The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-04-05
Hoe Smiths Views.


all we have seen Of it we find quoted in review
of in late number of the Warsaw Message.
We subjon few choice slices we find them
there. The Message comments on the different
parts it quotes with great freedom, but we prefer
letting our readers make their own comments.
lie. the reader ponder on the following:
Petition your state legislatures to par
don every convict in their several peni-
tenliaries blessing them as they 90, and
saying TO them in the name of the Lord.
go thy ,cay and sin no more. Advise
your Legislators when they make laws for
larceny; burglary, or any felony, to make
the penalty applicable TO work upon roads,
public works, or any place where the
culprt can be taught more wisdom and
more virtue and become more enlghten-
ed.
These views are certainly statesmanliks bu,
Joseph is also financier:
For the accommodation of the people
in every state and territory, let Congress
shew their wisdom by granting a national
bank, with branches in each state and ter
rtory, where the capital stock shall be
held by the nation for the mother bank:
and by the states and territories, for the
branches: and whose officers and direct
Ors shall be elected yearly by the people
with wages at the rate of two dollars per
day for their services: which several
banks shall never issue any more bills
than the amount of capital stock in her
vaults and the interest. The nett gain Of
the mother bank shall be applied to the
national revenue, and that of the branch
es TO the states and territories revenues.
And the bills shall be par throughout the
nation.
Joseph's views Of the powers and relations of
the federal government may be inferred from the
following:
Give every man his constitutional free
dom. and the presiden! full power to send
an army to suppress mobs; and the
states authority to repeal and impugn tina,
relic of folly, which makes it necessary
for the governor of a state to make the
demand of the president for troops, in
cases of invasion or rebellion. The gov
ernor himself may be mobber and, in
stead Of being punished, as he should be
for murder and treason, he may destroy
the very lives, rights, and property he
should protect. Like the good Samar-
tan, send every lawyer as soon as hSre-
penis and obeys the ordinances of heaven,
to preach the gospel to the destitute.
without purse or scrip, pouring in the oil
and the wine,~-a learned priesthood is GER
tainly more honorable than an hireling
clergy
Joseph is eloquent:
Oh 4! why will once 1ourishing peo-
pie not arise, phUnix like, over the Gin
ders of Martin Van Buren's power; and
over the sinking fragments and smoking
ruins Of other catamount politicians :
and over the wind-falls Of Benton, Cal
houn. Clay, Wright, and caravan of 9th.
er equally unfortunate law doctors, and
cheerfully help to spread plaster and
bind up the burnt bleeding ivo,mds of a
sore but blessed country.
And, lastly, Joseph is learned
Mr.. Van Buren, said in his inaugural
address, that he went "inlo the presiden.
,ial chair the innexible and uncompromi-
sing opponent of every attempt, on the
part Of Congress, to abolish slavery in the
District Of Columbia, against the wishes
Of the slave holding states; and also with
a determination equally decided to resist
the slightest interference with i! in the
states where it exists" Poor little Mat
~ made this rhapsodical sweep with the
fact before his eyes, tina, the state of New /
York, his native state, had abolished sla-
very, wilhou, struggle or groan. Great
God, how independent! From hence
forth slavery is tolerated where it exists
Constitution or no Constitution People !
or no People, right or wrong, vox Mati,
vox Diaboli-"thc voice Of Ma,ty"--
"lhc voice of The devil;" and peralven-
ture, his great "Sub-Treasury" scheme,
was piece Of the same mind; but the
man and his measures have such s,ri.
king resemblance to the anecdo,e Of the
Welchman and his carl-'ongue, tha, when
the constitution was SO long tina, it allow.
ed slavery a. the capitol Of free people,
II could not be Gu, Off; but when i, was
so shost that it needed Subj Treasury.
TO save the funds of the nation, it could
be spliced!-Oh, Granny, granny, wha,
a long tail our puss has got! As Greek
might say. hysteron protcron, the cart
before the horse. Blu, his mighty whisk
through The great national fire, for the
presidential chesnuts, burnt the locks of
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