The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-08-22
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serves the signs of the times. can fail in
having noticed the gross inconsistency, the
ever changing professions, the yascllating
policy, and tho utterly deceptive practices
of The most adroii tacticians of the present
whig party. Chanelion like, they have
changed their hue, as often as the rays Of
political truth have fallen upon them from
different directions. Consistent only in
inconsistency, they are scarce assailable in
any one point, before they have assumed
another, and not unlikely an opposite one.
Like the " Paddy's flea, when you put your
finger upon them, they are not there" At
one moment, they are againsta U States
BanE,as unconstitutional, and the next, they
urge and advocate the necessity Of such
Bank, as "great and essential regulator
Of currency and exchange" One day.
they are the "peace party" aud the next,
they are the "war party" In ono Con-
gress, they urge the propriety, nay, even,
the absolute necessity, Of an unwieldy
Tariff of duties, and the next, cringngly
compromise it away. They go to sleep,
crying give US "metalic currency, which
shall be Of equal yalus throughout the
world" and awake from some agiIatiug
dream, and loudly exclaim, "sway with
that golden Hltmbug." +" Give US a Bank
OF an hundred millions" "Ths will make
speculation rife, and fill the pockets Of Bank
Attorneys" At one timo, they entertain
with enthusiasm, the splendid conceptions,
of the Father Of cur Country" in regard
to our Natpnal Capitol, and would have
every portion Of the ten miles square,; eE-
bellislled with the most magnificent display
of science and the arts; and anon, they al
temptto narrow its limits, and fritter away
ITS consequence, by retrocession Of its
territory. But yesterday, they were for
" strong and splendid Government, an
Independent, inspproachabo Executive"
and q" hole Of mobiles, " or a Senate, cons,i-
tuted something after the manner of the
British house of Lords, not, perhaps cleo
tive by the people, but descending perchance
by inheritance from sire TO son. To day,
state rights are in the ascendant. The gen.
eral Government must be shorn of the
clocks of its strength" and curtailed in
its financial means. A President must be
elected but for one term, and the dear peo-
pie are coaxed, and courted, to sustain, by
their suffragss, such unblushing cOnsistsn-
cy. In the morning, total abstinence" is
an indispensable qualification in the char
acter Of candidate for Office, but before
noon, it is quite as indispensable that the
candidate should be, besotted guzzler Of
"hard cider"
In 1922 VIM. H. Harrison recommended
to the candidates, at the, then, ensuing cleo
tion, "lo publish their political creods, that
the electors may have fair opportunity Of
choosing those, whose sentiments best &C.
cord with their own" lie had, then, " e.
ven believed that every electOr has right,
10 make this cell upon these who offer their
services 10 the people, and that the candi-
dates are bound 10 dasiger IT," In 1910
the same VIM. II. Harrison, says sit is
true, it is my opinion that no pledges Should
be made by an individual aOhen in nomi.
nation for any officer an The gf Of ht
people," ." And.in pursuance of this opinion
he is thrusting himself before the people
rs candidste for the highest Office they
can bestow, and at the same time refusing
10 give them any clue to the course of meas
ures he would recommend or adopt if elec
ted. If called upon by an Aboitionisl, 70
an expression of his views upon that agiial
ing subject, he barely replies that be be
, came a m ember of an Abolition Society, {
an early period Of his life. If he has
like call from ole who sees the pernciou
tendency Of Abolition principles, he hal
} insinuates an opinion, that Congress hav
no power to Leglslate upon the subject.
, If one Of the disciples Of such heierado
inconsistencies, is elected however fraudu
lenAy to office, we are pointed to the balc
Il b