The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-07-03

| IN the town OF Dover, that little Town
that has not even baDk-io buy all
their wheat, corn and oats, at fair cash
prices he did not point out some fifteen
or twenty asw buildings that have
sprung up lately in that little town, as
an evidence Of the hard times. lftimes
are so hard here where there is no bank
how hard must they be where those
plunderiDg institutions do exist Mr.
g old next told his audience Soup
story as a set of to the hard times, and
then laid down his plan Of attack on the
democracy, but by the time this was
done HE hour,was up. This was the
most desHlIory speech delivered on tina.
day;even his own party we're ASHAMED
OF it. ...
Mr.. Cummins next followed. He
was prepared with mass Of facts TO
prove every position he took, and to dis
prove the thousand aad one calumnles
got up by the wings to pull down the
present administration, such as the
charge Of extravgance-squandering oi
the public money-breaking down the
banks causing the hard times &c. Mr
CummIns said he cared not who was
President of the u. States, if he was
only honest and capable; but when lie
saw such wholesale ISLANDERS and false-
hoods, Invented TO disparage the pres
sent incumbent, he was not the man TO
etsnd idle and say nothing, while the
calumnlators were rowing over the coun
Try, spreading their deeds of deception
far and wide. He proved by the Sec.
oflhe Treasury's report, that the expen.
dilures Of the Government for the last
year, Instead of being $39, 600, 600. as
the Wings say, were but about thirteen
millions and halt--he showed that in-
stead Ofthe democrats being opposed
to banks, they were in favor of them
but they were for restricting Them; ma
king them no est, and as liable for their
notes as private paa is for his. He
proved that instead of the admInistra-
tion causing the hard times, it was done
in great measure by the banks first
by over banking, over trading and spec
ulatDg, and then contracting their issues.
In the short space of one year, they
have contracted their circulation near
thirty millions of dollars; the banks of
this State alone four millions, which
easily accounts for the pecuniary dis
tress throughout the country.
Mr.. Cummins showed that the party
who now parade Log Cabins and dead
Coons about. we're ldeniically the same
that issued coffin haod bills against the
venerable Jackson the same that vlli-
fed Madison-the same that opposed
Jefferson and supported the Alien and
SedItion laws. In short his speech was
one Of the most argumen,a!ive and truth
searching efforts, that has been dcliv-
cred here this season, and we only wish
that every voter IN the county could have
heard it. .....
A Mr.. Bingham from Cadiz followed.
A more complete specimen OF arrogance
and impudence, probably could not be
found in one man. From the first 10
the last, was one continued believing of
corruption 'rascallty,' and ex.
travagahce charged upon The head Of
Martin Van Buren, by this bag of wind.
If blowing -brazen assertions, and in
vacations and hyperbole, can elect Gen
Harrison, then he will certainly be e
iected, even if he has no other pufers
than Mr.. Bingham. Among most Of
the Wing speakers, we find little hon.
or; about this man there is none. They
generally treat their audiences with res
pect al least, if they do not give them
truth, But he neither treats them with
respect or anything else, save black
guardism. 1t appeared to US that he
maglnes The people Of this county to be
Doors, and that he can cram any and
every thiLg down their throats, that he
uiiers His arguments as he calls them,
are even more contemplate than rldc-
uiOueS IUT luetdUC0 ITO Icdu kdIDIeU
extract from Hollands life of Van Bu-
rem, TO prove that Mr. Van Buren, was
10 favor of restricting The right Of suf-
frage. Now any one that knows the.
man, also knows this to be falsehood;
again, as proofto his charge of cor
ruption and extravagance, he asserts
that some Of the United States CoIlec-
tors receive salaries OF two thousand
dollars per year, and do not collect one
dollar. These are men stationed along
our coasts TO prevent the smuggling of
goo6s into our country free Of duty.
Yet Mr.. Bingham charges Van Buren,
with SquanderiDg the peoples money
by paving men to keep the smugglers
creating Offices that were prob
ably in existence, before Bingham was
born. These are only Two of the argu-
nents propounded by this great bIow;but
hn.