Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-06-29
From the Richmond Enquirer q
THE HUMBUGs OF THE WHIGs.

THE HUMBUGS OF THE WHIGS.
How can the wings expect US ,gUistlt
to succomb 10 their victory, when we have
been so foully beaten! By hImbugs and
by Pipe-laying, and by all such tTickst-
For the corruption which has been bFac-
tlsedi see the evidence exhibited on
Glentwortb's trial-see the vast sums
which have been secretly employed bf
the United States Bank, and so cOrTuPtly
that the very agents we're ashamed Of
their dirty work, and destroyed the Voueh-
ers OF their own expenditures.
OF the whig bumbugs, their lof-eabih
and hard-cider, and coon-skins, furnish
some illustrations. The stories of Ogld
are another. We have hitherto forbOTna
from tonching the ashes of the dead--to
which the House Of Representatives paid
the customary honors on Wednesday last,
but We quote from Wing authority. If
the country, then would see some sam!
pie of The humbugs and impositionS
which were praciised upon them at the
last election, let them read the following
letter from that veritable organ, the Rich
mond Wing, of the lst inst.
Washington Correspondence Of tie
r. Whig.1
"GENTLEMEN:-For the first time in
my life visited the Presidents Mansion.
Thinks ] to myself this day, my eyes
splendor will dazzle ye, and the hidden
secrets of extIavagance will be mads
manifest. The gorgeous castles Of the
Arabian tales passed across my memory
but alas! alas! the ten thousand hes
that have been written about that sans
White House.
80! Ople, where art thou, my lusty son
Of fictiOns Ifthy spirit is as far away
from the bright regions of truth,
as were thy words, when thou didst ut.
ter thy hyperbOlical oIatiOn, then dol
pity thee.
''The plain unvarnished truth is this
the chairs are old, and one I knOD Is rag
ged, and that the only one from which I
lifted the plain linnen case which cover
ed it. And as all were covered in the
same way, guess that same chair has
many tattered .compeers in the East
Room. 1t was in that room | saw the
ragged Eyes ragged) chair. Now $4,000
IS Paltry sum to spend upon such an
House; it would take $4,000 10 put it
n proper order. We are a great and free
nation, and should endeavor to avoid lug
lry on the one hand and niggardly con-
duct on the other. Our President should
nave such furniture, and such fixtures as
;omport with the dignity of our nation.---
care not in such things, for party. am
/ free American, plain Virginia planter
never desire, and consequently, never
lsk for any Office, except such as the peo-
,le confer by their free suffrages-but I
elt ashamed for my country when saw
agged fnery in the Nations House. Be-
des, the curtains in the green room are
faded things; such as no private
Ientleman would keep in his parlor, un-
ess he should be too poor 10 get new
mes. IL is true that the Chandeliers ia
he East Room are very handsome, and
o my country eyes seemed suitable but
hat ragged chair is there Confound q
agged chair, detest them every where
but ragged chair in the Presidents
Iouse is positively shocking. Out with
he miserable tattered things, and let Us
ave whole chairs, and the Nation is
90 poor or too stngy to get new set to
uit the room, just let us have set Of
Vhite oak splitbOttOms. Any thing raEhL
r than ragged fnery. A committee
ught TO be sent there, with orders to ran
ack the House, and take out all that is
1orn out and unfit for use. Moreover.
othing should be in that House, that had
Ot been fabricated in the United States
nd BY the proper hands of native born
itizen. Well saw the tabouIettes--
ney are nothing extra. In our vernacu-
If, they are cross legged crickets, with
ilk cushion seats. ga lsgsg3r
Your obedient, A
TOBACCO PLANT"
Erono this one confession of the Whi0