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VOICE OF THE PEOPEE. M E iv S e r i e s .] A u b u r n , O c t o b e r 2 6 , 1 8 3 9 . [Mo. 6: ffiotce of tftc 3 |eojple« Small Bills Sf JV*j Sub-Treasury. For Senator, 1th Senate District, Mark H. Sibley. For Members of Assembly. Darius Adams, John M cIntosh, John W. McFadden. Above we give the Whig ticket, as it is pre sented to the Electors for the ensuing election ; and we feel confident that it is one, in the support of which every lover of his country, and friend of good order, can unite with energy. Messrs. ADAMS, MclNTOSH and McFADDEN, are known to our electors; and being thus known, they cannot fail to lie respected. It is altogether a most respectable ticket—one which must lead us on to victory. To the Onset ! •Dem o cratic W h igs o f C a y u g a C o u n ty : Permit us to remind you of the im portance of the approaching election, and urge .you to immediate action. The election is at hand. Two short Weeks and the ides of No vember will add another seal to Whig principles if we do our duty. Let us he prepared. Our enemies are in the field. Their troops are well drilled, artful and insidious. Beware of their devices and stratagem. They will struggle like ■desperate men in a desperate cause. Their cause is unjust, and will not prevail. Our cause is righteous, and must triumph. They serve demagogues who pay their troops in bribes of money and spoils. We serve ourselves,—an in sulted and injured people, without fee or reward other than the hope of victory. We have tri- umphed twice and can do so again, if the Whigs are vigilant. Our ticket is strong. Our can didates are good. Let us elect every member by a large majority. Let us take the field and be vigilant. Our prospects are flattering. In many towns we have large accessions to our party since last year. Honest Locos even con fess that the leading measures of their party are wrong—ours are democratic. Victory is ours if we do our duty. Fellow W higs: Look well to your outposts. Complete your poll lists, and learn the qualifications of every voter in yoof town. Let all this be done and old Cayuga will contin- »e to stand V istobious , D emocratic and F ree . W illiam R ichardson , Commit. R o b e r t C ook , - H enry P olhemus , ). Atibvtra, Oct. 21,1839. ' The Locos vs. Small Bills. L et our E lectors L ook to it !! A fortnight since the Tocsin made the asser tion that: “ The small note fever has run its course, and is a subject with which the people at the present time, have no more to do than with the abol ishment of imprisonment for debt, or free bank ing. * * * * Small bills circulate in all quarters by sanction o f lam. Whether right or wrong, no one is disposed to disturb their circula tion .” To prove that this was most palpably and un. deniably false, we made a number of extracts from recent publications in the confidence of the President, and followed these by a long list of quotations from the doings of Loco Foco Con. ventions, all serving to show that the SMALL BILL QUESTION IS NOT AT REST—BUT THAT THE LOCO FOCOS ARE DETER MINED TO CHECK THEIR CIRCULA. TION! ! Inorder to show that such is NOW, a t the present time, their determination we con fined our extracts principally to the doings of the present month—And succeeded in arraying such amass of testimony as must be satisfactory to every unbiassed mind, that should the Loco Focos chance by any means to obtain a majori ty in our Legislature, one of their FIRST ACTS will be to carry out the suggestion of Mr. Van Buren’s mouth-piece at Washington, “by RE STRICTING ALL TSSUES OF BANK BILLS BELOW THE DENOMINATION OF TEN DOLLARS FORTHWITH, advancing to high, er denominations as rapidly as the dangerous nature of the disease will admit of more FOR CIBLE remedies.” In answer to this, the Tocsin furnishes- one of the slimmest articles which that paper—so pro verbial for such things, has contained for months. This, is saying a vast deal—but we believe it to he true to the letter. Knowing its former asser tion to be without the least foundation, it dodg es the issue, and runs out of the road for the purpose of saying that once upon a time—years ago—and before the experiment of ’35 and ’36 in such matters had been tried—even some few Whigs had been known to advocate the suppres sion of Small Bills ! But pray what does that prove, admitting it to be so? Why only that a few men who were formerly opposed to Small Bills, were taught their error by the try ing scenes through