The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-28
ANOTHER plot OF THE FEDERAL
IoCO-rOCOs EXPOSED.

foco newspaper published at New Orleans
I'VE extract from the Times Of yesterday, tho
following letter from Mr.. Nicholas one Of our Sena
tors In Congress, describing most disgraceiul and
outrageous scene in Washington. Let the people
reflect ON what they are bringing upon theniselve.
ia the support OF an aboiifionia Cor the Presidency
The signs are portentousIet the South look TO il
safety.
41l1 s4H WAsHSGros Cry, May ID
We had yesterday a most extraordinary and dis
gushing spectacle here. About o'clock, between
thirty and forty carts filed with negroes with full
compliment OF black marshals mounted on horseback
psraded up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. This
odious pageant, with the words :. Hard Cider held
up conspicuously to view, passed undsturbcd. We
have had several highly exciting party professions
among the people Of this District this winter and
the Of the studousy gotten up parade at Balti
more But one would scarcely have expected that in
slave holding city, the authorities would have toc-
rated such an exhibition would that you and every
other citizen Of Louisiana could have Witnessed
did this scene, so well calculated 10 crafty the fana
tics and to awaken deep reflections in Shareholders.
R assHsslt GARTER NICHOLAS.
We can scarcely find words to express, with
propriety, the surprise and Indignation the above
letter has produced We see il in all the Fede-
raj Loco-foco papers of New Orleans, and para
ded also in the columns of the Richmond En-
quirer, whose editor has just learnt, by the way
of Louisiana, that there was such negro pro-
cession in the city Of Washington on the I'd Of
May! But il il had been a procession of the
character given to il by Mr. Nicholas, why has
the Globe suffered whole month to elapse
without even noticing it2 We are surprised at
this publication of Mr.. Nicholas, because il
proves that he has either been imposed upon, or
that he has wantonly made an "assault upon
truth" Will it be credited that the procession
which Mr.. Nicholas has undertaken to father
upon the Opposition was Federal Loco-foco
negro procession, got up and paid for out Of
some Government emoluments, for the purpose
Of ndiculing the then approaching National
Convention Of Young Menu Yet such, we
are fully assured, il was; barefaced Loco
foco Federal burlesque. conceived as such,
known and remarked upon as such at the time,
and broken up in disgrace as such. The head,
the marshal of the whole affair, was notorious
Federalw white Loco-focoin Georgetown, andhe cit
was who superintendent its egress from that place!
1t was, tisue, procession of thirty forty carts
filled with negroes and boys, with red flags and
white scarfs, and a something in front labelled
'.hardcider." And what brought up the rear7 A
flag as we were informed at the time, bearing the
name of Martin Van Buren, And did not Mr.
Nicholas hear that that flag was demolished by
gallant young Republican before the process
sion reached the heart Of the city, and that the
white ring -leader sat upon his horse the while
afraid to interfere to protect his hireling Loco
e L.. q L., L,~o
that the procession was, on its return, brokenupby
young Wings, and that the horses and negroes
were scattered in every direction, and one of
their carts dashed in pieces2 Is ii not strange
that circumstances of such general notoriety
should fail to reach the ars of Mr.. Nicholas
Mr.. MS letter is dated May 3 and Mr.. Allen,
in his speech at Baltimore, May 5, alluded to
this odious pageant" when he spoke of ''mock
parades, got up at the expense of some govern
mental emoluments." And yet Mr.. Nicholas
and his Federal Loco-foco editors would make
the people of the South believe that this move
ment was identified with Gen. Harrison Oh
shame where is thy blush! A Senator Of the
United States, attributing an infamous Federal
Loco-foco negro mockery, instigated and paid
for by his own friends, to the Opposition, and
endeavoring to draw an inference therefrom that
the negro and the Harrison interests are iden-
tical! This is beyond endurance. We trust
the Harrison Committees in the District will
set the facts before the public in proper light,
if what we have to say should prove INSULT
cient. We trust the Opposition papers in Louis
lana will show up this most nefarious plot, to
the people of that State.
Having, since we commenced this article,
learnt the name of the young gentleman who
captured the flag from the Loco-foco Federal
negro crew, as we have above intimated, we adj
dressed him note, requesting brief account
of the affair so far as he acquainted with it,
and received mhim the following reply, which
we take the liberty to publish with his name:
THOMAS ALLEN, ESQ.
al received your note few moments ago and
hasten to it. In reply to your request to bs
informed of the facts relative to my having 'torr
down the flag of the negro procession which pa
radcd part Of the length of Pennsylvania Avenue
weeks ago, have to state that, about o'clock
after leaving the Globe Office, where am employed
in company with some of the gentlemen attached IA
the Office, attention was attracted to moving
mass vending down the avenue from the President,
square, with banners, &c. We at first supposed il
was delegation from some of the upper counties o
Maryland, passing through the city on their way te
the Baltimore Convcntion-and to have better view
of the procession crossed the south side Of tn,
avenue, at the corner Of 18th street As the Grove
came nearer, it was perceived to he procession o
black people, in carts, with banners, &c, to the mum
Der Of SO or So
The first cart contained barrel, with the word,
Hard Cider marked on the head and two black,