Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-09-03
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quiry, 500 Inns after time haVs we seer
and heard others making the same inuui
Iry-"Whers is Mordecsi Barley. the
coon candidate for GovernorH" We can.
not get an answer-nob0dy appears 10
know any thing about him nOv a days
although in days Of yore his nsms and
fame we're Identified with many Incidents
which memory now brings up fom her
deep mine for men 10 blush at. We are
almost constrained 10 believe, howe yer
that MOrdecai Barley has followed a
very prevalent fashion umoDg the fairesl
portion Of crealiOn-bscked out. We
don't assert this positively, but only al
lude I" the premouilory symptoms, and
hope IL i is not Just SO, that there will be
no great bustle made about il.
Bot one thing is very certsin-Bsr,ley
is not SLOWED BY bis leaders 10 come inc
10 public, or mix with ,he people in their
assemblags', and the reason, for 1t .
wings, is certainly very reasonable Ole.
In all the attributes of public man, and
a statesman. Barley is far below even
respectable mediocriiy. He is weak,
imPOient in intellect, contracted in exr
Perience, although he has lived TO a good
old age, but without the benefits Of age
which mos, men generally gain by mixing
With intelligentcircles and filing public
stations.
After his nomination in The winter, a
tremendous noise was made about him
by bis friends, aud The consequence was
fatal-iI sent the important inquiry sfloai
"Who is and what is Alordecai BARLEY p
And old musty records in the depart.
ments al Washington sent hack 10 the
hills and Vales Of Ohio, the paraIizing re, |
SPONGE, that MOrdecii Barley was one |
of the ACTORS in that foul fraud in Con
greSs in 1924 which swindled the peo-
pie Of the Union out Of the President OF
their chOice-was one who aided in the
Bargain aud Sale-was one who helped
IojoIn the bans between the "Puri!ans
and Backlegs." Then other old docu.
ments spoke out, that he was an old fed.
eralist Of the Hartford Convention school
"a reVilei Of Mr.. JeffeTsOn-a slanderer
OF Gen. Jackson and up rise bis own
in the villages, and fields, and
woods Of his own county home, who have
known him long and in limately, and
him with the sable pictures
themselves, hurl at him The confOunding
charge, aud fasten it blsiering hot upon
his head. that he was in person retailor
OF The infamOu5-the ever Infamous
COFFIN HAND BILLS and their fiend
ish Caiumnies upon The bravery and pat
riOlsm Of Gen, JACKSON. Other dOcu
ments then speak out, aud f,slen upon
hlm The guilt of opposing measures Of
relief to the soldiers Of the wars, when
asking from Congress giant Of pension
aid from the battles they had fought,
the limbs they had lost, and the time
they had sacrificed in contending against
the invaders of American soil and the
enemies Of human rights. To cap the
climax, the mantle OF charity; which ma
lignant men had attempted TO hide his
with, was now stripped off. and |
before US stool al old man luxuriously |
seated upon the cushions Of ease in the |
halls Of Congress, voting that he was viii.
ling to aid the suPplicating poor Of the
District of Columbia, BY giving them the |
wood and treasure OF the nali0n, but vo-
ting that he sOOuld rot put his hand into |
his own private pocket. aud from the
eight dollars per day for three hours
loafpg in indOlent ease, give 10 the suf.
fering by hunger and cold!
THIS Is Mordecdi Barley this is the
whig candidate for Governof--should we
wonder that he is kept at hons and moi
suffered 70 go abroadi Should we won.
der that nov and then, when he is posted
incapilals with the slumpers Of parlizan
whiggery--wilh the COrwins, the E".
ibgs, tho Storers, and the other circuit |
riders Of Ohio, that henever appearsS
His first appearance vas made at Cleve-
land carly 10 The spring--it was his first
and last-from there he was carefully
consigned home, and there he remains,
for Tho edict Of Danish ment was placed
upon him BY his own friends, and on
MIN the democracy will make it stay.
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