Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-10-29
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TOM CORWIN ON SENATOR PUGH
AND SHAM DEMOCRACY.

AND SHAM DEMOCRACY
At late political gathering in Cincinnati,
Tom Corwn treated Of some of Senator
Pughs doctrines lately uttered in the same
place in the following humorous and pointed
manner
Let me consider the geneaogy Of parties
My good friend. Senator Pugh, says that
an old Rip Van Wrinkle, Of the name of Tom
Corwn, has just walked up after an eight
years sleep. and is trotting out some nags.
Laughter One of them is popular So'eI-
eighty, nag of mettc and of blood the 9th
or is that old, wind-broken, spawned horse,
the Wilmot Proyiso Now there is somc
truth in what he says. ! admire that horse
of Popular Sovereignty; and | think that if
I should hold a conference mceting-a class
meeting with brother Pugh ! should point
ont the bullets the Democratic party has put
in that horse ] think ! should bring him,
as the Methodist preachers say to a suitable
sense of his unworthinoss.- Laughter and
cheers.
think l could convince every impartial
man that the horse of Popular Sovereignty
was a dead horse-blown to atoms by Demo-
cratic guns A for that wind-brokcn, sp
yncd poney, the Wilmot Proyiso he was sir
ed by Thomas jefferson himself, and its the
horse | mean to ride while there's hair in
his tail. Laughter and cheers.
Those Democrats large and SMALL hope
they u excuse me if say, meaning no disre-
spect to any of them, that some Of them are
smaller than others-tell the people that this
Democratic party is the lineal descendant Of
Thomas Jefferson, whose proviso Senator
Pueh donounces as wind broken and SPAWN
ed
For Thomas jefferson drew with his own
hand that article that forbade slavery in the
Northwest Territory, from which have come
five great Western states lie wrote with
his own hand this old wind-broken, spawned
horse AMI yet Senator Pugh says they are
his lineal descendants 1--WE think as JEFF
ferson thought, have the same politics and
religion, and philosophy that Jefferson had -
And they call his proyiso old and spawned,
and bid YOU beware of the Opposition ticket,
for that's Federalism (Loughter.)
What a queer family that Jefferson family
must be 1t is a progressive family, an inn
proving family, Thomas jefferson said that
slavery was the greatest evil that ever cursed
a country, and that when he looked up TO
God the equal Father of the black man and
the white man, and saw how in this country
the white man held the black in slavery, he
trembed for the white man And his lineal
descendants call that proviso by which he
hoped to prevent the spread of this curse,
broken down, old, spawned nag
jefferson, like some of us, actually beliey-
ed that Moses told the truth, when he said
that the Almighty sent man abroad into
world of thorns and thistles. He told him,
either for blessing or a curse to go and
earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
Thomas jefferson thought this was true
account, and since the white man had stolen
the black man. he hoped the Merciful Father
would find some way to remove the evil
where it existed, and himself endesvored to
prevent its growth.
Jefferson thought labor was good for the
white man jefferson was man who roa-
soned Not. to be sure, so smart a man as
Senator Pugh, immense laughter but still
man not 20 be sncezed at--a considerable man
in his day.
We'll. Jefferson reasoned when he looked
on sheen and saw the wool growing on his
back. and was aware that in our climate, men
needed coats made from wool-he reasoned,
| say, that il man was not meant TO labor, the
sheep was not made right If man wasn't
intended to cut and wash and card the wool,
and spin it and weave it into cloth, and have
il cut into coat by tailor, then the sheep
wasn't made right by any means. If those
gentlemen who believe man should not labor,
/ had had the making of the sheep, they would
have made it with blue coat on its back, the
bright metal buttons hanging down in front.
/ Laughter
Now. believe that labor is good thing