Danvers Eagle & Whig Newspapers, 1844-1845, Part 74

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We make no apology for presenting the following Letter to our readers, and only. say that it is not stolen, and was not ,, pick- ed up in the mud." If Pathrick will call up- on us, we will explain the the manner in which we came by it to his entire satisfac- tion.

Letter from Patrick MeNoggin in Danvers, America,-to Michael O'Flanagan, Kil- more, Ircland.

MICHAEL MY DEARY,

The top o' the morning to you Michael, and can't you pick up your little bit things, and be afther coming over to this blessed 'counthry; and bring Sawney, and Bridget, and the twins, and Patrick, and little Mi- chael, and the other twins, and the baby and the rest of 'em? And if you'll be af- ther coming, you can live on the best - of paraties, that can be had for the digging, and then you can have coffee and paraties in the morning, and paraties and tay at night, and mate and paraties for dinner seven days in the week besides Fridays, when you know the Praste won't let us have any mate. Its a land o' liberty, Mi- chael, and we want the sons of the Grane Isle to come over and help us to make a Praisident .- and what's that Pathrick ?- says you. I'll tell you Michael. It's the man that rules the Yankees, and gives the offices to the Irishmen. I want you to come this blessed month, and help us choose Jemmy O'Poke for Praisident; and he's as gude an Irishman as any of us, on- ly he was n't born in his own native coun- thry. It's he that was spaker of the House, when they would n't let him spake at all.

Now, when you come over here Micha- el, my honey, and the big-bellied man from the Custom House tells you to hurrah for Young Hakery, he manes Jemmy O'Poke, that's the son of Zakiel O'Poke, his grand- father. But afther all, Jemmy aint the son of his own father, he's the darlint child of Ould Hakery Jackson, and ould Hakery's mother, you know, was an Irishman. tell ye Mike, this is a great counthry, where you can dig on the rail-road in sum- mer, and live in the Work-house all win- ter, for nothing at all, and no rint to pay.

The Americans have got a great ugly thing here, they call the Tariff, but what it is, it puzzles the likes,o' me to tell you .- They say it's a great fence across the har- 'bors, and all 'round America, to keep off everything the Yankees can make their- selves. So you see, Michael, it makes the Americans have all their own work to do, and, what is worst of all, they get all the money for doin' it. Now Mike, that's what I calls chating. It makes 'em live in their nate houses, and wear their good clothes, and ate their coffee and tay, and drink their mate and paraties, and go to their heretic churches ;-- and aint that downright cha- ting all the good Catholics in Kilmore?

Patrick Mc .Noggin, this side up, FROM KILMORE, IRELAND, TO Patrick in AMERICA,

50 BRogues from Michael O'Flanagan.

Danvers.

And then Michael, don't you sind it to me, and I and Rory, and the rest of us git our brogues for 50 cents, instead of giving Misther Manning, and Misther Dane, the Yankee brogue makers, a Dollar? No we don't, Michael. And why? says you .- Wait a bit, and I'll tell you, my honey, says I. This great lubberly Tariff sticks up his fence in Boston harbor, and stops your nice box of brogues, and tells Path- rick M'Noggin, (and that's me) and Rory,

and the rest of us, " you cant have your

brogues until you pay Uncle Sam enough money to make 'em cost more than Misther Manning's and Misther's Dane's yankee brogues do."

Now I ask you, Michael, aint that chate- ing you? And dont it chate Billy Doon, and Sawney O'Toole, that made the brogues? And doesn't it chate Tommy M'Hide, the Tanner, and Benny M'Blub- ber, the Currier? And isn't it chating the Dooblin folks that made the lasts, and the tools, and the pegs? And aint it a chateing the farmer that sells the paraties, and the carpenter, McAdze, who made the box, and the Praste you confess to, and the Docthur that cured Sawney O'Toole's ninth child of the typhus faver?

I say Mike, dont you in Ireland, and England, and Germany, and France, and all about there, want good houses and mate and tay, as well as the Yankees? And

aint the men that makes brogues in Kil- more, every bit as good as Misther Man- ning, and Misther Dane, and the men that's ( doin their work? And cant them live in mud houses, and ate paraties without any salt, as well as Billy Doon and Sawney O'Toole? Then come over and vote for Young Hakery, that's for the Repale of the tariff. Repale! is the word in Ameri- ca, as well as in Ould Ireland. From Yours, PATHRICK M'NOGGIN.

