The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-08-15
Fioss the Harrisburg Eaqsi e. y Signal.
"UNION FOR THE SAKE OF PLUMBER"

proof wanting 10 sustain this oS''tSo" ~ |
would refer the reader the fact, that some Of The
"Unionn men despatched q messenger To Gov rof-
ter in April last with authority TO negotiate treaty
Of peace the following terms Ihat u inc uov'
ernor would the bill passed by inc Legislature
giving the printing to the lowest bidder, Mckinney
fesc1re. then OF the Keystone, would retract all
they had pre- vously said aga INST him, and support MS
administration with all the zeal they could command
This proportion was rejected with scorn, as ue-
served TO be. Men who would thus ohsr 10 SELL
Themselves are capable Of any imaginable dishonesty
And yet they would palm themselves oil as publishers
Of THE organ of the WHOLE Democratic party OF
PenDsy lyania Was such impertinence ever heard
Of before
The Union spoken of above, is the paper SO
much quoted by the Globe. which states thai
Gov. Porter has transferred the Democracy to
Mr.. Tyler, like flock Of sheep
The Boston Post furnishes capital satire
on the Plot discovered by the Union, Globe and
Pennsylvania:
THE TUB rLUI.
We have alluded to the leagues, conspiracies and
plots with which the press has of late been filled =
We have hunted up some details of old federal
revelation of pretended democratic plot, especially
for the benefit of those who seem determined that
there shall be plot and that democrats shall believe
IT, 1t is the one called the Tub Plot 1t was detect
ed in $780, about the time SO much was said about
Irishmen," "Robinson's Proofs Of Conspiracy"
| " Barreul's Revelations of the Horrors Of Jacobin-
ism" -" DIR. Morse's ocean massacre sermon and Elk
position Of French Intrigue Harper's Clues to
Conspiracies," and other terrible things which JEFF
f,rson mentions in his memoirs. The great point OF
alarm to make the people believe that French
consprators to destroy the lib rites OF America
the great federal merit consisted in the detection OF
their various schemes TO effect this object.
In February, $780, Timothy Pickering, then Secre-
tarv Of of limited States advised Governor
Ruiledge, of South Carolina, that four persons had
sailed from Hamburg for Charleston, who were in
the employment Of the French Government and that
they bore about them dispatches of reasonable
ture. Mr. Pickering also sent minute description
of the vessel and the individuals with the further in
formation that these papere to be concealed in
tiro false boitomed tubs" lie requested that both
persons and papers might be secured. On the 2lst
of February, this vessel, the Minerva, Capt Cramp,
arrived at Charleston, ll9 days from Hamburg. She
was forthwith boarded by Mai. Simmons, the collec-
tor of the port, Mr.. William Crafts U. S. agent for
the naval and war department, with proper assis-
tance"-the usual posse commitatus. The vessel and
passengers were searched and the obnoxious indi
vduals identified and seized. The papers were found
described in the letter Of the Secretary of State.
Says Charleston journal-federal-of Feb. %
The tubs broken open and the papers taken
out; the horrors of guilt were depicted strongly on
the countenances of the guilty wretches, and their
bodies shook with fear and trembling"
There were four men--three mulattoes and
white man-and one woman who" continues the
narration A." was evidently concerned in the conspira-
and endeavored to take of the tubs under her
arm" They were all confined in Fort Pinckney.
| The papers were, in due form, delivered to Major
General Pinckney, who carefully transmitted them
to Colonel Pickering. These were announced as TO
| reign agents, employed by those who were engaged
in a conspiracy against the citizens Of the United
States, the soul of which was the famous. Talley-
land. Their part of the business was represented to
be "to effect the conhagraon of the city OF Charles
@ pA hs se s eoS n !se e puDc nina
infamed 10 the right pitch to enable the story to
gain credit. Ii was proclaimed in flaming capitals
| in hand bills and in the newspapers. The first ru
NOR of this plot" received in New York, was on a
Sunday morning, by vessel from Charleston. The
editor Of the Mercantile Advertiser thought the
interesting to the country" to require the ut
most despatch. Accordingly he issued an extra
sheet. We extract the following paragraph from il
from the Boston Cenlinel of March g. 1899, into
which it was copied
PARTICIPATED NEWS.
| MIR. King who arrived yesterday from New York.
since mail, politely handed US copies of the subse-
quent handful, published in New York on Sunday
| last -
Office Of the Mercantile Advertiser, March 3, 1893
| Sunday morning
The editor is indebted to gentleman Of this city,
who politely handed him the Charleston State Ga
zete Of the 22d ult, received by a vessel arrived
this morning from Charleston. Its contents Of
nature so interesting to our country that cannot
delay moment IN laying them before patrons
and the public. We have therefore issued an extra
sheet; and we hope the magnitude Of the subject
will serve apology for this breach Of the fourth
commandment
The hand bill is too long TO copy as il makes
a column Of matter. 1t goes most mnutely into the
history Of this awful plot and is duly ornamcnted
with capitals The story is fully credited by the fed
eralists and as fully ridicued by the democrats
They seized upon its weak points and characterized
the whole a federal trick To meet this storm Of
ridicuie the Cennel, March 20, printed the follow
ing which at this day does not 10 mend the mat
| ter much -
"THE DETECTED CONSPIRACY
at Charleston, is confirmed from all quarters. The
agents in prison, and their papers sent the Sc
ersfary Of State. The confagration Of the city OF
Charleston and insurrection Of the negroes Of the
South are two Of the items Of the conspraton. The
early discovery Of the plot establishes the preemi-
nent vigilance Of our Executive and IT il wholly
owing to the false decscy Of the parsgrsphists Of
Charleston who first narrated the event. that a ridicu-
ous levy has been attached TO a very serious affair
Instead Of tubs, the utensils in which the papers
were cunnngly concealed, were those Of a goddess
to whom the French pay their deroir, with an unri-
vailed nonchalance."
! This detected conspiracy" which was so serious
as TO be announced In hapd-bs on Sunday, turned
out 10 be nothing less than the arrival OF
French courtezan at Charleston. The papers" so
formally transmitted TO the Secretary Of State were
parcel Of love letters and two or three small
trunks containing her wearing apparel, constituting
her whole property were msgnhed into tubs Of sedi-
tous papers prepared for the purpose Of distribution
among he slaves in the Southern states
So much for the bumbug tub plot Its details were
exposed during the operation Of the alien and sedton
laws, when the Federalsrs represented that the
Try full Of internal traitors as some Of our
Democratic friends would have believe the ranks
Of the Democracy now The former was as true
as the latter Is. Few Federalss there are now who
do not laugh at the ridiculous alarm this fanced plot
created. There will be few Democrats among those
who now believe what Is said Of plotting and coun-
terpottng, who will not, ere long, laugh also at their
| present credulity.
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