Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-05-02
GRATITUDE TO TRAITORS HA-
TIRED TO PATRIOTS.

There IS one trait tt liberalism, ,Wnlcn,
but for iis perverted nature in other res>
poets, would be great virtue. We mean
the tenacily with which il adhsres 10 its
kind. The last Congress was sigRalized
BY many striking displays Of that selfsac.
Fihcing devotion to partisans, under deS'
peFate and infamous circumsiances,w which
amounted to a sort of moral heroism-if
anything can be moral, while advancing
dishonest and bad ends. The hardihOOd
Of bandits, who sometimes venture from
their secure mountain retreats into popu'
lOus cities, to rescue captured confeder
ate, is nothing to the fortitude with which
our COonocralic chiefs risked themselves
10 servo multtudes OF their old federal al.
lies, whose very name and fellowship
they had nevertheless felt themselves
compelled TO forswear.
Two ofthese cases came together at
the close ofthe session, and may be con.
Sidered the death struggle Of the Coono.
cratic majority in the last Congress. The
conflict came up on the attempt TO pass
the bill to pay the Massachusetts militia
embodied under the auspices, and to pro.
tect the schemers of the Hartford Con.
VenliOn; and the bill reincorporating the
stockholders Of the rotten banks Of this
District, without making them responsi>
BILE for their issues. Neither of these
measures would bear discussion; there.
tore, they we're held up to the last mo.
ment, TO be thrust through, Ui ct Grmis,
by the majority. It would not do TO have
discussions in regard to The service Of that
militia 10 theGovernment called on to pay
II, when it was known that this force
looked across the border, and saw their
counirymen fall by thousands, to keep
the enemy out Of their confines; while
they refused, from constitutions! scrupIes,
to aid in their rePulse. 1t would not do
TO urge the merits of ou: District mo>
nopOlies-their claim for renewal of
privileges which they have enjoyed and
abused for twenty. thirty and forty years
when il was known that, for the most
part, they had been swayed by the Bank
Ofthe United States in its war upon the
Government. These hard cases, there.
fore, Federalism hung up TO the last mo.
ment. The Democrats fought them off
until they fell under the exclusion Of
the Tules;and even thon,so eager was the
desire OF Federalism TO pay lis Hartford
Convention troops of the British wal, and
its corporation allies Of the bank war that
it laboTed might and main TO set aside,
in their favor, the most salutary rules Of
legislation, adopted TO prevent mischtev.
Gus acts from being pressed through in
the last hours OF confusion, without un.
dergoing the scrutiny to which the reg
ular forms and stages would subject them.
SO resolutely bent was the coonery Of
Congress to reward Massachusetts and
corporation treachery devoted to their
cause, that many important bills were
bazllded, and some lost, in consequence
Ofthe protracted struggle made TO carry
the day for tho cripples made in the Brit.
ish and Biddle wars against the govern.
ment.
But the OoOnocrats went further back
than the last war TO serve oId-time Fed
erslism. They made bold push, at the
last moment, to pass the five million claim
for French spoliation prior to 1900, sci
up blythe speculat ng assignees and heirs
OF the old Federal merchants who lost
property in the war on the ocean, gotten
up by the elder Adams by his political
crusade againstFrance. This condemn.
ed claim Of forty years. rejection, was
within an ace ofget'ing through by means
Of the hard cider press.
But one of the most remarkable evi. |
dences of the attachment Of new born
Whiggery TO those who suffered in the
cause Of old Federalism, was given in the
contrasted reports OF the judiciary Com.
mlttee Of the Senate, (Mr Berrien chair.
man, with tail of his party friends 10
support him. in the cases Of Gen Hull
and Gen. Jackson. Hull having surren.
dered Detroit, the key to the Nor Invest.
had opened all our frontier to the hordes
Of Eavages in British pay. The loss ofI
this key 10 our defence against invasion,
threw wide open our unsuspectinp and
unprepsred settlements to The towabawk
and torch Of the British and their red al.
lies Hence the massacre and conAapra.
tiOn at the river Raisin--the butcherv
near Fort Meigs--the multitude of indi. !
vldual and family murders and burning
Of hOmesteads along the border. While
these horrid scenes we're being enacted
and our starving and freezing troops from
Kentucky were toling to arrest them.
and sacrificing their lives, old Hull was
snug aud comfortable and failinR sumptu.
Ously in British quarters. Yet bis friends
had The audacity 10 ask Congress for the
p9yment Of his salary as Governor OIL
the Territory he had abandoned 10 The
British Tor the period he spent among the
enemy whom he had put in possession OF
ns government. There was not even a
tecnnlca'l'y TO sustain this demand
g me othcer cOHvislOf treachery by a
81" SOII Ln msI.s'' ~. t ana tm being shot
Hsa!;o GIis y .is me-. c'emenc "a, Mr.. Madison
ed 70 the British, the Office Of Gdv"" SUveIn' !,
aa Of an American Tarriinrn ot,eIhoI,l