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Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
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An editorial passionately supporting William Henry Harrison and John Granger against Martin Van Buren in the presidential election, accusing federal presses of distracting from the true issue with false cries of bank trickery and monopolies, and warning against doctrines that subvert civil and judicial power to mob rule. It praises the people's return to reason and predicts Harrison's victory.
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The Federal presses enlisted in the hopeless cause of Van Buren, with their usual venality are basely, insiduously drawing the people from the TRUE QUESTION AT ISSUE. Hence it is that they cry so lustily about "Bank Trickery"—"Monopolies"—"Reform"—"the rights of the People," and the like slang, equally false and ridiculous as the famous but ill-timed cognomen of "No Swiss." Hence it is that they exert their stupid and malignant energies with a zeal worthy of a better cause, to arouse the torpid energies of the people against WHAT they have discovered "as dangerous and destructive of their best interests" and in order more fully to carry out their pernicious purposes, are advocating and promulgating doctrines, incendiary in their character and in their very nature, calculated to render the CIVIL and JUDICIAL POWER of the State, SUBSERVIENT and OBEDIENT to a LAWLESS MOB, who spare neither age, sex or condition in carrying out their unholy, work of death and destruction, thereby setting an example which, if persisted in, will most assuredly, prove a moral death-blow to the character and condition of our happy country.
For a while this bold and nefarious conspiracy, backed by the influence of the office holders of the General Government, and the corruptions of the Post Office, from the highest to the lowest menial basking in the sunshine of the "Treasury pap"—composing an army of hirelings, more formidable than that of Pakenham at Orleans, who are SWORN and BOUND TO OBEY THEIR MASTERS "right or wrong," has partially succeeded.
But thanks to the broad and immutable principles upon which our government is based:—"with the subsiding of popular sentiment and popular prejudice, there is a returning of sense, of reason and of justice." Hence too, it is, that the unerring voice of the people, "who do their OWN VOTING and their OWN FIGHTING," is being heard from Maine to Louisiana, and from the Alleghany to the Pacific—who are aroused to the true question at issue, HARRISON and GRANGER—LIBERTY—DEMOCRACY—EQUAL RIGHTS, and THE CONSTITUTION INVIOLATE, on the one hand, against Martin Van Buren and the Office-Holders on the other. Hence too, it is, that the spoilsmen have become alarmed—trembling and tottering under the weight of their ill-gotten power, and fearing the righteous indignation of those whom they have gulled and deceived—they avoid the true issue, and in one breath they cry Bank, Harrison, Federalism, &c. while with the other they laud the Pet Banks, the Albany Regency and Money Changers, as the purest of the pure, and sing anthems of praise to their masters, whom they hypocritically term the only regularly nominated candidates of the Democratic party.—But all this will prove of no avail "Truth is omnipotent and public justice certain."
The same spirit and patriotic feeling—the same enthusiasm and honest support of the millions who rallied around the standard of Democracy at a time "which tried men's souls," will also be found rallying around the Democratic standard of 1836, with the motto "Harrison and Granger, Liberty and Democracy, Equal Rights and the Supremacy of the Laws; and the Patriarch of North Bend, following the footsteps of his compatriots, Washington, Jefferson and Jackson, will be placed in the Presidential chair, though fiends should oppose and teach "him who is all things unto all men," with the hireling enlisted in his support, that there is a redeeming quality in the people, and that the descendants of the spirits of '76, will NEVER prove recreant to the political faith of their Fathers. State Democrat.
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The True Question At Issue: Harrison And Granger Versus Van Buren And Office Holders
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Strongly Pro Harrison And Anti Van Buren, Warning Against Mob Rule And Praising Democratic Principles
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