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The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-10-09
The Hard Cider Congress.

Has any body forgotten how we'll the hard CT
der Congress fulfilled all the Promises which
were made by the wing party in 1910? If so,
let us recapitulate a few items.
What did that Congress do?
They issued treasury notes by millions which
they condemned in 1910
They voted for $l6,000,0O0 for bank capital
after denying that bank was an issue in 1870.
They increased the peoples taxes.
They made a national debt of S;29, 100000.
They voted for the Presidents House $4,000
To Mrs. Harrison $4,000.
Loan bill $l2,000,000.
Funeral Of Gen, Harrison $4,000.
Gave away public lands %$9S00,000.
Tonew foreign ministers ST., S00.
Expenses of extra session S 100000.
Vo'ed for tory militia Of Mass, $4,000,
Passedbankfupt actreppdlating $~4Qo,000,000
Expenses of l84l $32.000,000.
Paid Congressman ST ,01l,330.
Expended in 1882 $32, 00G ,C00.
They defended the treason of the wing mem
bers Of the Ohio legislature
Nick Biddle's bank died !
Clay's political bank vetoed!
They wanted to tax tea and coffe $b3, 100000,
They increased expend lures
Appointed knayes to office !!
Prescribed men for opinions sake.
Cut down the pay Of mechanics.
NnIlied State sovereignty!
Created funded dcbts!!
Pcnsioned presses, and gave Gales & Seaton,
their contract forpfinting, a bounty $4,000.
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JAmEs x. POLK.

Reasons phy he should be supported BIZ Ae
friends oflap, order, aud morality.
He is a man of irreproachable moral character,
and contrasts in that respect with the wing can
didate.
He is not loaded down with the guilt of muir
der, meditated or accomplished, like the wing
candidate.
No widow and orphans weep the loss of q
husband and father, slain under his couasels, as
in the case of Cilley and the wing candidate.
The gambling table has not seen him rob his
Infatuated or half intoxicated fellow man of his
money and property, as it has in the wing candi.
cate.
The brofhel has never resounded with the
noise of his profigate mirth and obscene Jest
as in the case of the wing candidate.
He is not chargeable with the crime of viola,
ting the constitution and his oath by sitting ii
a legislative body, with a perfect consciousness
that he had not the constitutional qualifications
as did the wing candidate in the Senate of the
United States.
He has not violated constitutions and oath o
office, by attempting to kill members of legisla
tive bodies for words spoken in debate-as il
the case of Fl. Marshall and John Randolph anc
the wing candidate.
He has not been the first to provoke the VIC
lation Of a law to suppress duelling, voted fol
by himself, like Henry Clay, been put undeI
bonds to prevent his headlong passions rushing
him into the penitentiary, under a law passec
with the aid of his own vote.
He has not, like Henry, abused the frontier
settlers as "lawless rabble, :" no better than thieves
pirates, and robbers, denying them the privilege
of buying wilderness lands, which they have, BY
hard labor, made TO blossom, Gas the rose" while
willing to aid profigate debtors in wiping on
all their debts by "a bankrupt law.-Or|eans N
Y. ReDublic1n.
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Gov. Polk and his friends have nothing to
fear from the use Of such weapons. Much less
has he or they any thing 10 fear from such men
as FeatherslonIaugh, or the whole tribe Of Bri-
fish hbelleFs OF our country, its institutions, and
its public men. If his opponents can find any
thing in his public or private life TO carp il, out
with it. He aud his friends challenge scrutiny
into both. But as they would have their assaults
tell, let them adhere strictly to the truth. When
they bring witnesses TO the stand, let US know
who they are, and let them speak for themselves.
If the British subject with the long name, and
the proportionate share of bad odor which at
taches 10 il, is TO be adduced-let him appear in
prOpria persona, and let his testimony go for
what il is worth. Give us advantage of the fact
that he is British by birth-British in his associ-
atoms, feelings, habits of thinking, likes and dis,
likes--and British in his attachment to the for
tunes of Henry Clay. Don't undertake TO palm
off upon US for Mr.. Featherstonhaugh, of whom
every body knows more than he cares to know,
your "Roorbacks" and WIN that nobody
can know. Above all, don't put into the mouth
of IA British-born subject harsher libels on this
country and is public men, than their natural an
~tipathies have enabled them to invent.
But we have extended these remarks further
than we intended, and we take leave of the sub.
iect in the hope that the editor of the Evening
Journal will be able to wash his hands of this
vile and disgraceful forgery.
The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-10-09

