The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-09-13
Shenandoah Co, Va, Aug. 26, 1914. {

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defiance to the breeze, even in the face of an en-
envy ten times its number, and fights like Leon-
| das, not for victory but for their country's good
| | will proceed to tell you. | am not vain enough
to believe that change of my political senti-
ments is of importance enough 10 influence sin
gle vote, nor am tickled with the idea of seeing
| my name in print but if the reasons assigned
by me are sufficient to induce any one of the
| thirteen hundred voters of this county to read
both sides, and reflect that he has country to
serve as well as party to obey" shall not con-
slider my work vain thing. twill save me the
trouble also of satisfying the inquiries of my for
mer political friends one by one who bore me
almost to death.
| What have seen to cause this change? saw
Shenandoah, Rockingham, and Page, denomina-
| ted the 10th Legion of Democracy, voting always
! as one man for the democratic candidates be he
whom he might.
The post filled in post Office enabled me to
see if any other portion Of the Union was like it,
and found none but Edgecombe county in North
Carolina; in which, by the last census, there
were more persons in proportion to population,
who could not read and write, than in any other
county in the United States. People that can't
read must be governed by what others tell them,
and people who can read, but wont read, must be
governed and are easily controlled in the same way
| saw in the cities and in all communities
where papers circulated freely and intelligence
abounds, that difference Of opinion on all matters,
religion, politics, &c. is sure TO be also found.
saw, from the papers and from the history of
our country, that the men who were foremost in
the Wing ranks were neither knaves nor fools,
but as honest and wise as those of my own
party, at least in the judgment of the majority of
the people of this Union, which thought at least
equal in weight to my own judgment and the
augment of my party.
| saw a tariff law, which was denounned hv
my party as odious and abominabe, oppressive,
rulnous to the interest of the people, and desruc-
tive OF the revenues OF the country restore our cur
rency 10 health revive the energies and business
of our people, restore the credit of our Govern
ment, and pour superabundance of revenue into
our coffers until it's benefits and blessings are SO
great, that large portion of our party, including
our candidate for the Presidency, are forced to
praise its principles, and many to claim as their
own measure; and yet in the face of these facts,
saw the leaders of the Democracy in this 10th
Legion still abusing and denouncing it.
] saw our people of the 10Th Legion practicing
in their own families and private affairs the same
principles advocated and practiced upon by the
Wings in national affairs, viz to make every
thing that we want within ourselves if we can,
and buy of those who will take our oats, corn but
ter, wheat flour, &c., instead of those who must
have cash.
| saw that men ought to profess what they
practice, and practice what they profess, if they
would be thought honest and sincere saw our
Democratic party in the House of Representa-
tlves, with large majority, protesting the most
lnveterate hostility to Ibis tariff; yet, when
brought to vote for its repeal, they would not re-
peal it, and further saw them, with clamorous
tongues for b-Treasury, and with the full
ability Of passing that measure through it's body,
yet dared not do it; and could not give them
credit for honesty in their professions, but could
for duplicity. s.}
saw the Democratic Convention tranplng
upon that sacred principle of republic, viz: "that
the majoriy should govern" by casting aside
Mr.. Van Buren,, the choice of the majority of the
party, as actually ascertained by ballot, and SUBJ
shutting therefor their own creature, James X.
Polk | no longer believed them Democrats [
saw the Wings fighting for the restriction of the
Executive or one-man power and endeavoring to
make the will of the people paramount to the vii!
of one man and | saw the Democrats oppose
them. no longer believed them Democrats.
| saw the Democratic party in Congress, for
the purpose of retaining their majority, actually
Hampe the Constitution under foot, and nullify
an act of Congress constitutionally passed and
when the Wings entered their protest against the
high-handed act of tyranny, that same Democra-
tic party expunged from the journals, the evidence
that the Wings had raised their voice against it.
In this saw tyranny, and not Democracy.
saw the Democratic party SO eager for power,
that they sticked not to steal from that poor man,
John Tyler, his only capital, with the expectation
that it would gain them the power they sought. |
thought this was not honesty.
saw them willing, for the sake of power, to
make that stolen capital the cause of war; to see
your and the husbands of your daughters
called to the frontier to perish by the sword or dis
ease, in contest where victory would be dis.
grace. | saw no patriotism here. | saw more
| saw man, whose fame has extended 10 the
ends of the earth, and whose history is his coun-
try's history, abused, villfed, and barked at, by
men compared to whom the full grown lion is as
the whelp Of the cur. | thought this ridiculous.
Let any man lake the trouble to read, and he will
see what have seen.
Yours, JOHN J. STONEBURNER
THE MoRMoNs.--The Warsaw Signal says,
that one day last week, Bishop George Miller,
who is Trustee i'm tinst for the Church of Latter