The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-08-13
The vhig Party and Tsritish,and Amer,
ei 'f'- lean Politics. .vss,tael

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II has often been asserted by Democrats that
.lhe Wig party entertainel the mostprofospd
contempt for The intelligence Of the people,,
From The days Of John Adams to this hour, they
have by.tIeir party action, their public sIeak-
ors, ard their presses demonstrated the truth Of
this charge. They seem 10 think the peo.9e
have no memory, no knowledge, no common
sense. While perpetual1y denouncing dema-5
gogueism ,thcyare.co e.constantlyproying themselves
Ithe most unmitigated demegogues upon eartb.
There is no artifce 10 which they will not
resort, no Inconsistency into which they will
not rush, TO accomplish their purposes; and the
e6rontery which they manifest in all this, is as
remarkable as their unscrupulousness De-
nouncing in the most unmeasured terms the Ell
ovation Of military men, thei nominate for the
presidency, in. the course Of twelve years, OF
-four presidential terms, no less than three men
who owe all their notoriety to their military
achievements. matchmaking slavery and
heaping obloquy upon nlnen who occupy mode !.
rate and conservative position upon this subject
the northern portion Of The party first join in
nominating for the same high position a south
ern STAKEHOLDER, and putting a. paddock on his
lips, send TomsCorwin, and those like him, to
make mouths and grimaces to secure bis elec-.
tion; and next, acquiesce in the passage Of re-
solutions giving the lie direct TO all their prey-
,c sots I'd scor Tho enka NJ irnpn.
sing on the south candidate whom it would
otherwise no sooner have touched thanit would
a FIRE brand. Heaping contumely and con-
tempt upon our citizens Of foreign birth, and IN
their vindictlve spite because they almost uni
formly follow the very instincts of their nature
and unite their fortunes and their hopes with
that great and generousparty which ever well
comes them, and ever has welcomed them
with open aims to our shores, and 10 all the
privileges OF citizenship ifesting their ha-
tired Of them in every conceivable way--by
abuse and Misrepresentation refusing to al
low their respective Languages to be taught in
the public schools--by refusing to publish tie
laws and public documents in those languages
! for their advantage, they all al once turn round
they bow and Scrape to those whom they SO
recently treated with contempt and scorn--they
1 wheedle and hatter those whom but yesterday
they vilfed and abused; and suddenly, from
lthcir most bitter enemies, they became their
4 most devoted friends and obedient humble ser.
wants.
i An illustration both of the unscrupulous-
ness and effrontery Of the wing partisan press
has recently occurred, The London Times, il
speaking of The position of the whig and dem
, ocratic parties Of this country, expressed a de
sire for the success of the latter, when th'
leading whig journals, echoed by the Tribune
: and Clipper (and when was it known 10 do an
thing but echo2) raised hue and cry Of Brit
ish sympathy with locofocoism" British anxi
ely for American free trade, etc., etc, as ]
The American people had no knowledge Of TN
present and no memory Of the past. Do thes
T. pe esses suppose that the people of this countr
know nothing of British politics Do the,
s suppose that our people do not know what par
81 ty it is in England which advocates free trade
\ That they do not know that tits there as it
here, the party of progress, the party that ais
advocates an extension of the right of suffrage
the party that advocates reform in all the bran
. ches the government We glory in hayin
the sympathy of such party. ...e ~
Again. Do those papers imagine that th
American people do moi know that those j
England who desire 10 see free trade ,a1opl
2 ed in America, advocate free trade at home
Do they suppose them ignorant that n
= London Times whose solicitude about FIRE
y trade in our country has so disturbed thei
! equanimity, has for years been launching il
! resistless bolts against the oppressive "pro
n tective system" of Great Britain? Or thi
4. beneath those bolts, and the batteries ofsuc
= men as Golden, and Bright, and Russell an
Z Peel, that system has fallen to rise no NOR
lsI We presume they do. We presume the
81 think the people ignorant of all these thing
y But we can assure them that they are mist
ken. The peopleare not soignorant as the
take them to be. They know very well wi
support free trade in England; and they al
n laow vcry pcA auho adrocatc protection thsr
n They knoio vsry ,cell that tits the Tory pa
IS. tg--the Earl Of Derby aud his ministry AZ
d. partizan0--the same party that years u
n was opposed to the reform of Parliamer
n and to Catholic emancipation, and which
now opposed to theextension ofthe right
d. Suffrage, and to every other great and ben
nd icialreform., There is nota bit of danger
ne American free trade or the Democratic par
an ever receiving any encouragement orsymF
n. Thy from that party. Secretary Walkers
De yer was and never would be annoyed wi
The any of the attentions OF those gentlemen.
st. They keep their. Communications and III
'1 81 sympathies afor their whig cousins in 4
country,land their ciyilities for Abbott La
an, renee and his jcioslsd lady. '
ems WV c,ddan. Meath
We Mr. Joseph vogin, acitizen Of Gallipo
re- died very suddenly on Sunday morning
pls SOy last week. He was at work in his shop L
ers on the evening previous and short time
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