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WHAT SHOULD A FARMER BC.
An important query this, and one that
deserves to be welt pondered. We answer
it thus:
A Farmer should be Industrious. -In no de
partment of life, without industry, can'any
thing valuable or important be achieved.
There is such a thing as an idle farmer, "true
it is, and a pity 'tis 'tis true," but an idle,
successful farmer, is something this world has
not yet seen. No where is persevering indus
try more indispensible than on the farm, and
no where is well directed labor better rewar
ded. When we say the farmer should be
industrious, we do not mean he should be a
slave. There is, among some farmers, per
haps a majority at the present time, a fever
ish anxiety to become rich, a disposition to
go ahead, which renders rest impossible, and
hardly allows time to eat or sleep such men
are subject to a task-master of the most impe
rious character, and one which they should
make no delay in freeing themselves. The
farmer can have, and he who manages
his affairs well, will always have, his hours of
relaxation hours to spend with his friends,
and hours to devote to the improvement of
his mind. The way to ensure this, is al
ways to be beforehand with the labor of the
farm, and never allow himself to be crowded.
More work should never be laid out than is
compatible with this rule; and the work that
is required to be done to-day should never
be deferred till to morrow. -The difference
in the ease with which labor is performed,
when done in the right time, or when we
are driven to it by urgent necessity, is so
great, that attention to this point alone,
would, in preforming a civen amount of la
bor, make a most material addition to the
farmer1 hours of rest and improvement.
A Farmer should be Economical. Let
the farmer labor as hard as he mav; let him
deny his soul and bdy every required good;
let him abridge his hours of sleep, and toil
from umorn till dewv eve," without res, or
relaxation; it will amount to hut little. unless
Ins affairs are in other respects managed with
economy. By economy, we do not mean tha t
closeness or littleness: stinginess it vou please.
which some are pleased to call economy, but
which is infallibly connected with meanness.
and is one of the most effectual preventives
of all improvement, and the surest precursor
of utter degiadation that can be tound in a
man, and of all other things, is most out of
place in a farmer. The great secret of ccon
oiny, is knowing what is useful and necessa
ry and what not; of knowing when to ex-
tend and when to withhold expenses; in
eeping our out-goes clearly within our in
come, and never purchasing what we can
ourselves produce, or which a corresponding
amount of our own labor will not procure:
and in having every thins in doors and out
in its proper place, nothing wasted or de
stroyed, but a general supervising care direc
ted to every thing connected with our busi
ness at all seasons of the year. It is miser-
able economy to undertake to labor without
the proper tools; to undertake to see how
cheaply we can summer or winter our ani
mals; or to see with how little knowledge and
intelligence, or the means of obtaining either,
we can contrive to plod along through life.
A Farmrr should be free from Debt. If j
the farmer wishes to bind a millstone round
his neck, to sink him beyond the possibility
of hope or rescue to keep him constantly
restless, and struggling for subsistence if not
for existence, let him keep in debt; if he
would be able to call what he has his own,
and breathe the air of a freeman, let him re
ligiously eschew debts. We would almost
go so !ar as to say that nothing excepting the
purchase of land, can justify a farmer in con
tracting a debt; and bef re he sells himself
for more land, he will do well to inquire
whether he has capital to work it profitably,
r whether what he now has is brought to
the proper degree of fertility. We are con
fident that if men were to pay ready money
for a thousand things they fancy they need,
and can obtain on credit, they would not be
purchased. The habit of contracting debts
has a direct tendency to induce needless risks
and bad domestic economy. Two-thirds of
the law suits that arise, nnd which are pro
ductive of so much expense and ill will,
spring from this single cause. But whatever
circumstances else may occur to render debt
necessary, indebtedness to banks is what
should never happen to a farmer, and he
the pillory are not required to combat it in a
land where reason is free to expose its ab
surdities, or plead the cause of truth. By
this general diffusion of the means of knowl
edge no class has been more benefited than
the farmer, and none can have a deeper in
terest in its continued increase; and none
should more freely and fully avail themselves
of the means the laws have so liberally plac
ed within their reach.
