Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-10-26

Extract from Mr. Goodrich'S Speech before the chigs
Of Ward /, 9 and3, IN Boston, on Tuesday cue.
ming, Sept. 81
THE MORTGAGE AND THE SUB TREASURY.
Let Us suppose case. OF Saturday evening
a mechanic OF one of our nelghborlng towns Sis
down with his wife for n comfortable chat The
children are all in bed-the weeks work is done
its are laid aside. The husband has Just re-
turned from the Springfield Convention aud his
heart is full of democracy. He can think of moth
ing else he speak of nothing else in The iul-
ness of his heart, he calls the youngest child de
mocracy, and as he kissed his wife on his return,
he calls her democracy also. Every thing he loves
is democracy -every thing he hates is Hartford
Convention Blue Light Federalism.
The conversation Of the mechanic and his vile
on the occasion supposed, naturally turns upon
politics, and the following conversation ensues:
Wife. Well hHsband--you talk great deal
about democracy--now AIN woman, aud know
nothing about politics but pray tell me what de-
mocracy is?
| Mechanic. Why democracy is-democracy
". Indeed who told you so
NJ Bancroft told me have heard him say
so more than fGy times and llaiIctt says So and
Rantoul ard Everett they all say so.
". Well, if they all say so il must be true
But what does democracy mean:
T.. Pshaw You women can never understand
to you out of the Boston Post what it means. -
Here are the resolutions OF the Democratic Con-
vention prepared NJ Boston last fall. They were
written by Brownson, or some OF the great guns
Here it is. Democ dcy is The supremacy Of man
orer has accidentss
~ Wheto! Democrdcyi is The sup emdcy ofman
orer his accidents -! What n crittGr 1t must be-
But to tell the truth, don't understand any more
about democracy than did before suppose its
because am won an. But look here, husband,
want to talk to you about lhat mortgage OF Squire
GrabalI's upon the house aud land. lie called
here while you was gone, and he said part OF il
must he paid or he'd sue for It, aud then the house
aud land would all 20.
NJ WHY didn't YOU tell me this before?
". Because your head was so full Of democracy
and the Springfield Convention that you wouldn't
listen 10 me. Eve mentioned il three times. and
is went in at one ear and out Of the other. Now
husband, Pve been thinking about the mortgage,
and it worries me; wages have tellen Oft ofate,
and some of your time you have 10 employment.
When your wages were dollar and half day,
and you Iad.iull work, you could support the fam.
lily WELL and pay hundred dollars n year towards
clearing the mortgage. Ii was pleasant thing 10
work, and be economical and saving, when we had
the prospect of having house of our own, with
out Squire Graball's clutches upon it. Now, you
can hardly support the family, and when ask for
money, you say you are running in debt. This Is
bad prospect, ii we are to lose the house ard land
after all.
VI. Oh never fear wife-,lmes will be better
soon. They've got Sub r. eaSu 9 now which
is to mako MS all rich, except The arlsocrats.
". don't know abou! that. The times have
been getting worse. lis four or five years since
you talked of having better times, and now that
they have really got Sub Treasury they say
that it is going reduce wages to lily cents day.
NJ. WE'LL that's true, but every thing we buy is
tocome down at the same rate.
w. Aud what advantage is that? Beside, some
people say that sugar, and tea, and coffee and spi
ces, and all foreign things, will be as high as ever,
because the Sub treasury don't work in those
ceunlres where these til ngs come from. But if
wages 10 come down, how are you to pay the
mortgage of 5000 TO Squire Grabali?
W. How am going to pay the mortgage?
w. Ycs, your wages 90 down to fifty cen s a
Dry, how can you ever pay it, IL will cost all that
y0a can earn to support the family.
NJ We'll, must sell the COW, and the garden
lot.
W. Yes, but these have gone down half price,
aad they won't 60 far toward reducing the mort
gage.
NJ We'll, must sell the house.
w. But that has gone down half price too so
that all the properly you have got won't pay Squire
Graballs mortgage. w must be turued out of
house and home, and still, you are in debt You.
nre u ruined man if the Sub Treasury goes into
fall operation.
( JH never tnOuRDt OF all tnIS before. nere'S
sumething wrong somewhere
W. There is, indeed, husband. When they
made the Sub Treasury TO reduce the poor mans
wages and the poor mans property. why didn't
they make it reduce the poor man s debt An
swer me that. When they reduced mans means
OF paying his debt, why lid they reduce the debt
too?
w can't say, upon my word.
w. Well, these men who made the Sub Treas
Ty, pretend TO be the poor mans iriend-but IL
seems TO me that they are the rich man friend,
and the poor mans enemy. You agreed TO give
Squire Gsaba $500 for The house aud land. Now
you have paid 5000 and Il ter you have pail 5000
more, he will get it back for $500. 80 Squire
Graball gets S4O0 out OF you for nothing, just be
cause we must have Sub Treasury and you
| must he ruined TO make him rich. Seems TO me
ibis is grinding the poor TO ialen the rich 1t is
making the poor man poorer, and the rich man
richer.
IM Well, really wife,. all that sounds true, but
Bancroft and Bfewnson did not ,eli Us that.
~, No, no-they didn't tell you, though they
knew 1t well. They filed yonr head with fnnas
ne ideas of democracy and liberty. They blind
| ioldtd you with names and words, and led you
astray with preJudices and passions
| VI. But why should they deceive us?
| w. Why? Doesn't Bancroft get $4,000 year
so long as Van Buren, is in, and the sub treasury
supported! Doesn't Browns0n get y 1000 year,
so long as his master, Van Buren,, regns' Now
you have n vote, and the voters say who shall
he Presdet. The way for Bancroitto keep his
place, therefore, is to throw dust in your eyes,and
en- he'll lead you up To the haol lox 10 vote for
van Buren,, who supports him, though he runs
you and your family
~; Really, wife, you seem to be politician al