ANAUGHrY oUEsTIoN.-An intelligent farmer
at the coon gathering in this place, says the Sc.
neca Falls Democrat, put a most naughty qles.
ton to some of the big ones, and one which
they failed 10 answer. Said he, you tell me the
tariff is a great benefit to farmers, will YOU be
so kind as 10 tell me how it benefits the farmer
Before it went into operation, the farmer brought
one bushel of wheat 10 the village, and received
in return fifteen pounds ofsugar; now, under this
beautiful tariff, it takes TWO BUSHELS AND NEAR
APEcK of wheat 10 get the same amount of the
same kind Of sugar, Veiily, this is d kind Of ben
eft to the farmers, from which they have good
reason to say, GOOD Lord deliver u.s." The
.cooney sloped, and the farmer enjoyed a hearty
laugh at his expense. Another coon, however,
answered the question, perhaps to his own 8 its
faction. Said he, Mr.. Farmer, before the tariff
went into operation, you had to pay your harvest
hands n DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER DAY
now, under a tariff, laboregs get but SIX srrL-
LINGs; is not tbs u berciit? Let The laborer
answer.
The above exhibits the true workings Of the
tariff; GOODS co UP, produce and labor 90 down.
The farmers and the laborers taxed for the ben
eft Of the few manufacturers, who can we'll af-
ford TO shat down their mills, and send their
girls with banners TO wing meetings. II is the
farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer, who have
to foot the bill.-Detroit Free Press.
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The New York Mercury tells the following
anecdote Jonathan walks in, takes seat, and
looks at Sukey, Sakey rakes up the fire, blows
out the candle, and don't look al Jonathan. jon
athan bitches and wriggles about in his chair,
and Sukey sits perfectly still. AT length iona.
Than musters courage and speaketh-
Sewkey?
Well, Jonathan.
love You like p:zcn and sweaimeats.
Dew tell!
It's a fact, and no Observation-Disclosures
will ye have me Suley?
Jonathan Higgins, what am your politics?
Pm for Polk, straight!
Wall, sir. you can walk right straight hum, eors
| won't have nobody that ain't for CIoy-that's
fiat.
Three cheers for the mill boy of the slashes,'
sung out Jonathan,
soon's Clay's elected.
Ahem! A-a-hem!
What's the matter, Snkey?
Sposin he amt elected?
Jonathan didn't 60 away till next morning, but
whether he answered the last question, this de-
ponent knowelh not.
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@AHu p0S'AhHS tHuS'-
1.-THE following is an extract from RooRRAcK's tour
through the Southern and Western States in 1885,"
Then followed an extract, purpolting to be
from this tour of Mr.. Roorback in lS36--in the
course Of which the writer vouches for the fact
of his having met during his tour, a gang of
slaves, under the charge of slave-drivers, on their
way TO the sugar plantations of Louisiana, some
of them manacled and ready to be driven two
and wo-Jorty-thrce Of them Aaoing the brand
.f J, X. 2, the henJSpcaker Of the II. of r., on
their backs! &c. &c.
This extract was followed up with some of
the Ev. Journals choicest and b,tterest filings at
Gov. Polk and his political supporters.
We doubted the commences Of the extract.
We doubted the existence Of such a tourist as
Mr., Roorback; and we yesterday called upon
the Z. ]. to tell who he was, where his book was
to be had, and requesting the favor of a loan Of
ITS copy. But the Eve. journal of Yesterday had
no reply to make. 1t ees damb. The secret of
its silence we have fortunately the means of
solving, and if the conductor Of that sheet is ca
Ipable of it, his cheek will Jingle with the blush of
shame, under the exposure we are about to
make.
AS we suspected, "RoorJach" Is a fictitious
name. No such man ever travelled or wrote
"a book about this country. 1t is a disguise as
Isumed to cloak the real author of as gross a cal
umhy upon the country aud one of its public
men, and as bold and d;sgraceful a forgery, as
was ever pcrpetrated. The pretended extract
from RoorbGcd's tour in hjirty-sjr, when James
K. Polk was Speaker of the II. of r., is in fact
partly agart!cd crtrdct from Featherstonhaugh's
tour IN tbjrty.fom', when John Bell was Speaker,
and in part an OUT AND OUT MANUFAC-
.TUBE OF THE EVENING JOURNAL! Mr..
Featherstonhaugh mates 40 mention of Speaker
PoH, for the reason that when he wrote, Gov.
Polk WIS not Speaker. 70 mako the extract
suit its purpose, the Ev. Journal dates Mr.. rs
tour Two years ahead, when Gov. Polk was
Speaker. Mr.. FoatheIstonhaugh says nothing
about brands or the initials J. *. P. on the backs
Of his slave party. ~ The Eve. Journal sup
plies that omission. IEdecd, the whole of the
extract which has any applicability TO Speaker
Polk, and the part displayed in capitals as The
important part Of it, is WHOLLY A FABRI-
CATION OF THE EVE. JOURNAL-made
ont Of rholc clo5A! Mr.. T.. laid the scene of
his story at Ncv River. The Eve. journal, in
order to bring tie matter nearer Gov, Folks
doc, charseS the renuc to Dack River!
That The public may see how much Of this ex-
tract is Mr.. Feathers toabaagh's, and how much
of it is "Roor5Gch'S or tno Z. Journals, we
place side by SIDE, below, the genuine extract
from Mr.. F's tour, and the Z. Journals pGeten-
ded extract from "RocrbacA 81
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From The AHanv Arm!

