The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-09-01
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, September lstb 1859

eight years We found, suppose, that the ligt
had been leading astray-that we failed
|lS44 Now at the standpoint of Isl
again. Instead of Continuing our resolution
continue W hig government; We have found ou
that We were mistaken a second time. and "
take not General Scott, by no means al oriiGar
man. He was Whg and you put away tha
illustrious General and that eminertly qaalide
statesman, and TOOK 4 mau who. 1t is true ha
been on the battle field sad on bis back on a bai
tie field Laughterl He was sach brave ma
that he could lie down and just drop off his hors
on the battle field. l wish to speak in no wa
disrespectful of Mr. Pierce, but say that you fal
SO much in love with Democratic government
that you threw away Whig who was emineat,
lqlalified as states nan and renowned as war
rior, ani-took a man not renowned either way.
AGO DEVIL ILLUSTRATION.
Now this aud all of this is applicable to all o
Us. What would yoa think Of any man-to IL
lustrate-of any farmer who woald make one o
those foe patent plows and plow down his barrer
ground, and raise good crop upon the lane
which he had thrown away as useless? He gath
cred his crop into his garner, reaps the reward o
his labor thanks God for his fruitful harvest ant
pockets the money it brings TO him. aud that same
man when he had another crop 10 raise, should
say, by that ptoS | got good crop, better
oze than expected; but as have the power tc
/ lie as please ith my ovn laad | will try the
old go devil plos this year"
You all know what go devil plow is. You
know it is a harrow with three prongs very
good thing 10 its way, bat By no means a good
thing 10 break up groond with Well he takes
his go devil aud knocks his ground about and
he gets no crop. and tell you he ca It get much
of crop that way. anyhow. Well. he gets in
debt He says: "Weli, was great fool TO take
that go DEVIL will get that patent rlow to work
again.,
The third year he uses that p'oy again. and he
gets another good crop and gets out of debt. He
gets his money into his pocket and goes TO his
thanksgiving dinner and thanks God for his good
ness. The fourth year, however he says: Have
not right TO do as please? will take that
old 'go-devil again" Laughter
That is precisely what you, the people of the
United States, have done with your power of vot-
ing. That is exactly what you have done. Do
you wonder that those old veteran statesmen in
Elropr such lellos KS as Metternch or Walewski,
in France, aud Paimcrsion aud Darby, in Eng
and who have read over and over again all that
is said about popular government and all that
las been written, and have scen il always remark
led that especial care must be taken to guard
against the careessness and vaciiaton of the peo-
pie do you wonder when those old fellows see
what you have DONE how yo1 have acted with the
exercise of this right Of suffrage if you did not
care what became OF your couatry, or did not
know W hat ought to be done, changing four times
in four successive elections from hig to Demo
crat, and from Democrat to Republican, should
despise your discretion? I. seems as if you did
not know how to do this work. Do you suppose
that any man that was to act with his plows as l
have stated to you, could ever make will in the
world? l tell you no judge would allow such a
mans will to go on record, because such man
must be insate. If that man to make a deed
of house or lot, and his heirs to prove this
it would be declared null and void. Ii his heirs
should want to set aside such mans deed let
them send for me- and will set it aside before
any intelligent jury in your country, because the
man must be insane
Yet you have done this same thing with the
right of voting. You have acted in Just that way,
aud now when we lift up our hands with holy in
dignation at the bad condact of rulers, doat
let us blame the "go-devil' because he did not go
twelve inches into the ground, because he cant
That is what have done. Let Us cast the
beam cut of oar own eye and Il eu We shall see
clearly the mote tina, is in old Bucks eye. Tlaugh
Ter. Al least it looks that way TO man up a
tree, daughter
Now, my fellow cit zens it is because of this
subject and this absence OF the exercise of that
great Office which We hold. and because | anu, as
4 man, interested in this matter that have the
impudence at ali to come and speak to you on this
subject. We are going 10 elect a President and
Directors soon again, and | am interested in it
and if you weak enough to listen 10 me am
going to tell you, as have told others something
about that.
ABOUT PARTY AsPERITY.
We here have parties! l an not one of those
that believe that political parties are necessary
am not that belle th at men OF sense and
We ave need TO d fer about this thing
at all. | admit that parties are made necessary
b. the present imperiections of mankind. But
while | would say that | would beg OF vou, in
Gods name to put away the little mean AMI tri-
fling ambitions and asperites of parties and my
I / ii n at he
such party in the country there Is. If sou could
get President who woad devote the whole fac
uties of his head and the better emotions of his
heart. and concentrate them upon the idea that b.
the representative OF the only free govern
Inent on the face of the earth, and the one sun
posed to be the mod-i to come after us in all the
nations of the world that want to be free-if we
could but get man who wo1ld but elevate him.
self even So high as to think that and act upon it.
do you believe that the postmaster whose office
on some prairie in Illinois. Il am speaking of
fact that have seen related in the newspapers
the proceeds of whose Office amounted to three
dollars and seventeen cents per annam, gross who
had the impudence to poke his head out of the
little log cabin in which his office was held and
say that be thought that Stephen A. Douglas was
respectable man, and was overheard By some
poor man-aot poor in property bat poor 10 SOU,
that had little, starved and miserable soul ia him
who wrote oa TO to his m ghty representative of
the only free country on Gods earth, taking care
of the liberty of the people Of the couutry-30-
900 600 OF them-that he did not like NJ Doug
las while the other man did; that Ie the Presi-
dent, would send forth mandate to that poor lit
tie fellow on the p-aIries, who was collecting his
three dollars seventeen cents year - not a
tenth part of the expense of fuel that he burnt in
one wnter-to get cut of Office and let some man
come in who did not like Douglas.
That's a fact 50 they say. Don't let me now
be holding up Mr. Buchanan al exception
Such has been too much the case with ever. Pres
id-nt siuce that party spirit has been so much in
vogue. Whig and Democrat, etc, have been gull
ty OF the same sin l know when you sre elect
ing maa to make laws for you, you mus. elect
one ~hose notious agree With yours: but do not
know that when yoa have clerk at Washington,
and the Whig party believes that the pen knife he
uses ought 10 pay thirty per ceot ad val duty.
and that poor CLERK has not been abe 10 see that
distinctly. although he is capital book keeper
and 8 faithful man. but in ais scal and conscience
he thinks it woud not be right TO pay SO much
as that, that you should turn him OFT of Office,
aad say that he is not fit for book keeper. II