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IDLE HOURS.
Character of ou'spapers.
How much i haracter there is in the superfr- *
ci.il aspect of a newspaper ! It is a circulating 1
portrait of its editor, physiognomy and craniolo
gy in vsrv page. The notion of a large man
or a little man, a tall manor a abort man, is link- 1
ed with each sheet; and taking up one of those
tebdominals, the figure of its editor rises before
us as distinct as if he were not three feet off.
Aye. do what thou wilt. Monsieur Goosequill—
be bachelor, hermit or misanthropist—thou art
seen and known; thy whimwhams and oddities,
thy queer notions and crooked habits, even thy
phiz, is circulated with each sheet thy carrier
distributes. There is a sort of inseparable per
sonality in the affair; no need of multiplying por
traits or miniatures of that portion of the human
race, yclept < ditora ; no need of biographries or
auto-biographies;—only turnover your file pa
pers, reader, and take a general introduction to
the corps editorial.
First comes a huge, clear printed sheet; this
chap must be doing well in the world. His luc
ubrations arc long and polished— not penned as
if they had been interrupted by the perplexities
of businss. Some blunders in typography’, one
mans name spelt wrong, and one little runaway
DCgro turned on his head—but then he is not
always in his office, and not afraid of criticism.
A middle sized, portly, gentlemanly-looking
personage, doubtless, with a well brushed coat
and a well furred hat, and no lack of the needful
in his pocket.
Take up the next large sheet, filled with ad
vertisements. Now this man looks to the profi
table. No long speculations in politics, on this
side and on that,congress orations of two pages,
end “ to be continued” at the end—no calls to
the polls, Btc. &c. And as for Europe, a fig for
it! VVho cares how many empires turn over,
bow many armies turn out, and how many kings
crc turned out ?—he takes care of his own little
empire, a newspaper, and let that only flourish
in peace and plenty’, the world may wag as it
will. He must be a tall, thin, dark-looking man,
with an eye that seldom turns to the right or left.
He has a wife, too, to share his earthly
cares and joys, and lucky dog, he must have hit
on just the right sort of one. When ever a
man of any sense finds his worldly affairs grow
ing desperate,he always takes to himself a wife,
and this grand experiment has one recommen
dation—it is always kill or cure; she either con
trives to mend matters, or she puts the finishing
stroke to ruin: and either way.—
That next editor must be a batchelor. His
little periodical is so superfinely printed, so
fantastically embellished, with houses and trees,
fit for a souvenir. No letters misplaced, no
wedding couples flourishing under the head of
obituary, nor the dead transferred to the alter :
of Hymen. He evidently has no wife; for a bad
one would distract him with her clatter and
turmoil, and a good one, would only win him
from business. His newspaper is evidently his
sole love. It ha3 some especial advantages,
too, over all feminine appendages; it is neither
obtrusive nor loquacious. Docs it not wear
whatever garb he pleases to put on, and is it not
grave or gay, kind or severe, at his bidding?—
whereas, these wives are sometimes unruly ani
mals, either to coax or drive.
As many men differ from each other but by
trifling qualities, so between many newspapers
the shades of distinction are lightly drawn; oth
ots, like tbeir authors are broadly marked and
easily read. Look at that little coarse, greyish,
sturdy seven-by-nine, with letters huge enough
to granish a signpost, as if meant for the blind
to read!—Lord bless us ! see the fingers and
thumbs pointing this way and that way, and
exclamation points enough for three modern
tragedies. A genuine little roysterer. All the
uproar in its power this little paper is determin
ed to make. What a talker that editor must
be !—a short, stout man, with a very big mouth;
one who wears goggles, and lives in some place
where the wind always blows a gale. He
doubtless numbers among his household deities
some half a dozen shouting, whoop and hallow
ing urchins, and learned his emphasis by prac
tising in that modern Babel—a domestic circle.
Strange Demosthenes never thought of a nurs
erv when he sought the sea shore to strengthen
his lungs.
The Boston Statesman relates the following
anecdote of Mr. Vanderlin the distinguished
American painter.
