The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-01-31
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 81. 1914.
THE GLoBE-MR. DAvIs-ILLINoIs


THE GLOBE-MR- DAVIS-ILLINOIS.
Our readers will recoect some notices we
took few weeks ago of the outrageous assaults
of the Globe upon the Hon. John Davis, for act
ing as an agent of the holders of Illinois State
bonds, with view of bringing about an arrage-
nent, sought by the State, by which the half
completed, and at present useless public works
of the State may be finished, and become profit
able and useful The articles to which we aude
in the Globe were headed with the raw-head and
bloody -bones caption of BRITISH INFLUENCE
and insinuated if they did not directly charge the
fact, that Mr.. Davis was freighted with British
gold, or could command any amount of it, to buy
up the State of Illinois! They furthermore, by
inference, charged the Democratic Governor,
Legislature, commissioners, &C.. including the
whole Democracy of the State, with being about
to sell themselves, for British gold, to the Wings.
Awful! An arrangement by which the millions
that had been expended on the public works of
that State should be saved, and the works, after
being nearly completed, should not be suffered to
go to ruin, was charged as bargain by which
the State itself was to pass into the hands of
those who advanced the money, namely, the
holders of the State bonds, the interest of which
even the State can not pay until her works
upon which the money has been expended shall
be completed, and to be by them regularly trans
ferred to the Wings, who should hereafter have
possession of the Government!
We could scarcely tell whether the writer of
these articles was more fool than knave-whe-
Their he were SO green really to believe what
he had written, or 20 base as to put forth the
most deliberate caumnies for mere political eff
feet. We are inclined to the opinion, however,
that the former predomnated, and that the writer
was not silly enough to believe his own fabrca-
tons or "terrdiddles
BIZ. it appears that the Globe has been adj
monished and reprimanded by his party in that
State for his assaults upon MIR. Davis and the
leading Democrats, including every man con-
nected with the State Government, Executive or
legislative. We happen to know that these
abusive articles Of the Globe caused equal SEN
sation and indignation at the seat of government
in Illinois on their arrival at that place. and called
forth an universal exclamation from all parties, of
Shame shame - We further know that the
paternity Of these calumnies was by some
cribed to Mr. Douglass, and by others to Mr..
Wentworth: how unjustly to the latter appears
by the speech he made in the House repelling
these SANDERS against one OF the purest men in
the nation, which portion Of his speech was AC-
CIDENTALdY OMITTED by the EDITOR
of the Globe, not the reporter, as was the whole
of Mr. Weller's digraceful, billlngsgate attack
upon Mr.. Stewart.
Such was the sensation and Indignation pro-
duced by these wholesale calumnies of the Globe
at Springfield the seat of government of Illinois,
that the party became alarmed lest their effect
should be to drive honest men out of its ranks,
and into those of the Wings. Intelligent men
could not but perceive that slch organ, teem-
ing with SANDER and villiGcation of public serv-
ants studious to promote the great interests of
the State, was calculated to disgust every honest
and moderate man, and therefore letters were
despatched to the editor of the Globe, and 10
Loco Foco members of Congress from that
State, to put stop to them. To these let
tiers, and to the applications that have been
made TO Mr.. Blair by the Locofoco members
from Illinois, the Globe of Monday evening re-
sponded, half apologizing, but at the same time
taking occasion to reiterate his caumnies, and
10 concoct another column, portion of which,
all we can find room for, we copy below.
From the Globe
"But, in the Illinois case, we reprobated the
course of the foreign creditors who sought TO
make the vantage ground, which their lien on
the State gave them, available TO their political
partisans in this country. This they did by ma
king John Davis, then already announced as a
colleague with Mr.. Clay the Federal ticket
for the Presidency, their agent, and giving him
control Of the arrangement proposed by the
Stale. Ii was our duty TO notice this glarinS
not TO say audacious, attemp, on the part of for
eianers, 10 clothe a candidate for the second Of
fce in the Government with vast pecuniary
influence to bring the British party in this coun,
frv into the command of the Federal Govern