which the country has since passed. They have become convinced that S mall B ills are Essential for the public good — and of course, like men who love their country; and its best interests, they are now strongly m favor of their circulation. But how is it with the Loco Focos ? Notwithstanding all the evils attending their former “experiment,”—notwith standing the voice of nearly the whole people is in favor of these issues of our responsible Banks in preference to the worthless emissions of shin-plasters, these men still bend all their ef forts towards restricting their circulation;—but as in this part of the country, they are aware that a large proportion of the members even of their own political party, are opposed to any meddling of this question, they basely pretend that nothing of that kind is intended. They wish to make their friends believe that “no otit is disposed to disturb their circulation /” But it wont take. The people cannot be made to place the least confi dence in such assertions, while the events of ev ery day show that the adoption of the SUB- TREASURY scheme, and the consequent sup- pressson of SMALL BILLS are among their choicest measures. To prove that the two schemes go together, it is only necessary to quote the remark of Silas Wright, the only Sen ator in Congress from this State, and the great head of Van Burenism, that “If it (the Sub Treasury) should come in time I to produce a currency EXCLUSIVELY ME- ' TALIC, this would not be the least of its bene fits.” If there are any who are still'disposed to doubt that one of the “FIRST ACTS” of a Loco' leg islature would be to abolish small bills, let him read the following extracts. More might he giv en, but we consider these enough. “ I would myself banish all papet money un der one hundred dollars .- but twenty is the highest mark to which the democratic party lias yet come, and I shall hope to see the next legisla ture of Missouri act up to that mark.”— Letter of Thomas 11. Benton. “ And be it resolved, That in the opinion of this Legislature, no medium or currency should be received in payment o f the revenues of the General Government except gold and silver.” —[Resolutions passed by the {Loco) N. Hampshire Legislature. The New E ra, has recently become the organ of the Postofiice and Custom-House departments of New-York; and may therefore be regarded more than ever as the official organ and mouth- . piece of the Loco Foco party. A recent No. of that paper urges the necessity of, and calls for, a SPEEDY REVIVAL OF T1IE LEGITIMATE CURRENCY OF t h e w o r l d — GOLD AND SILVER ! The hob bies are “ the abolition of all paper money, the prostration o f all banks and the repeal of all char - ters ,”—and should the Loco ticket succeed, their aim would be reached !! The Argus lately very warmly endorsed the political notions and opin ions of the principal Editor of the New Era— and there is scarcely a day passes in which it does not recommend an entire change m our currency, a change to one exclusively pf GOLD AND SILVER ! At the late meeting of the Federal Loco Focos in Brooklyn, the following resolution was adop ted unanimously, and with great enthusiasm ; Resolved, THAT WE FIRMLY DEMAND OF OUR STATE LEGISLATURE THE GRADUAL WITHDRAWAL OF ALL BILLS UNDER THE DENOMINATION OF TW E N TY DOLLARS. A resolution was also passed advising the es tablishment of a STATE SUB TREASURY! So if the Loco Focos succeed, we are soon to be cursed, not only with a NATIONAL SUB TREASURY, but also oue for every State ; for they reason, with not a little force, that “ if th e BANKS ARE UNSAFE DEPOSITARIES OF THE MONIY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, THEY ARE EQU1L- LY UNSAFE AS FINANCIAL AGENTS FOR THE STATS ; * so that the design of the President is now suffic iently manifest—being no less than to ESTAB- . LISH A GREAT TREASURY BANK AT WASHINGTON, W ITH CORRESPONDING BRANCHES IN EVERY STATE ! all hav ing for their object the increase of the POWER - AND INFLUENCE OF THE PRESIDENT! But perhaps in order to ascertain what would, be the “ FIRST ACT” of a Loco Foco legisla ture in this State, it is only necessary to _ see what has been done by them in others, Scarcely had that party gained an ascendancy in Ohio, before ALL SMALL BILLS WERE RESTRICTED, and the people are now suffer ing all the evils in that state which were felt so seriously during the same experiment here ! In Pennsylvania the party are in full power, and Gov. Porter has just declared open war upon
