Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1848-06-17
From the Cincinnati Chronicle.
BARNBURNERS--WHO THEY ARE,
AND WHAT THEY WILL, no

The term B0rnburners is known onIy M
significant Of faction in the democratic
party; but hundreds ask what does il mean
how did it originated
The origin of the tern. Barnburner was.
we believe this. In the State of New York,
1t is well known that politics were for ma.
ny years arranged, and directed by class
of men called the Albany Regency They
held the State offices, and parceIled them
out, as their own domain. OF course, this
in time begot jealousy and opposition. The
young and new members Of The party could
see neither justice nor propriety in this sort
of political aristocracy and MANY of the
old ores, who had Tough, long urrewarded,
took sides with them. This manifested il.
self in the Legislature. A radical faction
was formed, and the great point of dispute
was--as IT has always been-the ofces.-
"Ah," said the radicals, what right have
these old feows-these hunkers-to be for
ever sucking al the public crib, while not
treat remains for us!' 1t is sore griev.
ance and trying time. VIVA, could be
done? Nothing seemed possible. Tho
hunkers held on with the grip like vice.
They acted most emphalically on the doc.
trlne that" a bird in the hand is worth two
in the BUSH" At length seeing there was
no chance without force, a leader of the
faction rose and said
"Mr. Speaker: see that the gentlemen
who hold the Regency Power have taken
their course, and are not to be moved by
persuasion or eieciment. They are no
sooner driven out at one corner than thew
come in al The other. Sir, ] see no wav to
get them out, but 10 serve them, as some
fellow did the rats. He was troubled ex
cessively by the rats in his barn. He tried
all sorts of ways to get them out. He SET
traps for them. He got terrier dog. He set
in weazle, and he put poison in their way.
But all in vain. No sooner did they 90 out
at one side than they came in at the other.
The traps they would not enter, and the
poison they would not eat. He resolved
what he would do. He set fire to ,he ,rn
and burnt barn rats and ALL! This is what
we will do Sir. In the mastery language
Of the immortal Jefferson. Sir few die and
none resign. We must try more summa.
ry method We will burn the barn rats
and all "
The Hunkers understood the game, and
resolved to anticipate little. So, at the
next election when the great chief of the
Do' SIids w i8Dl, was I0mlnd.
ted, the Hnnkers quickly gave him stab
under the fifth rib. and laid him low in DO.
i,ical death. vengeance" then said all
the Barnburners. Justice to Silas Wright
now requires that we should immediate a
Hetacomb ofrats. The barn must be burnt"
And il was; nothing bot its ruins remain.
whilst mulliludes Of Hunker rats all nicely
fatted; expired in the flower of political
mar,yrdom.
So far is The history Of the Barnburners.
The present object of The Barnburners, is
TO rebuild The barn. with view to its com.
; Portable occupation themselves. For this
purpose they have called in a fat old gen.
leman called Uncle Saml,' who they pro.
pose, shall liquidate the bills they draw.
An eminent Doctor of Divinity. residing
not hundred miles from New York, and
famous for the originality of his phraseol.
ogy, was asleep The other evening in his
chamber, while his wife was mending a