, 1840-07-11

OF THE
salt River Journal,
Published at Bouline Green.

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Published at Bouling Green.
Several causes have operated in inducing
us to change the course of this paper. Not
the least prominent of them is, that we have
found that hitherto adopted, to be utterly inn
practicable-at the same time, that it de-
prives US of the opportunity of doing Justice
to ourselves. Another, not less influential, is
the desire We have to propagate our politi
cal principles and to aid that party with
which we are identified in sentiment and
feeling. No period since the organization of
the government has witnessed such a tre-
mendous effort of any party to get into DOW
er as that now making by the present whig
party. Nothing is left undone to effect their
object. Backed and supported by the whole
moneyed and banking influence of the Un-
ion, and having a candidate for the highest
office in the gift of a free people, possessing
principles to suit every meridian and every
latitude-and selected not on account of his
qualifications, but for his arailabiHty-they
stop at no a%rtifice or deception to compass
their ends. Without avowing a single prin-
ciple of national policy-and even refusing
to make any declaration of his opinions for
the public eye, their candidate appeals to the
"generous confidence" of the American peo-
pie, and asks them to place the sceptre of
power in his hands. To such a man as this,
and to a party grown desperate from repeat
ed defeat, and composed of the fragments
and fractions of all parties, who show their
contempt for the intelligence of the people
by their senseless clamor of hard cider and
log cabins, we are unwilling to lend our aid
~ rnonnor IN not into noxvor With
them we have no affinity, and we shall exert
our humble efforts to prevent them from &C
complishing their object. We shall oppose
that party, who have under every variety of
name been in favor of a loose and latudi-
nous construction of the constitutional a
high tariff for the protection of the labor of
one portion of the country to the injury Of
another, and of a splendid system of Inter-
nal Improvement by the general government.
We shall wage an uncompromlsing war
against a National Bank-and we shall advo-
cate a total disconnection of the money and
political power of the country. We are in
favor of a radical reformation in the curren-
CIV of the country, and we believe that state
legislation can do much towards that end
In fine, we shall give our Jealous and cordial
support to the present chief magistrate of
the nation over the nominee OF the Harris
burg convention.
Whilst we thus declare our adhesion to the
democratic party, to our opponents we say,
that in assuming our new position, we shall
not throw aside the gentleman: We shall
treat them as opponents, not as enemles;--
and shall therefore at all times abstain from
abusive epithets, and personal reflections
Ever willing to believe that the motives Of
others are as pure as our own; and that diff
ferences of opinion may well exist among
men equally honest, WI hope never to make
use of any other weapons, than those of
reason, truth and fair argument; for
"where mildness and persuasion fail,
Hanher means will not avail"
Agriculture. education, and the usual me
lange of a country paper will receive their
due share of attention from US, and whatever
NAV tend to elevate the moral and intellectu-
al condition of our state, will find an humble
advocate in the Journal.
A. H. BUCKNER.
The terms of this paper will continue the
same as heretofore:
81 so 50 if paid within 3 3 months
8 so if not paid during the year.
July 4th, 1910.
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