When Aaron Burr was in his zenith, he
happened to be travelling in the western parts of
New-York, and stopping one day at a tavern,
he saw what he took to be a fine engraving of
uncommon vigor. He spoke of it to the land
or.l, and was not a littlo amazed when he was
told that it was a drawing made with a pen, by
a stupid boy of his, an apprentice to the black
smith’s trade, of whom he feard ho should
neverbe able to make any thing. Burr sent
for the boy and was so much.p'eased w iih him,
tint he tr.. > obtain him, but his master sus
pecting some secret value in his apprentice,
woulU not part with him at least on any terms.
‘T.iKea shirt with you,’ said Burr in pacing the
bov, come to New-York w'”o you can get a
chance, and ask for Aaron)Rorr —he will lake
cure ofyou. Some time h*i passed away and
Burr had forgot the incident, when one morning
at breakfast, in came tho strange-looking boy°,
and as he approached, he plucked out a bundle
Irom his pocket and gave it to him. The
Colonel was not a little amused to find it a shirt.
Here began the acquaintance, here the eminence
of \ anderlin; and Heaven so ordered it, that
” hen Aaron Burr,the Julius Cmsarofourcountry,
un3 in the wane, V anderlin, who had just left
Paris, warm with favor and rich with all that
mikes life comfortable, encountered him in his
late desolation, and in his turn administered to
the necessity of hi3 benefactor. a
J Tliplendid Thpeaktr.—The editor ofthe
Witness, published in Middletown (ConD.)ill
naturedlv publishes at full length,the only speech
fan aspiring member ofthe legislature, during
three years. He says tho reader must “imagine :
the tall and imposing figure of tho orator redu- 1
ccd to an angle of forty five degrees—-his legs, ‘
crook-ant —his arms, ramp-ant —his hands ,
grab—ant—his eyes squint-ant —the scintillationo i
of genius flashing from the latter in such quick
succession, that they form a halo of glory
around his splendid head and expressive face.
Here is the speech'.
’’Mithter Thpeakcr— Ath I had the honor
to mtroduth thith bill, I think it ought to path,”
THE WESTERN HERALD.
j
AURARIA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBERS!, 1833. I
We arc authorized toanouncc the name ofMnj
JOEL CRAWFORD, ofHancock county, for Governor
at the ensuing Election.
—: 2J2K :
Wc understand that a part of the state hands are on
the road from Gainesville to this place, about three miles
lliis side of Gainesville, and seventeen from here.
The case of Killian for the murder of Pryor, in Panld
ing county, a few weeks since, could not be tried last
week at Paulding Court for the want of a Jury, so few
persons were in attendance at Court, that a full Panuel
of Jurymen could not be had. The prisoner was sent to
Campbell county jail.
Governor Lumpkin and Ratification. —It is U9ual for men
holding high offices, to take sides upon all political ques
-1 tions. The Federal Union says, that Governor Lump
kin is decidedly in favor of Ratification; but it is so com
mon with his Excellency when he goes to take sides, to
take both sides,that we shall not be surprised to see it con
tradicted, and evidences furnished sufficient to satisfy any
reasonable man, that he now is, or has been opposed to
Ratification. It would be more safe for the Federal Union
in speaking of the Governor’s principles, to say that h e
was on such a day, at such a place, for such and such prin
ciples, so as to allow the Governor fair room for turning,
which he can do with as much facility, as he can change
. his linen.
