The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-09-08
T'gre gEceSiag last Tuesday
Evening.


Al Tie Court House last Tuesday evening
was the largest county meeting we have
witnessed in Somerset. The Court
House was crowded 10 overhowing, and
from the interest manifested by those
present we feel warranted in saying that
the people OF this county are properly
alive TO the importance Of taking imme-
dia.e and active steps to counteract, as
far as may be, the evils which are about
to be inflicted upon the nation BY Mr..
Polk and those connected with him III
the Government.
The Hon. ANDREW STEWART was pre-
sent. and responded to a call from the
meeting in a spesch repete with sound
argument and sarcastic humor-poinlng
out the true policy of the country. and
showing up the Administration and lis
friends in Congress so clearly as to re-
move from the mind every doubt in re-
gard to their purposes.
Mr.. Stewart first paid handsome com
pliment to the Frosty Sons of Thun-
der for their steady adherence to the
American policy-a policy which had
enabled the Government to pay of the
war debt of 1912 and at the close Of Gen.
Jackson's administration left surplus Of
forty millions in the Treasury-and then
portrayed the character of the Polk ad-
miuisration and gave pretty full history
Of the late session of Congress. He
showed that the President and his Secre-
tary of the Treasury had set out with
determination to PROSTATE the industry
Of the free States for the benefit Of the
South, and that they had accomplished
their purpose in the passage of the Bri-
ush Bill regulating the duties upon I'M
ports. The Mexican war was shown to
be the legitimate result of the annexation
of Texas-commenced without the au-
thority of Congress, and carried on for
the two-lold purpose Of extending the IN
sdtulion of Slavery and Of giving sat
jobs" 10 a host OF spectators, parl.zans
of the Administration.
The humbuggery in which the Adml-
nistration presses have engaged again
since the passage Of the British Tariff
Bill was exposed and commented upon
and the people were warned once more
against the Vaccinations of southern
Aristocraey, leagued with British No
bIIilv, against the interests Of the Nor
thern Democracy. On this point Mr..
Stewards remarks were scathingly severe
upon those demagogues who, while they
fatter the poor man with sugared words
of their love and regard for him, are en-
gagged in carrying out a system Of policy
calculated to make him tie servant Of the
European pauper and the slave of the
Southern Negro.
Mr. Stewart drew a strong contrast be-
tween the old JeGersonian Democracy, TO
which he said he had always held and
still adhered, and that modern, British,
Locoloco Democracy, setup by the South,
which arrogates 10 itself all power over
the affairs OF the Union and is resolved to
sacrifice ali northern interests TO the ad-
vanccment Of southern SIavery-thereby
breaking down and subvcrting free 60
vernment, and laying The foundations for
a monarchy by the adoption of the one
man power-deceiving and defrauding the
people by making false promises and rais-
ing false issues-causing them to follow a
phantom, the shadow of Democracy,
while the substance is taken away. This
modern, Locofoco Democracy, he said,
had resolved itself into. and consisted
now Of nothing else than southern dicta-
ton and northern submission. He hoped
TO see an end of it; a giimmeriag of which
was seen in the last hours of the laic
session Of Congress. when the northern
Democrats took stand in favor of re
s,ricliog slavery in the territory that va.
to be acquired by the two millions aske'
for by the Executive TO make peace witt
Mex.co by purchasing California.