A Farmer should be Moral. It has been
said that "an undevoul astronomer is mad,"
and an immoral, profligate farmer is an equal
ly decisive instance of mental aberration.-
The owner of the soil; the producer and the
possessor of the main part of ttie country's
wealth; its defence in war, and its conserva
tor in peace, the farmer has every reason to
uphold a system not only right in itself but
productive of prosperity and permanence,
and frown down and repudiate every thing
that has a contrary tendency. There is no
surer index to the general happiness of a peo
ple, and stability and excelle ceof their in
stitutions, than the tone of morals that ex
ists among them. If the standard is high,
private right is respected, the law is para
mount, and property is safe; if the standard
is low, power makes right, force is law, in
subordination prevail, persons and proper
ty are insecure, the temples of justice be
come the fountains of bribery and corrup
tion, prosperity passes away, and sciety re
solves into its original elements. There is
always in every country a mass of persons,
idle "and profligate, who herd together in
rities, and who, having nothing to lose, are
always ready for every innovation, or every
disturbance that threatens convulsion and
overturn, as in the general scramble they
may obtain plunder and power. It was this
fact that induced the illustrious JefTeison to
pronounce great cities "sores on the body
politic:'' and the murders, mobs, and riots
that prevail in them, are only so many proofs
of the great deficiency of moral feeling ex
isting. The obsenntion of every intelli
gent nr.an in the country has convinced him
that if the democratic republican institutions
of our country are destined to pass away,
it will be in the flood of immorality and prof
ligacy engendered by lawless ignorance; and
the patriot and the statesman instinctively
turn to the plains, the hills, and the moun
tains, of our broad nnd glorious land, as tlie
abode of the principles, and the men, who.
under Providence, are our safe guard and
our hope. The fanners have alwavs been
found ihe firmest supporters of order and
law, and if they have ever been found ar
rayed against either, it has been because ig
norance fitted them to income tools of the
unprincipled and the designing. If ever
vice nnd immorality triumph in our land;
if ever our civil and social institutions are
subverted; if ever our political liberties are
destroyed; the farmers of the country, such
men as fought at Bunker Iliil nnd Benning
ton, Dattshurg and New Oi leans, will be
lound the men to defend them to the last, and
die in the last ditch in preventing their over
throw.
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From the Charleston Mrrcury.
THE MOVEMENT TARTY.
The Whigs have got ihe seven leagued
boots on, beyond doubt. In the several de
partments of Patriotism, Valor, Democracy,
Taste and Sentiment, they have gone farther
at a stride, than the dreamers of all ages have
ever flown in fancy. For illustration of the
first and second items,we refer to the speech
es of Messrs. Prentiss, Preston, Thompson,
nnd Ogle, (Hon. Spoon Ogle,) and the aston
ishing discoveries made by the party gener
ally in the science of attack on'pastries,
pu Idings bottles, barrels and hogsheads.
The other items have equally forcible Il
lustrations, though perhaps not so generally
known. How beautiful, for instance, is whig
Democracy ! Take this instance which is p i
raded loudly in their organs. Tom Corwin"
is the Whig candidate for Governor of Ohio,
and lately drove to a political meeting at
Steubenville, (O.) i a big burley w igon, the
body of which had been last used in liaulni
stone. It wasstaringly labelled. "No Brit
ish Coach," "Tom Corwin's Buggy." In the
front part was raised a Buckeye tree, in the
branches of which was perched "Tom Cor
win." The establishment was drawn by
tweuty-twu yoke of oxen. M irk how the
intuitive sagacity of the Whigs hath thus at
should never be seen within the doors of one! a dasli struck out a new universal nrincinle
of those institutions. They were never in- that must revolutionize all hitherto received
tended for the fanner; and. necessary and . systemsof niora's, physics and politics. It
beneficial as they may lie for the purpose of is no less than this, that the extreme is the
exchanges and trade, the ma a whose busi-1 erfection of a principle, instead of being the
ness and transactions are as those of the ! contradiction of it. Thus if it be Demo-
farmer should be, can never with safety allow cratic to be drawn l v one yoke of oxen a
nis name to De used too lamiliarly within fortiori it is forty times more Democratic
their walls. to be drawn by fort yoke of oxen. This
A Farmer should be Intelligent. is nn discovery in metaphysics, they have illustra
old and true maxim, that "ignorance of the ted in a variety of ways. Thus they are
law exciist-th no man," and ignorance on any the great moral party; moral men must be
topic necessary to a proper prosecution of temperate men: temperance consists in drink
bis business, or to his proper standing and ing moderately therefore the height of tern-
influence in the community, cannot now be perancens attained by getting fuddled con
tinuity. o in respect to credit and bank
ings but that every body is familar with.
Turn we loan illustration of their Taste.
The following is a description of a grand
Whig rendezvous, by a conespondent of the
Boston Post, travelling in the North West.
