The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1843-11-10

is such thing as carrying joke too tar.
After two years and half OF varying for. /
tunes, il is tine that so emphatic an express !
sion OF the Peoples will should be treat. !
cd with some show Of decency. Yet what
do we heart Ga every hand, we have the
Van Buren, press and politicians abusing
and decryiug the verdict OF lS10. They
denounce II as the result OF fraud and co.,
ruption, Of debauchery and madness, Of
Log Cabin fooleries and Hard Cider drunk
enness. Some OF the smaller fry OF the
Locotoco press are accustomed TO speak oil
our own little paper, The Log Cabin as
though We might wish TO blot II from the
public remembrance and even their mas.
ter demagogue, the involuntary Hermit Of
Underwood, with gross violation Ct good
taste as well as truth, has the temerily to
speak, in his ten column letter 10 Indiana,
Of the +" diSreputable scenes Of 1910" and
"ihe effect which those scenes necessarily
had in shaking the confidence OF mankind
in the fitness of the American people for
free institutions"
The dIsreputable scenes Of le40r-
When American citizens used 10 gather by
hundreds to sung and dance around llicko
~ Poles, with barrels OF WhlSkey rolled out
and heads Of beer casks stove in--when,
( right here, in the heart of thus enlightened
emporium, men were seen, alter a cask OF
beer had been poured into the hole where
the Pole was 10 be SET IN front OF 'ramma
NJ Han lta I,pn apI Ir,nlr "a from tho
ground like hogs-the klnderhooker saw
nothing dlsrepulabie then. W hen Amer
can citizens have been swept away from
The Polls of our City with Clubs by bands
Of misguided and excited emisrants, half
civilized and maddened with liquor furnish.
ed them BY party llberalliy, we had no hint
from Mr.. Wan Buren, that such scenes were
disrepulatle, or calculated to impair the
confidence OF mankind in our fitness for free
Institutions But when the people uprise
in their strength, and delying the mighty
influence Of office and power, OF successive
:riumphs and alluring party names, without
violence or injury TO any man, declare by q
majority Of $4,000, by far the heaviest
vote ever polled that he shall be no longer
President, then our Undertook Statesman
pronounces Tue whole business disrepuia.
bic, and calculated 10 shake the fai;h 10 our
capacity for self government Sir, If this
were true, you are not the man 10 proclaim
il. There is a dry old dislIch which runs
No rogue Ger felt the halter draw
With good opinion Of the law
which should have counscled you 10 modes.
ty IN this connection.
Blu. the assertion Of Mr.. Van Buren is as
false as udecorous. There never was a
Political Contest in which the great mass
of the People were better informed as to
what was held and proposed by each party
than 10 that Of 1910. Every where pamph
lets and papers Of each were distributed
with q protusiUn never before known, and
generally read. Every where the best
orators Of either party were IN the field, and
the People gathered day after day 10 hear
them-first on one side and then on the
other. lfthey did not understand on what
the two parties ditfs red, then we may des.
pair Of lheir ever doing SO. Probably few
men now living will ever see another con.
test or vote more universal than that Of
1910. As 10 corruption, the thing was
( downright impossible. We did not know
one voter, among tho thousands Of Offering
politics, whose vote could have been bouoh,
at any price, or 70 whom il would have
been safe to offer brbe Of any KIDD
The People were quite too much IN earnest
for any thing Of tina; sort.
But Illegal voting Well, sirs, where ?
We have not heard the first illegal vote
that was poed TO make Gen. Harrison
President. Doubtless there were q few On
each slde-we are sure tewest on ours, be.
cause the raw material for Illegal votes IS
ten 10 one against us--bUt both parties
were too active TO prevent illegal voting,
and ours too confident 10 think Of resortlng
to it. The only evidence IN support Of the
charge Of illegal voting is the fac, that the
vote was very heavy. But did not every
one know !! would be so, months before the
Election! Tha. was inevitable still the
vote was in no State equal to the number
of legal votes, and it was highest in Mem
Hampshire and in the Locofoco portion of
that State merit highest in Illinois, also
Locofoc0. We need say nothing more on
this head. II there can be any evidence
tina, the Wing vote was corrupt il is high
time It we're given. Bot the charge is
grossly false.
There remains noihing to coun,enance
the defamation Of the People by the Ex
President and his hackers but the fact that
The Wings built Log Cabins and talked
Of Hard Cider provoked in each case
by the unwlse !aun,s of their opponents.-
That they drank more of any thing hard
than their opponents is not in evidence, and
we do not believe il, vastly superior as they
we're IN numbers. But they built Log
Cabins, and what of il! Did that circum.
stance change Locofocos 10 Whlgsl We
have no doubt it was the means Of good !;
but il was what was said in Log Cabins
the facts and arguments there adduced ia
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