The Guard

"THE SAME OLD COON."

The whig papers, throughout the country, are relating, with apparent satisfaction, as if the fact was calculated to do them credit, that, at a recent gathering of the people in Ohio, there was a coon exhibited and carried along in the procession on a pole with this inscription above him: "The same old coon!" Do the whigs mean seriously to attempt to play over the farce of 1840, by which they disgraced themselves and the country? Present appearances would seem to indicate it. The publication of new whig melodies, the silly allusions to the "mill boy of the slashes," the formation of Clay clubs, the big meetings in Ohio, with the loom in operation, drawn in procession, representing the Tariff interest, together with the same "old coon," all show a determination, on the part of the whigs, to insult once more the intelligence and virtue of the people, and to triumph again, if possible, in 1844 with songs and revelry and excitement. Vain the expectation! foolish the attempt! The "sober second thought" is operating. The honest Whigs of Marshall, when charged with a participation in the "log cabin" mocker ies of the last Presidential election, blush at the accusation. The honest democrats, who were deluded by the excitement and the fair promises of the whigs, feel indignant at the deception practiced upon them. Bank influence is gone, we trust, forever! The people are beginning to understand the currency question. They are growing wise by bitter experience. They are becoming more moral and religious. They will think and reason before they vote. The "same old coon" will not do. He is a "gone coon," truly. He may as well come down, at once, from the buckeye tree, for the democracy, like Captain Scott, have him sure. Alas for the Old Coon!