How do the love of the picturesque, of sweet
and gracious adornment andof divine poesy,
struggle together for mastery in the emble
matic sanctuary of Fedend Whiggery. In
what rich confusion are jumbled together the
altars of their new and old. big and little di
vinitiesBacchus, Silenus Thermites, (lately
apatheosized by Messrs. Clay and Co.) Satyrs
and Petticoats. The hint of the latter is
taken from the Turks, who preserve a ban-
plead by the firmer, without indirectly con
tessing to a great and inexcusable neglect of
means within the reach of every one.
Knowledge, no less than money, is power;
audits accumulation in the hands oPnnv
class is a sure proof of eventual ascendancy;
and this fact should stimulate farmers to use
every exertion to become its possessors.-
Universal education i the glory of our land;
the true foundation of our national greatness,
and, in connection with sound morals, is its
rarest preservative. Schools, books, news
papers, and journals of all kinds, have a wide
circulation, and at a rate that placet them in
the hands of all who choose to think and in
vestigate, trror cannot escape under the
guise or plea of antiquity; and the stake and ner made oi Mahomet'i breeches, which is
always paraded in extreme cases and is thought
to be invincible. But to the extract.
"The Whigs have a political lo' cabin
here which is curiously decorated inside.
There is a complete edition of the disgrace-
mi caricatures or our most distinguished
statesmen which the ingenious Whigs have
got up; there are herbs and dried pumpkins.
raccoon and posum skins nnd many other
such things, to ornament this temple of Whig
patriotism. Rut the most prominent thing in
the cabin is a petticoat a real petticoat
made up with shoulder straps, and corded at
the bottom. It hangs from one of the beams,
and has a hoop inside to keep it expanded,
and all over it has printed, in large letters, this
chaste and elegant stanza:
"Granny Harrison!
She'll deliver this Dating,
Which labor in pain.
Of the knaves who like leeches
Our Treasury ttraiu!"
But the crowning glory of the Whigs will
be found in the new fountain of Sentiment
which they have opened. Ii is deeper, wider
and longer even than their Democracy.
"If you have tears, prepare to shed them
now."
Mr. Halstead of New-Jersey received from
the Whig ladies of Trenton a white Jlag, of
which we regret that no exact description
has been given. Whether it were double or
single whether it had anns or straps or was
designed with any specific difference of the
upper and lower border these are secrets;
but Mr. Halstead made a gratetul speech in
return for the aforesaid present of bleached
linen. Only a fragment of the oration is
preserved and we know not if he promised,
as is usual on such occasions, to wear the gift
next bis heart. But he took occasion to
show his fair auditors that they were not the
only patriotic ladies in the country, in proof
of wliich he described to them a scene be
tween the two Massachusetts Senators, caus
ed by the perusal of a letter from the wife of
one or them, detailing the particulars of a
hard ti ler festival at which she presided.
The report of this part of Mr. Halstead
speech is taken from the correspondence of
the Roston Jit as a lending Whig paper.
"Is her letter to her husband, this Bay
State Whig matron says that "the wine and
water, beer ami hard cider, flowed in streams,
and the way that Honest John Davis's wife's
cake disappeared, was a caution." When
Honest John received this letter, describing
in those t tie nnd graphic colors which a wo
man's pen alone can civ" to such a scene, he
was sitting in the Senate chamber, anil as he
read it, "the big round tears coursed one an
other down his manly cheek;" and as he wip
ed them away, he said to himself, "what a
fool 1 am to be so affected." After be had
perused the letter he handed it to Mr. Web
ster, nayitig. "There, Webster, you say you
take pleasure in reading my wife's letters,
read that." Webster took the letter, and
as be read. Honest John watched the work
ings of his noble features, nnd he soon saw
the tear glistening in his large Jack eye, and
then rolling down the bronzed cheek of this
intellectual giant, nnd Hottest John said to
himself. "Well. I'm not so great a fool neith
er." When Webster had finished reading.
he drew a long breath, nnd grasped the hand
of Honest John, and said, Sir, it is the finest
letter I ever read in my life." Now. my
fair hearers, have you any idea of the worth
if such a fair Whig as that? I tell you such
a Whig is worth a kingdom; and ihe tears
which she drew forth from the eyes of such
men as John Davis and Darnel Webster, were
more precious than nil the gems that ever
sparkled in a royal diadem.
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From the Mississippi Old Soldier.
STRONG WHIG TEAM.
A Great Third Parti.
For President.
Samuel Swartwout, of France,
For Vice President,
II. G. Runnkls. soon for
At the earnest request of some of the
members of the Opposition, who say they
have not a fair show in the newspaper line,
we have consented to pub!ih their ticket.
