The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-11-07
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The astounding developments made in New
York of the system of frauds which have been car
ried on in that city and Philadelphia, by wing Of
flee holders and wing committees, add confirmation
GO strong as proof of holy writ" of the charge we
have heretofore made, that diabolical scheme had
been Matched at the Harrisburg convention, to car
nv the Presidential election by the use of MONEY,
The whole operations of the combined factions who
were represented in that convention have been car
ried on by money.
|. The erection of log cabins all over the coun-
try, rs places of rendezvous, has required large
expenditure These, like the barracks of an army,
to afford quarters for the vicious and deprav-
ed, who were to be dcbauched with liquor, and
stimulated with lying and inhammatory horrangues,
and with vulgar and ribad songs, and corrupted
with money when that should be found necessary.
BY these means they have been prepared to be Ia
ken into the wing service as bands of hired merce-
naries, ready, as Looney says, to laywater pipes
in all Of wnys.'' That is, ready to practise
any fraud and inquity which may serve the inter-
esii of their employers; to 70 from State TO State
,uto, 10 purchase h'o Votes OF on'o'o thirty
dollars each, or less, if they can he bought
2. With this corruption fund, hundreds Of agents
have been employed and paid large sums to trav-
erse the country, to distribute pamphlets and spec
chcs, filled with the most scandalous falsehoods,
and to put in circulation all sorts of lying state
ments, to agtate and alarm the public mind, and
| i,,h et,to Of no N
these agents has been in proportion to the success
of their exertions and the number of votes they
could obtain. TO accomplish these objects, they
are furnished with money; and the most unscrupu-
lous and prongate are the most successful, and Of
course receive the greatest reward.
3. 1t is by the corruption fund, that they have
maintained an Executive committee at Washington
who have directed the operations of the campaign
and by scandaous abuse of their lrankng priy
cge, sent cart loads of speeches and tracts over thu
country; and for this purpose the public statoncr,
has been plundcrcd, probably to the amount of tel
thousand dollars.
A. 1t is the corruption fund that has enabled
them to carry on their business of publishing the
tracts and speeches, to an extent surprising ever!
thing which has been witnessed in this country.
5. 1t is by the agency of money that they are en-
abled to charter steamboats,, and pay the expense.
of Transporting the vagabonds and pcrjured hire.
lings from State TO State TO give fraudulent and il
legal votes.
6. 1t is by the means of money that they are en-.
abled to pay these water pipes ofpurchased vii
lans, the wages of their crimes, whether thirty dol.
lars per head, the Philadelphia market price, or
less sum.
Z. 1t is by profuse expenditure of money thai
they have got together the mutitudes at their con-
ventions, as the expenses of the greater portion
have been paid from the wing fund.
1t is By the agency of money that all the opera
tons of the piebald faction have been carried OIL
since the Harrisburg convention.
8. 1t is the money to be shared as the spoils o
office which stimulates the prolgatc and noisy par
tisans and expectants, who have taken the field IL,
leaders and stump orators of the party.
0. 1t is the expectation of making money which
has enlisted with such intemperate zeal the specu-
laiors, STOCKHOLDERS, broken merchants, and mel
of ruined and desperate fortunes, who ale III hopes
by hook or by crook, in some way to retrieve then
circumstances by blowing up the bubble of the
credit system again.
10. 1t is the hope of making more money that in'
duces the gambling merchants and capitalists IL
bleed so freely as Looney said, TO supply th'
corruption fund They consider it profitable i'll
vestmcnt, and expect to get their money bacI
again, with such additions as will satisfy their prof
ligae trailcking cupdiiy.
1 H. 1t is desire and expectation OF making moro
money! that stimulates the moncposts and corpo
rate manufacturers to furious zeal in the cause
whigery, and leads them 10 threaten and oppres'
the workinglnen in their employ, to force them It
vote against their consciences
H. 1t is to gain money, by getting " natona
auaranteeo for their stocks and bonds and adding
IN their market value some forty or fifty millions