The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-23
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BAMA FEDERAL LOCO-FOCOS.

THE SECRET ADDRESS OF THE ALA
BAMA FEDERAL LOCo-FoCOS.
Il is peculiarly Of the Van Buren, party ire
sulting from their downward proclivities,) that
for any given purpose they are apt to select the
feeblest agent This natural working of the
system is illustrated by the address which the
Federal Loco-foco members Of Congress from
Alabama have put forth to accompany their Sc
cret circular for raising corruption fund which
we recently held up to the scorn Of the public.
One would have supposed that Mr.. LEWIS
would have been selected to write the address
But those who read it viii see il is obviously
the production of Mr.. KING
II begins with declaration that "the two
great parties, which have always divided the
country, are again in the field struggling for
mastery and then follow the words are, un-
der our appropriate name and principles, con-
tending, &c. &C." We! Who? Let all the
,rorld Gas the Ex-Postmaster General would
say) listen to the answer 6 We,n namely, Wn-
LIAM r.. KING and Dixon III. Lewis How long
is il since eve" KING and LEWIS have been as
sociated2 We" KING and LEWIS, represent
ing party, &c. &c.! We, KING and LEWIS,
contending together! The public have been
aware Of the nuptials Of VAN buren, and Cal
HouN; and, now, il seems, that all the retainers
have paired off too, and are to celebrate their
union in .fete champetre, while that of the
chief personages is solemnizing in the Palace
As composition, this address is unworthy of
men of any education. 1t is indeed poor shilly
shally afiair-a petty, querulous, contumelious
effusion, without point or sprit-the whole mass
Of dullness unillumined by single ray of mo-
velty or ingenuity. The signers (Messrs. King,
Clay, Lewis, Hubbard, and Chapman) gravely
present to their constituents as an argument that
Mr.. Van Buren's opponents call him "a North
ern President with Southern principles" when
every body knows that this stale saying is one
Of their own, invented by their own clique, and
never used by any man out of it
They say that all the banking capital of the
country is against the administration and this,
too in the face Of the fact that the whole bank
ing system of Alabama is an instrument in their
01a hands, welded for their own purposes
that large number of the Georgia banks are
under Federal Loco-foco management; that the
two great banks of South Carolina are but joints
of Mr. CALHouN's tail, whirled about at his
will; and that the great Mother Bank of Viz
ginia, is under the control Of DR.. Brockenbrough
the most active and devoted partizan Of Mr.. Van
Buren,. In fact, these men avail themselves at
once Of the poper Of the banks, and the pre-
JUDGES against them, with what consistency Of
political morals, we viii not stop now to discuss
They speak Of the odds against them They
say, whatever are the odds against u.s." Odds
against the Federal Loco-focos Have they
not one hundred thousand office-hoders as
anxiliaries2 Have they not an annual expen-
diture for their benefit of $4,000, 900 p
Are they not sustained by all the power, pa
tronage, and influence of the Government,
against the unaded, unpaid efforts Of people,
whom they have impov and whose hard
earnings they have wrested from them to pro-
mote and sustain the unhallowed purposes Of
their party. Have they not at this moment put
cabinet minister at the head Of press which
they support out Of the peoples money? and or
ganized the General Post Office as mere adj
junct of this huge establishment Of Government
printing which now numbers the folding rooms
with Extra Globes for their franks. Odds against
them! Yes, there are odds against them The
good sense the patriotism the long suffering, the
natural scorn Of free people for selfish coalitions
are against them, and these cannot be overcome
by wishy washy farrago from the editorials Of
the Globe, though endorsed by the appropriate
names of Messrs. King, Lewis & Co.