The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-08-23
VOL. VIl[.--NO. Is.

ormous State debts and embarrassments. in
Pennsylvania, and his western Loco Foto
States, have not in the main grown up under
the Loco Foco administrations of those
States Whether some ofthese States have
not certainly threatened to repudiaie their
debts, and thus cheat their honest creditors
out of the amount find whether they are
not entanglcd in net of poverty and eInhar-
rassment, through their own misgovern nent,
from whIrh they pretend to justify their work
OF reputation OH the score, that they shllI
never be able to pay their deb's, with the
accommodating interest Furthermore, Wilt
he deny, that some millions of the State debt
Of Alabama, was issued for Banking ptrDo-
ses That two millions FIVE hundred thou
sand dollars of the debt of hard money Miss.
ouri, was for the same object, That of the
five millions loan in the State of Michigan,
the State has lost more than one third of the
proceeds ofthe stock which has been issued,
by the infdelity and insolvency oflhose with
whom the loans were negotiated I; while, ac-
cording to the Report of the Internal I'm
provement in that State, the remainder was
laid out in such n way, AS thlt about three
fourths of the whole five millions, was vast
ed ,
Such were some of the doingS, IN the ad4
ministration Of affairs, in these Loco FOcu
Stares-and how in the mean time did ths
People fire there Their taxes became
higher than they could bear; int reascd from
year to year re meet the interest on their
loans, and defray the prodigal expenditures
of their State rulers In some of those States,
old horses, cats and dogs, were lawful ten
der, in payment of cash debts-sheriifs apd
other executive officers, who attempted tn
collect debts by legal process were mc4bed--
o,,1 -,k, h.. # h
debtor was seized and sold, cow would gu
for one, Or at mos, two dollars. No business,
and consequently no demand or REGARD for
labor and most of those States we're and
are in condition Of poverty, hii kruptcy au,l
distress, unknown hitherto in tie history q.
the Countrywide FerInrnI. QhOugh she
has been greatly depressed and raralysed, by
the deSOlating policy Of fourteen years Of
msrule in the General Government and The
equally mad career in the government of
most of the States during the same pcriod)
under the wisdom aud guidance of an I'M
changed Wing administration, still holds her
credit untarnished, her treasury supplied,
herself free from embarrassment, and her
people more prosperous and independent
than those of any other State in the Union.
Such being the case, think Vermont will
not change her political character, OF policy;
bur will he content To remain Whig Stale
still.
As to the assertion that our Young ncn
are leaving Vermont for other States, il will
require better evidence to make me believe
it than the statement of the True Democrat
man. I'll have been correctly informed he
is quite ''yOUrg man. himself am not
aware that he has any intention of leaving
us at present. But ifhe intends TO continue
his practice ofsIandering oar best cilizciis az
he has done, for one care not how soon he
goes. If he has so poor an opinion cf Fer-
mont how happened it that he came here
(for | undcriand he is Il foreigner) iusteah
of going to some other State lfhe has got
sick of us, let him clear out, am sure zee
shall not grumble.
A WESTFORD FARMER.