New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-02-26
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The Weapons of Loco-FocoisIi.
For the last year and a half our City has been
the arena of ferocious warfare scarcely paraeled
in the annals of Political contests warfare which
exhibits the innate depravity and desperate malig
nifty which animate the mas,ersprits of that party
which masks purposes of rapacty and instincts of
destructivcness under the name of Democracy
We know full well that large portion of the
party dissent from and condemn this warfare
but why do they make this dissent positive and
public - So long as they continue to give it coun-
senance and tacit support by their silence they are
guilty of virtual participation in its malevolence,
clearly as though they themselves sped the poi
soned arrows intended to pierce unfairly the Wing
shield through the hearts Of individual supporters.
The first act i'll this drama of iniquity was the
Glentworth Conspiracy. The origin and history
of that base plot have already been very thoroughly
exposed in columns. That the vital object of
Glentworth, in his mysterious operations Of $3.50,
was to obtain money for his private debaucheries
from the funds raised by the Wing party for con-
testing the Elections, we have never doubted and
that this fact accounts for all the mystery With
which he cheese to invest his operations, is now
sufficiently obvious. That he may have drawn
three or four better men into partial acquies-
cence in his doings, by deception and sounding an
alarm that any interruption must lead to exposures
disastrous to the Wing cause, is possible. That
he obtained Office, not by the free choice of the
Wings, the Delegation at Albany, the Governor, or
any part of them, but simply by a bargain with his
friend Jonathan D. Stevenson, who agreed to re-
sign only on condition that Glen1worth should be
appointed, and that the Wings were positively but
falsely assured by Glentworth that he had no bar
gain with Stevenson, is most indisputable That
there was general indignation among them when
they found they had been deceived, and an effort
made for the removal of Glentworth in the winter
of 1910, founded simply on the then ascertained
depravity of his moral character, we know right
we'll; and that his expulsion was only deferred, on
the circumstances of his personal friends until the
approaching close Of his first term, he knew
equally well. Every effort made by him to
extort assurances of support for his continuance in
Office from the men Whom he now pretcnds he mad
in his power, and made in vain Ii was known
10 him and hrs confederate that his official career
was inevitably near its end.
Here was the basis of the Glentworth Consrirn-
cy, originating with q desperate and thoroughly
erupulaus .villainy and another of equal peed4
and far greater cunning Its first demonstration
was the despatch of j. D. Stevenson to Philadel-
phia under false name. with lying letter from
Glentworth, to deceive and if possible ruin the
hospitable and unsuspecting entertainers Of the
latter, the confding and basely deluded friends Of
the former. Human depravi,y never exhibited it
self in blacker colors than here.
But, allowing that this was all in character with
the actors, what shall we think of the Buffers,
Hoyts and Edmoadses, VINO figure prominently in
the second act of the drama-who now come for
ward as 5prompters and scene-shfters to such he
roes as these nyowedly were? Remember that there
was not even a pretext of dreadng or wishing to
prevent Election Frauds for rot even Glentworth
has pretended that there have been anyother Wing
frauds than those he himself committed, though
he must certainly have known had there been any,
His silence is most convincing proof that there
were none before or after his ewn while the re-
suit of Stevensen's mission to Philadelphia as a
spy is emphatic testimony with regard to thatyear
Had there been even purpose or wish to poll IL
legal votes for the Wing ticket, he would have as
certained and blazoned it. He proves beyond dis
pute that there was none, even if the Wing Elec-
ton Law Of 1889, passed sixteen months before
and rendering frauds here impossible had not given
ample testimony to that point
With what purpose, then, did Messrs Butler
Hoyt g. Co. spring their mine upon US in October
1910? To what end did Messrs. Morris Yarian
and Matse prostitute the truncheon of authority
and the sacred ermne of the Judiciary to this base
intrigue? Was it not VIGOROUSLY to set aside and
reverse, by the interpostion of false and wholly
irrelevant ISSUE the verdict which the People were
then passing on the twelve years incumbents of
power in the proceeding Elections Was it not an
attempt Of Messrs. Butler Hoyt s. Co. to retain
Offices of great dignity and profit by means most
underhand and Juggling? The great issue before
the People had long before been made up" Shall
q NE continue the Sub-Treasrry and the Van Buren,
9 dynasty, or repudiate them?" On this issue,
they had fought desperately and were already
beaten And now, at the last moment, they at
tempt to escape BY shuttle the verdict which the
Grand Inquest had agreed on Is this manly OF
honest! suppose half q dozen Wings had cennived
at the polling OF illegal votes two years before
was that valid reason for perpetuating the Sub.
Treasury rule? In no possible light can we CON
template this skilfully gos up explosion that it does
not appear dastardly and villainous. Even if the
particular statements Of Glensworth e. Co. had
been true, the use mode of them, the inferences
which it was purposed should be generally de-
duced from them, rendered the whole contrivance
one Of knavery and deception.