Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-01-15
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From the MlchIrnn Erpoailor.
PREACHING VS.. PRACTICE. GOLD
VS.. GOVERNMENT SHIN PLASTERS.


PREACHING VS.. PRACTICE. GOLD
VS.. GOVERNMENT SHIN PLASTERS.
The locoiocrocy are a slippery set Of hum
buggers. They preach 'squatter sovereignty
and then practice the entire subversion of il
they preach 'Buchananism and free Kansas,
then practice Buchanan and slavery in Kan
sas they preach against illibustering, and
then let Walker escape from this country with
men and means to fllibuster with, and ''cap-
ture' him every time Just as he is about to be
captured and shot by the government where
he attempts his piratical warfare but of all
the bare-faced humbugs which they sung so
sweetly in the ears Of the people, this hard
currency song is the worst. One would
think, to hear the message and speeches of
these locofoco leaders, that they would, If
they could only have the power, make every
poor mans pocket heavy with gold and sill
yer. The poor dupes of this humbug de
mocracy' have been waiting and working and
shouting and voting for the humbug for long
years, waiting for this good time coming. The
democracy have had the power all this time,
but the hearts of the people are heavier than
their gold accumulations
As the hard money party Aourshes, rags
and shin plasters increase. When Michigan
was in the hands Of this humbug democracy,
the party created Bank in every cross roads,
and the worthless wild cat was as plenty as
the sermons of this same locofoco party
against Banks and in favor of hard currency.
There has never been a Bank chartered in
this State except by this same locofoco party,
which cries out all the time against paper
money. Kalamazoo. which twice heeced
the people Of thousands, was locofoco Gre
alton. The same Of River Raisin, and the
innumerabie multitude of the Wild Cat tribe
And yet the locofoco party all the time won
votes of poor deluded fools, by the cry of
down with the Banks give us specie = And
the same cry has been raised by the locofoco
party throughout the Union. While where
tho party most hourished we're the most
worthless Banks created.
The present Buchanan party is par excel
lence the pretended guardian angel Of this
hard money humbug. We have in our office
the locofoco state ticket ballot, voted by the
Buchanan party at the last election in Ohio.
It is adorned with a Bucks head, and mon
strous and unnatural horns, and headed with
the motto, No tinkering with the Constitu-
tion No more Banks and hundreds of
poor dupes were induced by this humbug
preaching to vote the ticket--A few weeks
pass, and a locofoco-aye this same Old
Bucks Congress-passes bill issuing S20,-
100000 of paper money to carry on the
government, and the partyi This is the
practice of locofocoism, and always has been.
Gold for the government and the office
holders, but rags for the people Such is
the hypocracy of this locofoco party and
yet men time and again will be fooled by the
humbug preaching of this party, and never
remember its practice.-Down with the
Banks, rings in the of the poor deluded
victims of locofoco sophistry, but t,oenty mill
ions of shin plasters comes from the acts of
party! What glorious democracy Don't
you feel proud of your hard money party
How thankful you ought to be, poor laborer,
that it is your glorious privilege to vote for
such a party Don't you think so,