While our hand is in, and since the wantop
attack Of the whig organ, we woald ask, does
not that paper know that james Watson Webb,
of United States Bank notoriety, has Just return
ed from England? Does not rumor further say.
that he has obtained large subscriptions from the
foreign bond-holders OF the American State
bonds, which are now, in a measure, worthless.
but which, by direct assumption, or by dislribu-
ton of the proceeds OF the public lands, would
put some MILLIONS of dollars into their pockets?
it is well known that the wing party are Pied
ged 70 distribution. This has become one of
their leading principles. Under these cifcum-
stances, does it not seem natural that the large
capitalists of Europe, who hold millions of Amer
lean bonds, should subscribe largely for the sue
cess of the candidates of the wing party? Take
one State, for MISUNDERSTANDING. Her scrip
afoat is about Sl0,000,O00; at least one half,
5000, 000) of this is held in Europe. 1t is
worth only $~2,500,000. A permanent system
Of distribution would raise 1t TO par, and the for
.eign bond-holders would realize, by the success
of the wing party, s. ,500,000. Could not those
who have SO deep and direct a stake in the sue
cess of the wing party, afford to send out $780,
900 to 100000 70 spend in The State of New
York alone? Most assuredly they could, and it
would be deemed a good investment.
The wing papers had better be wary how they
.allude TO the subiectof "British gold among u.s.
for some things may yet leak out that will still
farther accelerate the popular current against
the bank and distribution measures of their par
tu . M.".
The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-10-09
THAI LETTER.

Has clapped a pitch plaster overth mouths Of
the coon orators, and stopped the inkstands Of
the coon editors, What has become of all their
rant and cant about the extension of slave powerG
What do they think about "the inevitable laws Of
population" that are to put an end TO that insti-
tuition at no distant day!
We have heard ~amalgamatioh justly depreca.
ted as not only grossly disgraceful, but as tending
to degeneracy and decay. But this is the frsi
time that an American statesman has had The
philosophy to look upon that disgrace, Immorali
~, degeneracy and decay, as benefcent means
10 produce the extinction of a race, and conse,
quently The extinction of slavery! The sentt
mont is abominabiy inlamous.-Cin. Eng.
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"My name never again, with my consent, shall
be brought before a convention. | have been
most shamefully treated by men in whose reiter-
.ated promises Of support placed every conf
dence.-When | ascertain il is the wish of the
people TO elect me to the presidency, will con
sent 10 be their candidate.
"With these men | never will again 60 into
convention. y y y But | am loo happy,
too tranquil, TOO comfortable OIL ms farm-free
from debt, and surrounded by domestic felicity
and true hearted friends, to be dragged BY
|KNAVES before the public, and my name used
for their base personal purpose"
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From a<MH .qrg1u and Spectator.
DON'T FORGET THE OLD SINS OF WHIG-
gerry.

