Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-04-11

ans. The next nag under Wnlcn tney Will
fight, will bear the inscription Of notiUe .amer-
ican. Nothing 10 longer to be feared from
change of name. The people contemplate
them as they do stranger, who gives him
self a new or different name in every town or
village through which he passes. They look
upon him as scape-gallows. or horse thief,
who merits the rope or the penitentiary.
Caricature and Islander are means with them.
These have been the lot of every man OF the
democracy who has run for any high sta'ion'
and no man received greater share OF lneln
than did Thomas Jefferson. He was Gehoun'
ced far and wide az an inhdeI and oesPo'
as revler Of religion, and defamer OF mo-
ale corrnnt IN heart. and vicious in practice.
His election, it was said in hypocritical tears
from the sacred desk, would be the overthrow
Of the Christian religion, and of all our moral
institutions; dark and damning infdelity would
overspread the land. The temples erected
and dedicated to the worship of the living
God. would be desecrated and converted into
stables, or the haunts and the abodes OF mn
deity; and Gods holy word, by his prophets
and apostles, would be publicly submitted TO
contemptuous ridcule, and committed to the
flames, and Tom Paine's Age Of Reason was
to be substituted. French in6delity was to
usurp the throne of Christian worship. | hold
in INV hand one of the caricatures which were
0pread over the country as numerous as au-
tnmn leaves. 1t was an appeal to the senses
of the awful calamities that awaited the Amer
lean people in the event Of his election. This
carcature, as you perceive, represents lhos.
Jefferson in the act of cowhidlng an old lady,
with her throat grasped to suftocatlon' and her
tongue loled out, and his foot upon the Bible.
Tom Paine has one hand upon Jefferson's
shoulder. and the other is extended with his
Ace of Reason proffered as peace"ottelng.
BeeIzebub has his place as the companion OF
Jefferson and Paine. Black Sal is also re-
presented in the act Of sweeping; and Jetter-
sons salt mountain is seen through the VIM
dow.
Jefferson was denounced and ridiculed in
prose, bIank-verses, and doggerel rhyme.
hold in my hand precious relic OF that time.
It is a number of the stanzas in doggerel
rhyme. have room bot for one verse, which
will serve to show its character and the spirit
of the times. ltis in character with some of
the doggeres sung to the abuse and rldlcule
of jackson, Van Buren,, and Polk, by the same
party:
s.Let dusky Sally's name be changed,
To that Of Isabella;
And let the mountains, all Of salt,
Be christened Monticello"
This was one Of the federal modes OF cleo
pioneering then; and mode which they con.
tinue, Infamous and base as it is, to this day
as we all see, by the exposes will make as
progress.
The discussions which we have had on the
Oregon and Texas bills serve TO identify the
modern whig party with the federal party, a:
they were in the administration of Thomas
jefferson. All parties acquire names by thel
principles, and the measures which they sus
tain or oppose. One has but to look back Il
the debates on the Louisiana purchase, to Sc,
the full sized portrait of the debate and thu
party which were made, and who oppose thu
annexation Of Texas and the possession ant
occupation Of Oregon. The catch words thel
were 1.-THE United States as they are. The Cor
stitution ,Dus made for the United States as the!
Gre" These are now the catch words agains
Oregon and Texas. The arguments used b.
the federalists against Louisiana are the sam
used against Oregon and Texas. The sam
speeches then made have been now read to us
differing in little else but in names. Loulsi
ana was represented as pestflentlaI swamp
Astounding in poisonous reptiles, with aIIgator
enough TO fence it. Texas has been repre-
scented as presidential swamp, and Oregon
as mountainous and barren waste. Sucl
representations have heen made Of the eniir
West, from time TO time, as often az this gov
eminent has attempted 10 reclaim it. CaTIca
ture has been rcsorted to, with the intenlio
10 alarm and prejudice the public mind. an
allay the spirit Of western enterprise.
hold in my hand caricature which reE
Tesents western family returning from tn
West to the rock-bonn0 regions of New Enc
land. Here it is. 1t represents a family It
duced to the last degree of poverty, sickness
and Indebtedness; rickety cart, drawn b
an old horse, SO poor that bis bones protrud
through the skin; wife, and several pal
children. The husband is represented a
hobbling on two crutches, crippled with ,heu
matism, and pale and cadaverous with fevt
and ague. The cart has stopped the horse
devouring some dry mullen stalks; whils tw
sickly, ragged boys are making their way to
cabin seen at distance, to beg some brea'
will procure a cut Of this caricature, an
give it place in my printed remarks, to sho
my readers that the same diseracefu NEAR
were used to prejudice the public against II
purchase ofLouisiana, and other western te
ritory, that are now used by the party to defe
the acquisition of territory, as we'll as to defe
the election ofevery democratic candidate wi
has ever run for President. Ofall modes
Islander, carieature has ever been consider
the most cowardly and contemplate !; and Il
man who is found out in it attaches TO himst
forever the frown and contempt of every goo
honorable, and high-minded man in society.
might present an array of measures hosti
to the prosperity of this country, and caIcul
ted to circumscrihe our enjoyments as a fr
people, suppress the spirit of emigration, al
to prevent any enlargement or spread of o
republican institutions, as well as person
liberty. in the support of all of which the G
tire federal vote and influence is to be foun
the evidence of which is to be found in t
books which lie on my desk, and which W
display, if any wing here dare contradict II
Ali the acquisitions which have been made
territory, as well as every enlargement of i
ertv and equal rio.ts. have been made hv I