Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-02-09
WHIG RlFLE.''
''Pick your Flint and Try it again.
EDITED BY T. J. BARNETT.

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EDITED BY t J. BARNETT
| eau hail. the hour is Fastening on,
W nen, saialy tried by SANDERS fame,
Columbia shall bshold her
Unframed, without laurel gone,
As, from the flames of ylon,
The angel qua rded i-iad came.
The slanderer shall be silent then;
lis spell shall leave the minds CT men,
And higher glory wais upon
lhs W es,ern patriots future fams.r
ME publishers of the Indiana State Journal,
l. request Of the representatives the Wings of Indi
ans have resolved from Office weekly
entitled 1.-THE WING hIFLE,'' uade tls Editorial .u-
peInsendence Of T. J BARNETT, Esq who, although his
term of connscsion with this Office had sxpirsd.)
the ga of February. 1874, and continue until
close of the Posidsn'a eampasnis size will correspond
With thai of the ''SPaIr '76' issued from this
ring the campaign of 1910.
1hs publication barely derays erpen,es It's sole
ect 10 acquire suc circulation aid III the great
campaign on whose borders we have entered The crisis
IS fearful The the present and the future
saked upon IT, Upon the resul, of 1874 hang all
ve which have rded Us action, sinee the first blow
was struck whose alvzing influences have fatally fall
len upon the nation. Ii the Wing party Union
Just cause to stand FIRMLY united when the tempest OF Jack
sonsm shook them reed Is shaken by the whw ind
if they had incentives to exeron when, under the cold
hearted policy OF his successor the country was garsoned
with corrupt ocialswhen the sword and the locked
embrace-when Executive des2osm dehed the Judicial
and created legislation il desired for the fur
herance of its unhoy endsf the heart of tho people
hrobbed with indignation the social and individual dis
with which rulers visited them-a
lowing public peeua,ion and entang private ruin The
price of their rash political and cooy surveying
the wreck, laughed peoples calami,ies and dshed
their retrbuve power if retrospect.
incentives to exeron propoonats to the great struggle
which, ted the Wings to station overthrow
of their oppessors surely double motives
action them onward For, not alone the
principles and tbs same proposed to be restored
but TREAsoHhhero shielded by the OF the Con-
stiiuonno longer thus defended the Of
the injured. And to the conflict, then. OF
doubtful numbers, but party whose strength already
tested requires but concentration TO accomplish what par
pose will.
The experience Of 1910 teaches that WE MUST con-
QUER when, III good earnest we go TO the people with
brought their doors stump and through
1t aid hulnbly this that the Editor
hele Of political intelligence which slight effort will
neighborhood in Indiana And, by doing, much
will be done for objects
II will be the design of this Sheet from its first its last
number. convey documentary facts, officially asstsd
touching al the grea, questions in Its tone will be
temperate, yet in pressing home those vital truths
which it Its whole aim, short, will be to
collae such political facts and interest tho pop
uar mind. and them tho forcble
and n price within every voters reach.
As the whole value of this enterprise depends the
of the circulation the strsnuously
friends organized effort in This behalf, and this carly,
that major portion of subscribers begin with
The title of this suggested the Editor by
well known and pertinent anecdote: During Congresson
al canvass in early Ife Mr. CLAY mo, with an hunter
who had always been friendly MIN, but who
for the first time, and his face opposed his election
account of his in connection with what termed
the "Compensaton BILL when the following conversation
ensued between them: ''H.vs you," said Mr.. c. tn.
hunter, ga good rife. my friend 10 "Yes," the
.w.r "Dd miss =" "Y..," he replied. "Dd
you throw j, away" ''No," replied the hunter, with
emotion 81 did not throw away Ipieked the flint,
tried 1t again. and brought donn the game" And tho
balsd twice, by honest but mislsd Judgment and
by the pefdy of will the majority of the
American people, if the clarion o. truth he allowed ring
its their enter, nothing daunted by former
niss-ire great struggle and,
they will "p;ck tho flint and try 1t again.
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