, 1840-07-25

ming the mad career after military men which
had coducted so many republics to ruin.-
All this was TO prevent you from electing
General Jackson. Now that same party, so
vehement against chieftains a few years ago,
had W Of them upon its own list OF candi-
dates for the presidency, and actually selects
one of these two for its candidate; and now
presses his election with %unbounded ZEAL
What is this but insult TO your understand
ings, and contempt for your ~principles?-
What is it but telling you that you are in
capable Of selEgovernment, and can be made
TO run backward and forward, upon the same
track, for chieftains and against chieftains, at
the bidding Of politicians, in the short space of
a dozen years? Even if the attempt now was
to conciliate your support by arguments adj
dressed TO your understanding and your pat
riotism, still these arguments would come
with a bad grace from the party which lately
spent twelve years in exciting your alarms
and jealousies against chieftains; it would
still be a gross Inconsistency in them TO do
so, and an insult to you to attempt it. But
they do not condescend to use arguments
TO you. They do not treat you as if you
possessed reason, judgment, or memory!
On the contrary, acting on the old Hamilton
ian doctrine ofdisbelief in the capacity Of the
people for selfgovernment, and that they are
becoming secured of their fondness for De-
mocracp, 'and that their ",ciM and turbulent
spirH" is only to be Sc, in motion by adj
that, when these are inflamed, :. they go like
UiId fire." acting on all these Hamiltonian
doctrines, they have set on foot sucha sys-
tenn OF electioneering as never was seen in
any rational, moral, or Christian communi-
ty before. Log cabins, canoes, coonskins,
gourds, are exhibited to the eyes of the voters!
Bacchanalian songs are Numbered into their
ears! Hard cider, hard enough to affect the
spirits, is poured down the threats of all that
will drink! The most absurd, preposterous,
and stupid falsehoods are fabricated and dts.
pcrsed on all sides! BY these means the
Federal Abolition party seek to govern the
people, and TO convince them that they ought
to be as Jealous for military chieftains now
as they were taught by the same teachers
to be against them a few years age. Is such
conduct as this any thing but an insult to
the people, a contempt for our form of gov
eminent, a design to degrade the elective
franchise, and an exemplifcation of The Hamli.
tOllldll opiiilOil vi uCtiloSid CN sCApICSS Ill llC
federal convention fifty years ago? Ask any
one of the actors in these scenes, who it is
that they mean all these degrading exhibit
tons and baboon tricks for? and they tell
you that they are not inten led for the en-
lightcned few, but for the ignorant many,
for the remote country people, inhabitants
of Lighthouses, who know nothing about poll
tics and government, and who must be adj
dressed in their own way, and in their own
style. This is about the answer which the
contrivers Of these tricks and exhibitions
will give you! And such is their opinion of
the intelligence of the people! That it is an
insult 10 the people is apparent on its own
face: that it is 4 cheat and a fraud upon them,
we will prove by incontestable evidence.
The log-cabin, as is universally known. is
taken as the peculiar sign and emblem of the
Federal party, who live in their splendid
mansions. Log cabins are erected in all the
cities; pictures of them are every where pre-
sented ;songsters and orators sing and declaim
their beauty an u~nbounded love and atfec-
ton is suddenly and furiously proclaimed for
these primitive buildings; and to promote the
happiness of those who live in the real log
cabins seems to be the whole aim of these
new devotees. Is this newborn zeal and
affection real, or pretended Is it true, or
false? And are not the real inhabitants of
log-cabins as much injured as they are des-
pissed by the Federal party2 This is the
question:; an let facts answer it.
The pre.emption bill which passed Con-
gress at the present session, was a measure
well calculated to try the truth of these pro-
LESSONS of love and affection for Iog-cabins
by the Federalists; and what is the fact which
the votes On that bill attest? These votes
prove that party TO be nov what they al.
WAYS have been, the decided enemies of those
who build and inhabit these cabins, and
ready to destroy their interest whenever it
can be done with IMMUNITY. Three votes
were taken upon the bill in the House of
Representatives; two of which were eminent
ly critical and dangerous to it; and in which
the bill was only saved by eleven votes in
one case, and by seven in the other. These
votes were ON Mr.. Lincoln's motion to strike
out the main provisions Of the bill, and on
the subsequent motion to reconsider the bill
after it had passed. On Mr.. Lincoln's mo-