Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-07-26
BANK--LOCOFOco HUMBUGGERY.

There is class of men in Vermont who are
devoting all their energies to induce the people &c
vote for Polk knowing that he is a candidate abso-
utey selected by the Free Traders, annexation
lists nulifers and slaveocrats of Mississippi, South
Carolina, and .Nsto Hampshire and yet pretend
ing that Polk is for Protection, and that annexation
is neither party question nor slave question:
No men ever played off upon the people more
dishonest, hypocrucal and disgraceiul tricks than
do these Vermont leaders of locofocosm and yet
-as the thief is always first and loudcst to shout
" stop thief! stop him! $50 these men are the
first and loudest to raise the cry of hypocrisy and
doubledeaHng against the Wings. You Wing.
humbugged the people in 1910; you have violated
your pledges you kept buck the bank question
and then tried to force a Bank upon the county,
such are their charges. hey are FALSE willully
and knowingly false. Never was there Congress
which faithfully endeavored to carry cut their
pledges than did the Wing Congress elected in
1910: they did their they accomplished all
they possibly could accomplish they yielded to
the last point to the scruples of the acting Presi
dent, who had foisted hiu.self upon them by lro-
tossing to be a Wing; and that they did not fully
succeed, was entirely the fault Of the treacherous
and corrupt man who disgraced the Presidential
Office, and was carcssed for bis treachery and
tempted to corruption by the locoioco party. We
charge that the locofoco leaders, who hung in
clouds by night and day around the white house in
lS4l2, made John Tyler their tool, and thus de-
feated the Whigs-thus disappointed the country.
They thwarted the Wing measures intended hon
estly to redeem Wing pedges-and now charge
the Wings with hypocrisy they induced John Ty-
Ter to defeat measures by vetoes-and now
accuse us of treachery because we did not carry
them Such is the meanness of locofoco election
eeIing! But to come TO the main point. We are
charged with keeping the Bank in the back ground
in 1910 and then attempting to foist a bank upon
the country. We deny 1.-THE course of the Wings
was perfectly consistent with their avowals in the
canvass. How was it =? There was one universal
Complaint among the Wings that the locus were
making war upon the currency, through the sub
treasury, and they promised to repeal it. There
was also one universal sentiment that some Other
mode of managing the finances and aiding the cur
rency of the country should be adopted but the
Wings did not pretend To agree what that mode
should be-soMe preferred an old fashioned bank,
others were opposed to that but all agreed to leave
the matter to Congress and to Gen. HARRISON the
latter being avowedly in favor Vt a sound currency
though not committed to bank or any other par
cular mode of securing that end. This was the
position Of the Wing party in 1870, and what was
their conduct They repealed the Sub Treasury
in strict accordance with their pledge; and they
as to apply remedy, as they were also pledged ,c
do, for the then wretched currency. The locoio
cos tell us that at this point the Wings char
tered Bank, inconsistent with their professions
previous to the election, 1t is untrue: they acte,
in precise consistency with their professions
they apo,ded The bank on the one hand and The Sub