Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1852-08-27

We may have Banking system furnishing
safe uniform currency Tor the people, easily
converted into gold and silver. when necessary
call il Federal Wing system, and il be-
comes odious, criminal and liable TO burhens
aud penalties, above all other institutions, aud
to taxation many times greater than Iha. which
is imposed on individuals.
We may have a system of taxation approx.
imaling pi least to equality; Call il a "Whig
Tax Law" and any Peuyioggug LoeOioeo
Slripling will be entrusted with the duty Of ren.
deriug IL n"D,mocraIic." lie may remo6dle it
until niaxes everything animate and inanimaIe;
Bibles aud beehves, poultry and pudding ladies.
cutie aud candlesrcks--iI may exempt lands
entirely and tax bank stock three fold-only
enIite j. Democratic" and il becomes sacred
aslhe COW 10 an lndOn pagoda, and irrePealable
as the laws Of the Medes and Persians.
/ II Democracy means anything il il has any
Specification, il is, Ihal all just powers Of govern
ment arc derived from the people; and that the
will Of the majority expressed in prescribed
manner should be binding upon all-in short,
that "lhp majority shall rule" Does modern
locofocoism conform to This description OF De.
mocracyl Does the locofoco docune Of the
VETO power, agree with the Democratic princ,-
pie Of deriving all laws from the people. Does
tho Locofoco practice Of kicking the petitions
Of the people on certain subjects under
the table or out Of doors, agreo with the
principles Of democracy as here defhedl Does
the adoption Of the 1.-Two Third Rule" in Lo.
cofoco Conventions correspond with the Demo.
cratic rule, that 'lhe majority shall governl"-
Iflhis last question cannot be answered in the
affirmative upon what grounds will tho ocolo.
co poliIcOns claim their candidates for
President and Wise President, as the free choice
Of tho unadullerated, untrammelled, and unter.
rifed Democracy Was there single Dele.
gate at the Baltimore Convention instructed to
vote for General Piercel Had his votes against
River and Harbor and Road improvements ren.
dered him sufficiently popular 10 be chosen over
The heads OF COss and Allen, Buchanan and
Benlonl Had his speech against The Oppropria.
lion TO The widow Of Presiden, Harrison made
him so dear to the generous, the high minded,
} the warm hearted Democracy as TO exclude the
claims of Statesmen Of talents and Intellectual
powers, who had grown grey in the public ser.
vicel Had his services aud suGerings in the
Mexican war so touched the sense aud sympa.
thies Of the people, as to obscure the halo aoI
! glory that encirced the brows Of real heroes
in that series of brilliant campaigns that brought
q Taylor and Scott so prominently before the
world, and gave them the first place in the
hearts Of the peoplol No. Every body know:
that he was not thought Of by any considerable
) number Of the Delegates when The Convention
assembled, But determined and united MI.
NORlTY, had cOj joed and bulIied the Con.
vention into the adoption Of the (umous "lwo
thirds rule" This rule enabled this lyrannica
minority 10 tic up the hands Of the majority
and prevent the nomination of any of the dis
lingushed candidates whose claims the people
had considered and approved, and enabled them
to bring forward this man Pierce whose imbo.
cility as a statesman, alone had saved him from
utter contempG and whose latering and faint.
ing as a soldier, barely saved him from iniamy
or oblivion. Without any claims to the grail.
Iude OF the people, in comparison with scores OF
others in the Democratic ranks, eminent in tai,
ents, venerable in years. and honorable in the
services they had rendered their counwy-he
stands before the people not as tho choice of the
Democratic party, nor majority Of that parry,
but as The mere cats pato of a tyrannic1l, SLAVE
ridden, pitifai MINORITY OF DELEGATES, in a
miserable ollice.seokOg time.serving, packed
political Convention. This man, however, is
, entitled by the consent Of the people and The
custom Of politicians" The Democratic can.
didOlo for President of tho United States"...and
D all who believe that Wings are Tories and thai
! "the majority ought 10 rule" are called on &c
vote for him, and use all the means that God anC
$ nature have placed within their reach to secure
2 his election. Not, however, until the last forty
years Of our counIry's history is bloHed OUT.
not, until Niagara, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo ant
Mexico are forgotten, cOn he be elected Presi
dent, over Winfield Scott, who is The standard
bearer orIhe Wings, by ucclOmOIon, as he ha
been Of our country through two sanguinOrl
wars that gave our nation place among eth,
Powers Of the World"
e Tie Nomination.
. The Convention which met at Harlem
I Springs, on the 25Ih nominated as a cauddaI