Republican Herald

FARMERS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EVERY WHERE ELSE IN THE UNITED STATES:

I put the following questions to you in the sincerity of my heart, because you are the most interested: Reflect upon them and vote accordingly.

1. Do you believe $65,000 were subscribed and given to Daniel Webster, to fit him out for England, for his sole and individual gratification and enjoyment? If not—for what was it given?

2. Do you believe, can you believe, that the Messrs. Barrings, who are intelligent Bankers, and have been dealers in American stocks for forty years, wanted any legal advice upon the question, whether a sovereign and independent State could contract a lease? A question any broker of common intelligence in Threadneedle street could have answered as well as Daniel Webster. If nay, why was such a silly question asked, at the same time intimating, (see the Baring correspondence) that if the United States would assume and guarantee the debts now owing, (two hundred millions of dollars) they could have all the money they wanted in future!

3. Do you believe there is any man of common intelligence in this country but can see the object of the Barings in this question—that it was a feeler put forth to the States wanting loans, to excite them to change the present administration and to put one in power who will recommend such assumption: or in other words, that it was a base bribe held out to Daniel and his associates to purchase the election of William Henry Harrison!

4. Do you believe if Gen. Harrison should be elected President, he will veto any act assuming all those debts, especially since his declaration that he will not veto any act passed by both houses of Congress, being the only pledge he has yet given?

5. Do you believe it right that your farms should be mortgaged to pay the interest of these stocks—say eleven millions of dollars per annum? For such will be the legal effect of such assumption. If you do, vote for Harrison—if not, vote for Van Buren who is pledged to veto such an outrageous unconstitutional act.

6. FARMERS do you think it right and just that your farms should be thus mortgaged to raise the value of those stocks, now 15 per cent. below par, to 15 per cent. above, and thereby to put FIFTY OR SIXTY MILLIONS into the pockets of foreign stock jobbers? If yea, vote for Harrison—if nay, vote against this degraded and silent tool.

7. FARMERS, reflect before you vote: Remember you are now free from a national debt, and be ye careful how you saddle your farms with another, not growing out of the necessary expenses of a war, as the last did; but out of a rage for internal improvement or rather a pretext for such improvement.

8. FARMERS, would you think it right to transfer the seat of Government from Washington to London? For, remember, that in "aristocracies the seat of Government follows the money power."

If yea, vote for Harrison—if nay, vote for Van Buren.

9. FARMERS, do you read your bibles? I hope you do, and if so, you read that "the borrower is a servant to the lender." Do you wish to be the "servant?" If yea, vote for Harrison—if nay, vote for Van Buren.

10. FARMERS, your fathers beat the British troops in the war of the revolution. Do you now wish for another revolution and to be beaten with "British gold"? If you do, vote for Harrison and become as you will, slaves to British bankers; but I charge ye call not the heroes of the revolution your "fathers"! May their ghosts haunt you if you do.

12. FARMERS, do you, any of you, remember Benedict Arnold, the traitor? Did he not sell his Country? But how is he worse than the Arnolds of the present day, who would, if they could, sell their country into the hands of British capitalists, and make their counting rooms the place where the laws of this country must first originate? Do you agree to this? If yea, vote for Harrison—if nay, vote for Van Buren.

Farmers of this country! remember what I tell you, and be wise.

OLD SAM.

P. S. I will put one more question and see if you can guess a solution. Why did Daniel Webster while in London, (mark that declaring a candidate for the Presidency) ban...