P. S. I'm done now Michael, and send this by the good stamer Hibernia, and hope you'll get it before she gets there. The Yankees are going to have another kind of a stamer, that aint no stamer at all, but it sends lethers by thunder and lightning, so Michael, cant I send you a lether before it is writ, and get an answer before I sind

it? F. Porter PATHRICK.

TARIFF ANECDOTE. A Locofoco farmer

was mistaken. No, said the farmer, there is no mistake about it, the consumer al- ways pays us much more for the article as the protection amounts to, and you may preach your Whig nonsense till you

are gray, you can't make me believe it .--

Well, said the shoemaker, I will make you a fair proposition, and if your doctrine is true, it is certainly fair. I will deduct the protection on the shoes, and you shall de- duct the protection from the cheese, and so we will make a fair exchange. Agreed,

said the Loco. Upon examination, the protection on shoes was 50 per cent., and that on cheese 9 cents per lb. The poor thousand, a hundred, nay TEN votes may Loco gave it up and backed out, for he turn the scale in Virginia. The chances are found his cheese was only 6 cents per lb. in our favor-we speak advisedly-throw them not away by inactivity! May remorse - the remorse that comes too late-seize upon that Whig who now fails in his duty! in that market, and that after deducting the protection, he would not only have to give away his cheese, but three cents for every pound beside, He went home, hoisted an Ash pole, and now goes for Clay and Pro- The speech of Mr Ketchum, at the Mid- tection. His name can be given if requir- dletown Convention, was one of the best ed

THE GAME OF THE POLK PARTY.

FROM THE RICHMOND WHIG.

that we have heard during the campaign .- On the subject of Texas, he was peculiarly eloquent: Some of his illustrations told well upon the audience.

Are there, said Mr. K., any farmers in The whole study of the busy spirits of the crowd? (Yes, yes, was answered by the party is to suppress facts which militate against them, and to throw into circulation discolored statements and misrepresenta- tions which operate sectionally. For the North they have one set of documents, for the South a totally different set. At the North the Abolitionists are ogled, chucked under the chin, and Clay painted as a mon- ster who breakfasts, dines, and sups upon the sound of the lash and the groans of his tortured slaves! In the South he is furi- ously denounced as an abolitionist; but the tract which insinuates it is not allowed to circulate at the North.

While this game is played on the subject of Abolition, the Abolitionists wooed by the scandalous charges against Mr Clay of his cruelty and mistreatment of his slaves, and the Southern people sought to be dup- ed by the representation that he is an abo- litionist and conciliating the abolitionists, a. game equally profligate and unprincipled is played on the subject of the Tariff. In

Pennsylvania, Polk is held up as THE Tariff candidate on the strength of his letter to Kane-not simply as being friendly to the protection of home industry, but as its en- thusiastic champion, as far more friendly than Mr. Clay, who is insinuated to be rather inimical AT HEART to his own long- cherished policy! At the South, we all know that Polk is supported by the entire strength of the Free Trade party, who look. forward to his election as the era of estab- lishing their baneful abstractions!

her authority extends of right from the Rio del Norte to the Sabine. The title is in dispute. More than all, Mexico and oth- ers claim that the U. States have no busi- ness with Texas, and threaten to go to war if it is annexed. We should have to fight and quarrel with the whole neighborhood to keep it .- New Haven Courier.

But why enlarge upon what every body knows? The "Spoilsmen" and the Texas cohorts are in full activity. Fraud, forge- ry, and misrepresentation are their familiar weapons. They fight for the "spoils," for the command of the Treasury, for the offi-

HOW THE WORK IS TO BE DONE.

The following Plan of Organization of the gallant Whigs of LEDYARD (a little Farming Town in Cayuga Co., which gives about 150 Whig majority out of 450 votes, we heartily commend to the attention and ces of the people, and for the par value of prompt adoption of the Whigs of every their Texas lands, scrip, and bonds, for which they gave a mere song! Splendid fortunes realized in a day from the pockets

Town in the State and in the Union. Don't stop to consider whether you will. "arouse the adversary," as a great many shgely

came to Wheeling market not long ago of the people dazzle their imaginations and deprecate; the adversary will get all the Now Michael, ye're a nice cobbler, and with cheese to sell. He made a bargain nerve their exertions. They will leave no votes you don't, whether you arouse them

making a brogue, or tapping a shoe,-and, supposin you wants to make fifty brogues, for me and Rory O'Scroggin, and the rest of us that's diggin on the Danvers Rail- road. Don't ye just go to Kilkenny, and buy your leather of Tommy M'Hide, the tanner, and don't you git Benny McBlub- ber to curry it? And don't you go to Doob- lin and git your lasts, and your tools, and your pegs, and your lining skins, and bind- ing skins? And don't you cut out your brogues, and then git Billy Doon and Saw- ney O'Toole that's glad to get tenpence a day, to make 'em up? And then, don't you get M'Adze, the carpinter, to make a nate box to put 'em in, and don't you mark it on the top in this way?

