Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-04-22
NUTS FOR THE CLIQUE.

warmed up with hostility to their brethren
in the centre, and if in such a conflict the
Democrat opened upon them. the blows
which it gave were more intended for the
wire workers behind the scenes, than they
were for the actors who had been intlu-
enced by the false lights held out TO them"
This lame shift of that Clique organ to
excuse itself for its former denunciatory
and dictatorial course towards the Demo-
Gratis of the Southwest, will avail it nothing.
Our friends know very well that His Ex-
celency wrote several of the articles
which abused them so outrageously last
spring and summer, that we positively re-
fused to republist them in the Reporter,
notwithstanding the repeated opportunities
of their author The machinery then set
in motion by the Clique, and directed by
His Excellency, to punish those who would
not follow in his wake, has been well under
stood for long time. Although but little
has been said upon the subject by the pub
lie press, yet many of the facts were
known by us before the commencement Of
the late session of the Legislature. Did
not Gov. Reynolds write several articles
for the Jefferson Inquirer abusing the De
mocracy of the Southwest and has he not
written similar articles for other papers!
Have not those articles. when published In
pursuance of his orders in different papers.
been copied by each of those journals re-
spectively, under the head of "Public Sen
timent?" Has not Gov. Reynolds, in more
instances than one. endeavored in that way,
to manufacture a false impression in his
own favorl Did his efforts stop even
there? Has he not endeavored to dictate
to other Democratic journals in this State
what course they should pursue, in order
to further his own selfish schemes? His
conduct in these and many other respects
has been carefully observed, and the day of
retribution has arrived.
If he could have succeeded in his trick
cry, many prominent Democrats in Mis-
sousi, by far his supcriors in all that re.
lates to political sagacity, intelligence and
integrity. would have been sacrificed at the
shrine of his personal ambition. His brand
ed organ at Jefferson city openly de-
nounced, during the last year, more than
five-sixths of all the Democratic members
of the late General Assembly, as well as
nearly every distinguished Democrat who
is not a wire-puller in the Clique cabal.
He dare not deny the fact of having writ
ten letters TO different parts of the State,
to destroy the political reputation and pros
poets of those whom he supposed stood
between him and the goal of his ambition.
The Democrat seeks by petty quibblng
to get rid of the charge that our first Of
fence in the eyes of the Clique was, that
we would not obey the orders we received
to denounce our political friends in the
Southwest. Do the owners of that press
i tt,,t oto l.
upon that subject? The war was formally
proclaimed against us by the Jefferson In
quirer last January, and we shall defend
ourself by carrying it into Africa. The
veil shall be torn down, and the whole
machinery of the wire-pullers submitted to
the gaze of an insulted and deceived peo-
pie, before we have done with our assail-
ants. Not only were our political brethren
of The Southwest to be denounced en- mGSSe,
but many prominent men in other portions
of the State, some of whom have never
yet learned that they were marked as
victims. No one who had acquired any
political reputation in the counties not
under the immediate control of the wire
pullers, was to be permitted TO escape.
The few managers residing in the Centre
were afraid that their monopoly of all the
offices in Missouri would be destroyed, if
any one, elsewhere, should be acknowl-
edged TO be pure and able Democrat
Hence the prescription which has been car.
ried on in Missouri for a long time; and
the denunciatory course of the leading
Clique organs, whose nominal editors are
fit instruments in the hands of corrupt
junto to be used in any work, however dis
gushing and disreputable. One has been
branded with infamy. He was forced to
confess, pale, abject and trembling, that
the falsehoods weekly uttered by him, were
put into his mouth by his masters, and that
nc dare not refuse to repeat them. This
abject and loathsome instrument of cor
rupt faction is one Of those who has been
sitting in judgment on our Democracy
The editor of the other paper is we'll
known in Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
He has been published to the world as one
stained with crimes of so deep dye, that
he was kicked out of gentleman's house
in Washington, driven from Virginia and
posted in Boonville. When such men are
are used by corrupt political trcksters, il
is not surprising that we should be assaied.
We shall preserve the published history
of their past lives for future use. At pres
ent we wish merely to advert to the fact
that our readers may bear in mind the old
adage. "Iike master, like man'--the CIiqu e
may be judged by their chosen "mouth
pieces"
How 1T WAS DoNE.--A would-bc great
man who had attained an elevated station
in the political world, once sought to gain