Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-02-06
VANDALIA:
O11J We are authorized to announce Gov.
Reynolds candidate for Congress in lst
District ~
THuRspAY. FERRuARY Isl lS34

District.
Vuo IS r. X. McLAueHLIN3 The Ban
ner says he does not know; the Patriot has
saj the anne before him; and that is all Ell
the of these prints deign to say of the first
candidate for governor. Were
we 10 attempt to contribute our mite towards
dispensing little information to those gen
,lemen, We infer, from the manner our evils
inrs have heretofore been treated in that
quarter that we should be likely to get more
cuffs than coppers for our trouble. We will
venture, however, to say to them, and to 9th
-ers who may be in similar darkness, that il
they make themselves familiar with the his
tory and with the characters of public men
identified with the history of the state, they
wiil find every obscurity e,eored away from
|ihs question we have put at the head of this
Paragraph.
Mr. Mclaughlin came to the country from
Kentucky some fifteen or twenty years ago,
ind has since been much in public life \ and
d all the different positions which hehas
occupied, has never departed from tho char
icter of the gentleman, the warmhearied,
iospitable friend, and the honest, faithful
Juhlic servant He has been known as a
practitioner al the bar, member of the house
of representatives, a senator and treasurer OF
the state; which stat ms he filled creditably
to himself and probably for those who requi-
red his. services. In the latter office, he ex
hlbited what was then an anomaly ia the
governmental treasurer going out of Office
unladen with Il portion of the public funds
Had he been earlier called to, and lon.e,
in that important station, if ut
other benefit had resulted to The people, :.
small item Of a, least sirty thousand dollars,
dcad loss, would never have been allowed to
swell the amount of the present public debt
Forthe last two or three years Mr.. McLaugh
lin has Withdrawn almost entirely from pub
lie life; he now lives in Vanda!ia, "A much es-
'eS'i'So SitANon VI ti0 PiuCS. I1e never fcdS
a politician protested never mingled in
The scramble for office for the sake of the
'spoils;" he can live without them, and we
understand has announced himself IA candid
ate for governor only in compliance with the
Of friends.
Since the Nbove WAS in tyne, we have seen
communication in the Sangamon Journai
(which we copy,) on The same subject. The
writer seems to know much more about this
matter than we do, and we beg leave to refer
The Banner, Patriot, S'c. to his piece for fur
her information in answer 10 The question
who is r. X. McLanghlI ~
The article signed Vtrmiiion in the last
Wing, deserves remark. Vermilion is none
90 severe we have class of politicians a.
nong us, somewhat fashionable, we confess.
n these days Of reform, who expect to rise
'nly by abasing others, and, to accomplish
heir ends, TO level all who stand ia their wav ;,
n who, when down, may serve the purpose of
topping stones, no means are TO be left un>
tried; if truth is not IN their favor, false
hoods can be invented, multiplied and re-
'eated till the aspirapt fatters himself that
heir lal!acy no longer appears, 1t speaks
'ery little, however, TO the credit of these
gentlemen, or in favor OF the candidate
whose interests they would advance, tina
hey feel themselves under The necessit, oil
their eiec'ioneering campaign by
letrac'ion. eff such things be done in the
.reen tree, what shall be done in the dry Poi
Try the merits of your candidates first, gem
lemen; if they fail you, and you must con-
inue the struggle, there is more apology for
he use OF other means. ~
By the facts which. Vermilion communi
ates, land that his statements are facts, can
e shown by documentary evidence,) The in.
lstice which has been done Gov. Reynolds
q several late publications, all from the
anne school, is exhibited in clear light;
nd such injustice appears the more wan
on from the consideration that the all ega-
ions contained in those publications ever
7 they were true, can have no bearing on
ne end which their authors appear to have
q view. But their allegations are not true
! is no. true that the estate debt has increas-
d to an alarming degree" since the present
xecutIve came into office, or that it has in |