Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser., 1842-10-29
THE MORAr. OF THE LATE ELEC-
TlON RESULTS.

The expression OF sentiment now com.
ing up from the people OF all the States
embraces moral which we would like
to see even the wings appropriateto their
advantage.
Starting out two yenrs ago without a
declaration upon record or principle
even in prospect. they resolved to run the
gauntlet at all hazards md trust to luck
and humbug 10 save them. Maddened
by succession Of mortifying defeats,
they rushed rcckessly on 10 the conflict
and infatuated with the hope of trl-
umph, they guve no thought TO the past
or the future, but cared only for the
cravings Of the moment, which we're nei-
,her incoesidcrable in number nor tho
most pure in their nature, and which too
were gratifed by means measured not by
the most moral rulo. Promises, which they
could have had no hope Of fulfilling, and
which mortal men with all the govern
mcnts in the world TO help them never
could fulfill, were made by them by
Wholesale and thrown freely and broad
cast before the people to catch their votes.
to arouse their passions, and finally TO
gull them out Of their senses. In the
North, they hung out the black banner o.!
nbolitionism-while in the South they
shared the hospitality Of the slave holder,
e ate his bread, drank his wine. rode his
horses to the same polls and voted the
same ticket. In the East, they were ul-
ira federalists, protectionists and bank
palaeeites, while in the West and South
they were log-cabin mon, State rights
men, anti tariff men and anti Bank men.
Aud all over the Union they were re-
trenchers, reformers, and general econo
mists. Extravaganza in government wes
to be neutrality-suspicious. was to be
prescribed -sshard times were to be
made BETTER--MoNEy was to be made
more PLENTy--wages were 10 De RAISED
the price Of produce was 10 be improved
and IN fine the country (which then
presented so deplorable picture OF want
starvation, and rags, was, under the whig
rule, 10 he suddenly transformed into u
wurtd Of the greatest plenty and the great
est prosperity that had ever blessed any
portion Of the human race.
With these promises. ever flowing from
their lips, they won upon The attention
Of the peop|c--wilh their professions
they seduccd them--and with their tom.
foolcrics, log-cabins. canoes, coonskins
and banners, 1--WE blush to own i,,) they
excited them to temporary frenzy that
drove reason from her throne and bore
down oil things, men and measures, prin
ciplcs and arguments, lelorc it. The
.Ielusion was complete and tho work toe
disastrous!y eilcctuaI.
But The deception could not last--l
could not be continued. Aud here lies the
fatal error Of tie federal leaders: they
thought only Of the present, regardless u
the means adopted; they did not rcAec
that although they could dclude the peo
pie for moment, they could not keep vi
the delusion forever, and that when the
trick should he worn down to its thread
bore noihingness it would recoil fatally
upon themselves and kick them over.
Well, as was to have been expected
from the silent but certain operation o
the "sobcr second thought," the people
have finally awakened 10 full realza
&ion Of the past and the prcsent--ane
what have they found?
Have any Of the brilliant promise.
been fulfilled? Have the times improved
Have wages risen? Arc there any sucl
things known as .'t,oo dollars day an1
roast bcc)y' Has produce risen, or ha.
il fallen, aud which is its present tendon
cy, up or DOWN. Is the country rejoicing
in the smiles and sunshine Of prosperity
or is it clothed ia gloom aud dislorte,
with distressi
Honest men, who honestly and Jealous
~ put their shoulders to the wheel will
the hope OF making things better, woule
naturally feel indignan, to find that thei
lubors have been more than los, in max
ing things worsc--and upon whom woule
they be SO ap: to turn in their wrath a.
upon those who deceived them?
"Proscription," instead Of being 'spro
scribed,' became itself prescribed idea
so foon as they came into powcr--anc
men who sustained them ardemtly at the
polls were afterwards shocked at the dui
~ doings Of the dread instrument which
they had put into their hands. But this
!. though bloody bill, is small item ii
the account.
They found that the t1extravagant ad
ministration Of Mr.. Van Buren, (Which
had been cheated out of thirty million.
by the suspension Of the banks) had lef
the government about five millions il