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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. N e w S e r i e s .] A u b u r n , N o v e m b e r 2, 1839. airofce of tfie people. Small Bills JVo Sub-Treasury. For Senator, 1th Senate District, Mark H. Sibley. For Members of Assembly. Darius Adams, John M cIntosh, John VV. McFadden. [No. 7. T H E E A S T C A L L . Before another paper is issued, our Electors will have an opportunity of expressing their opinions and preferences through the ballot box es upon the great questions which now agitate j and distract the country. Let no one refrain from performing this duty on the false and mis taken notion that one vote can do but little good. A single vote has decided some of the greatest and most important questions the country has ever known: and a single vote, in the present case, may settle the whole point at issue. If you are in favor of Small Bills, of a well regu lated Credit System, of a judicious System of Internal Improvement, and of general prosperi ty, vote for the WHIG ticket,—While on the other hand, if you arc in favor of placing the purse and the sword of the nation in the same hand; of the Sub-Treasury with all its blighting consequences; of a currency of Gold and Silver for the Office-holders, and shin-plasters for the People, deposite your vote lor the men put in nomination by the Loco Focos, and your end is gained I ___________________ S P L I T T I C K E T S . All true Whigs must bear m mind that every scheme will be set on foot by our opponents to dtstract our friends. Split tickets will undoubt edly be got out containing one or two of our own candidates, with perhaps some others, for the purpose of thus injuring a ticket, against which nothiug can be said or done openly. Let our friends beware of all such devices—Vote for the Whig ticket—the whole ticket—and we have nothing to fear ! T h e S m a ll B i l l L a w . In answer to our charge against A n d r e w s P resto n , that he voted against the circulation of Small Bills, the editor of the Patriot asserts that the Whigs were once—years ago—in favor of the same measure ! Very true—but so soon as the Whigs saw its evil effect they abandoned it. In this they differ from their opponents, who are at this time pledging [their candidates to go for a total annihilation of all Bank Bills less than $25 !!! Every member of the Loco Foco ticket in New York is PLEDGED, if elec ted, TO GO FOR AN ENTIRE SUPPRES SION OF ALL SMALL BILLS, and to use all legal efforts for accomplishing that object!! So too in other places—and if the party should chance to succeed, there is no doubt bat one of their “FIRST ACTS” would be thus to carry out the recommendation of President V an Buren’s mouth-piece at Washington. The Globe, the Post, and nearly all other papers in the confidence ol Yan Buren, are in favor of such restriction, while a few of their party pa pers in this section, for the purpose of cheating the electors, basely pretend that no such restric tion is intended. ITT\ We give the following as we receive it, leaving our readers to make their own com ments :— M e s s r s . E d i t o r s , — Last week as I was re turning home, I discovered something in the road which I picked up, supposing, till I got home, where I could see what it was, I had found a prize; but, come to find out, it is nothing but a letter to the editors of the Tocsin, stating the troubles of the parti/, by their travelling agent. But here it is, you can perhaps understand it better than I can “ To the cdihrrs o f the Cayuga Tocsin ,— “ I got to Springport last nite, and caried about all the ’lection papers and tocsin papers, jist as you told me afore I started. But I tell you this is’nt the nicest kind a job, for a sood many of the fokes tvould’nt take ’em, no how. I told, ’em I did’nt want no p a y ; but it would’nt do. Some say they like the patriot paper the best, considerable; and some said they did’nt like the idee of gitting Captin Lynds back agin, even if we did beet ’em this 'lection; I tried to argur the matter with ’em, but they would’nt hear to reason; and ile be darn’d if uncle Joe was’nt as bad as the rest on ’em—So I took him aside, and told him you promised if we beet the infarnal whigs this time, Captin Lynds was cornin’ back, and I was to be made un under keeper. Well, that made him worse nor ever— he said squire Goodin and squire Rathbun had promised offices afore about ’lection time—He finally said he had about made up his mind not to vote our ticket, no how—he swore he would never vote for men to put in Lynds and Weed, to whip and starve his poor feller critters, and then have Doctor Briggs Post Mortem ’em. I did’nt know uncle Joe felt so, or I would’nt talk ed so plain to h im ; but I believe the devil has got into the fokcs out here—the vvhigs are a ’most almighty thick out here, that’s a fact—and I be gin to feel kinder streeked. Yon know you wanted me to tell you what the fokes said about our ticket—but I can’t begin. When I got out to the haf aker, I called to the furst tavern and took out some ’lection papers to