They say that it is absolutely necessary lor
them to have a third party; that there must
be a ticket for which all bank directors bank
strikers and bank democrats as well as other
defaulters, can vote. Tuey say that their
ticket is calculated to nick iio all the snecul.i-
tors, sharpers and b nk swindlers in theiD''''y of his position
country, unu inai uiese son oi leuows are
too numerous to be overlooked by the oppo
nents of sound principle. It is also thought
that the ticket is appropriate for the object
in view. Swart wout was once before norm
inated by the Whigs in company with Web
ster, for Vice President, under the head of
'Strong Whig Team,' but Websier has gone
over to Harrison, hence the necessity of re
organization. This is to be the Financiers'
ticket, hence the propriety of having Swart
wout at ihe head of it. Hiram is also a great
financier, nnd of pretty much the same sort
of financiering as that of Swartwout. They
ought, therefore, to go together. There is
no doubt that Ilirun played pretty much the
same game with the Union Bank that Swart
wout did with Uncle Sam. Swartwout has
a little more polish; but then Hiram is the
greatest singer, and the biggest man in a
frolic altogether. It is contemplated by the
friends of this ticket to open a poll in Texas,
in order to save the votes of all Whig spec
ulators and bank directors that have sloped,
and they rightly judge that Hiram is pecu
liarly calculated to superintend the election
in that region.
If this ticket should succeed, it is not vet
ascertained who will compose the cabinet;
but it is settled that Shocco Jones shall be
the Secretary of the Treasury, provided that
he will let Sam and Hiram write some snug
little operations on their own account.
THE JOURNAL,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1840.
OiT The Democracy of Marion turned
out on the 7lh inst, in large numbers not
withstanding the unfavorable stale of the
weather, for the purpose of forming a Dem
ocratic association. Though outnumbered
at the late election, they will renew their
efforts, on behalf of the rights of the peo
ple, with a spirit that betokens their ultimate
success, and their thorough confidence in the
correctness of their principles. Several
sp. riled resolutions were adopted, and steps
were taken which if carried out will dispel
the mists of deception which have been at
tempted to be cast over the minds of the
honest Yeomanry of Marion.
Judge Allen, Mr. Wells of Lincoln, Mr.
Buckner of Pike, and Mr. Pearson each ad
dressed the meeting. A delegation of 30
young men, were appointed to represent the
county at Jefferson city, the present (all.
Let the young men of Old Pike follow up
the example of Maiion, and call a meeting
for this purpose as soon as practicable. j
HON. HENRY CLAY AND GENERAL
JACKSON.
An important crisis has arrived in the his
tory of our government, so much so that it
behooves every friend of his coun'ry to note
well the demeanor of those who participate
in its counsels and of those who from their
private stations sound the clarion of moni
tion. The truth of the preceding sentence
being conceded, we proceed to take a "birds-
eye view" of the conduct of one or two indi
viduals, who are very prominent in the Uni
ted States. We refer to the Hon. Henry
Clay, nnd ex-President Jackson. It will be
recollected that sometime during the month of
August, a Hard cider Convention was held at
Nashville Tennessee for the confirmation of
the brethren of the faith, and ns "a trap to
catch gulls." The Whigs assembled in large
numbers bankers, black-legs, merchants and
other gentlemen of the cloth, not a few.
Among those assembled, was the Hon. Henry
Clay, who officiated as one of the principal
mouth pieces on the occasion. And oh my
country! has it come to this that the distin
guished Clay, can have so far forgotten the
honor ol himself and country, as to leave his
own state on a missionary tour to a whig de
bnuch? It has.
Mr. Clay, during his speech, dealt in the
common slang whang, of the penny or
ators and newspapers of the Hay. Hi
effort at the convention would hive better
suited Ogle of Pennsylvania, "the small po
tatoes of the party."' But general remaiks
were not sufficient for the malevolent feel
ings of the Kentucky St nat-r. It was not
enough lor him to multiply misrepresenta
tion and traduce the present administration.
No, his wounded pride and disappointed a ni
hil ion induced him to invade ihe sanctity of
the Hermitage. He charged General Jack
son with having appointed Edward Livings
ton to office while a defaulter to the general
government. The Old Hero was not in the
city. He had determined to remain at the
Hermitage, nnd if possible to spend the re
mainder of his days in quietude. He was
informed by a friend of what had taken place
They will teach Henry Clay that a corrupt
and intriguing politician, can never injure the
patriot of the Hermitage.
At the last accounts Col. IL M. Johnson,
(the leal Hero of the Thames) was progress
ing nn his tour through Ohio. Great were
the gatherings of the people, and almost an
hounded the enthusiasm which pervaded
them. The Democracy of Ohio are rising
in their might, and are determined to give a
pull, a strong pull and a pull altogether. At
the Young Men's Convention at Mount Ver
non 20 or 25.000 persons were present.
