Boon's Lick Times

THE WHIG SPIRIT IN HOWARD

We congratulate ourselves that Providence has cast our destiny amongst such men as the Whigs of Howard. As we have learned their story, they have been battling for years--first against a majority of more than four hundred, which they had continued to wear away to two hundred and a fraction at the election two years ago & which now rises but a fraction over a hundred-if, indeed, there be an actual majority of legal votes at all. Before we were a citizen of the State--while yet amongst earlier friends, in the more sunny south—we read the motto of our predecessor in the chair from which we write, but it remained for the present canvass to disclose and prove the identity of feeling and of purpose between that Editor and his patrons, in the noble resolve to "Keep the flag FLYING-DIE, but NEVER SURRENDER."

Such is now the feeling of every Whig in Howard—save perchance, the two who were working on the Bank, who flew the track on Tuesday, and the more noted, because somewhat older case of the attorney of the Bank, who took the same chute.

Toward the middle of the afternoon, on Tuesday --when the result was sufficiently ascertained to demonstrate that we had cut down the loco-foco majority of last year to about half its previous dimensions, "an immense multitude which no man could number" assembled in the ample court which fronts the residence of Col. Birch, and were addressed in the most animated, impressive and eloquent manner, by Gen. Clark (who had reached home from his canvass for Governor,) and subsequently by A. Leonard, Esqr., Col. Jo. Davis, and, in conclusion, (being called for) by Col. Birch, himself.

The same spirit actuated both speakers and listeners-and the pledges of the former were deeply and impassionedly responded by the latter-that they WOULD LEAVE NO HONORABLE EFFORT UNESSAYED--by tongue or pen or press--from that day forward, until the sun went down on the last day of the Presidential election--to give the vote of Missouri, too, to the gallant old Republican who sacrificed HIMSELF for HER! We therefore invite Mr. Benton to take the field in Boon's Lick --but to do it honorably and openly this time-in public speeches, which can be answered and exposed on the spot--not by letters, as he did on his former tour, which were published in the party papers, from which all reply was purposely excluded.

His friends have promised that he would come-and we will not permit ourselves to doubt but that he will come--and give the people an opportunity of passing upon his greatness, and the wisdom and consistency of his whole public conduct--not upon his own exparte speeches and letters, but with references to the records, and amplifications on both sides

But we are detaining our readers from the final of the contest on Tuesday. At the conclusion of the remarks of Col. Davis, (who made his first appearance as a political speaker on that occasion,) he submitted the following preamble and resolutions, which were adopted with an earnestness, an acclamation and an unanimity, which told that the Whigs of Howard "never surrender."

Whereas, in the election which is now closing in this county, the officers of the Bank, the Land Office, and others in the employ of the Federal and State Governments, have manifested the most palpable, contemptuous and indelicate disregard of all the maxims which have heretofore controlled the conduct of citizens in similar situations.-

And Whereas, against all the odds and influences which they notoriously exercised against the cause of the people, the banner of the Whigs has received additional strength and additional lustre,-

Resolved, That the contest now gloriously terminating, in the augmented strength of the Whigs of Howard, is an auspicious and unerring indication of the more ample and enduring triumph which awaits similar exertions in the cause of the people and the country in November next.

Resolved, therefore, That we pledge ourselves to each other and to the country, that we will not remit, but renew and reapply the honorable and manly means by which the Whigs of this County have well nigh overcome the overshadowing influences of the State and Federal Governments.

Resolved, That we can overcome these baleful influences, by appealing to the PATRIOTISM, the LOVE OF COUNTRY, the INTELLIGENCE and the INBORN INDEPENDENCE of OUR COUNTRYMEN-and

RESOLVED THAT WE WILL!

On motion of Gen. John B. Clark, it was

Resolved, That the untiring exertions of the Whig candidates of Howard county merit our warmest approbation--that we are much indebted for those exertions, and beg them to receive our thanks, with a pledge to co-operate with them, and our Whig brethren generally, to redeem our country from the misrule which afflicts and impoverishes it.

On motion of A. Leonard, Esq, it was

Resolved, That the next stated meeting of the Tippecanoe club of Howard county, be held at the Court House in Fayette, on the 4th Monday in August.-and that citizens of all callings and all parties be respectfully invited to attend.

Two things, at all events, have been accomplished in Howard. Besides cutting down the loco foco majority to a size which no longer scares any body, or prevents any one from joining the Whigs from the terror which many men entertain of minorities, we have sent but one man in favor of the currency Bill" this year, and we gave it six (in the two houses) last year. This favorite measure of Mr. Benton's, thus openly repudiated even by his leading followers in Howard, can never disgrace the statute book of Missouri.-Although solemnly and synoptically endorsed by the late Circular of our Delegation in the two houses of Congress, it had been so overwhelmingly run down by the Whig Candidates in Howard-that even those who sought their places on the popularity of the name of Benton had to publicly back out from this--his favorite Measure! Yet such are the men who prate about consistency! With them, the term means nothing but devotion to a leader-let him lead where he may-- and all will admit the extreme ease of being consistent in that. A man with a mind half an inch long can do as he is bid--or as he sees others do.- and he is consistent--while the man who thinks for himself, and acts for himself, is almost sure to think and act contrary to the office-holders-and it therefore just as sure to be denounced for his inconsistency! Such is human degradation, under the party definition of "consistency!"

We ask a careful perusal of Mr. Bingham's speech, which we publish to-day. There are many plain facts, and much good reasoning in this speech which every republican voter should see.

The Howard Histrionic Corps performed last night to a crowded house.