Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-01-25
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.

ne Courier asks, what are Democrat
ic principlesf Here are few of them:-
No National Bank.
No National Debt
No repudatins Bankrupt law.
No Distribution bribery act.
No two hundred millions Assumption.
No political Tariff. benefitting the
few-burdening the many, and filling
our ships with ballast
No blood handed candidate, who is
for the tariff one day, and against it the
next.
No cheating the people by bread seal
frauds.
No big bellied bottles, to electoneer
with.
No log cabin Drunkenness.
No neutrality-suspicious.
Porter-ing, or 'long-foder'-ing.
For the Independent Treasury.
For the hard-money standard in all
Treasury dealings.
For measures rather than men.
For revenue Tariff, adapted to the
wants OF an economical government, and
incidentally protecting all our national
interests
For bringing the national expenditures
within the national receipts.
For freedom Of electors without
'Roguery acts to rob the electors of
their rights.
For the greatest good TO the greatest
number.-Nea0 Ha0ea Register.
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Mr.. Rives' friends were wont 10 boast
OF his devotion to Mr.. Jefferson. They
represented him as protege and desci.
pie OF that illustrious man-faithful to
his principles, and devoted to the strict
State Rights principles of the Virginia
School. But Virginia has never produc-
ed more arrant apostate. He now Sc
lects as his candidate, the Father of the
Tariff system, the advocate of Nation
al Bank OF so millions of dollars, the
champion of the Distribution system,
the latitudinOus constructionist, the
strict State Rights school of Virginia.
tie goes for the man, whom Mr.. Jeffer-
son never trusted for many years before
his death-ef whom Mr.. thomas ]. Ran
dolPh, the grandson Of Mr.. Jefferson thus
wrote several years ago, when the forged
letter from Mr.. Jefferson to Mr.. CLAW.
was exposed.
Towards Mr.. Clay, as a politician,
Mr.. Jefferson constantly manifested a
strong repugnance, and often said he
was merely splendid orator, without
any valuable knowledge,from experience
or study, Or any determined public SCI
ence, either practical or theoretical
''Mr. Clay's recent letters are the
strongest proofs of the correctness OF MIR.
Jefferson's estimate ofh character
And yet Mr.. Rives is now his advo-
cate and panegyrist. He comes out pro-
vIded with tissue of the shallowest
sophlstries, and the most gratuitous as
sertIons to recommend him as the Chief
Magistrate of the Federal Republic.
'What bloody scene has Roscius now to
act!" There is none left him to exhibit.
He has reached the acme of his folly
He has descended to the bathos of his
degradation. --ERquirer
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4 -Nopet Dun.-Printers are ingeni-
ons fellows in the way ofinventiRg dnns
tor their patrons; but the following from
the East .Alabamiara, rather excels any
thing we have seer in the way of origi-
nallty. Who would dare to owe a prin-
ter after reading it,
Sin our opinion, one of the punish
ments that some people will find prepar-
ed for them in Twtarus, will be to be
chased round and ronnd its gloomy cir
cumterence, by the ghosts Of Pfnters.-
Imagine. reader, how you would feel,
going it. in the marshes of Styx, at your
EXTREMIST pace, followed by the shadow
OF defunct publisher, with Sharp
stick in one hand, and bundle of un-
receipted accounts in the other p
Nov you sink in the snlpher bog!-for
recoliect you are the ghost of we'll fed
man while the greyhound- like spirit
OF your starved creditor jobs YOU with
his stick in lie region al honor, urges
you on! Remember too. this will be no
'81n9ie flash fer mile, but that it will
be continued uatI yoar executors OF
hers balance the books Ga earth!'
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Thcy,y Of .D@yiaes- l'here was
merry fellow who suppe4 VITA Pluto
three thousand years ago, aud the con
versatlon turned npon love and choice
oi wives. Re said lie lad learned from
very early tradition that mau was GRATED
male ana female. with dupiicate set of
limbs. ana pettormed bis locomotive
functions Eth kind Of rotary move.
meat as wheel; that lie be became ia
consequence, so excessively insolent,
tha9 Jupiter, indignant, split him in t,go;
that since that time each runs though the
world IN quest of the other half. IF TIE
TWO original halves meet, they are We.
ny loving couple; otherwise they are sub
ject to miserable, scoldinZ ,peevish and
uncongenial matrim0ny. The search, he
SAID, was rendered difficult. for the rea.
son that one man alighted upon a hall
that did not belong to him, another did
necessarily the same, till the whole al
fair was thrown into irretrievable confu-