The Governor, ti. The Laws and Constitution egain. —
It does appear to us, that the Governor with his f-reat anx
iety to be popular, has been truly unfortunate in selecting
tools for the purpose of carrying on the business of the
“ Mighty workshop.” We say unfortunate, not by way
of implicating those to whom lie has given offices and ap
pointments, but to show the ignorance of his Excellency,
of the laws and Constitution of this state, which laws
and constitution, he is sworn as the Chief Magistrate of
Georgia to support and defend. In addition to the cases
: enumerated in tha Georgia Journal, of Cleveland, Ward,
; and others, where the Governor run rough shod over the
oath he had taken, by giving appointments to members
of the Legislature, expressly forbidden in the Constitu
tion; he a few weeks since, made an appointment equally
unfortunate, to wit: Captain Mats, of UeKalb county,
a member of the Legislature, and a candidate for re-elec
tion, to be enrolling agent: But the “unfortunate publi
cation*’in the Journal, as the Federal Union pleases to
term it, or some other circumstance it seems, has cither
enlightened or alarmed the Governor and his agent, that
the Governor had better look well to his oath, even if he
was a candidate and the election closely approaching,
and the Captain was sent for, or went of his own accord
to the JV/ighty Workshop, and tendered his resignation
as enrolling agent, in order to relieve the Superintendent
from a difficulty which his restless anxiety had brought
upon him. Dr. Calhoun went down with the Captain,
expecting to fill the vacancy, but the Governor discovered
all at once, that there was no necessity for such an officer
at this time; hence he has suspended making any appoint
ment for the present; keeping as many of his aids in ex
pectancy as possible, until after the election.
When a member of the Legislature is elected and sworn
in as such, he is that moment disqualified under the Con
stitution from holding any office of profit, until his mem
bership ceases, which does not take place until his suc
cessor is elected and qualified. For the members arc al
ways subject to convene at the call of the Executive, be
tween the regular times of meeting. Why is it that Gov.
Lumpkin is thus disposed openly, to violate the constitu
tion, which he has sworn to support and defend, must be
cither attributed to his want of knowledge, or his want of
honesty. If he id soignorant of tli” provisions of the laws
and constitution of the state, aftc: so many years spent in
her public service, it is time that the people were relieved
from so gross an imposition, as has been practised upoil
them by the Governor himself, and hi feeble aids, and
selfish auxiliaries, in palming him on them. If he is so
corrupt, as knowingly and wilfully, to violate his oath for
th<? purpose of self-aggrandizement, he is tco base to be
trusted with the most responsible office within the gift of
the people of Georgia, and therefore, deserves to be driven
into the shades of retirement for the balance of his life.
-••aw*.—
The Governor and his Political Friends, vs. his Political
Enemies. Os all the charges which luivc been brought
against Governor Lumpkin, during his administration,
we have heard none, which moredecply stamps corruption
upon his Excellency, than his conduct in issuing grants to
to lands in the Cherokee countiy; ifhe has been so grossly
slandered in relation to this matter, and if all we hear up
on the subject is false, we regret that we live in a com
munity where the people are eo corrupt as to do so much
injustice to any individual. But “if wb ß t every body
says must be true,” or “where there is so much smoke,
there must be some fire.”|There is cause at least for believ
ing, that his Excellency has; laid himself open for suspi-
l clon b y •”* conduct towards applicants for grants to
l landß m this country. There is one individual in this
place that says, he applied to liis Excellency for a Grant
for a Lot in this county, and the Governor refused it, upon
the ground that there was an Indian improvement on it,
and says that upon coming out ofthe state-house, he met
one of the Governor’s political friends, who was a person
al friend of hia, and that he requested him to make appli
cation for the same grant, which he assented to and done
forthwith, and the grant was issued without hesitation.
We have also heard from a respectable source in Forsyth
county, that the charges made in the Cherokee Ptusnix
upon the subject ofthe Governors fayoring a particular
company of speculators in this country, by issuing grants
to them, which had been refused to other applicants, was
susceptible of proof. Divers other cases of a simila’r na
turc have been mentioned in our hearing, and wc belie ved
at this time, there arc but few in this section of countt) , f
so much prejudiced by political Influence, who do not be- (
lieve, that there is some ground for the many ’chargees
which has been made, and aro afloat in the country, in re
lation to the Governor's conduct in favoring his political
friends in this matter Whether he is, or is not, concerned
with a company of speculators, as charged in thoPhccnix, j
and denied by the Federal Union, wc know, nor care (
not, but one thing we elo know, that if ho grants lands (
w hich the legislature has reserved for the occupancy ot
the Indians, he is acting badly towards the state, by vio
lating hcrlaws, and by issuing grants to one, which he
hadjust refused to another,in our humble opinion,and iftrue
disqualifies him completely, for the further confidence of a
pocplc, claiming for themselves, flic character of honesty.
