia believe, also, that he is aman who
will practice what he processes. They
say that he lives in the west. And they
talk abnnt what he eats mean what he
drinks, and the house he lives in. They
say he drinks hard cider, and lives in a log.
cabin. Uaughter.1 Well, | believe a
man may be very honest for all that. And
/ think TOO that he is much better than
they WHO are all talk and no cider. Loud.
! and hearty laughter. 1900 5.,s
/ have been in his log cabin. He lives.
in il still: And he has. made an addition
TO it. as many,of rs do. lie keeps a horse
Well. found him to be- very hospiia-
bic gentleman; The string of his latcl, is
not pulled in. And | give him my conf
dence.
And, now, I'll give you one other .opin-I
ion; and you may judge Of the .ya'ue of
/, the others by the accuracy Of that. And;
!, il is ,ha. General Harrison will be the
next President Of the United States.
(This was followed by such tumul,u-.
Gus cheering. that Mr. Webs,er's voice was
drowned for some iime.) ,fs.
say that he will be elected. He will
have large majority in your. own state.
Cheers) he will have q large majority in
my own state; Immense cheering) he!
will have large majority in all The New
England States, and he will have large
majority in most of the other states of the
union. And. il we were SO disposed
even now. and were to use our utmost eff