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THE APPORTIONMENT BILL--HYPOC-
RIsY OF THE NATIONAL INTELLI-
GENCER--INSULT TO THE MEMORY
OF WASHINGTON.
We yesterday noticed the conduct OF the de-
structionists of Ohio, but not so fully as we con-
slider necessary The atrocious act OF the
Wing members Of the Legislature of that State,
and the bold and reckless support OF that open
treason by the National Intelgencer and its
kindred prints, demand a clear and dispassion-
ate review of the guilty deed, the conduct of its
wicked perpetrators and the glorylngs OF its
aiders and abettors. If rebellion is to be openly
countenanced and encouraged by the friends of
Mr. Clay, who are securing heaven and earth to
place him in powerful destruction of the or
ganic system OF Legislation is to be one of their
grand hobbies if the will of the State majorl-
ties is TO be de6ed, abrogated and trampled in
the dust by the disgusting and loathsome trea-
son of the minority then is it time for the
People to rouse from their sumbers and prepare
to meet still more terrible attempt to place the
many under the control of the few by the esta-
blishment of a monarchy.
For the last twelve months we have seen one
cloud after another rise in the political horizon,
and each successor larger, darker and more ter
rife than its precursor. We have seen them all
gather and burst upon the White House, while
the bolts of thunders roared from the Capitol,
and shook the Avenue from end to end We
have seen the whole Pandemonium chattering
fury from the Halls OF power; even appealing
to open instruction, and invoking the God of
battles to the unhoy conflict
The President signed the Apportionment bill
under an exposition of his reasons Tor so doing
Mr.. Adams procured Select Committee on the
conduct Of the Executive and denounced his
right to say aOhy he approved the bill. The
President saw the evils which Mr.. Adams would
not acknowledge, because it was part OF the
policy of the secret treaty of Client to produce
as much confusion as possible, that Mr.. Clay
might be called, like Cincinnatus from the
plough, to the office of Dictator for the purpose
of restoring the country from the curse into
which his friends, with his connivance, had
contrived to throw it. 1t was MIR. Adams policy
to expand brilliant sophistry to lull the Peo-
pie into fancied security, and throw veil of
eloquence over the corruption and rottenness by
which one ally has enjoyed the Presidency and
through which the other expects to be in like
manner blessed.
While these plots are terminating, the janus
faced columns of the Intelligencer are sounding
the advance or retreat, as circumstances re-
auire, upon their organ of discordant barrels.
Their diapasons are regulated by the temper of
their employers but without regard to harmony;
and ifther dscords be complained of, they excuse
their instrument ut the expense of their mas
tiers.
To show how preposterous are their articles:
we will give extracts from two, published at
different times, but upon the same subject,
and we shall place them side by side, that they
may be the more readily compared by the read.
er who alone seeks truth The column below
marked emo. ~ is taken from the Intelligen-
Ger of July &c, 1912, and in it the editors de-
clare how much they fear that the Democrats
may set at defiance the Constitution by refusing
to district the States. The extracts marked No.
g.,
1912, and from an article prefxed to an extract
from the address of the resigning Wing mem
bers of the Ohio Legislature. In these it will
be seen that the Intelligencer justifes these re-
cusant Ohio Wings, for the very act it had de-
cared mot one month before) would be unconsti-
tutional, If perpetrated6y the Democrats.
No. l. No. 2.
From the ntelhgencer Of From the lntentgencer O
july &c. Aug. "a, 1912
We dare say there The indignant thunders
some readers who may of Locofoco press, now
have thought the sugges- heard In peals OF denun
ton of Mr. Adams, in his citation of an act perfectly
report upon the Presi- innocent IN ITSELF
dents reasons for signing
the ApportiOnment act of
the existence of embryo To resign an Office is to
designs for defeating the do an act admitted Dy all
execution of that act to to be lawful per in it.
have been unknd, and self the act is consistent
even harsh rather than IN every particular WIN
natural and probable the principles of public
We confess that our eyes and p'1uate morality, and
were first opened by that violates legal consti-
report to the possibility fufional duty II stands
ofany serious design to re- justified by the example
sist on epade the provisions of Washington, and by
of the apporonment act. the pure and patrlotic OF
Already, however, we our land, from the earll-
have evidence that Mr.. est days of the Republic
Adams is right and that, to the present TIME. In
in the rare and fitru of deed, far is resignation
party zeal it quite pos OF office from being view
sible that attempt may ed as CRIME or caiain-
be made to break doon the ity, that could many no,o
barriers Of the Constitution IN po,oer be persuaded TO
by an outrage yet initiate the example OF
violent than that perpe- the Wing members of the
trated in the Of the Ohio Legislature, they
New Jersey election would, by such an In
The evidence to which stance Of seI.denial, con-
we refer is the follow fer lasting benefits on their
ing significant paragraph country.
from one of the most Was it wrong in the
thorough going Locofoco Wing members of the
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