Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17

er, as "a hoax unless the Administration he de-
termined upon making itself ridiculous If. how
ever, it should be true, that such thing is really
IN contemplation, we think it high time for the
Wing press in Nilsson i to speak out and declare
truly the sentiments of the people. Weston f.
Birch Receiver The Times SAYS the appoint
ment will give general satisfaction throughout the
district. Now, the Times very well knows that
the appointment would give uniuerSal dissatistac-
fion to all parties The Times knows, or ought
to know, for he has abundant evidence every day
staring him in the face, that Weston F. Birch is
without exception, the most unpopular man in
Howard county; and that the announcement of his
appointment to that office would be the announce
ment of the death and burial of Whiggery in that
county. Such an appointment would be received
with universal modification by the friends of the
Administration, and hailed with an united shout of
exu.tatlon from its enemies.-BoOnrWe Observer.
We will undertake to combat, openly
and fearlessly, every position in the above
paragraph, and without hesitation declare
the attack upon Mr.. BIRCH as mean and
disgraceful. We know the key of the
whole proceeding, and unless the "Observ-
er" practices a little more discretion, it
will force us to serve up some of its
friends and nformers in manner not very
satisfactory to it or them. For the pres
ent, word to the wise may be sufficient.
The true cause Of all opposition to him
from Boonville, we will say at once, is in
consequence of his open and magnanimous
support of Gen. CLARK, in opposition to
Mr.. BoGGs. He knew that Gov REYNOLDS
felt satisfied of his own election, and the
defeat of Gen. CLARK, and resigned the
office of Judge of this Circuit for the pur-
pose of forcing Gen. CLARK to yield to the
democratic party the office of Clerk,
which he had previously held. He knew
that Gen. CLARK had made the sacrifice in
most magnanimous manner-and for this
and thousand other reasons supported his
pretensions. This support, which we hap
pen to know was dictated by the purcst
motives, is the front of his offending
In relation to the charge of unpopularity,
it is due to truth to say that, the friends of
at least five rival applicants have been do
ing all in their power for themselves !
Whether, in these efforts, Mr.. BIRCH was
considered IN their ,Ody, we will not noW
discuss--but merely remark that if thirteen
years laborious application to his ocn bust
ness, in which he has been courteous and
prompt almost beyond example-extreme
devotion to wing men and wing measures,
in which road we know that hundreds
YES HUNDREDs-of his hard earnings have
travelled IF the highest grade of per-
sonal liberality, to all objects of public
charity, in Howard county and elsewhere,
in the bestowment of which, Compared
with his means) he has exceeded any of
our most liberal citizens--if these, or any
of these, are proper causes of unpopularity
among just, and generous, and honorable
people, then ought Mr.. BIRCH to be I'M
popular--but not otherwise Moreover, we
consider it the extreme of insolencc and
impudence, for man who is in no wise
known to the people of Howard, than as a
drunken schoolmaster, to interfere, or by
implication express an idea as to who is or
is not popular among her citizens.
A whole county, too, is openly insulted
by an insinuation that a single appointment
will be the death of "whiggery," as if a
people in pursuit of principle, could be in
fiuenced by motive SO mercenary and
mean-the suggestion of which could only
proceed from the merest StCiSS slave!
In reply to other portions of the para
graph, we will only say, at present, that
an examination of the files of the proper
department at Washington, will satisfy the
"Observer' as to the course of public men
in Missouri and Kentucky, where Mr..
BIRCH is known and resided. The editor
may there see, perhaps to his aStOniStment
that Mr.. BIRCH is as we'll recomm ended
as any applicant from this State or else
where, and by men of the highest grade
of character and intellect in both the
States referred to-men, too, whom the
"Observer" has worshipped, and will con-
tinue to worship? And not few of
them !
la relation to the insinuation of approval
by the democratic party, we will advise
the observer to maintain strict and
particular silence. If it fails to do so, we
will thoroughly expose ii and its friends
inormers, and advisers, and place the boot
on the right leg. We will show it, ana
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