Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-08-13


silver or plated, since his inaugeration.-i
You will see tolerably full explanation
of the matter in the speech of the Hon
Levi Lincoln, a whig, and chairman oI
the committee, in reply to Mr.. Ogle, who
made the charge-which speech is pub
lished in the National Intelligencer Of yes
terday. There is a good deal of trumpe-
ry about the Presidents House-pretty
much all that has been accumulating
since Washington's time. These spoons
&C., which you say Judge Mclean states
he has seen, were purchased by Mr.. Mon
roe for himself, and afterwards sold to
Congress. They are the same articles
which Judge Mclean often used when
Post Master General at President Adams
table, and which then may have looked
like gold. If he could see them now, af.
Ter sixteen years. wear, he would prefer
General Harrison's silver spoons TO them,
otherwise his judgment would be revers-
ed on this point by every man Of sense in
Ohio.
You may make any use of this letter
you please. Had time, would reply
to several other stories stated by Ogle
equally destitute of foundation. | sup.
pose be would have charged Mr.. Van
Burn with purchasing Mr.. Adams old
billiard table, had not Gen. jackson or
dered il off the premises when he went
into the house. He might have done so
with the same propriety that he charged
him with all the shrubbery that was plan
ted in the garden by order of Congress
under a former President.
Yours respectfully,
M. ORCHARD. d.
S. MEDARY.
1t would be an act ofsupererogatiOn for
US to say another word after this. There
is not an honest man of any party but
feels indignant at this additional outrage
upon propriety and truth, of the federal
party, 10 deceive and mislead, as they
suppose, the ignorant. But the people
are not all fools yet; no, not even all the
wings, if their leaders are congregated
mass Of fimpudent impostors.
TO show what straits the followers Of
Ogle are getting themselves into, by the
omission of dates in his speech, or put
ting false ones, we copy the following
from the Pittsburgh Mercury:
THE CUT GLASS FALSUHOOD.
The editor of the Gazette writhes
where he is pinned in his wiIful falsehood
about the purchase of Glass from the
Bakewells for the use Of Mr.. Van Buren.
He makes a most lame and pitiful al
tempt to escape from his disgraceful po-
sition-says that he ''did not mean to say,
nor indeed did he say So"
II is we'll known maxim, that the ut
terng ofOne falsehood involves the ne
cessity ofa succession to bolster it up.
And here is case in point.
The article in which reference was
made 10 the purchase of the Glass, con-
tans the following sentence;
"IIis O'sl exposition of the extrava-
gance, and lavish waste Of the peoples
money by the PRESIDENT EXECU-
TIVE, is likely TO attract great attention
throughout the Union" This is the ve-
ry first paragraph in the Gazette's article,
and there is not an allusion in il to any
other President than Mr.. Van Buren,
nor the slightest reference made to pro-
Ceedings under any other administration
than his. Ogle's charges Of extravaganza
were made solely against Mr.. Van Buren,,
and in order to give force and strength
10 Ogle's assertions, the Editor of the
Gazette certifes to the truth of his story
about the glass in these words, which he
puts in Halics to give them additional
emphasis:
"TGe statement Of Mr.. Ogle is LITTER,
ALLY TRUE, as prOven by the books oftte
MessrS. BakeUslls."
swell, the Messrs. BakeweIIs were
questioned, and said that the purchase OF
glass for the Presidents house had been
made eight gears before Mr.. Van NBUren
came into office. So the statement OF
Ogle and his endorser, Craig, was proven
pOsitiUely false, Then comes the Sec
ond falsehood of the editor, rather more
timidly told than the first. He says that /.
awe merely stated that the books of the
Messrs. Bakewells show that such pur-
chase had been made of them, bat il Wa8
made in General Jackson'S time"
BY the construction of this sentence
the idea is conveyed that the Gazette had
previously stated that the ''purchGSe mas
made in General JdckSom's Tine" This,
as we have shown, is another falsekood.
For no reference. whatever is made to
JacksOn's expenditures either by Ogle or
Craig, except in the comparisons Of the
former, ehowing how far Mr.. Van Buren's
outlays exceeded JacksOn's
We ask every man TO read the Ga
zetts's first article about Ogle's peech,
and then turn TO the mean and disingen-
uous retractiOn Of a principal statement
Il contains, and say if The editor does not
stand before the people a convicted pub
Usher Of foul aud wanton falsehood.
Is itpOssible, that a man who will thus
wllfully and deliberately endorse and ut
ter such threadbare fabrications, can
maintain the respect or consideration Of
any portion ofthe community!