Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-09-12


50 many Thousands, nay, millions, OF the American
People into council for the purpose of devsfng |
measures for their mutual relief! Wherefore do |
they cry aloud us with one voice, Reform Re-
form Reform Our country is in peril! The
public morals are corrupted How has it been
done 40 the victors belong the spols," say our
rulers What are the consequences! Ask the
hundred public defauers throughout the land!-
Ask the hirelings of corruption who proiiering |
'power and place. as brides to procure votes
Ask the subsidized press what governs its opera
tons, and it will open its iron jaws and answer
YOU in voice loud enough to shake the pyramids
Money MONEY! | speak not at random-facts
bear me testimony. The principle is boldly
avowed, as well as put in practice by men in high
places, that alsehUod is iustifiabe in order to ac-
cumplish their purposes. Why this laXty in the |
morals of our rulers and of their followers Did
they inherit depravity from their ancestors How
doe. it come that such recklessness of truth and
Justice is manifested of late by some individuals
among usl Why, some Of the causes which
| produce these evils | have already minated.
| There are others. Intense party spirit destroys
patriotism A celebrated Grecian commander once
| said, aud said truly-"Where virtue is best re-
warded, there will virtue most prevail" 1t is
even so-a wise and true saying But how has
the practice of your Government of late accorded
with this maxim! 1t is proverbia with the advo-
Gates of monarchy in the Old World that Repub-
lies are ungruteful. How does your experience
for the last few years give the lie to this PROPOSE
tion! Nay, fellOw-citzens, / fear that this Gov
ernment affords many examples which tend but
too strongly TO verify the proverb. Among other
instances Of lis manifest ngTattude, to one only
will here recur. | mean the removal from office,
without cause or provocation difference of
opinion with the President, of Gen. solomon Van
Rensselaer,, of New York. He was noble friend
of ours in the ''winter Of our discomfort" | be-
came acquainted with him when, like myself, he
off, IN Con rs, |
! found him an agreeable. social companion as well
as brave and magnanimous soldier. He assisted
in fighting the be. les of his country; ay, for your
behoof my couu'rymen, his blood has been poured
out upon the soil of Ohio. The bullets Of your
enemies have pierced his body while fighting i'll
defence of your fireSides. And not only on the
plains of Ohio has he stood between danger and
his country, hut in other places likewise. In the
sanguinary battle Of Queenstown he received six
wounds from his cOuntry's foes. WE'LL what is
his reward After having spent the flower of his
youth and the vigor of his manly prime in the
vice of his country MS a soldier, he was called BY
the American people to serve them in civil ca
} pacity. He Obeyed the call with thanktulness of
heart. But he has been cruelty driven out Of the
service by the Administration, and why Because
fellow-citzens, he was the friend Of the companion
of his youth because he would not tDr,uke fe.
low--o,dier; and because the emoldments Of his
Office were wanted to reward the parizon service
/,
there's the rub" But you, my friends, am con-
fd}nt, will not long permit such wrong to the men
who 'righted your wrongs" in ulden times.
Feow-citizens, you know that my opponents
call me Federalist. But deny the charge: lam
mott never was Federalist. Federalists are III
favor of concentrating power in the hands of the
Executive, Democrats are in favor of the retention
of power by the People. am, and ever have been,
democratic republican. Ny former practices
will bear me out in what | say. When ! was
Governor Of Indiana Territory, was vested with
) daSpotic power and had chosen to exercise it,
might have governed that people with rod Of
: iron But being q child of the Revolution, and
bred to its principles, believed in the right and
the ability Of the people TO govern themselves !:
and they always permitted to enjoy that high
privilege. | had the power tie prOrOugc, ad jOurn,
and dissolve the Legislature; to lay off new cOun-
ties and establish seats Of Justice to appoint sher-
ifs and other officers. But never did interpOse
my prerogltive to defeat the wishes of aorIty of
the people. The people chose their own officers,
and | invariably confirmed their choice; where
they preferred 20 have their county seats, there
located them; they made their own laws, and |
ratified them. Ineuer retOed a JH in my life.
But | have been denounced as a bank
Well, let it 60. am so far bank man as be.
lieve every rational republican ought to be, and
no further. The Constitution Of the United States
makes it the duty of the Government. to provide
l ways and means for the collection and Gisburse
} ment of the public revenue. II the People deem
it necessary TO the proper discharge Of the unc-
I lions OF their Government to create a National
Bunk, properly guarded and regulated shall be
the last man, if elected President to set up my au-
tHorty against that Of these millions Of American
ir-em1n. 1t is ncediul TO have a larger money
circulation in land OF liberty than in an empire vi
despOti>n. Destroy poor mans credit, and you
destroy his capital. The peasa who tolls inceS-
sanity to maintain his family household ia the hard
! --io pf b,