The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-06-27

| certain notifications.
THE DISCONNECTED FEDERAL LOCO Fo.
cos PUTTING ON A BOLD FACE.
"TnE BEGGAR MAN" who left the Post Office
Department TO become the fugeman Of the Fee
deral Loco Foco party, has given orders to the
drill Sergeants in the various sections of the
Union, TO extend their 'front.' even to the weak
ening the lines, so as TO present as formidable
an appearance as possible, and also endeavor
TO drown the shouts Of the friends Of reform by
the sounding OF trumpeis and beating of drums.
The order is obeyed, and suddenly we see men
whose knees are shifting each other with fear.
whose teeth chatter and whose cheeks are
blanched with alright, attempting to assume a
look of boldness and an air of defiance! The
effect is udicrous in the extreme, and can ex-
cite no other feeling than laughter on the part of
the Wings.
We understand the game Of the Federal Loco
Focos. They have seen the dismav which the
shouts Of the people have sent into their terror
stricken ranks They have seen their followers
disheartened and dispersed by the mulltudinous
gatherings of the honest yeomanry Of the coun-
Try. They have seen them quail and lalter be-
fore those thousands of treemen, whose coun-
tenances bespeak the fixed purpose and firm
resolve of men conscious Of being engaged in
righteous cause. Before such men, punderers
and "spos" men stink away as the proving
wolf, and the sieathy fox shrink from the light
Of day.
To counteract the effects OF the panic which
has seized upon the rank and file of the Loco
Focos, the leaders have resorted TO the Dragging
and clustering system, and endeayor TO con-
vince them that their numbers have not dimi-
nished; nay, that they are daily increasing,
and that they can never be defeated They
pretend to be confident Of having immense ma
jorties in all the large States and in most of
the small ones--even in those which are knoarn
to be most decidedly opposed TO them. From
these tactics two results are anticipated first,
to raise the dropping spirits Of their own men
and inspire them with new hope and newborn
zeal: secondly, TO discourage the opposition and
thus cause them TO relax their patriotic exertions
to redeem and disenthral the country.
1t is scarcely probable that they viii succeed
fdence, accompanied as it is with every symp-
tom of fear and alarm, can dishearten and dis
spirit the friends Of reform we have no appre-
hension. The people have felt and are feeling
too deeply, the injuries brought upon the coun-
try by the Federal Loco Focos, TO be easily di-
verted frcm their fixed purpose of placing the
Government once more in the hands Of honest
and competent rulers-men who will administer
it for the good of the whole, and not for the
purpose Of depressing the many and filling the
pockets of the few. They have not entered into
this contest upon slight grounds; suffering and
the fear of losing their liberties have prompted
them to action and no bravado shouts,-no
shor of courage, nor boast Of numbers, will in
ducc them TO abandon the contest. Whatever
may be the vauntings of the minions of power,
and the partakers of 'spoils," the opposition
have no apprehension of defeat for when did
the people rise in their might, as they have now
risen and not triumph?
But we are told that the Wings have before
been confident Of success, and were, neverthe-
less, defeated. True, such has been the case,
the more's the pity but does il follow that be-
cause the Corruptionists have heretofore been
successful, they are therefore nvincibe, and too
strong even for the majority of the PEOPLE
No! The American people, thank Heaven, are
not yet slaves, nor will they ever consent to be-
| come such.
The truth is, the adversaries Of corruption and
misrule never had so much reason for confidence
and courage as at this moment, and we would
caution them against being deceived by the con-
fdent tone of some of the Federal Loco-Foco
leaders. BY steady, persevering onward
course, the triumph of the People, in the election
OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, will be secured
Let us continue to the last, to have union, ac-
tlvlty, and organization, and victory will be the
glorious result,
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