The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-09

He sent for the Marshal but he was found TO be
armed with no authority to clear the house. He made
an appeal to the thIong-they would hear nothing bu.
from the old HIMSELF he came forward, and
addressed the crowd-they seemed somewhat moved
by his appeal and appeared TO be about retire, when
unlucky Of them pulled out bunille and begged
the General to look over it by the morning; tins
started others-hey rushed forward-7the President
first filled his pockets, then his hat, and looking
mournfully to the Marshal, hesooght his aid he
came his aid filed his pockets, then his hat, &c
&c. until the whole affair became one OF perfect md
icue. Sir. this not the affair of single day-ll
repeated nearly every day-from morn I'LL night,
and almost till mdnight-unii they bought down
his gray hairs with Than sorrow TO the grave.
Yes sir the Offices kers literally killed and murder
ed their own President and yet they dare repeat the
old SANDER against the Democrats, that they are the
spoiis party" When did the Democrats butcher
100 men, and mark for the slaughter 5000 more =
When did they hIong the Presidents mansion so like
the myriad vernin OF a dead carcasel Never-and
long may country be saved from ahother such
scene, of lank and lean and hungry ce-seekers
bowling like famIshed wolves around all the Execu-
tive Departments of this Government And, sir, let
me here express the confident belief hat If John
Tyler had in good degree stopped lhe progress
of this bloody prescription, and if he hadneveT stood
the way of the distribution of the loaves and hshes
amongst the friends of Henry Clay he had never been
called the traitor the oretc the lreak and facilitating
Chief Magistrate. No, we should have heard but lit
tie of all these things if John Tyler had bestowed the
patronage of his high office the especial friends OF
the great Dictator of the Wing Party
Mr. Speaker, before allude other acts OF vioat-
ed pledges given by this universal Whg party let me
glance some of the false and deceitful humbugs by
which they succeeded in getting into power The
first which will name is their shameful attacks on
the leading Democratic papers. They were called
''the by authority presses the hireliDg presses, &c
&c. And after bringing hem in such replte as 10 break
of hundreds and thonsi nds from reading them, they
I'd n.arnn led hpV ar
elected to power to
SEPARATE THE PUBLIC PRINTING FROM THE POLL
TICAL PRESS.
They declared that they would separate the polt-
cal press from the Government. What had they
done Their very first act was to elect Gales and
Seaton printers to this House Their very first act
in the Senate to violate solemn contract, perfect
and complete all its parts, and dismiss Blair and
Rives from their office printers to that body
HoOE CAsE-FREE NEGRO TESTIMONY IN NAVAL
COURTS MARTIAL.
There another humbug cry which they used
in the Presidential election, and which gave the De-
mocratc party much trouble--the Hooe case, gotten
up by the Representative Of the Richmond (Vlrgnia)
district. They trumpeted it all the land, that
white had been convicted by the test nony of a
free negro. From the noise they made about this a
fair, he supposed that their frs act in coming int
power would be to pass law prohibiting the recep
ton OF flee-negro testimony at all in naval courts
martial. Yet, they had not done So although the,
had triumphant majority in both branches of Con
gIess.
STANDING ARMY.
There was the standing army, too which ave the
Democrats some trouble-more SO than the Hooe case
The other day, when proposition was made by hi.
colleague Mi. G. johnson to reduce the real stand
ing army Of the country, of $4,000 men, how die
the Wings vote! He referred to the journals t.
prove that they were not generally anxious to have
reduction.
CENSuS LAW
Another humbug was used very much in his State
He referred to the census law. The people, in man,
sections, made to believe that their property
even the most lr.hing articles, to be taxed by
the Federal Government. Look at the vote ordering
these statistics TO be taken. Was it party vote
Assuredly not; and that the statistics had beer
printed, everv one admitted their value
l wish next to allude to another humbug freely
used by the Wing party in lS4O. 1t deceived thou
sands. The election was coming on in the midst o
the prices of produce and properly had greatly fallel
from those of the preceding years. Instead Of tell
ing TO the people the PLAIN truth the subject, the
pretended that the great scarcity of money and tn
low prices not the result OF individual extrava
gantc and folly but of management in their rulers
and that if they would Only turn Mr.. Van Blren
the tide of rosperty would roll the nation
that money would flow freely into every mans pocket
and that there would be
TREMENDOUS RISE IN THE PRICES OF PRODUCE AM
PROPERTY.
Mr.. Clay dealt largely in such representations
He did hesitate to proclaim that the fact
The election of General Harrison would raise the pic
of property in every portion of the Union. His col
leag ue ia the Senate MI Crittenden) declared thai
in his opinion, it would add one hundred millions O
dollars to the capital of the country. When thes
two distinguished men uttered these sentiments an
opinions they were caught up and repeated by all "th
little Clays and little Crittendens all this broa
land until the false and deceitfuI prophecy fasene
itseon the minds of hundreds and thousands Orwell
meaning people. But what has been the fulflment
| Property and produce have gone down, down t
prices far below what they when these Sir Ora
Giles" predicted their rise. Money has grown scare
and scarceI. One Bank after another has blown uI
strewing the land with fearful wreck of poverty
bankruptcy and rum
| Mr. Speaker l should be exceedingly glad if hat
no other humbugs of the Wing party to expose to M
constituents and to the country But there is anothe
which occupied too conspicuous place in the
pagn of 1910, and which succeeded too well in decev
ing and cheating the good people of this country to b.
here omitted. |, of course, allude to the great Ogl
humbug about the furniture of the Presidents House
| The White House described splcndit
than Eastern palace, and its decorations and fur
nure Oulvied the elegance and grandeur of any Eu
| ropean monarch. The speech made up of news
paper scraps and garbled extracts Of accounts with
total suppression, confused arrangement Of dates
! and exhibited false and decetu view Of the Who'll
subject throughout 1t was, in fact, volume of ole
scraps pasted and patched about with most sludie
and aItu perversion of the facts of the case. Gov
ernor Lincoln, Wing member from Massachusetts,
of the highest character exposed the whole trick a
the time 10 the whitening scorn and contempt
But it good electiOneerlng document and 1T wa
therefore franked to every and region of the
country, with many slight insnuation that Lincol,
was to be relied on-that true it he
Wing, but unfortunately, in almost every foc
there was some black sheep to be found" Never di
work, either philosophy OF OF fancy 60 through
many editions, and enjoy extensive circulation a
Ogle on Spoonery. But mark how soon full expo
sure followed upon the heels of this vile piece of trick
cry In less than three months after, the part
came forward and here, in these Halls, asked for AM
voted the Of $4,000 to buy furniture for fit
ting w and preparing this than Eastern palace
for the residence of Gen. Harrison. The application
astonished the House The question was as ked how