Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-10-08


nounce the war, 20 members are vet or
the stage of life, and all are exemplary
modern Wings.
Of the % members of the Massachu.
, setts State Senate, 'rho rotcd for the bill
! to hold the Hartford Conuention, there
are but eleven who still are alive, anC
they are all, but one, true Harrison men
: Of the 260 Representatives who voteC
in favor of that bill, there are IS Mlssa.
chusetts members only who now survive
and they are ALL with the bare exception
OF two, Harrison's political supporters and
friends.
Of the sarriUing members of the
HARTFORD CONVENTION ITSELF cpery man
is Harrison Wig.
! OF the ten surviving members of the
! Massachusetts Senate, who voted against
ex, ,runging from their record the federal
resoiL tions of 1913, which declared,
"TRat n acar like the present, ,Daged
ayi,hom "a, HiGaJle cause, IS not becoming
moral an, : religious people to cypress
any appreciation Of Military or naral
crDIoits, arsicb are not Immediately con-
ncctcd arith the de, Seace Of our sea coast
and soil," each one = an advocate of Har-
rison for the presidency of the U. States.
OF the rs Assemblyh'en Of the State
Of Vermont, who, in Iol3' refused by
their votes, to convene and pu uhhcly "ot-
ferup thanks to Almighty Cod for the
victory obtained by the American army"
at The battle Of the Thames, every man
except one is d thorough going federal
whig.
But why multiply examples TO prove
that which each ones experience
must convince him is fact. Look around
about you. Where are the men who have
opposed democracy as far as your me-
mors 90 back? All, all arrayed in sup
port of the hero of TiPpecanoe. Each
state Of the union might be lansacked
and found TO bear equal witness to this
undeniable truth. And now, ifthe home
ly old adage be entitled to weight, that a
" man may be known by the company he
keeps" then is llarrlson's federalism pll.
ced beyond shadow Of doubt.
But how do the federal leaders seek
10 avoid the force Of these insuperable
objections to their available candidate?
Let their resort TO means that add insult
TO the injuries they are striving to inAict
upon the American people, their appeal
to the lowest and basest passions that de-
grade the nature of man, their contempt
Of your understanding daily and hourly
evipced in the arts they employ, the
shows they exhibit and the cant language
they use, let these things and their obse-
quious serVility to those whom they have
ever been accustomed to treat with dis
dain or neglect, answer the question of
how federal managers expect to be able
10 get democratic votes. They tell, with !
an air OF benovoIence that does infinite
credit TO their theratcal skill, that Gen.
Harrison, the man of their choice, is the |
"poor mans friend" And pray, when
did they become the peculiar guardians
TO the poor? When were they asked TO
assume a watchful care over the inter-
ests of the indgent? Is it among the
bankers, spectators and federal politi-
clans, who form the most Jealous parti- |
zans of the Harrison cause, that the poor
men have been accustomed 10 find their
friends? Is it to the federal party they
have heretofore looked for protection
and support in their political rights9 Or
have they rather relied on themselves as
men who understand their own interests,
and know how to defend and advance
them? Was the Harrsburgh convention,
nine-tenths of whose members were
bankers and professional characters, Pc
culiarly fitted TO select poor mans pres
ident? Or is nothing more meant, by
this new tangled phrase, than the feder-
al doctrine, " that the government should
take care of the rich and the rich will
take care of the poor2' But what has
Gen. Harrison done to earn the title Of
the poor mans friend7
Where was his regard for the poor,
when he supported the alien and seditiOn
law administration of the elder Adams? |
Where was his love for the poor when,
as Governor of Indiana Territory, he, in
conjunction with the Judges, adopted and
published law by which the benefit of
the services Of the aliens, who were sun
der contract TO serve," was made g. as
s;gaGbIe by the master to any person be-
ing q citizen Of the territory" thus
making them a saleable commodity, like
slave or brute.
Where was his love for the poor when,
as governor Of the same Territory, he set
his approving hand to law for the sale
of American ireemen, 10 pay the fine
and costs assessed for the commission of
petty ofence-a judgment the rich
man could easily discharge, but which
the means Of the poor one might be in
sufficient TO meet?
Where was his love for the poor when
he suffered that Infamous law to still fur
ther provide, that the person SO sold