Republican Herald

A greater libel upon any thing republican, was never put on paper, than is contained in the preceding article. The general falsity of the whole, might be excused, if every succeeding line did not contain a distinct falsehood. This is insufferable. What other man except him of the Journal, could deliberately write and publish to the world, that the candidates in the Arnold ticket "are selected from that class of society who are emphatically of the Middling Interest." This is a foolish and stale assertion. Is not Lemuel H. Arnold the candidate of the Aristocracy of the State, and of that CORRUPT MONIED INSTITUTION, the Bank of the United States? Is not his election identified with the Manufacturing interest, and directly hostile and opposed to the great agricultural interests of the State and Union? The people have been deceived long enough, by the use of the terms "republicans," and "republican principles," in the federal papers. Is Lemuel H. Arnold a republican by birth and education? The Editor of the Journal knows better. He was born in the foggy atmosphere of old-fashioned and rank federalism, and educated in the more dangerous school of the Hartford Conventionists.— During the administration of Jefferson and Madison, especially that of the latter, was Lemuel H. Arnold found in the republican ranks, aiding and assisting the Government of his country in its arduous struggle for its second independence? No. A greater insult could not have been offered to his political feelings, than even to have suspected him of republican principles; much more to have called him a republican. In those days of peril, when the bosom of every true patriot swelled with indignation at the course the federal party was then pursuing, and when that traitorous convention of conspirators against their own government were secretly conclaved in Hartford, for the purpose of separating the Union, Lemuel H. Arnold was one of the most vindictive opponents of the Administration, and a zealous supporter of that unholy association. Yet we are told by Col. Rivers, who was also an old school federalist of the rankest growth, and who denounced the patriotic South in federal caucuses, with the vile epithets of "French jacobins and Southern nabobs," because they supported Madison and the War, that Gov. Arnold and his associates, "in the whole practices of their lives, have never swerved from the true principles of republicanism." What are we to think of an editor who is so reckless of the truth as to betray himself and friends into such known inconsistencies?

The next sentence is still worse than the preceding, if possible. Here is an attempt to make Lemuel H. Arnold & Co. admirers of the Declaration of Independence. Impudent audacity! unparalleled effrontery!! Does Gov. Arnold derive his "just power from the consent of the governed?" Is it not surprising, that such an assertion should be made, when he holds his present unjust power by usurped authority, and against the consent of the "governed," thrice publicly manifested in commanding majorities?

Is it true, or false, "that during Ex-Governor Arnold's administration we have enjoyed an uninterrupted state of prosperity'? The falsehood of this assertion is proved by every day's experience of the whole community. From the moment he took the chair, the whole State has been agitated by a series of blundering measures, calculated to engender political strife, and destroy not only the prosperity of the State, but also to disturb the peace of its citizens.

Nor is it true that there has been no direct tax upon the community, to defray the expenses of government. It is, nevertheless, true, there has been as yet no land nor excise tax for this purpose. But a tax upon all classes of a far more iniquitous tendency has been imposed; a tax in the shape of the infamous lottery system, which has spread its baneful influence throughout the body corporate, and corrupted the sources of private virtue. Much more salutary to the morals of society, would a land tax have been than this gambling scheme of lottery peculation, devised and matured by Gov. Arnold and James F. Simmons. The remaining declaration in the above quoted article deserves attention. The preceding remarks show clearly, that the indiscreet taxation adopted has not been "judicious."— Nor is it true, that the "wants of the public" have been supported by this mode of raising a revenue. An examination of the accounts of the treasury disproves this operation. It is a startling fact that the expenses of Government have been increased since Arnold has been Governor, more than FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS OVER those of any of his predecessors. The civil expenditures ending in June last exceed Twenty Two Thousand Dollars, while the average civil expenses under Gov. Fenner did not exceed Seventeen Thousand Dollars. And what is still more surprising, notwithstanding the boastings of the Governor and his parasite, James F. Simmons, the Treasury is now actually in debt to the School Fund rising the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars! as reported to the Senate in June last by the General Treasurer. Thus have the funds, which ought to have been appropriated to the permanent school fund, been diverted from their legitimate object, to supply the increased demands upon the Treasury. Yet, we are told, and the public are told, by the editor of the Journal, the organ of the aristocratic faction which now misrules our State, that the "judicious indirect taxation supplies all the wants of the public, besides a large sum for defraying the expenses of public education." We confess we cannot perceive the system of morals, which allows the advocates of Gov.