RafijifaWeii, or .Vo Ratification in the I Vest. —Wc un
derstand that the friends of tlus unequal, unjust system,
attempted to be palmed upon the people for political pur
-1 post s, speak of the W cstem counties, as their strong hold I
| for Ratification. We have been in most of the counties ;
■ in the Cherokee country, and some of the adjacent ones, :
■ and from our observations, wc arc diaposedto defend the ,
’ people living here from any such slanderous charge; al
though the country is new, and our means of information
upon general subjects, perhaps more limited, than tho9C
whose fortune it is to live in other places. Yet wc never
can consent to vote for any measure that will so complete
change the form of our government, as the one proposed ,
to us by the late Reduction Convention
What, to alter our Constitution under vvliich wc have
lived and prospered so long; merely togratiiy a few politi
cal demagogues, who arc always thirsting for power at |
the sacrifice and expense ol the peoples rights; to consent |
that minorities shall spring up with a licence to rule, and
govern majorities in our state legislature; to say to the ,
northern fanatics, whose rule of light towards us is op
pression; that we arc willing to destroy the federal basis
of representation, and thereby yield so far to the Northern
policy, as to enable them, from our own conduct upon
this occasion, to deprive us of a considerable portion of
that weight and influence, which we now have in Con
gress. We cannot, we will not vote for Ratification-
It is true a Reduction in our state Legislature upon
equal principles, would be desirable to all of us, and it is
no less true, that we will use our influence to effect it,
provided the country and the people, can be benefitted by
• it, and we believe that if the present plan is rejected, that
. some speedy measure will be taken to bring about an ob
, ject so very desirable, which can be done upon mnch bet
i ter terms than the plan now proposed to flic people.
FOR THE WESTERN HERALD.
A STRONG ARGUMENT FOR
RATIFICATION.
Messrs. Editors —What our opponents ad
mit, it is surely fair to claim. In a late stump
speech by one of the advocates of ratification
in Hall—the speaker remarked to his audi
ence, it was clear all the intelligence of the state
was against Ratification, and therefore observ
ed he “if we homespun fellows don’t vote for
Ratification it can’t carry.” The argument
certainly should have a converting influence,
but, whether for or against the speaker, let in
telligence determine. C.
FOR THE WESTERN IIERAI.D.
TO THE VOTERS OF THE CHEROKEE
CIRCUIT.
In addition to the various and multiplied ex
positions which have been given you in connex
ion with the rest of the people of Georgia, show
ing the oppression and injustice of the propos
ed alterations to our Constitution, there is one
view which afreets you peculiarly above every
other portion of the State.
The Convention has seen fit to throw you into
the scale, for the purpose of weighing your po
litical influence before many of youi counties
are even one year old. Is It fair thus to weigh
you in your infancy, and to give you no more
weight during your existence ? Suppose the
county of Lumpkin, of which there is strong
probability,shall in three years or less time equal
the county of Hall, in white population? Where
is the justice in denying Lumpkin county the
same representation that Hall has? Suppose
that each county in your Circuit, shall have a
population ot twelve thousand, would it be just
or righteous, to debar the Circuit of Cherokee
of twenty additional members, to which she
would be entitled under the Constitution as it
now stands? If you think it would, and will
consent to be weighed in your infancy before
your country is populated to its tenth, or even
hundredth degree, then sanction the measure.
Men have a right to transfer both their natural
and acquired rights, it belongs however, to
fools to give them away and receive nothing in
return. Your feliow Citizen. C.
’ COMMUNICATED.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas “ The few, feeble, and selfish aids
of the Mighty Workshop,” hut tgot ‘ the Super
intendent into divers difficulties.