leave there —a man stepped up and axed what I had got— he took lip one of ’em and said, very good, all but Titus, but he could not be ’lected this year by a long shot, for they said a good many hard things about h im ; 1 axed him privately what it w as; O, he said, the whigs told a darned site o’ lies about him, but then some was true. He said he is always wantin’ office—lie is a rank federal—he is a bad man—he wants a rase course on the ice—and he wants the free bridge cut down, so as all the folks must come by his tavern. And to make a short story, he said he’d be darn’d if he would vote for him. He aint popular, no how you can fix it—and I’ve been thinkin’ it would have been better if we had put on squire Gallup after all. It beets all, how the whigs finds out every thing about our ticket, and our folks. If you can’t find out some way to stop that are John Bull editor we are all used up in this county—specially if you can’t git to git the abbolishunists to put up a therd tickit, the way you talkd on. If you can do that, I rec- con there may he sum hopes fur us, as then the whig abbolishunists would vote abbolishun, but our fokes would all go the reglar nominashun. Our fokes know too mutch to be guild by therd tickets, even if they be abbolishun. “ I did’nt get to Spring mills till arter dark, and they had a whig meetin’ there—and it was a buster, the house was as fuli as it would hold. I thought I’de hear what they would say—there was Huchison of Cayuga tellin’ about the sub treasury and the federal loco focos, and be dam to him, and about Titus wanting to be apinted chairman of the committee on horse-rasing and gamblin’ in the next legislater. Then they call ed on a Mr. Church, and he made a pretty de cent speech for a whig; and then a Mr. Cleve land from Skaneateles, told a long story hbout the Van Burenites, Small bills, and, last of all, he told a pretty good one about hunting possums in old Kentuck. O how I wished Squire Rath bun had been here, to tell ’em the skunk story. I gess that would have touched the spot for ’em. Then kit Morgan got up, and he told about fed- erals, and loco focos, and I tell you I felt pretty solemn for one while; and if you had’nt told me what the wliigs said was all lies, I should have thort I warnt on the best side. General Hurd got up, and he told about the expense of government, the need of reformation, and th« Sub-Treasury with legs, but I gess he was itch- in’ to be a fingerin’ some of the spoils himself; I thort every minit he would tell about C a ttis’ L ynds comix ’ ba c k t o t h e pr iso n a g in if w e got tiie ’lection, but I gess he han’t heard it yet— AND WE MUST KEEP IT DARK TILL ARTER ’LECTION. Then they gave three cheers for Scott, three cheers for Guvner Seward and three cheers for the whig cause—and such a stampin’ and cheer in’ as they made, was a caution. “ If this is the way the Whigs ’lecfionerc we may as well give it up. Captin Lynds’ bein’ beet on the trial hurts us, and Titus bein’ on our ticket hurts us, and I don’t more than half like the looks ot things. Before I got to bed, P. got here, nnd wanted me to go out and see the pris on horse. I gess he druv it too hard, he thinks its foundered, but its only tired out. P. says he had pretty good luck with his bills and Tocsins. To-morrow I shall go to Orrorer, and I want you to send some more papers to me, directed to the Post master, as you know in that way they can come free. I will follow your advice and not sign my name to this, though I hope to grashus no whig will get hold of it, for it tells things I don’t want them to know. Yours.” T o the P o lls, To the P o lls. It is hoped that every person claiming to be a friend to his country, will,early next week depu- ite his vote. One vote may decide kthe victory —Let not that one be withheld ! It is but dull business to hear people tall: of the blessings of ireedom, and of a republican form ot Govern ment,who are not willing to do thus much in sup port ofher Institutions—Institutions for the es tablishing and founding of which their fathers nobly and bravely sacrificed their lives ! Again we say Vote for the best men, and for those who will advocate the best measures! T o th e P o lls, T o t h e P o lls. “ Uncle Sam is crippled and wants money So says the Argus. It is only three or four years since the whole country was in a slate of agita tion to know what had best be done with the in.- |p?ws money of the General Government. At length it was concluded to divide it among the States; and $28,000,000 was thus divided. But the spirit of Van Buren economy has been so ex hibited that it is evident there will be no need of any scheming to get rid of a su r r l u s so long a: he continues at the head of the Government .— 411 his friends must be rewarded—and the ef fect of this is exhibited in the present low state of the Treasury of the nation. Instead of having a surplus, the Government has already issued $ 20 , 000,000 of s h i n - p l a s t e r s — and, according to the Argus, must soon call upon the States for a return af the above $28,000,000 of surplus money ’.
