, 1840-07-25
WHOLE NUMBER 353.

cabins has been put to the test, and has been
proved to be wanting. 1t is true twenty
seven FederaIists voted for the bill on its
passage; but it is evident that this was a
vote of policy, and that the bill would have
been destroyed by them by collateral votes,
If 1t could have been done. And this is the
party to take log-cabins for their sign and
emblem, and to wish 10 overturn the Democ-
racy by votes obtained from those who build
and inhabit them. And is any rational man
to be deceived by such articles as these?-
We are sure that you are not to be taken in
by such shallow articles, and turned against
the Democratic party which has always
defended your interests and against Mr.. Van
Buren,, who has twice, in his messages, re-
commended the passage of the pre-emption
bills; and also against the Democratic party,
which has always advocated and defended
the p~re-emption system, and fought it up to
victory over its old Federal enemies.
The votes on the pre-emption bill are one
proof of the insincerity of those who are now
rasising the cry of log-cabins. Another bill
is close at hand, which may furnish further
proof on the subject. We allude to the
graduation bill, once so much scoffed at by
the FederalIsts. and now become a pretend
ed object of affection with some Of them.
MIR. Van Buren, recommended its passage in
his last annual message. The Senate passed
the bill with only eleven dissenting voices;
and it now lies in the House Of Representa-
tives, 10 be put upon its passage before the
end Of the session. The result will show
whether the FederaliSts are for it, or whether
they would destroy it by side-blows, as in the
case Of the pre- emption bill.
No State is so much interested in the
proper disposition of the public lands, as the
State Of Missouri. She contains more of
these lands than any other State. The guam
tIty amounts to thirty-three millions of acres
(being eight millions more than the whole
superficial content Of the State of Kentucky.)
The speedy sale and disposition of these
lands is an object, therefore, of the highest
moment to our State; and the combined pro-
cess OF pre-emptions and the graduation prin-
cIples is essentially necessary to effect such
sales and disposition. The graduation bill is
as much needed in the old settlements as
the pre-emption bill is in the new settle
ments; and tho Democratic party must be
relied upon for both. The overthrow of
that party would be the overthrow Of both
and also of Il third one, in which
you have 4 deep interest. We mean a free
trade in pure sun-made salt, bought by the
measured bushel, and paid for by the produce
OF the farm. The documents Of the present
session on the salt tax, and on the fishing
bountics and allowances, prove that this tax,
and the injurious substitution of the ucighed
for the measured bushel, are essential Fcder-
al measures; and that the Democracy must
be relied on TO relieve you from these imposi-
tons. Pure alum salt is now about seven
cents n bushel in the islands of the Gulf of
Mexico, and ought to be bought at that rate
in exchange for produce. This price will
probably still be lower, as it has declined from
about twenty cents TO seven in the last
twenty years. We repeat, the success of all
these great measures depends on the success
ofthe Democratic party; for they are questions
which connect themselves with the systems
of parties, and must rise and fall with parties.
Ii is absurd 10 say, that the President is for
measure, unless the party which supports him
is also for it. The President can make no
law; that depends upon the vote Of the party,
which supports him; and you know full well
how the Federal party stands in relation to
pre-emptions, the graduation bill, and the
salt tax.
The present sessions Of Congress has been
replete with extraordinary events, and highly
characteristic OF the principles Of the W
parties. The delay in the organization Of
the House Of Representatives; the attempt to
keep out five of the members elected by the
people Of New Jersey, and to bring in FIVE
others not elected by them; the great length
of time which was consumed in keeping off
the general appropriation bill, and its final
passage, with only fifteen dissenting votes;
and the delays now i~nterposed to the passage
of the Independent Treasury bill, "a measure
which will certainly pass when the vote can
be taken): all these, and many other measures
of the session, 60 to develop the principles Of
the two parties, and to identify the present
Opposition with the old Federal party Of
1898, made worse as it is by its junction
with Abolitionism, and by an Infusion of des-
from the Democratic cause
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