And whereas, the first Monday in October
next, is a day fraught with all sorts of dangers,
and the people seem determined right or wrong,
to make me atone for all my political sins:
And whereas, they are continually raking up
and bringing to light old matters, that I have
lopg since covered up so snugly, that I could
scarcely have found them again myself, and
with all my sagacity, in the turning business,
I could not have turned, to them,
And whereas; I am about to be turned out of
the W orkshop, and cease turning from that time
hence forward and forever: Ar.d whereas the
‘ great interest of the State,’ requires that I
I should be re-elected, and my vanity fully served
out:
And whereas; if re-elected, I shall have it in
my power to fill a great many offices by exec
utive appointment: And whereas, I will have
all the new offices created in my power, where
there is the least chance to fill them with my
own sort of folks :
And whereas, I can only receive the power
to do this from the “sovereign people ofthe State,” j
I have thought proper to issue this my Procla- j
(nation, offering some office of honor of profit
to every man who will vote for me, and use his 1
influence in my election, “ speaking as though I
I teas not present,” as it is a matter of extreme I
delicacy even to me, to have to buy lovor m
this way all my life.
Given under my hand at the Mighty “
on tho 31st day of August in the year 183 ,
with the great Seal of the Stato Hous° an
nexed. WE’L. LUMP’UM, (i- s-)
“Editors in Georgia friendly to the great in
terest of the state, will please publish the above
one time in their respective papers,’ by order ot
the Superintendent of the MightyVV orhshop.
COL. TOM TROTI,
Sec. to the Executive De’ment. j
TOR THU WESTERN HERALD.
Hall county Georgia, Sept. 10 th, 1633.
An advertisement was found on a Sign Board
about six miles below Gainesville, on the new
road to Lawrenceville, on Friday last, the day
of the Public Meeting at Karrs, ol which the
i subjoined is a copy.
! NOTICE.
All you Nullifies of Gainesville, who go to
■ Public Dinners for the purpose of t-lectioneer
l ing,—if you don’t have the thumps on the first
Monday in October next, then you may call me
a false prophet; I think you will certainly come
very lar short of electing your candidate for Sen
ate. He will be so far behind that no body will
know him at all, at all.
This morning (Tuesday) this same Notice
was found with the following answer, fastened
to the post of the Sign Board below it.
NOTICE.
j Mr. Sign Board; I hope you will pardon the
intrusionofa“ Nullifier,” inanswerto the above.
■; Your situation in the centre of a Submission
settlement, I know may cause you to have some
i particular partialities to that side of the question,
i but it is my wish to address you as an impartial
i arbiter.
Mi. Sub’s first declaration is to “all the Nul
lifiers of Gainesville, who go to Public Dinners
for the purpose of Electioneering.” Now lam
not an inhabitant of Gainesville, but as to “Nul
lifier” Ido not disclaim the name. In justi
fication then so far as lam concerned, or any
other Republican, we answer that so far from
“electioneering” on Friday last, we went the
“ whole hog” for information. Whilst your par
ty “huzzaed for Ratification,” we listened to the
speakers of the day to gain information, on a
subject so vitally important to the interest of the
freemen of this country.
In the next place he says “if we don’t have
the thumps on the first Monday in October we
may call him a false prophet.” Wc cannot be
lieve him to be a true prophet, because there
can be no “ thumps” in the cause of Republi
canism. If he “ Mr. Sub” bad been at the
meeting on Friday last, he would have seen who
had the thumps. His party after drinking a
good deal of Brandy and not being ablo to raise
a fuss with the “Nullifiers;” began among them
selves, and if they didn’t take the thumps I am
mightily mistaken, for they were as bloody as
butchers and as muddy as hogs. Yet I reckon
they can take a little of the new medicine
“ Lumpkiana Panacea” (which is a kind of a
“king cure all”) before the first Monday in Oc
tober, and they will unite and go for Lumpkin
and Ratification, as loving as ever.
Again he says “ I think you will certainly
come very short of electing your candidate for
Senate. He will be so far behind that nobody
will know him at all, at all.” So ends the chap
ter.