gerry.
DON'T FORGET that the wings before .hey
came into power in 1910, p~rofessed TO be against
ia United States Bank, and after they came in,
they passed two Bank Bills, both of which were
vetoed by 'sTyler too,'' who thus saved his coun-
try from the despotism and corruption of such
an institution.
DON'T FORGET that the wings before they
came into power in 1910, protested 10 be against
the removal of men from Office for opinions sake,
assuring the country that PRESCRIPTION SHALL
BE Prosecuted and that after they got into pow
er, they removed more officers than all the adj
ministrations preceding, from the foundation Of
the Cove rnment.
DON'T FORGET that they falsely charged
the administration of Mr.. Van Buren, with run
ming the country into debt forty millions of dollars
and that when they got into power they increa-
sed the national debt from FIVE millions TO
ITWENTY-SIX MILLIONS.
AND DON'T FORGET that on a good share
of this twenty-six millions, they fixed The rate Of
interest at 6 per cent, payable quarterly, which
was equal to per cent, for no other purpose
than to put money into the pockets of rich capi-
talists who had taken the stock.
DON'T FORGET that they passed the INFA-
NOUS BANKRUPT LAW, by which thousands
of honest men were swindled and ruined, by dis
honest or fraudulent debtors.
DON'T FORGET that they held an extra
session of Congress, and that they extended the
first session of the 9th Congress to a period lon-
ger than any other session ever held under the
present Constitution, atan expense 10 the people
of TWO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
DON'T FORGETth eir INFAMOUS FALsEnooDs,
about the furniture of the Presidents House in
1910, and that at the very session in which their
President cameeto Washington, they asked for
and obtained SIX THOUSANDS DOLLARS To
lay out in furniture for that very House, thus adj
hitting that all their representations about the
extravaganza of Mr.. Van Buren, were false, wick
ed and villainous.
DON'T FORGET that they gave outright,
without any authority, TWENTY-FIVE THOU,
SAND DOLLARS Of the peoples money, to.
Mrs. Harrison, who was left by her husband with
Ia fortune of at least SIXTY thousand.
DON'T FORGET that the leaders Of c~oonery
in 1910 promised the laboring MGR s'Two pol
LARS A DAY AND ROAST BEEF" if Harrison was G.
lected, and that since then, they have done moth
ing but REDUCE TIE WAGES of the laborer, and
prescribe hin for voting contrary 10 their wishes.
Democrats, while you remember all these sins
and iniqnities Of whigety, pray
DON'T LET THE COONS FORGET
THEM!
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Adjourned question OF veracity.

Mr.. Clay once had a memorable sadiourned
Question of v%eTaeiiyn with Mr.. Adams which Ia:
been adjourned over, we believe sine die. Al
any rate, we have never heard of any public SET.
Element of il. He has now, in his letter on du.
cling, raised anolher-with himself, Phillip sobey
was once appealed to from Phillip drank. In
like manner, Clay, with a special political motive,
and Clay without one, appear two different per-
sons--the one of whom can, on occasion, reverse
the sayings and dOings of the other. In bis du.
Ielling letter, he says, in reference to the Cilley
affair:
81 believed, from the first, that the matter
would be amicably accommodated to that end all
my exeTtions were directed. did not know tina
t was not accommodated until the day when
and after, the parties went out 10 fight. On thai
day | was confined to my room by illness, and il
was accidental that | obtained information thar
the parties had gone out. But / was neither in
formed as TO the place, nor the hour of their meet
ing. Contrary to the impression which you en-
~tertain, 1 did ddrise the employment of the pol
ice to arrest the parties, and to prepent the duel
The constables accordingly went out in search
OF them, but, like myself being ignorant of the
time and place of their meeting, they mistook the
route, and failed in the accomplishment of theil
object"
How this is TO be reconciled with his own word.
in hi. letter to MIR. Wise, is his own friends bus
mess more than ours; perhaps the Tribune, or The
Express, or the Courier, will try their wits upor
it. Here it is for the purpose.
"Being the friend Of Mr.. Grapes, I could no
inroke The authority Of the police to preUent tn
duel"
The only explanation apparent on the face o.
the case is, that on the morning of the duel afiel
Mr.. Clay knew that the parties had gone out to
light, there was no dangero of injuryto Mr.. Graves;
"honor' from lodging information with the pol,
ice, for the simple reason that there was then, OIL
course, no chance Of pursuit being e%ffectual, il
The absence of all knowledge of the direction in
which the parties had gone; especially as these
matters ale usually pretty promptly despatched
AT the time when he refused to give information
there wouId have been some use in it, The tive
statements are thus rcconciled-thc one applying
to the before, and the other to the after; he would
not, indeed, inform when it would have preyen-
ted the duel--but, on the other hand, he was
prompt to doso when it could not.
We are thus able 10 vindicate Mr.. Claws con,
s~istency--thopgh we rather fear 1t is at the OK.
pense Of something quite as valuable as The "pre.
cious jewel" consistently. Y. Morning NcmS
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Amounting to fI00,0 900.