you should exert less energy than the mon- grel and piebald party-Disunion and anti- Tariff at the South, Tariff at the North, Dorrites, Repudiators, Mormons, and Dis- unionists, who are banded together by the "cohesive power of the public plunder;" with no principle in common, with no fixed and ascertained system of national policy in view! A crisis of the most momentous im- port hangs over the Union, and every man must now put his shoulder to the wheel .- He must not simply vote, but he must go forth and mix, and talk, and reason, with with the People. The day approaches closely, and for one month EVERY WHIG ought to exert himself within his sphere. A

hundreds.) Is there a Locofoco farmer here! (Some one in the crowd said, yes_) Very well, said Mr K. you are just the man I want to see. Now, my friend, let. me ask you one question ___ If you had land'e: nough for yourself and your children, and your children's children-good fat land, would you wish to buy any more? (The Loco thought not, and the audience laugh- ed.) Well, my friend, would you wish to buy more land if it had a mortgage on it ?== (No, no.) Would you wish to buy it, if, besides having a mortgage on it, the title was in dispute, and you had got to go to law to settle it? (No, no.) Would you wish to buy it if, besides having a mortgage and a law suit, you had got to fight and quarrel with the whole neighborhood to keep it? (No, no, no.). Well then, my friends, never vote for men who are in fa- vor of the Annexation of Texas. Her 10 or 20 million is a mortgage upon every foot of her soil, that, if annexed to this country, must be paid. Mexico claims that Texas is her's- that by possession and by treaty,

'er not. Don't rely on Mass Meetings and eminent Speakers-these are only useful to animate you to do your duty in your Towns. ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY, is the Whig motto; and it will be found as salutary in Politics as in every thing else. Do not have Speechesieven from your own mem- bers for the mere sake of speaking, but at- tend to Organization, Distribution of Doc- uments, counteraction of Loco Foco devi- ces, etc first, and then have some plain, practical remarks, or a Speech or Tract read, containing valuable information, --- 'Meet in School Houses or Dwellings where you can, since many Whigs will not attend at public houses. In short, look at this programme of the Whigs of Ledyard, and go and do likewise.

TOWN OF LEDYARD. 'Organization by Home Industry.

The Whigs of the unconquered and un- conquerable Town of Ledyard, (Cayuga "Co.) while they are at all times ready to aid their fellow Whigs in the great Mass Meetings holding in' other Counties, are determined that the work of Organization shall be thoroughly done up AT HOME .- They have accordingly arranged the fol- flowing Meetings, to be held at the times and places mentioned. At each of the Meetings, Speakers will be in attendance "to discuss the great topics of the day. No postponement, in any case, on account of weather :

At Levanna, at the house of D. Howard, on Saturday, the 29th of August, at 2 P. M. (At this Meeting a Liberty Pole will be raised.)

At School House, Carter's Mills, Thurs- day, 29th Aug. 7 P. M.

At School House, Coonley's Corners Thursday, 5th Sept. 7 P. M.

At School House, near Luke Ellis's, Thurs- day, 12th Sept. 7 P. M.

At School House, Barber's Corners, Thurs- day, 19th Sept. 7 P. M. &c. &c. HENRY MORGAN, SAM'L S. COONLY, H. R. MENZIE, WM. H. BOGART, Aurora, 17th August, 1844.

MR. POLK'S ANSWER AS TO HIS

LATE OPINIONS UPON THE ster's address; Sons of Temperance. TARIFE.

Yours, &c. in great haste.

HON. DANIEL P. KING.

Monday's Boston Courier has the fol. lowing note, in reference to the candidate nominated for Congress from this Dis- trict.

The second district will be represented recollected that in 1843 the party who re- "by the Hon. Daniel P. King-will be rep- resented, we say with much confidence; for we know the intelligence of its popula- tion, and the warm approbation which has followed this patriotic Representative for his sedulous labors, last winter, in the cause of the republic, and of human liberty .- Therefore, upon that intelligence, and up- on such appreciation of his patriotism, we predicate the triumphant return of the nominee.

ESSEX COUNTY WHIG CONVENTION.

