The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-09-21
From the Troy Sentinel. !

/ lFfom the Troy sentinel.
KENTucKY.--We are happy TO learn
IRON the Kentucky papers that the Re.
lief Party, with Governor Desha at his
head, has suffered signal defeat at the
late election in that State. Gen.eCar-
roli is elected Governor, aud the friends
OF Justice, law, and order, will have q
large majority in the next legislature.
as well as in the next representation 10
Congress. -
As samples of the character of Gov,
Desha, and of the party to which he is
the rlng-leader, we state the folIowino
facts ON the authority of the most r..
spectacle papers in Kentucky. Durinp
the late election, Governor Desba at.
tended the polls at Frankfort The
votes were taken at one of the windows
OF the Frankfort Court House. the vo-
teFs going up a short flight of steps on
the outside of the window, and pro-
nouncing the name Of the candidate. for
lhey vote there, pivG voce. Desha. not
content with countenancing his partisans
oy MS mere presence, (even this wouId
De thought grossly indecorous in this
part OF the world took his station in the
throng near the aforementioned stems.
and instead of permitting voters TO as
cend the steps in regular succession.
raised his friends up 10 the window bv
mere force! At Lexington, the Relief
men were guilty of the infamous out
rage OF putting tartar emeac into the
punch OF their successful opponents.
The origin of the parties referred 10,
was substantially as follows; A few
years ago, during the great pressure for
money and the endorsements which
prevailed throughout the country, and
indeed the whole commercial world. n
law was passed in Kentucky, char,ering
the commemorative bank. a mammotI
institution, which was to dispense with
the use of the precious metals, supply
the community with a cir culating me-
dun, realize by means of nothing but
paper the fabulous blessings of the gol-
de" age and give universal relief. AS
soon as this bank note millennium COM
menced, the bills of the Common
wealth's Bank were issued TO such an
enormous amount, that they deprecated
somewhere about SO per cent. peo pie
were near being absolutely overwhelm-
ed with relief Other laws were then
passed, suspending the collection of debts
by execution, unless the notes of the
commemorative Bank were taken in
payment. These laws so directly i'm
pairing the obligation of contracts, and
virtually making bank notes lawful
tender, were declared by the Court Of
Appeals 10 L-,----.i--y .-rost vcrtaInly
were, unconstitutional.
This decision of the Court rendered
the Judges excessively odious in the
eyes OF the Reliefmen. and it was neces-
sary TO remove them. This could not
De done, however, according TO the
stale Constitution, without the vote Of
two thirds of the Legislature, and two
thirds vote could not be obtained. Fail
ing IN their direct attack on the judges,
by impeachment, the Relief-party eff
tected this object by abolishing the tri-
bunal itself, and Immediately erecting
another, upon the bench of which they
placed their own partisans. The old
Judges protested against this species Of
legislation, struggled for while to
maintain their authority. and then retir-
ed from the contest These proceed
lngs wrought up the State, by pretty
rapid degrees, TO feverish excitement,
and the whole community was brought
into action.
Such was the origin and progress of
the controversy which has just terminal
eG in the prostration of the Reliefmen,
whose disastrous dominion is at an end,
it Is to be devoutly hoped, forever
Their principles, measures, and conduct,
have operated upon the State with bet
ter effect than their own Vomitory pow
der in Mr.. Wickliffe's punch, and she
has clesnsed her bosom of them and
their "perileus Stuff Kentucky may
now look upward and forward with bet
ter hopes than she or her friends have
for long time been permitted to cher
ish. We trust that, under the auspices
OF the Governor elect, all traces of the
Profligate measures of the Relief-men
Twill be obliterated, and the land restor-
ed to tranquility that " returning JUS
tice may lift aloft her scale,'' and that it
may be truly said of him, in connection
with the fine State over which he has
been called to preside
i Tie duce, 81 qua manent sccleris vesti-
gin nostri,
lrrita, perpetua solvent formidine ter
ras.
Gen La Fayette's Papers recovered.--A
letter has been received in Savannah,
(says the Republican Of that place from
"a lady 10 Cincinnati, Ohio, stating that