Elected or not elected we can claim for our
Candidate such literary attainments and intelli
gence, as belongs to none of the Candidates on
his side of the question. We by the by, got a
glimpse at the person of his Candidate for Sen
ate, but not at his eye, for that was fixed too low
for the sight of any high minded Republican.
Upon the whole we expect the writei of the
notice has some idea of taking up the cudgel
against the “Nullifiers” instead of * *
*******
NULLIFIER.
! The following is from the Macon Telegraph, a paper
1 supporting the cause of Mr. Lumpkin.
\ (fcs* Our friends in the country may continue
| to remit us SMALL BILLS as usual. What
’ benefit the authors of this absurd law (the one
■ prohibiting the circulation of small bills,) expect
| ed would result from its passage, we cannot
imagine. For ourselves we can see no other
result from it, than great inconvenience to all
class* ; a scarcity of change, and consequently
of money. The idea that it would make specie
plenty in the State, is preposterous ; it will
facilitate its escape out of it. Under the opera
tions of this law specie cannot be retained in
the country. It will be gathered up by the
I negro speculators,the hog and horse merchants,
and be ufw* h° m the State. We trust the law
will be promptly repealed by the next Legis
lature.
Extract from CUv. Lumpkin's Message to the
Legislature. Nov. 6,1832.
“ The issue of Bank notes under five dollars,
should be discontinued, and gold and silver
coin made to supply the place of such notes.
This would at all times keep a considerable
supply of specie in the country; and thereby
enable the Banks to meet sudden pressures, and
would moreover have a strong tendency to
equalize the value of Bank notes and coin.”
The Recorder and the Federal Union are en
gaged in a dispute that is curiously conducted,
at least on one side. The Recorder, takes for
the basis of its calculations, the representatives
at the last Legislature; which are now in office,
and reduces the paltry saving proposed by the
Convention to $13,437. Tho Federal Union
flatly accuses the Recorder o (falsifying the ex
istmg record, and to prove this, they allude to
what the record is to be next year, if the Con
stitution should remain unaltered. It is true,
as the Recorder says, that by the representation
now in office, the savng will be but $13,437.
And it is also true, that twenty pew members
are hereafter to come from the new counties.
Let us give to the Federal Union all that it
claims by anticipation, and their saving can then
be stretched up only to $18,057, or a minute
traction * itei niitc£ clnis and a hall per iieati
for the population *>f the State, putting the whole’
down at 533,710. — Geo. Journal.
GOV. LUMPKIN S CHANGE BILL.
To the Printer sos the Journal:
Gentlemen. —l am a poor hard working
man, and have but little it is true—but that little
■ I have honestly come ly, and it is my own, and
; I have a right, or thought l had a right till lately
jto do with it as I choose. I sold my viheat
! about 3 weeks since, and got some small Ban!;
bills in pay : this money I put by until I could
havo a cn.incc of going into town to buy some
necessaries for ITi y family, not thinking hut that
it was all good passable money’, that I was put
| ting so snugly away, lesterday I had a litt] e
spare time,"so 1 took my horse and went to the
store where I always deal; and got a few pounds
of sugar and coffee put up for me. Havinir
brought my money along w ith me, 1 wanted to
settle for them, and took out a three dollar bill
to pay for them. The store keeper when ho
saw the bill seemed a good deal frightened,
and as there were several people in the store!
asked me to walk aside w itli him. I could not
think what he wanted with me, and began to
guess my money was counterfeit —but after tie
got out, lie whispered to mo that I was running
a great risk of being sued, for offering to pav
away such money; as Gov. Lumpkin hip a l?.v
passed the last Legislature making it c fine Ci
one hundred dollars upon any man offcriniw
pass a note under Five dollars after the Ist of
this month. And he begged me, as he was my
friend, to mind what I was about, because,
though he would not do it himself, yetanyonec!’
the strange men who were left in the store miaht,
if he had taken notice of my money, have sun!
me for one hundreo dollars, and recovered the
amount against me in Court; and if I could not
pay it, put me in jail.
