Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-07-23

WeeplUSS anu WdllIU9S over Ille destitute
and miserable condition into which all
who worked with their hands, were very
soon to he plunged. The poor laborers,
however, survived, and the result of the
discussion has been firmer conviction on
their paris lhallhe apologisls of an expand
cd credit system are Their worst foes, and
the advocates of sound currency their
best friends. TO The extent that our own
observation goes, we find the laborinS
classes more devoted than ever 10 the sa-
lutary doctrines Of impartial Legislation
and equal rights.
Not long afler this. the attack was shift
ed To the farmers. This class were 10 be
made wings, because Providence, unusu.
ally kind in its dispensaIion towards the
earth, had blessed it with abundant har-
vests, which, in connection witt, certain
artificial causes, had depressed the price of
grain. This was terrible calamity, with
which the administration was TO be cl,arg-
ed. This was the result, of the witty ma
chinations Of Mr.. Van Buren. Not con-
tent with controlling The office holders of
the country. he had laid violent hands up
OH n character spoken of by Swift, the
clerk of the weather.) He had directed
the course o: the sun he had bottled up
the winds; he had conrroled the rains; he
had kept afar-of the frost; he had stayed
the drought; he had dispersed the tem-
pest; he had caused the land 10 shed its
increase, aud for this daring impiety he
was TO be turned over TO utter reproba.
ton and contempt. But the farmers, like
the mechanics in the former instance,
peered TOO inquisiIively into the connec-
tiou of cause and effect. They saw that
Mr.. Van Buren, had not YET usurped the
administration of the dews and the heat; !;
they saw that Ihe teeIning fruit trees. and
the bursting grain had not taken their
cue from Washington, they saw lha, the
reduced prices Of their products seemed
like providential arrangement 10 meet
a prevalent distress; and they saw that
if beyond this, that price was depressed,
they must blame, NOT the Just execution Of
the powers of the federal government, but
the fluctuations of an Unstable currency
and the inlerposiiion Of band Of heart
less spectators. Seeing This. they refused
To yield 20 the Hatterng invitations Of the
wings. They remained in their furmer
faith, preferring an attachment to their
principles 10 The interests of their packets,
and prizing conscious rectitude above all
The allurements of present gain. Mny
Ihose who wonId undermine their integrity
learn from them to exhibit the same devo
ton to truth.
But The wings, moi only failing in win
ming the favor of their enemies, have sue
ceeded beyond their most sansuine ex-
Peclatiohs in estraneipg and Disgusting
tnanv Of their friends. The extraordinary
douhle-faced, iniquilous policy which,
since the assemhlage of The Harrisburg
Convention, they have seen fit to adopt,
has made those annns them holding sin
cerely certain dislincr and definite political
opinions. suspicious of their honesty,
while their fraudulent parades, and decep-
live appeals 10 The passions Of the most
vulgar of The multitude, has repelled sahe
and sober men from cooperating with a
party which rules upon such miserable re-
SoitS' Ne'eT were poOT SET VI tneH
placed in an altitude more ludicrous or
contemplate. The party has no DEG ared
principles'Sepo plans Of future action, no
demonstrable policy, and hot single Gle
menl of strength. It's whole stock in
trade is the adulation of newly found
military Chief and the glory of a few for
gotten Indian wars is the staple of all its
arguments, its appeals, and its confidence.
Thus such party is 10 work its way into
the affections of an intelligent and Irue-
minded constituency, It Would be exces-
sively absurd to imagine.
Meanwhile. the democratic party is 60
ing on quietly gathering strength. With
no internal dissentions to distract the ef::
forts Of It's adherenrs, the consistency OF
its policy, and the temper and justice of its
doctrines, are cemenling their attachments,
while it is constantly adding fresh acces-
sons 10 their ranks.