, 1844-11-02

your late election, TO make you familiar
with the new science. New 10 Nilsson
ri, thanks to her patriotic people, but old
to the world. This was practiceG in
1910, 10 all almost unlimited extent, beth
il, the press and OF the forum. And
when the Globe the accredited organ Of
our faith at the centre hurled back IFS
thunders upon the traitors, and exposed
their designs, they would raise a horri-
bic yell over it. 1t was not democratic
enough for the purchased hirelings oil
the wings, and it must be denounced.
They told us too, and reiterated il
frcm the press and from The hustings,
that the individual distress brought upon
the land by the unhOly league of their
banks, TO close their doors upon their
creditors; and upon the government de-
posts; was the result Of the action ofthe
administration then in power-and were
unbounded in their promises of relief,
and Of general prosperity, should they
succeed to the Government. They
were even going 10 give US two dollars
a day and roast beef. In the first place,
the charge wa utterly northumberland
has since been shown only to have been
a scheme of packing their W iniquities
upon the administration; and their pro-
misses have proved as deceptive Us their
accusations were false. They are a
fruitful people in promises, slow howev-
er in performance. That two dollars
and roast beef did not come, when the
people deceived by them, trusted them.
But instead, increased pressure, incrcas-
cd taxation, increased national debt-in-
creased burdens in every form their in
senuity could devise
But ii was not sufficient, 10 muse the
people with dumb shows, and humbug
promises, torch light professions and
midnight revelries-they had TO resort
TO Il universal system OF false accusation,
against the administration
Did you ever hear ofthat standing ar
my of Mr.. Van Buren,, of two hundred
thousand men? That was a Morgan for
the election,-good enough for the occa-
sion, and it is no harm in Wing ethics,
TO deceive the people. 1t is fairly TO be
presumed, that 10 intclligen, whig at this
day, would claim for the charge, higher
authority, than a humbug, that answered
its purpose in its day: A fit Morgan
for the election. Yet we have all doubt
less, heard strains Of eloqucncc from the
hustings, about that standing army, and
its dangerous tendency upon the liber-
ties Of the people, That almost alarmed
us for our personal safety. Indeed the
old women, who were induced TO hide
their bibles in Mr.. Jeifcrson'S times,
were scarcely more frightened than Our
mothers were, at the thoughts Of having
their sons dragged Oft TO Mr.. Van Bu-
ren's wars. Two Hundred Thousand
standing Army, shouted the wEig orators
in public. What a glorious humbug,
whispers the same gentry, over their
wine cups. 1t takes beautifully, say
they, and they laugh at the expense of
the people.
Now the origin of this humbug charge
arose out Of report Of the Secretary of
War. BY TIE genius Of our institutions,
the Militia is the bulwark Of our Ii5cr-
ties. Our fathers dreaded standing ar
mics. and made the people, the Militia,
thc curdtors Of their own sacred rights.
There could be no better depository of
the power. But it needed organization;
and that organization wanted 10 be rem
dered as perfect as possible. Nearly
every secretary Of war, from the days of
Washington, to John Tyler, have been
engaged, while in office, in suggesting
plans for lis improvement. Mr.. Pom
sett did the same, as Secretary under
Mr.. Van Buren-and 10, and behold, the
humbug Of the standing army. A gloo-
my picture, conquered up by a diseased
Imagination, to frigL.ten old women and
children.
BY the constitution, it is made the du-
ty OF Congress 10 provide, by law, for
taking the census or the enumeration
OF the inhabitants, every ten years.
In 1889, ii was necessary to pass the
act for taking the sixth census. In
the progress of that act, Congress, an
mated doubtless by a patriotic pride
Of exhIbitingto the down trodden nil
lions of the old world, the glorious
prosperity Of our free Republic, in lii
tie over half Il century from is ioun-
datIon, provided Tor accommodating an
aggregate estimate OF the national
wealth. 1t was a praiscworlhy act.
prompted no doubt, by patriotic
pride, and united in by all parlies.-
One might suppose that this was a
measure, out OF which, the wings could
make no capital. But not SO. They
immediately seized it-and charged
upon the administration, that it was Il
scheme to get the aggregate of the
property OF the people, for the pur-
pose OF lettering 1t with 4 direct tax.
Have YOU never heard their orators,
! Union IN tho farynu, nj .Loir al,