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tude in getting United States indians back into the Country They will be marshalled to hold the East in check whilst the west will be taken as surprize surrounded by enemies - panick't and confused as they were by him in thirty six Great Brittain the mutual guarantee - the bone picker of necessity, will be standing off ready to perform her office It is the object of our hero to breed anarchy and confusion; he has gone to Washington the very spot where the constitution orig- inated to bury it If we tamely permit him to destroy the compact which gives its corporate form and capacity to the state, we are no longer a people; we have no longer a corporate existance; we have n,_) longer a legal coactive force to bind within, nor a claim to be recog- nised abroad we would then be a number of vague, loose individuals, and nothing more With us all would be, to begin again Alas! we little know how many a weary step is to be taken before· we can fo.-m ourselves into a mass again which has a true politic personality Many are ()f opinion that our hero has been playing a very deep poli- tic game? I admit it; but it has been to subvert the liberties of the Country, which I have proved by the record They think by his secret operations he has worked on the cupidity of great Britain, Mexico and the United States, with a view to coerce the latter to annexation? Why then sacrifice the Navy! Why his great anxiety to treat with united states indians? Let the people be undeceived on that subject; it is the last thing he would desire? I have explained to you his true in- centives; about which he has a more ardent and longing desire- a far greater solicitude, than even Santana himself! Sant Ana by the aid of Mexican and abolition gold - the lure to arbitrary power - the lordly indian domain &c &c can lick his apostate cub into any shape which would be best calculated to answer his own diabolical purposes. We the people have ordered up the cards, and have every thing at hazard on the game, we see plainly that those intrusted with the man- agement of it, have not only deserted the constitutional deck, but are playing with cards having political marks well known to our adversary, and the jingling of Mexican gold under the table, should be enough to rouse our suspicions and put us on our guard If the game be im- mediately wrested from this political black leg, and entrusted to a con- stitutional player possessing honesty, judgement and skill; the game is not yet hopeless; but advantages enough remain, not only to gain our point, but we will make all that can be made on the cards;- we will make a march! This political black-leg has wantonly thrown our table open at all points, and we are up on the board, and the game appears hopeless! Let the box and board be wrested from his charge imme- diately and placed in the hands of a Constitutional, honest and adroit player;- the game is not yet blocked, nor our adversaries table so well guarded, but that he can find an entrance; play the buck game upon him, and not only win the hit, but will shamefully gammon the scoun- drel If however we (the people) permit this unprincipled interested player to use his marked deck and finish the game; it requires no great foresight or skill, to clearly see that we will not only be euchered ; but we will be loo'd and gammoned as sure as the Lord made Moses The old setler does not feel entirely able to go it alone, but he holds as formerly, in such emergencies, an assisting hand, and if he meets with a favorable response from the people, (the only remaining hope) he pledges himself, not only to devise the ways and means to release our
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