At the convention held. at Ipswich, on Tuesday last, the following gentlemen were nominated as candidates for State Senators: Francis S. Newhall, of Lynn. Resolved, That the Senators and Repre- sentatives of Massachusetts, in the Con- gress of the United States, be requested to spare no exertions to oppose, and if possi- ble, to prevent, the adoption of the propo- sition referred to. Alfred Kittredge, of Haverhill. Thomas J. Clark, of Salisbury. George Wheatland, of Salem. Edward Kimball, Jr., of Wenham. J. C. Perkins, Esq., Chairman of Com- mittee on Resolutions, reported a very able set of Resolutions, which were unanimous- ernor, MARCUS MORTON, and forwarded to ly adopted. We regret that we have not room to copy them into our paper.

Contentment-the key to happiness.

DANVER'S WHIG.

DANVERS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1844.

FOR PRESIDENT, Henry Clay, Of Kentucky.

FOR VICE PRESIDENT, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Of New Jersey.

FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE M. BRIGGS, FOR LIEUT. GOVERNOR, JOHN REED.

For Representative to Congress, 2d district, DANIEL P. KING, OF DANVERS.

Outside-1st page .- Important Letter; Tariff Anecdote; The game of the Polk In behalf of party; Extract from Speech of Mr. Ketch- um; How the work is to be done.

4th Page .- The farmer; Kyanized Tim- ber for Railways; Mr. Clay's Democracy; The Debt of Texas; Extract from Web-

Dont forget to read the important letter, on our first page :- It's the richest they are it should certainly be yielded to

thing of the kind we have ever read.

THE WHIG VIGILANCE COMMITTEE Will meet THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, at the Whig Head Quarters-Osborn's Build- ing, near the Monument.

Subscribers to the Danvers Whig, are requested to forward the amount of their subscriptions as soon as convenient.

under the name of Democracy. It will be. joice in that name, carried the State of Massachusetts. There was a Democratic Senate, a tie in the House, and a Demo- cratic Governor. Among the doings of the Legislature of that winter, we find the following resolutions, UNANIMOUSLY PASSED.

Resolved, That under no circumstances whatsoever, can the people of Massachu- setts regard the project to admit Texas in- to the Union, in any other light than as dangerous to its continuance in peace, in prosperity, and in the enjoyment of those blessings which it is the object of a free Government to secure.

This was signed by the Democratic Gov- our Senators and Representatives in Con- gress.

ed of as a Candidate for the Presidency, or their own will than to the promotion of the John Tyler had yielded his peculiar claim

best interests of the Country. This illus- to the Texas project, the following resolu- tration of the consequence of the election tion was passed in the Legislature, with of the democratic candidate, by a compar- the unanimous consent of the Democratic portion, and was heartily responded to by the Democracy all over the State. rison with a vessel engaged in the African Slave Trade was eminently appropriate .- We consider Mr. POLK a slaver of the blackest dye.

Resolved, That the power to unite an in- dependent foreign State with the United States is not among the powers delegated to the General Government, by the Consti- tution of the United States.

PRICES OF LABOR.

It is a matter of complaint with those who go for "free trade," that a protective tariff does not increase the wages of the la- Resolved, That the project of the Annera- tion of Texas, unless arrested on the thres- hold, may tend to drive these States into a dissolution of the Union, and will furnish new calumnies against Republican Govern- ments, by exposing the gross contradiction of a people professing to be free, and yet seek- borer, but inures to the benefit of the man- ufacturing capitalist. This charge is total- ly false. That the capitalist will employ the laborers as cheap as he can, is very ing to extend and perpetuate the subjection of true; and it is as true, that the price of that their Slaves.

labor will be according to the demand,- Last June, four months after the above What we want then is, to increase the de- resolutions were passed, the Delegates of the Democracy from this State, of whom mand for labor, by allowing American la- borers to perform our labor instead of for- were three members of the Legislature of 1843 and their democratic Governor, MAR- CUS MORTON, met at Baltimore, and subscribed to the following resolution: eigners. The wages of the laborers will regulate themselves, If there is a great demand for labor, it will bring a high price, if not, a correspondingly low one. There is certainly no more opportunity for the capitalist to take advantage of the laborer Resolved, That the re-annexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period, is a great American measure, which this Convention recommend to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union. when labor is in great demand, and the compeition great, than when labor is low and thousands are out of employ. That protective policy then which created a de- mand for labor, is of the greatest and most direct benefit to the laborer himself.

In one resolution they say, that " under no circumstances whatsoever, " can Massa- chusetts regard the proposition to admit Texas into the Union, in any other light than as dangerous to our PEACE AND PROS- PERITY. In the next, that the power to unite a foreign independent State with the United States is not delegated to the general

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICA- TIONS.