(& We invite the special attention of the
Democrats of "Old Pike," to the call for a
meeting, signed "many Democrats." Pub
lic meetings of the same kind have been held
in Several counties, and we do not wish the
Democracy of this county to be behind in
the promotion of the good cause. Let eve
ry Democrat turn out on the 8th of October
and it will strike terror to the hearts of the
supporters, of Frderal Whiggery. Let do
man young or old remain at home. It ia true
the Democrats are mostly, the hard working
men of our country, and it will be attended
with some inconvenience for them to turn
out; but we believe in the present imergen
cy they will be found at their posts. Once
more we entreat you our countrymen, to
turn out. Leave the axe, the hoe, plough,
and other implements of industry, for one
day and speak in trumpet tongued language,
to the opposers of the poor, and thereby ev
idence, you have a spirit, to assert and defend
your rights.
Col Croghans letters to Gen. Harrison,to
reference to the injustice done him and his
soldiers, in McAfees History of the West,
(which was written under the supervision -of
Gen. Harrison,) have come to light. What
a trembling they make in the camp of the
Federalists! From the smiting of their
knees, one might well imagine that Belshazzar
like, they have seen the hand writing upon
the wall, Mene Mene Tekel thou art weighed
in the balances nnd found wanting. Alas!
poor Feds!
THE LAST WHIG HUMBUG.
The Feds are actually striving to fright
the old women, by telling them President
Van Buren intends taxing their hens and
chickens. Poor Whiggies you must he out
of capital, call on the kitchen servant (Ole.)
he will help you out!
DEMOCRATIC .u EE TING.
There w ill be a meeting of the Democracy
of Pike, in the town of Bowling Green, on
the 2G;h of Septemb. The object of the
meeting is to npoint delegates to the Demo
cratic State Convention, to be held at Jef
ferson City on the 8th of Octofer. Demo
crat let us rally ia solid columns on that
day!
MANY DEMOCRATS.
(CrThe absence of the Editor will ae
count for any deficiencies in the prevent
number.
TABLE OF ELECTIONS.
The following table will be found handy
and useful as a matter of reference. It has
I een compiled with great care, and is believ
ed to lie accurate:
State.
Stat
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Virg.nia
Louisiana
Alabama
Kentucky
in the city, nnd immediately wrote a letter : i",,!'"0
' , j " Illinois
to the Nashville Union denying the state ! Missouri
ment of the Kentucky Senator. To the ' J't".",,
above letter the Honorable Henry Clay re-j Vermont
plied to the public, through the Nashville ' '"orgi.
l Kiit in a min n.r u-liifk &lmua tlia lintnil Maryland
IS I' t
The Old Hero has'epann.-i-..,;.
made a response to the reply of Mr. Clay, in
which he "handles him without gloves."
From the foregoing, ii will be perceived
that the ex-President did not intend to annoy
his opponents in politics, by his presence at
Nashville. He was drawn from his retire
ment to vindicate himself from the foul asper
sions cast upon his character, by the vindic
tive tongue of an eminent statesman, which
poured forth the bitterness of gall in copious
torrents. Genl. Jackson had determined at
one time not to give any public expression of
his sentiments as to the comparative merits
of the two gentlemen who are candidates for
the office of President of the United States.
From this purpose he was forced to depart.
His silence was used as an engine of misrep
resentation, and it was declared in some of
the whig papers that he had become an Hard
ciderite. In consequence of such misrepre
sentation, he has been compelled to give his
views to the public. Will the people of
Tennessee submit to the insult offered to the
CHd Hero by Henry Clayt They will not!
They know his worth and will sustain him.
New Jersey
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New York
Mississippi
Michigan
Arkansaa
MaaaachosetU
Delaware
March
April
July
August
August
September
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November
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Those States marked with a star () choose
members of Congress on the same day that
State officers are chosen.
The electors meet at the capitals of the
respective States in which they are chosen,
on the second day of December, and give
in their ballots for President and Vice Pre
sident. "
Ma. Oql. No less than ft-FlFTEEN
FOGERIESO hae already been detected
and proved in this fellow's speech upon the
President's furniture! Not the slightest reli
ance whatever, can be placed upon art
its statements!
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Tut Mvnr-MAKTa BECOMINO COHVieTia
The Journal of Commerce says that ?Mr.
Biddle has caused the rum ol more ousinesa
men than have been overthrown ny ail outer
causes for the last twenty years.
A gieut man is one who can make his chil
dren obey him when they are out of his sight.
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