He Says, My Whole Estate Is Worth...
I . - . â - â - He 6ays, my wholc estáte is worthj T _. pose, $50,000, but I nm compelled to pu L overseera high salary. My nhvsinio 'i lawyer's bilà are very LsiJZfife à " L sides tbis,a son at collee.he nv ,ââ " veralhundred dollars ySffEà ter at a boardinsr school he pays $500. rCl .maller sons at home, cost n the academVï bout $100 a year tor tuition alone. He i bliged to Ãake a pieasure trip with his famii in the summer which cost lost year $6oo and for the convenience of visiting ne'irhbors r ing to church, &c., he has been ob%ed Voln" vest Ãn a carnage, borses and boy, 2000 Ãn social parties, also, at which he entertniT his friends, some hundreds of dollars are nm ally expended. unuNow who can wonder that men with so raany artificial wants, which are C8 pable of ,â dcfinite extensión and multiplication, CZ'' always be prosperous. They lay un hS5" for reverses, and when the sLol ofloTÃTf ees come, ihey find themselves, comparatÃvS speakmg, misernbly poor. ' comParatlvély Ilow much more do such men as these en Tho Sai Journol My, âf ,be Libmy pnnj,, by h .dheren to tl,c chird party !,L, f So it seems that the only objection, or at least, the greatost one, that the whg8 can urge against the hberty party is, that it "tends to destroy the saluiury (!) âfluence of the W% on the country ! Well. who is to blame for this result? If the people are leaving you, and Joining nriother association, :hey doubtless have good reasons for i?. But, gentlemen, as this defection seems to af fect you rather seriously, we wiil teil you how to prevent it for the future, and retrieve the misfor tunes ofihe past. Abolish your odious Whig Gag in Congress. Do you expect that the tens of thousands of legal voters whose petitions you scornfully reused or threw under the table last winter, wijl support your "salutary" administration? Depend upon il, they wiJl niake you feel fheir just indignation. Then abolish the slave market at Washington, and let the Whig members who wish to buy slaves parchase in their own states. NomÃnate some perron oiher than a siavehreeder for the Presideney. Lel equnl and exact jusÃicc be done to all men, and you will no longor lament the '-thircl party niove- ment." We are serious in wint we sny. We bóh'eve this is the 0-dy course by which the salvation of the Whig party can be eÃlbcted. Wc Pee no ob'cotions to it. Have they not aiways claimed to be thtà party most favorable to liberty? The protective tari ÃF bilà is novv passed; and "the other great interests" are adjusted for the present; and now is the favorable time to redeem the promises made theabolitionists in 1840. Why not doit?
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