The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-06-30
From tho Hartford Times.
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Whig committeeman, Nth paper and
pencH.-My friend, | suppose you intend
TO vote the wing ticket, as usual.
Workingman. Why do you wish to
know?
Uhig. We are now making out our
list to be returned to the central commit
tee. and want to put all true men down
as good for the first Monday in April.
Uorkingman. shall vote as please
hereafter-I have had enough of your
promises, and enough Of wing times.
Whig. But, friend, you surprise me
don't be hasty in determining how You
vote: have the locos been seeing you!
Workmgman. | have been seen by no
one as To how shall vote. am free
man in every sense of the word, and will
no longer wear the letters that you and
your friends would put on me. We work.
ingmcn have been deceived-cruelly, UNI
ieelingly deceived, and by men who know,
or ought to know better. tell you plain
ly, if these are the 1.-TWO dollars a day and
roast beef" times, that you promised us,
we have had enough of such fare; and my
fellow workngmen who talk with me,
all say the same thing.
Whig. But you know we did not
promise tina; literally and certainly.
Workingmn,. Yes, you did; and here
is honest" John Davis speech, which
you gave me in 1910, which says so in
substance if not in words; and you know,
and know, that when we were paradlng
in the Bunkerhill possession, for we
were both there,) that very "roasl beef
and two dollars" was the most con-
spicuous motto in the line.
Whig. Well, but you must make some
allowance for the obstinacy of Tyler,
who has stood in the way of a bank which
we meant to make, and which would
have brought about the good times.
. W0rkingman. Tell me not of that, for
of all the curses ever inflicted on any
country, the last United States Bank was
the biggest. 1t now lies in one purify
ing mass of corruption in Philadelphia a
stencil in the nostrlls of every honest
man. | did not once think so--bu, can
not disbelicye the evidences of my own
senses.
Whig. But that is the bank under its
State charter, no. United States.
W0rkingman. 1t was the same thing
in another dress-the same capital, the
same stockholders. the same men to man
age it, and the same swindler at the head
oft. Who believes that they would have
been more honest, or less powerful for
mischief, under congress charter, than
under one granted by Pennsylvania {! And
could any new bank be entrusted to hands
that you could have had more confidence
in, than you did have in Blddle, Jaudon,
and the rest, who you once told me were
the saviours Of the country! | tell you
have been humbugged long enough, and
\ it is too late for you to try it further in
bank matters. Besides, when you prom
iscd the beef and two dollars" and to
make the people happier and richer, you
SAID that the mere election Of the wing
candidates would do it. and would add
100 millions to the prices Of all property
-"Confdence," as you called it, not a
bank, was to do this: but instead of that,
the wing times are worse than any other
ever known. Harrison and Tyler were
not put up as bank men. Harrison you
Epnuy ,pI / lo,1nroI ho
stump. =" | am not bank man-the only
time ever trusted bank, was cheated
out of all | was worth :" and as for ~
Ter, every body knows he was of the
Virginia an,ibank school. have here a
aOhig paper sent me for nothing, from
New London, during the Presidential
election, which heads the wing ticket "no
bank. and no subtreasury." Now we
have just what this wing paper said was
wanted to make good times, "no national
bank and no sub-treasury"-and yet YOU
promises are unperlormed.
Whig. But you must not expec. every
thing at once.
Workingman. Everything a. once
why you have done nothing but make
-s,tirnes worse. You have had your owr
Sway for two years, in all that you said
was necessary TO make things right. You
have repealed the sub-treasury-made q
bankrupt law-dlstributed the land money
as long as you dared--and enacted new
tariff, that was to do wonders. Now see
where we are, and what the times are
under these lavorile whig measures. Here
are their frnits-a national debt of thirty
millions of dolars-the treasury empty
the old pensioners widows unpaid-,he
expenses ,hirty-four millions of dollars a
year, and nothing coming in to meet hal
of them-wages down to almost nothing
some of us willing to work for oul
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