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DISCUSSIONS


The meeting at Morgcs on the 19th inst,
was well attended. We should think that
there was $50 or 200 present Perhaps a
majority were Wings. DR.. George Fries,
the candidate for Congress Of the Polk .
party, opened with asperch Of 30 minutes,
in the German language. we don't un-
derst0nd that language, hut are informed |
That the Doctor stated, unoquivocally, shat |
Henry Clay ana the entire Wing party
were in favor Of abridging the right Of for
eigners in the use Of the elective franchise, !
or that q years was the time Mr.. Clay /
and his friends required them to be in the
country before they could be entitled to CT.
tizenship. And likewise, that he charged
that the Wings were for such Eanks as
Galliopolis, &c. Men of undoubtct cha
racter who were present, informed Us att
the time that DR.. Fries substantially mode
the above and other charges equally false
and uniounded, against Henry Clay and
the Wing party generally. The charges
were hurled into his teeth, and he tJlJ in
the most emphatic langaUgo thai he had
told a oCiyW and deliberate .JaIschood, and
that too for a base political purpose We
think that, from the manner in which the
Doctorwascaught htupand the meritcd costf-
gation he received at the hands Of Judge
McEIdrry * Mr. EciIey (tosoy nothing Of
whatwe said ourseIf) he will 20 soon come
into Carroll to another discussion. When
a man will tell u Lase, ac'y'H and dll3craic
lie, as we say Fries die, on Henry Clay
and the Wing party generally, for the sake
| Of getting power-whot can he expected
from him if in power! We followed Fries
in speech of thirty mnutes--CoI. Cable
next for the Democracy, thirty minutes
Gable was courteous enough 0Id made all
the speech on that side Of the question that
was worthy ofrcply We recollect that in
} his reply to Gus" he undertook to show
s that in the distribution Of the proceeds Of
| the sales Of the public l9nds, the rich man
A was more favored than the poor--that he
= got more of the benefit. Now the Colone
= should consider chat when the avpIs O
= those lands are put into the Treasury o
r, the State, and the moneys appropriated tt
t, the payment Of our Canal debt, that it les
j. sens the burdens Of the tax payers equal
!. Nv. The argument is that the man win
" has most property is most benefited Jh
L answer is, be that owns ten thousand dol
u lars worth Of property pays just ten time
Of as much tax as he who owns one thousan
lc for the support Of the Government. Th
lis whole is reasonable and fair If the me
o. noys be appropriated to the use Of schoo
lg the children of the whole country, whetl
cd erich or poor, fare just alike.
Id Ailer Cable sat down, McI3idory, OF
e. candidate for Representative oddrcssC
he the meeting for Thirty minutes, besiC
Ny showing up the talsity Of DR.. Fries stat
I'd ment, he in a lucid, cIoUr, plain and II
Ne vanished manner, laid down the rul
of that would govern his action if elected.
Dis He spoke at considerable length on Il
by Currency question. Col. John w. Russo
si- the Locoloco candidate, was plesenratt t
,ar tine. He hadRgreed to define his po
ON ton, and many come to hear and treasu
cnt up the wisdom that might fall from d
md lips Of the two opposing candidates. N
It's Eldcrry "dcfaed his position" But RI
ling sell declined, al that time. We h6k J
ave heard from Russell or some ono on
'usc ground, that he will give in writing
orge views onthe topics thar agitatc the COZ
the try. We suppose he will get somcoH,
n Of write it for hiu,-wo hope there will 'o
olen- dispute about the signature. 1t rcmi
ow- us Of the story otthe gentleman who I
dis himslI VA fine house, and being advise
# the nehnrpet to get few fine birds to deco
elves his nunslon, I've chose omorg ali the 8
cause ty proposed the ,"wot, because il rouid
10 the The ,Ornjtho ogist, Icing a shrewd Var
" the presented him an Otoi telling himit v
Hy Parrot, that it would not s?enk the
he in after while it would. The rentl,
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