The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-14

which the People elevated the Wing party into
power.
This will not be denied but the party was scarce
IN seated in power, before these pledges although
given with the soemnty of an oath, were wantoniy
and shamefuly disregarded and violated these most
solemn pledges given TO the People IN lo4O, were,
before the expiration OF six months from the time
| they made, violated with vengeance ana
wckedness that would add dshonor TO the character
of an American Indian Thousands OF the most
| virtuous honest, and capable citizens were driven
from office for no delinquency whatever except TO
make room for the lank and hungry who preached
the funeral Of chckencocks, who were otherwise
engaged in the hard cider campaign. These once
i hunters as soon as General Harrison was Installed
into Office lowered around the city of Washington
like band of hungry hyenas ready TO lap the blood
and devour the flesh OF the Democrats IN ONCE
These office-huners were worse than wolves on te
dead carcase swapping and biting each other with
that erceness and ferocity that became the demons
of darkness They in fact caused the death OF their
leader by their ineessant applications Tor oice TO an
aged and sickly man.
| Mr. Chairman the ex-Postmaster General, Mr..
| Granger acknowledged that under his Administra-
| ton there seventeen hundred removals made
| in the Post Office Department. and said II he had
| remained in it two weeks longer, 5000 more
would have been added to the list know OF those
in Illinois who were made victims for opinions sake
| Two land officers, Coils Dement, and Hachleton were
also d mlssed office for cause whalever other
| than the crime of being Democrats These gentle
|
high IN the estimation of their coun;rymen, and baN-
ing both before held offices of great trust and respon-
| sibiity. They made the victims To satisfy TWO
| ravenous hyenas of hard cider mem ~. The able
| and experienced Gov. Lucas OF Iowa T,rraorY was
removed from Office with little ceremony as move
| is made on a CHESS board. This gentleman had been
twice elected the Office OF Governor of the State OF
| Ohio and had held other important offices of trust
| and honor bestowed on him by his count ynen L he
| same vengeance and official desoatIon was extended
| tha of Governor
| was removed from office To make vacancy tor man,
| Mr.. Doty, whose character stands so low III this
| House that | will say nothing it. Gov. Dodge
was removed from Office against the recommended ms
OF ihry-seven members out of thlny-nine of the LIE
gisature of the Territory and also against the earnest
solicit at OF Generals Scott, Gaines, and Akin
son. and other distinguished gentlemen, for his con-
tDuance IN office.
ell known in the West, and IN fact, throughout the
| Union (; have been Intimately acquainted with his
| character for than forty years. He was born
and raised in the West, d has, by the force Of na-
tive intellect and energy of character sustained nm
self through various difficulties and tria incident to
| the settlement OF a country. He has, by merit,
raised himself TO a pinnacle of fame, which not
frequently falls to the lot of any man TO attain lie sns-
tanned well in the Black Hawk war, the high standing
| he had previously acquired as a military man Ihe
| Territory of Wisconsin at that time, in 1882
thinly populated, and II required the energies OF all
| its ctzens sustain it against the Ind an depreda-
| tons. Governor Dodge was foremost in lis de-
| fence.
One case | will mention, which will suffice for
series of almost similar ones. A party OF ID or 10
Indians murdered some citizens in the Territory
Gov Dodge fastened to the scene OF massacre, and
| gathered up party Of men OF about the same num-
Der of the enemy He, with his small party, pursued
| the Indians came up with them, and after sharp
conflict destroyed the whole party He lost some Of
his men, and some wounded but of the Indians
left to tell the story of their disaster to the
| nation.
Being appointed Colonel of a regiment of dragons,
| he commenced a march with five hundred men, in
| 1884, to the frontiers of Mexico The sickness was
so malignant the route, that he reached the point
| of destination with only l73 men-e0 died with sick
the route and the rest so afflicted that they
| we're unable to march. Col. Leavenworth and five
other valuable officers having died in the same cam
pagn. In 1885, he raversed the whole country from
the frontiers of Missouri to the Rocky Mountains,
with only 300 dragoons-visted and treated with
twent, thirty nat of Indians and returned safe
with the loss of one man only by sickness.
The President of the United States while he was
in strict communion with the Wing party and know
ing the meritorious services of Gov. Dodge and the
| Wing Senate knowing also the character OF Gov.
Dodge and that Of Mr. Doty, removed the one and
placed the other in the responsible office OF Governor
of Wisconsin Territory. No such political outrage
was before committed on free people, and so
the freemen NJ the Territo-J oosiaAred IL because
| Gov. Dodge, after his removal, elected a dele
gate to Congress by ha ing majority in twelve of
the fifteen counties, composing the whole Territory
This removal for opinions sake, as no person IN
the Territory had vote for any United States olcer
and this removal, as many others were, made in vo-
ation of the express pledges of the Wing party.
BY violating these pledges, the Wing party have de-
ceived and defrauded the People. They have exhi-
bted such utter disregard to virtue and honesty that
it seems to me the People will be slow to believe
| them any future occasion.
Mr.. Chairman Have not heard it promised,
and the whole Wing party pledged that
soon General Harrison was elected, confidence
would be restored business would be revived and mo-
ney made plenty " Two dollars per day and roast
beef" promised to the laboring man These and
similar promises made and believed, caused the NIGH
ty political revolution to take place in 1870 | would
ask any candid man. have lhese things, promised by
| the w higs, been pei formed
The Wings have been in power since the 4th
March. lS4l with large ma ortes in both Houses of
Congress, and have been in session for almost eleven
months of this me-and what has been done for the
relief of the Peoples Bankrupt law was passed
for relief which is unjust and partial in its operations
destroyed contracts soemnIy and honestly made be-
tween and man, and excluded from its operation
Banks, which, than all other bodies had " sim
ned against high heaven, and deserved to be aba ed
for their corruption nuisaDces, which had poisoned
the country far and near. They have been left out
of this law as the pinks of perfection, when it is
known to all that they have done injury TO the
country than war, pestilence, or famine. This
Wing Congress were about to fasten the country
another National Bank it for the timely ueto
Of the President, which diverted the visitation OF this
calamity from the People. After having experienced
the frauds and outrages committed on the country by
| the old United States Bank this Why Congress
were about establishing another for relief 1t would
be most singular relief TO pursue the that has
already ruined the country.
Do the laborng class of people receive two dollars
day and beef2 Are prices of labor or produce
raised None OF these things have been performed
promised.
| Mr. Chairman Sometimes we hear il asserted that
the People will be relieved by imposing substantial
tariff the country.
! This is species of relief, that must be the in
vention of modern Whiggery, to tax the People to
relieve them ! some of the British Whin pa ners