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tain, that that paper could have no reason for
diminishing the number of its friends. We
shall recur to this subject again and offer
still stronger proof Of Harrison's conneAion
with the "black cockade" party.
GENERAL HARRISON and his party, arrogate
To him and themselves, exclusive friendship
for the poor man, and the tenants OF log-ca-
bins. They claim to have a candidate for
the Presidency, whose whole life has been de
voted to the interest Of the poor against TIL
rich, and whose public career - wIIn"Ut spot
or blemish; coming from those who have
heretofore put up no speci.l pret"r>'nGS ,"
this distinction. and VII" a.e Ill uf Il sudden
giving such extraordinary evidences of Tie
sincerity of their declarations ty !urlding log
cabins.' and drinking 'hard cider;' it certainty
cannot be surprising if their exclusive dev"-
ton to the interests of the poor man, be re-
ceived with some degree Of distruSi and sus
picion. Supported as he is, by a party who
compose four fifths Of the wealth of the coun-
try, and which is made up to a considerable
extent of wealthy capitalists. overgrown
bankers, and idle spectators, who fatten up
on the toll and labor of Others; a preiension
so much AT war with the interests of the
great body Of the wing party, sh ,uld be
acknowledged with MANY grains of ;llow-
ance. Professions are not the best index Of
the practice of a man ar a party; and il
would be well if We examine into he pre-
tensions of those who claim so much Tor
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were in reality what they profess tn be, the
only true friends of the inmates of log cabins,
would they act as they dot Would they
not rather rely upon their former acts and
past conduct, than resort TO the silly devices
which We every where witness, Of building
log cabins. of styling their candidate the slog
cabin Hero and the '.log cabin advocate"
and proclaiming at every corner that he is
the poor mans friendl Would We see every
whig newspaper with its log cabin, and cider
barrel, if they themselves did not think
that they could not with safety rely upon
their former acts, or those OF their candidates?
Who is so full Of professions of honesty and
~uprightness, as the swindler and the cheatl
Who so OVERLOOKING with outward acts Of re-
ligion and morality as the Pharisee and the
Hypocrite! 1t is the ever recurring conscien-
,iousness that their candidates are not what
they would nave US believe them to be-, that
induces them to make their professions the
louder, the more deficient their practice has
been. But what have the candidates Of the
wings done. which should entitle them to
this appellation? John Tyler, the wing can-
didate for the Vice Presidency, voted in the
Virginia convention for restricting the right
of suffrage 10 free holders; in other words,
he voted for permitting no man 10 vote who
did not own land. This looks very much
like friendship for the poor manic compel
him TO pay tax, work on the highway, and
perform military duty and yet debar him
from having a voice in making the laws by
which he is to be governed. And what are
Genl. Harrison's claims TO this distinction!
There is no doubt, while Governor of the In
diana Territory he approved of u similar law.
We admit that his friends excuse him for
it on the ground that one of the ordinances
of 1897 required such n provision To- be m'de
in the laws Of the Territory. But granting
that he is free from this sin. whit nanne- of
man is he that would vote for Il law selling .
MAN into slavery for fine and costs? and what
idea can that man have of the nature and
character of man, that would approve Il law
for selling a free man into slavery because he
was so poor he could not pay a fine assessed
against him for some petty misdemeanor. and
if he should attempt to recover his freedom.
to lash him WITH THIRTY NINE STRIPES? That
he committed both Of these denominations no
one can deny. We don't charge him with
approving and voting for laws to sell men
for debt, but we do charge that he voted for
selling men if they could not pay the fine
and costs assessed against them for an as
sault and battery, a game at cards, and a
hundred other offences of a similar charac-
ter; and it cannot be successfully contra
dicted. And yet, these are the exclusive
friends Of the poor man;-these are the men
whom the city nabobs call upon the laborer