sIlhs lmrense sum Of money was subscribed
for The purpose Of printing and circulating las
SUMPTION" DOCUMENTS, some of which,
says the London Times, "ARH TO M PRINTED IN
NEw HoRK, and CIRCULATED IN THE UNI.
TED STATEs!% all designed 10 further the c.
lection ofCLAY, and oppose Governor POLK,
WHO'S known to be hostile 70 this infamous Brit
ish speculation.
Many Of these tractshave already been printed
al the office Of Tho London Atlas, a tory paper,
md they have been scattered p%roluscly oil oyel
The land!
.I1la Eederal Clay nnrtr h ti1nn ~
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BRITISH GOLD!
The Tillainy of the federalist leaders
detected !
Their Wolf cry of stop Thief
RXDOsedu

a large subscription has been opened in En-
gland, by the nobility, to secure the election of
Henry Clay, the Assumption of the State Debts.
the conquest of Texas and Oregon, and the pros
tration of our liberties. james Watson Webb.
the infamous traitor who sold himself to the Uni
ted States Bank for $4,000, was the chief ne
goiiator betweent the Federalist leaders and the
British. 1t has been ascertained by indnbitable
testimony, that he has brought with him from
England, large sums of British gold, to influence
our elections. To envelope this infamous trans.
action in a fog, his associates haveiraised a crv
of"stop thief" This circumstance has led to a
full discovery of the iendish plot of the leading
iederallsts.-The following exposure Of the plot
is from the Harrisburg (Pa.) Union. Let every
freeman read the startling disclosure. The wing
papers have copied part Of the article spoken OF
below, and TO cast the odium of the affair upon
the democrats they have published the following
FORGERY as an extract from the London Times.
and then 60 on to charge that the immense sum
of money spoken Of below was subscribed 10 aid
in the election Of Polk. Could theinfemal fcnd
himself, out top their v%iIlainy! Here is the for
ged Interpolation published in the whig papers:
"A subscription reas recently opened to raiad
funds TO circulate FREE TRADE TRacTs in For
clsa Countries. about four hundred end forty
thousand dollars Wcre subscribed. Some Of these
tracts are 70 be printed IN Ncw York, fur ci.tca-
taton in TIE United St5tes.'
Now read the following from the Harrisburg
IIninn
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BRITISH GOLD.

We had thought that the cry of british Gold,'
so frequently Scent in the Wing papers was mere.
~ a base attempt to divert the public mind from
the utter weakness of their arguments respec-
ting the great questions at issue. Though this
IS in a great measure true, yet it is not the only
reason why they raise the cry of "loreign gold.'
1t is we'll known that the British Government
would expond any quantity OF gold TO prevent
the annexation Of Texas to the Union, andthere.
by secure u market for her manufactures. Eng
land now enjoys an exclusive monopoly Of the
Texian market, and if her gold can prevent an.
n%exatlop, she will eventually procure from Tex
as ner raw cotton.
Another weigity reason for the use Of British
gold in the election of Henry Clay, is the strong
desire among the capitalists Of Great Britain tt
carry an ASSUMPTION OF OUR STATE DEBTS BY
the General Government.
Elect Henry Clay and a Wing Congress. anG
England will not only possess Texas, but The
General Government Will assume the Debts O
the States upor'the plan of that celebrated Wing
VIM. Cost Johnson. Our readers will now be
able TO understand for what purpose and OF
which SIDE foreign gold is to be used in the ap
preaching election. But we tell the Wings tina
gold wont save them. The intelligence of the
American people, and the permanence of our glo
rious institutions will not be battered away 70
Wing gold on this side Of the Atlantic, nor Bri
tish gold sent from the other side. We want Ii,
British gold to abolish the present Tariff; tn,
VOICE Of an outraged and insulted people cal
and will do that ere long. Our opponents arr
defeated in their Arguments on the Tariff; an,
their attempt 10 cover themselves under tn
protection Of the cry of British gold cannot saw
them from a deleat--PieJeiGH
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A Coons' opinion Of Henry C1ay.-Of the
fate Of the wings should they put Mr.. Ciays name
forward let the recent events in twenty Of the
twenty-six States tell. The very suspicion that
he is to be the candidate, joined to the knowledge
of his movements in the last Congress, and his
conduct during his retirement, has been sufi-
.ciont to change a triumphant Harrison majority,
IN 26 states, into a well beaten Clay minority.
In 1914 the result will be the same.--Danie
Webster.