Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-10-05

designs OF their leaders; the militia num-
bug; the Ogle humbug,and the various 9th
er devices were used to lead the people
hoodwinked and blindfolded, in the hope
that,..in the general confusion, and by keep
ing the real issue behind the curtain; c.
nough might be induced by threats and CO.
ercion to change their votes, SO that the
balance Of power would fall in the oppo-
site scale, and by these means effect u
change in the administration.
How well these plans worked the sequel
vii, show
Time rolled on, and with it came the pc
ried for the sitting Of the famous Harris
burg convention. But such an assemblage
man never saw. The confusion Of tongues
at the h";lding of Babel was not more COM
pete, than the ineongruity Of sentiment
tnero assembled. Bank and anti-bank, tar
lift and anti-taritf, mason and anti-mason,
abolitionist and anti-abolitionist, national
republicans, old fashioned federalists, con-
servatives, with spice Of all the isms that
have infected the country from its birth TO
present time; and all all modern Wings.
Each stood gazing at the other in mute
establishment and wondering at tho mon
strous creduIity Of the people who sent
them there. But so it was, and something
must be done. The farce they had COM
menced must be carried through, or pro-
claim to the world (what was known be-
fore) that having no principles in unison
with one another, they must suppress all
discussion of principle or break up in con-
fusion. Happily for their credit at the
time, they chose former expedient The
most scrupulous silence on all the great
questions of the day was observed; their
candidates were selected without requiring
of them an expression of their sentiments,
and studiously concealing those they had
formerly declared; hoping, by advancing
nothing of their own, and wag;ng an indis-
criminate warfare with The measures of
opposite party, they should succeed at
the approaching contest; and then, when
snugly in power reconcile the conflicting
interests as best they might. Under such
auspices returned the delegates from that
molly assemblage, and under the cry of
Harrison and reform. Tippacanoo and
Tyler too, the singing of achanalian songs,
drinking hard cider made harder by hard
brandy, building log cabins as representing
the style in which their candidate lived;
holding night meetings with many other d.
vices equally insulting and degrading to the
American character, did these pure spir-
its, these members Of all the decency and
all the talents party, carry on a warfare
unparalleled in the political history Of the
country. The result of that campaign is
already known. Their candidates are G.
lec:ed and now comes the base scramble.
Now the separate factions which composed
the party before the election, claim its ad
minstration each in its own way.
For the first time during the campaign
or since it is declared by the high toned
wings, the real simon pures, that nation
al bank has been demanded by the people.
From this declaration many dissent and
with good reason. The honest, good old
man who was chosen as the instrument
through which their schemes were to be
carried into operation, was by a merciful
Providence removed from the trying scene.
His constitutional successor takes his
place, and in him is found an enemy to
such an institution. President Tyler like
a man Of virtue ard integrity refuses ad-
ding another wound to an already bleed
ing constitution. With thits last decision
may be said to fall the last hopes of the
wing party. The ambitious designs of a
few depraved men are here brought to re-
coil on their own heads. There stands the
sheltered wreck Of a national bank, fit en-
blsm of the shatterhd fortunes of its father
and supporter HENRY CLAY.
Well may it be said in their case, how
have the mighty fallen. Scattered to tho
four winds, resolved into their original ele-
ments, they are standing monuments of
wckedness and folly of party spirit, when
guided by selfish views.-lt was designed
at tic commencement Of this communica-
ton TO append some brief reflections, ma
:ufa!ly arising from the subject contempla-
ted; but its already too grea, length
warns me to close, leaving the subjec, as
it is, to alter or amend as you may see fit
A LOCKER ON IN VENICE