The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-06-05

everv where applauded by them, show.
ing that the came contempt for the peo-
pie perVades that party throughout the
Union.
And what have we seen at the present
session of Congressl The House Of
Representatives kept 10 state Of disor-
ganizatIon for weeks, by an attempt to
force into il, as members, Eve men from
New Jersay, when five other men, no.
toriously and confessed, had a majority
ofthe votes given at the election. The
"broad seal" ofihe Governor, though
covering a known and acknowledged
fraud, was held by them more sacred
than the peoples right Of suffrage and
was considered a better title to a seat
10 Congress than a majority Of the peo-
pe's votes. This was not a Pennsylvan-
ia scene, probable because the Harrison
party here had no Governor Ritner un-
der their control 10 back the "broad
soap with 'buckshot and baI;' but the
contempt Cor the people, and the 'OiH TO
trample on the rights, were in both cas-
es the same.
Freemen Of the United States Your
Liberties are no! so safe as you may sup.
pose. Think you, if Harrison had been
President, the army of the United States
would have been refused TO his friends
in Pennsylvania? Think you that in
such a condition Of things, the people Of
that State could have maintained their
right 10 Governor and Legislature OF
their own free choice, but by wading
through rivers of bloodl 1t was at Har-
risburg, on the very scene of the Rtner
usurpa,lon, and by the influence Of the
leaders in that desperate effort, that The
nomination of Harrison was effected
If elected, Ritner's advisers will be his
advisers; the profligacy and darIngness
of that faction will be transferred 10
Washington, and their spirit will per-
wade the administration of the General
Government. What have you TO expect
from it, but Dhat have you seen it at
tempt?-What, but that corruption and
fraud in elections will prevade every
I State? What, but that minority can
dldates will be thurst into the State Leg.
islatures, and "broad seal" members in
10 Congress, at the point Of the bayon-
ct?
,l A food of decentralization thas swep
J over our land aud upon some States i
: rests in stagnaul pools, contaminatine
9 the atmosphere ofhberty. and threaten
: ing death to every thing virtuous, noble
, and free. 1t is to the monster Bank
. which, having struggled in vain, by il
Establishments. ills corruphons and Itt
, terrors to overcome the fearless and in
corrup,ible man then at the head of the
General Government, turned to the
State Legislature where il found no diff
iculty in buying up Senators by the do
, zen, that the people Of Pennsylvania
: were indebted for the proAigace exhib-
tied in the attempt 10 subveri their lb.
, critics by the sword. To means furnish
/ ed by the same and similar institutions
or those directly connected with then
!; f not even 10 the bankers Of Europe ar,
E the people Of the United States undoub
f tedly now indebted, not only for the de.
e pravation Of fmorals which threatens Il
d break up the foundations of society
but for a large portion of the mean
/, which enable their Executive Commit
tee' at Washington TO prosecute tn
y war against an honest and democratiI
i Administration. 1t was viololiDg NOR
: al obligations and plundering thair owl
: people through the Bank Of England
e that the British Government was ena
e bled 10 keep the word 10 arms during tb
. scenes of the French Revolution; an
: the British party IN America are profiun
8 by the proaIgate example. Laws ar
. violated with lmpunity; moral obligation
d are scoffed at and dprded; knavery walk
n the steets with a bold face Of honesty
Q plunderers of the public and Of publ
e institutions obtain sympathy and forgi1
eness; and the Administration, whic
!? sternly sets its face against these evil
b and their authors, is sought to be mad
= the vlctem of firmness aud integrity.
vi lfbad men are 10 be permitted to owe
n throw it by means so proffigate and wit
n motives SO corrupt, what is 10 be expeC
At ted, but that they will proceed 10 aggra
!, disc themselves upon the ruins Of OF
1T free Government, and The enslavemel
10 of our people.
.s 1t will be my endeavor, as far as nj
j. cessary, TO viDdicate the AminstratiC
r, from the foul asperations cast upon
10 and earnestly to inculCate-
g That in the pIaclibe Of a rigid mo
: allty alone can men or nations just