Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-06-13


It l. lime TO propagate them after The election.
Union and fellowship With tie Wigs al the
norih-excllemsni. hard-cida, lOg.Cabins aud
baunsrs at the south, is al tia, be wants to cleo
noneer ont is political capital enough He
"goes i blind"
Here is one, "mosi marvellous proper man.
FOR the times; pink Of the modem wing school,
and very fair sample Of The delegation which
be represented so brayely in the political rOut
that the democrats received at Tuscaloosa. This
gentleman wore badge which distinguished him
as the champion Of the abOring man. IVAN
Buren, says down with The labOring man'-"and
We say down with Van Buren," We could not
but smile when We saw this badge; it demon
straled so Gorcibly the remarks that We have often
made, that those who were the loudesl in their
cries against the administration, were those most
involved they were mere spectators, who, hay-
ing by their mProvldent conduct beggared them
themselves and ruined lhei ueghbors, cast their
own folly at the door Of the administration.
Such an one is Ex-Governor Gayle Of the Mo-
bile delegation, bank attorney Of the branch bank
in that CITY, Could not Mobile send mechanics
to the convention instead of men who have very
materially injured theml We say, injured them!
They have borrowed money from the banks and
run all hazards in speculation created high
prices, both for mechanical apparatus, as also for
bread stuff highrents. and in Short sweed every
thing which the mechanic uses, while the price Of
labor is always the last to advance. That is what
modern wings call preserving the rights of the
labOrer. Forsooh, this is equal to the logic used
by this Intelligent party TO throw the cause Of the
hard times on the extinction Of U. States Bank.
Mechanics of Alabama, have you no other re-
representatives. than The broken merchant, the bank
rupt Spectator, or nsolyent demagogus, whose
only capital is slang against the administration,
end whose only hope is the preservation Of that
system Of swindling which has so nearly prostrat-
ed The honest Woodworking man! Say, viii you
be represented by men who can have no interest
in common with you, who, when they pass turn
up their aristocratical noses at you when they
have no further use for you, having deceived YOU
to vote against your dearest rights c maintain
system that they have so basely misused.
They say that Jackson and Van Buren, have
destroyed the credit system; that Jackson put
the broad seal Of public condemnation upon it.
Is there an intelligent man who dare assert this
before men who have reason, and who 60 to the
polls with their principles well settled, as to what
is the better policy. Yes, there are hundreds of
them and in nine cases out of ten you will find
tina, those who assert such perncious views are
men who have gone deepest into these wild
schemes Of speculation, without experience to
guide them, or honesty enough TO acknowledge
their error after they have ruined themselves.
Man is prone to cast the burthen Of his own folly
upon any other cause than that of his own ignorance
and misconduct So it is with these men. They,
by their misconduct, have ruined themselves, de-
sroyed their credit, aud in nine-lenihs Of the
cases it was all The capital they erer had, curse
the administration for their prosration. To what
shifts party must be driven when they are una.
BILE to raise any other political capital than their
own ignorance-and it is a stubborn fact, that the
wings are making most plausible case out Of
their own foes,
OF the canoes or the log.cabns we can say
nothing, as they differ but little from such as the
farmers Of the north use TO preserve their geese
from the foxes. or the banners, we will notice
but one, and were it not that it so clearly demon.
strates the spirit which characterizes the party,
would pass ii BY with sen. contempt. The
most prominent feature upon this banner, was a
weather beaten, superannuated Hickory Tree,
scaihed with the hghtnings of heaven. This was
intended TO represent the old military chieitain
who has withdrawn from tho cares and trouble s
of well spent but arduous life--spent in his
counry's service, both in the field and in the
halls of Legislation, and who finally received from
the free and independent voters Of this country
an office, the highest in their gift. as but an &C.
acknowledgement Of their esteem, and even deemed
iii 90 poor guerdon for the many uures he had
placed upon the American flag. At the base Of
the tree was the figure of fox, chained no
doubt intended to represent the present chief ma
i glstrate. 10 perspective, log-cabin, with car.
feature of the hero of fort Meigs, the Thames
and host Of other battles, that the wings nre
keeping back until a few weeks previous 10 the
election. when the country will be flooded with
Them. By the side of this sham hero. stood ar
old veteran, minus one limb, pointing 10 the ca
bin. The hero mods, it is presumed, as much as
to say, "ifmy keepers will permit me, will 60"