What! said I, a man sued for one hundred
dollars, and may be put in jail for passing rr Wl |
money, honestly come by? Did Lumpkin 4
that ? because if he did, I don’t vote for him
again. The merchant told me it was all Lump'-
kin’s doings, and if I did’nt believe him, come
back in the store, and he would show me Lump,
kin’s last message to the Assembly, to read,
| and in it, I would find the very thing “he told na .
, So I went back with him, and sure enough in
pointed out to me the recommendation. Alter
, I read it, I begged him to let me have some pa
, per, pen and ink ; as I wanted to write it down,
’ to show it to my neighbors—some of whom, 1
, knew were such strong Lumpkin men that they
’ would not. anymore than I would, believe it
, before thev saw it in black and white from his
’ awn hand. I set down, and wrote the part off,
word for word, as follows:
“ The issue of Bank notes under Five Delian,
should, be discontinued, and Gold and Silver cm
made to supply the place of such tiolcs.”
Nov. 6, 1832. Wilson Lumpkin.
Now I recollect to have heard, that there is
: very little Gold money coined in our country
■ “under 5 dollars,” —and that there are no gold
pieces from foreign parts to be found in this
1 country of that description, at least I, an oSI
man never saw one made here or abroad; solk
I don’t see how the stopping ofßank bills undo
five dollars could “ make Gold coin in their
place ;” but as I am a poor ignorant man. and
Governor Lumpkin is, or ought to be, a ven
smart man, knowing all about such things, l'il
let that pass. The reasons he give- for his piai
are, that it will bring a great deal ofmoneyis
the country, and help the Banks. Help tie
rich Banks ! Nothing thought of the poor peo
ple, who like me have some of these small notes,
and have no way of getting them off without
running the risk of being sued ! Hard dollars
| coming in the country —ch! How long first!
One year? Two years? if indeed they ever do
come at all. W hat is the poor man to do with
his small notes? and how am I to get chang*
when I sell my wheat or my pork? How is ray
wife to get change when she sells her butter, her
lard and her chickens. Not sell at all I suppose;
but wait one or two years, until may be, haul
: money will come into the State. The rich tab
are to be helped, eh ; nothing cared for the poor
countryfolks! The law n.a vdo very well fa
Governor Lumpkin himself, who is a rich inl
and gets between 8 and 9 dollars a day for his
pay ; and can go to the State House andgetti*
hard dollars lroin the Treasury: but there’s ma
ny a poor man whose little stock of money ir
made up of 1, 2 and 3 dollar bills, that the law
won’t do at all for ; and I’m one of then).
I hear the Governor wrote to his friend, Mr,
Pemberton, that he was in a Mighty Workshop,
I begin to believe that the Workshop is too bi{
for the old man ; and that he is right when k
says his helps arc mighty scarce, and scrryil
that. I’m afraid the people’s business don’t do
so well in the Work Shop. Where there’soi
sorts oj tvmiZZ 1 darc
“ few” helps, who he anon- are
get their paper money turned into ban* ~
But what’s the rest of the people to do who CM
get to the Lathe?
A poor man fined 100 dollars for passing i
small note ; good money, and honestly comebd
W’ell, that’s queer ,- and Gov. Lumpkin is d*
poor man’s friend, eh! Well, that’s queerW
and after telling you that, I don’t vote for
again, all I have got to say besides, is, that iffeHj
is the poor man’s friend, as he takes a
strange way to show it, I’d rather be withouttoH
friendship than with it—l hope all the sit*
keepers and merchants, will boas kind to
poor farmers in warning them of their
my stole keeper was to me; and that
tell them all about Lumpkin’s Lau\ In doiojH
so, many a worthless scoundrel who would®*M
advantage, will be cut out of the honest gainsc;|
A POOR MAN. I
The Newspapers in the State, friendly tofcll
Poor Farmers, will do them, I believe a servii§|
by publishing the above. I hear there is a P*'K|
per printed in Milledgeville, called the j
Union, which most every time it comes
just bejore an election, talks mightily about
poor man’s l ights. There’s no occasion to
’ Hi to give my piece a place, for I know they"‘-11
do it without asking.