The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-05-31
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FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 81, 1874.

POLITICS AND Y-SANCTIMONI-
BUSINESS AND SLANG WHANGERY-
RANT AND RELIGION.
The title we have given to this article, may
have the appearance of design to cast ridcue
upon religion. If any one supposes We have any
such intention they greatly mistake our purpose
We are forced to adopt this title as indicative Of
speech published in the Globe on Saturday last
and to which we listened with unmitgated dis
gust in the House of Representatives.
The speech to which we allude is that of Mr.
Wentworth, upon motion of Mr. Petit to strike
out all the appropriations for the support of chap.
lains, in the army bill. Mr. w. opposed the mo-
ton, and, in doing so, mingled high professions
of respect for religion with the most contemplate
slang whangery of politics. Not content with
declaring his opposition to the motion, and Of
throwing out the idea that he was himself pr
GUS man, he took the occasion to commence a
most furious attack upon the Wings, upon whom
all the Indignation which had been stirred up,
all the pious wrath which the infdel motion had
enknded in his pure bosom, was poured instead
of his Locofoco bosom friend, who had been the
cause of lighting up such holy flame in his
breast.
Mr.. W. has made himself known here by his
correspondence with his own paper in Chicago,
extracts from which appeared in the Standard I'M
til we got tired of exhibiting nauseous egotism,
ridiculous pomposity, bad grammer, murderous
assaults upon the kings English, puerile nom
sense, imbecile vituperations, and gross vulgari-
ty. We became ashamed of him as member of
the national legislature, although he seemed to
glory in the notoriety he had gained, even by
such means. In the speech to which our atten-
ton has been called, and which would have adj
mirably suited the atmosphere of Jacobin club
Of Paris during their bloody predominance in the
worst times of the French Revolution, he seems
to have emulated another member Of Congress
in the super lative character of his abuse of the
Wings, and in making assertions utterly desti-
tute of truth or even the sembance Of it.
AS the speech with all its disgusting vulgarity
and disregard of fact, has been written out with
apparent care that none Of these characteristics
should be lost, and published in the Globe, we
presume its author intended it for /" Buncombe,"
that is, for his constituents at home, and that they
should in that, have specimen of his talents as
a statesman and legislator. Had we room, we
would make large extracts from this farrago of
fasehood, religion, rant, Sanctity, and SANDER,
that those who do not touch the Globe might see
what sort of stuff it was made of but our want
of space forbids. Mr.. Wentworth, fearing that
the motion coming from Locofoco, would operate
against his party, rises to ward off its effect, by
protesting great regard for religion and the Bible
himself, and attempting to prove that there were
pious men in that party, and revives all the stale
lies which have been uttered against Mr.. Clay,
and proved again and again to be falsehoods.
These he reterates, in the face and eyes of their
contradiction; and by lifting them from their ig-
nomnious graves, hugging them to his bosom,
and attempting to give them new life, has made
them his own progeny. This, he thinks, COM
ports with religion! and it does with that
which he practices. In the same breath he at
tempts to defend his Locofoco friend from the an
ticpated reproach of nfdelity and Fanny Wright.
ism, and beches forth SANDER after SANDER, false
hood after falsehood upon Mr.. Clay, which he
attempts to sustain by quoting other falsehoods
upon him in his notes!
"Too long," he says, " has the Democratic
party writhed under the ignominy of advocating
the doctrines of Fanny Wright. And yet, who
she is, and where she is, know not" And be-
cause he never saw Fanny Wright he under
takes to clear the skirts of his party of her. Let
him turn to the Albany Argus of August 26,
1S37-we think this is the date, though not GER
tain, as we quote from emory,-and he will
there find resolution, adopted at Democratic
meeting held in Albany county, denouncng, in
the most indignant terms, :" the Locofocos' OF the
city of New York, who are declared to be infdels
and followers of Fanny Wright. Pine resolution
declares that their association is pollution, and