The virulent misrepresentations that have Government by the Constitution of the United been made by the enemies of Mr. Clay, in States. And next-wonderful consistency relation to the part that he took in elevat- -that the annexation of Texas "IS A GREAT AMERICAN MEASURE," which they " recom- mend to the cordial support of the democ- racy.

Now which of these resolutions are DEM-

subject. We rejoice at their publication.

OCRATIC resolutions? Are they all? If They prove to a demonstration, what those who best know him never doubted, that he that party that their principles cover the whole ground. Is it at all to be wondered at, that such a party should be for a pro- tective Tariff, and against a protective is devoted, at all times, public and private, heart and soul, to the advancement of his country's good. That no personal considera= Tariff,-for any great measure, and against any great measure, as expediency may dic- tate ;- one day opposing the annexation of Texas in the strongest manner, the next

"hurrahing' for the land of the "lone star," "Polk, Dallas and Texas?" If it were not upon such an important subject, we should

from a party who boastingly talk about con-

sistency as if they were familiar with it !- Well, as the "down East" Democrat said,

"Democracy is Democracy."

MR. CHOATE'S ADDRESS. On Monday evening, the citizens of Dan- vers were favored with an address from the Hon. Rufus Choate, which for thrilling el- oquence and pointed effect, excelled any-

tions or personal partialities will ever tempt him for a moment to deviate from the path of duty. Instead of operating against him, as was confidently asserted by the opposi- tion presses, when viewed in connection with all the circumstances of the case, they will be found honorable and creditable in the highest degree. We hope every intelli- gent and fair man will give them a candid perusal.

For the Whig. BIRTHS IN DANVERS.

We learn by the Town Clerk's record that the School Committee have returned to him, agreeably to law 159, as the num- ber of births in Danvers for the year, end- ing in May last. We also learn that the prospect is very encouraging for a still lar- thing we have before heard. He spoke of ger number for the present year. While we heartily congratulate our citizens on the the several prominent topics, involved in the coming election-the protection of A- merican labor, -- the perpetuity ofslavery by the proposed annexation of Texas,-the comparative ability of the two prom- indications of prosperity in this department of home production, we are filled with ap- prehension for our Salem neighbors, as we understand the School Committee of that inent candidates for the Presidency to the subject. How any Massachusetts man could hear this argument, and then vote for Mr. POLK either directly or indirectly, is administer a good government, in a manner that showed him to be entirely master of their population. city, have only returned three births for the whole year! What can this mean? Has old Salem become a community of Sha- kers? or how do they intend to replenish What are they to do with their nurses, and in this time of gen- eral health, how do they support their phy- sicians? After making a great outlay of capital in building School-houses, what are they to do for scholars, and what will be done with the supernumerary cradles ?- > We hope our neighbors will take these questions into serious consideration before

more than we can reconcile with common common intelligence, or common honesty. Such persons must be more devoted to par-

Last February, before Polk was dream- ty than to principle; to the gratification of they persist in turning from the good old

ing Mr. ADAMS to the Presidency, has in- duced his friend Mr. Leigh of Virginia to give tothe public tire letters of Mr. CLAY written to his correspondent Blair, on that

THE DEMOCRACY AND TEXAS! What curious things are sometimes done call it at best ludicrous; and then it comes

Ledyard Clay Club.

was of their fathers, and we beseech them noto rely on any new-fangled notions of Esculabions, or other such modern innova- tions. We hope, however, the case is not

It would be a sad calamity, if our loco-| which God has blessed the American state's. foco fellow citizens should bodily flee from our town, as the 'Mormons are said to be

The inquiry is often made, Whence did and anciently was written de Anverso, or Danvers receive its name? It is an inno- D'Anvers; he derived his descent from Roland d'Danverso, one of the companions in arms, of William the Conqueror. cent curiosity, felt by men in general, to know for whom they were themselves chris- tened, and whence the name of their place of residence was derived.

RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES IN DANVERS.

It is not many years since, and within the recollection of our citizens not yet pass- ed the middle age of life, that there were only three religious societies in this town, namely: the North and South Parish, and the Baptist at New Mills. Now there are ten. The venerable Rev. Dr. Wadsworth remarked not many years previous to his death, that his parish had not increased a single family during the whole time of his ministry, then probably twenty or thirty

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Danvers Eagle & Whig Newspapers, 1844-1845, Part 74

Author: Samuel T. Damon (Danvers Eagle) / Danvers Whig publisher unknown. Publication date: Publisher: Number of Pages: 139

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