Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-11-14

/ them az individuals cherish no unkInd feeling .
bot while believe their principles 10 be danger
Gus to the public prosperity, Will not cease 10
| appose and expose them. For those q my friends
/ who may dscrbe 10 me other considerations ihan
those which profess IN the freedom with vheh
have adyered 10 the present state Of public At.
fars, | must be content 10 say that they do me
injustice.
II Is no personal motive, fellow-citizens, that
| leads me 10 sneak Of General Harrison as have
-nnd If know myself none such could prompt
me in the conviction which have formed, that
| the election Of Mr. Van Buren, is essential TO the
preservation Of Republican principles II is true
that with the latter gentleman | have an intimate
acousinance, and have for years been on terms
Of Inc closest confidence and friendship.
"But bis claims 10 my personal respect, great
and unoualli6ed as ] admit them to be, sink into
insign,6cancs When conlrisled with those which
he prsssnis moi only 10 me; but to you and all Tie
country as genuine Republlcan,a pure patriot and
a .ayacious statesman, To these claims his ser.
wees. whenever he has been publicly employed,
bear the most lndispuiable iestInony, and II is
but nm act of duty for me 10 say, that they we're
most .ignally displayed whilst he was member
| Of nv cabinet Mr. Jefferson himself in a si'uI-
lar situation could moi have been more careful OF
the public good, OF more resouie IN maintaining
the republican principle free from all innovation
or faint, whslher threatened by open OF secret IN
nuences.
This, my fsilow-citizens, is great and M
mentouE crisis in our national affairs IN which our
dearest rights as freemen are deeply concerned.
! The Presidential Election s near at hand; which
will decide the fate Of our Republican system ;
whether il will he pcrpetuaisd on the great prIn-
ciple laid down in our written Constitution, OF
changed to great consolidated Government in
which the rights OF the States will be destroyed
the confederation irodden under foot our glorious
Union burst asunder, and your constIona liberty
lost forever; Its destiny is IN your hands-the
hands Of the sovereign people and, AT the polls
on the third of November, you decide this oil I'M
porlani question. for veal or for wo. If you cast
your votes for that well tried Republican Martin
Van Buren,, your Republican system ~ perpeIua.
ted, and and placed upona durable foundation -
Cast your votes for General Harrison, tho cho-
sen candidate of the aposlats Republicans, the
AboliOionlsts, and the lIsaGord Convention Fed
eralist, and, your constitutional liberties are per
haps gone forever, and may end like that OF the
ancient Republics.
Then say TO you golo the polls like Indepen-
den, voters, bearing in youI minds the blood, the
treasure, the days Of toll, The nights of wachIull.
ness, il cost your revolutionary fathers TO procure
and bcquealh to you the invaluable boon OF those
blessings Of liberty which we enjoy; and which
every obligation we owe to posterly binds us to
hand down to them unlmpared. Then, fellow
citizens. say TO you, 90 to the polls on the Ord
Of November next, with that Independent spirit
with which your revolutionary fathers fought and
conoued-go, ] say, locking steadiaslly at the
stars and stripes on the banners of your coun'ry's
glory, under which your revolutionary fathers
fought and conquered,and give y our votes like free
men, as you are, 10 that man whom you believe to
be pure underwriting aud well tried republican
aud your liberty is safe. You thereby snatch the
Republican system from that rer that awaits it,
and to which il is now brought by the combIna.
ton Of a united faction of aposiate ReGsse9H...,
Abolitions,' and Ha.uGr.,s convention Federal.
Isl. '.cagncd together for the purpose Of destroy
ing your Constitution Of Government, and raise
upon It's ruins and yout liberties, a great conSoll
dated Government, based upon the combined
| n,oniad nownr sc Eoolond snd A-Nnri"" MD
make the labolng and producing clauses OF cur
country, "bewers of wood and drawers Of water
for their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Remember my
fellow citizens, the fate of ancient Rome he.
member that by corruption and the combined
corrupt factions she lost her liberty. Then, say
again to you, il you vote for the candidate OF this
combined and corrupt faction, whose candidate Is
! silent and will not answer any questions you
ask him, in which your important rights are con
celned, you seal the fate Of your constitutional
freedom, say again, fellow citizens remember the
, fate of ancient Rome, and vote for no c,ndldae
who will not tell you with the rankness of an IN.
: dependent freeman the principles upon which i
! elected, he will administer your government =
That man deserves to be a slave who would vote
, for mum candidate where his lib rty is at stake
Can freeman who values his rights vote for any
man who when asked for his principles insults
you with the reply, ii will answer no questions
coming either from friend OF Ioel" | answer io'
you, that none worthy to be free can do SO.
5 thank you gentlemen, for your kind attention
: aud can only add one expression of my Iegrei
that the leebenes OF my health. gives me so lrt's
power to do justice 10 the important object OF YOU
assembling on this OCCASION"