The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-09-14
THE ACTING PRESIDENT

THE ACTING PRESIDENT
Leaves the White House, we understand, next
Monday, to pay visit to Springs, and thereby get
rid, for season, of the pressing opportunities
and clamors for place of those who still hang
about the White House when he is in it, in the
hope of begging him to fulfil some one of the
many conscientious pledges he has made. upon his
honor, as gentleman and the Chief Magistrate
of the Nation, that he would, in some way, pro-
vide for them.
Let him 60 to the Springs, and let him find soil
tude there for reflection. Let him think how he
once betrayed the Democratic party to get Ran
dolph's place in the Senate-how he became
flaming Wing, and as such, descended from the
United States Senate to the House of Delegates
in Virginia-how he there, because he was not
preferred for U. S. Senator over CHAPMAN JOHN
SON and VIM. c. RIvEs, threatened to quit the
Wing party and desert to the Locofocos and was
denounced by the Richmond Wing for so doing
how he was glad to make peace with the Wing
and get back into the ranks of the party-how he
went to the Harrisburg Convention in 1889, and
cried because his friend CLAY, the Bank, Tariff,
and Distribution champion, was not nominated for
President-how loudly and goriously he boosted,
at the Wing dinner in this city in 1910, that he
was WING, good and true-how he was ele-
waited to power by the confiding Wing party-how
meanly, scurvily, and dsgracefully he has be-
trayed that party that took him from almost the
gutter-how he has turned out good and worthy
officers, who happened to be Wings, though not
noisy politicians, and filled their places with Loco
focos, many of them brawling, disgraceed, and
abandoned vagabonds and oafers-and how the
Locofoco leaders, for all this, and knowing the
man, have cheated, deceived, fooled and ridculed
him, from General Jackson down to the lowest
| corporal of their party
Yes, let him, at the Springs, reflect soberly up
on all these things. Let him bear in mind what
he has asked the people to believe about his con-
science which strongly deferred him from for
swearing himself or falsifying his sacred word
| OF honor, and then reflect upon the many times
he has given his sacred word of honor to his
friends that he would provide for them, with no
intention of keeping his word.
| We could name many individuals who have
been kept here, by his promises, for one, two, or
| three years, and who are not provided for yet.
One man who has spent thousands for the Tyler
cause, has been waiting for Charge d. Aaireship,
promised to him, almost four years, and now is
| asked by His Accidency, we learn, to take an in
significant Consulshp! How was Major Noah
treated! How was Snethen treated! Were
they not the first to advocate the Tyler cause, at
heavy expense, and are they not Tylermen yet
How did Judge Bryan and his friends have to
pump and bore His Accidency for the promised
commission of Charge d'Afaires, before they
finally obtained it !? How long has certain poor
man with large family been put off, by Captain
Tyler, with positive promises that he should be
restored the moment $1,000 clerkship should
become vacant, whilst dozens of such places have
been filled by the order of His Accidency, who
superintends the filling of all cIerkshps, high or
low!
No wonder he wishes to 60 into the mountains
and hide himself from the faces of those whom
he knows he has cheated and deceived He now
boasts that Polk and Dallas will be elected, and
hopes, no doubt, that the understanding made with
his friends, with his appreciation, will be made
good Deluded ego,ist! May he remain forty
days and nights in the mountains. He will then
see HENRY CLAY, a true Wing, who nerer turns
traitor, elected President Of the United States by
an overwhelming majority.
REWARDS.
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