The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-02-14
but shake their manes and growl; ap-
proach lhsm, lay your hand upou them,
theV are tame; they are like Daniels IL

| the hand ots The ireemen ot this Country
! rest uaon the Federal lions and huhes
of this day. When first entered this
| HAL, | entered with some trepnlahon-
such is the Wing system Of putting by
| i,be lean, lank dogs, in The character of
penniless letter writers, who beset this
Capitol,by thrSngs, and whose hungry
| yelp is never out Of your hearing.
jexpecled 10 see men gigantic in body
and Intellect; such is the effect putting
has upon the mind Of objects at DIS
tance; but when came to mingle with
them, found few Of them whose bodily
altitude exceeded that ofmy own and;
when ! surveyed them, ! saw nothing in
them, mentally or physically, to be fear.
cd il found them just such creatures as
surrounded me at home every day;
saw nothing here at which we'll corn
and pork fed Western Buckeye would
not douce his wool hat, throw o. his lin
sey hunting shirt, roll up his sleeves.
and ",oak right into"
We have heard The tempest ofparty
howl; we have felt the rain fall in tor
rents from the party elements; we have
been pelted by the hail; we have seen
the lightning flash; and we have heard
the thunder peal and roll over our heads,
but we have not been stricken down in
ruin by its bolts; and all this, too. when
foul Federalism had reared its crest TO
its greatest altitude-to the threatening
of the overthrow Of our simple Repub-
lican institutions. What now have we
to fear, when il sneaks to hide its guilty
face, and is ashamed of lie very name.
1t wrilhes under the feet Of our free in
stitutions as the reptile squirms under
the heel Of man.
Sie, as ifto prepare the Opposition
for contes, Of violence, the New Jer-
soy usurpers have been advised not to
jump out of the windows, as was The
case at Harrisburg. The Democracy
OF this House have manifested no dlspo-
s,lion 10 MAINTAIN their principles by
bowie knives, or carry out their meas
ures with brickbats. The admonition
was gratuitous and uncalled for. Nor
was it the Democratic members Of the
Legislature of Pennsylvania who threa
ened violence to the corrupt usurper'
who claimed their seats in that hail
1t was the honest, hard-handed De-
mocracy, who rallied to the standard o
their country when their legislative halle
we're to be corrupted by usurpatlon aDo
fraud. 1t was the KIND Of men who
maintain an d support your country il
eace, and defend it in war. Tnsy were
,he kind Of men, and governed ny tn,
same political principles, ,iwho were cal
Ieh pleblans IN the republican days o
Rome, who. when AnInony Offered Ce
sar the crown, threw up their swearN
caps snd clapped Ihdr hard and chap
ned hands, at his refusal to accept IT
Anthony persisted, aud offered it agair
Caesar refused they threw up their cap
,nouled N token Of appreciation, au'
cIapped their cha ped and hard hands
but the patrclaus groaned and hIsset
Again Anthony offe ID him the crown
but again Cesar p .s-td it with his han,
from ms mead. rhe patrlclans groar
ed and his ed; but the pIebans coatjn
ued 10 throw up their ~~eatY caps ,r
clap lheu hard and chopped uaa
These were the kind of men VII, file,
the streets and cyowJed the eglslalv
nails of Harrisburg. They saw tha
, their liber!'cs were IN danger, and the
2 rallied to the defence of their iusutu
lions and the purify Of the eIectivs frau
chise. Such men do not crowd tn
streets and avenues of Washington cir
and overflow the legislative halls of ihi
Capitol. No, cir; the usurped in lhl
case have nothing to fear from the pop
ulace here. Sir,wlh many honorable e
h ceptions, our streets and avenues ar
crowded with blacklegs, political Jug
: glers, hungry expeciants. loving, lea
f lazaronl loafers, bank yassals, and Fed
g eral miunious. congregated from all part
, of the Union. Dandles, coxcombs, an
n liveried drones, whose subsistence de
n pends upon theft, begging or fraud, {
. upon the "ths glories Ofhe credit an
d banking system" Hence it is that vo
g hear from your galleries shouts of ar
y probation and joyous applause, whe
!, you gain anything like temporar
: Whig victory over the cause and prir
c ciples Of Democracy, however con;em
= tible and pitiful that victory NAV b
: Sir, think | can give The usurpers a.
II urance that they are on the right side f
It safely here; but | could not insure ,be
1t from decapitation if they were to pr,
" sent such claims in the Capitol of Ha
g risburg. Sir, as usual, we have hea
J, the success oftbe cause of Democra,
" attributed TO corruniion Fvoc,,;,o :,