American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-11-03

M]GNIOVM wNu1VOi1LIA COUNTY, VA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1856 WMM
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| Let rulers be just and they need hire
no press or other advocate to defend
them. The people have sufficient in
Itelligence, upon an unbiased and un.
bought discussion of public measures,
to appreciate the merits of this or Of
any other administration; but the wisest
statesman will be misled if the counsel
lors to whom he trusts for advice, be-
come the pensioners Of those upon
whose conduct it is his duty to advise.
/ have no time to dwell upon the un-
earthly ferocity with which the ravens
ofthe Treasury have pursued men of
their own blood and birth, merely be-
cause they professod preference for
their own countrymen over foreigners;
q sentiment which L do not scruple to
assert, beats in every honest heart on
the earth, and which has so beat in ev-
cry patriots bosom from the dawn of
existence--from the day when the sun
shed his first beams erthe garden of
Eden, to the present moment. OF the
man who does not entertain warmer
sympathy for native of Virginia than
for a native of Europe, Asia or Africa,
who is conscious that he could, when
interest prompts, bid farewell to his
native land, and, swearing allegiance
to another, could, in the event of war
between tho land of his nativity and
of his adoption, feel towards us the
sentiments Of an alien born, be willing
tosack our cities, desolate our coasts
and destroy our lives-of such man
itmay be justly and emphatically said,
"Hic niger est, hume, tn cdpeto."
| The things of which we complain,
have never received the sanction of the
people. The Democratic party has
never sanctioned them. They have
never been made an issue before the
people. They are the acts of the lea
ders and not Of the masses. In the
last contest, by the wizard powers of
one man, all these gross and palpable
! objects We're made to vanish from the
'fstagc, and, under the same magic infiu-
ence, certain "Gorgons, Hydras and
Chlmeras dire'-the creations Of fam
cy OF OF tcar--wcre made to stalk terri
fcally in their place. 1t is time the
country were awakened from the spell
OF this enchantment. The Philistines
be upon us, and we must rouse for the
fight--not for q fight of patient forti-
tude, but Of energetic and active war
fare. The retainers Of the Treasury
and the spoilsmen are busily engaged
in preparation for the next presidential
conflict with recruits enlisted from ev-
cry land, and arrayed under the ban
ners of the different aspirants for the
American purple, they will, unless
checked by the interposition of an a.
, reused people, like the Pretonian Co
horts, or the Janizaries of Constantine
} pie, soon become too powerful for the
, country and it's laws, and with each
recurring presidential term, will barter
OIL the empire to some Northern Didi-
us for gold, Or to somo Southern pat
riot for Western land and Federal Of
! flee.
Believing that the party which op-
poses the administration would be dis
, posed to check the improper proceed
ings and ruinous tendencies to which I
have alluded, it is my wish and desire
to sec that party placed in a position
, which will enable it to rescue our coun-
try from the perils that environ her.
, Very Respectfully,
, LEMUEL j. BOWDEN.
: TO Mcssrs. Oswald B. Finney, Ar
thur Watson and others, committee.