The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-01-26
MURDER WILL ouT "-s PfCKlNGs
AND STEALINGS."

appointed Secretary OF Waf-beIng The brother Oh
Governor Porter, who il was natufsly supposed
approved OF his acceptance OF otlice, notwhh-
standing IL was in violation Of the edict OF The
Jacobn Club. The Globe, The Pennsylvania,
and one OF the editors of the Harrisburg Union,
denounced the whole family, and read them out
of The Tan Bren Democratic party. The
Union man charged he Governor OF design 10
| transfer the Democracy of Penns ylvana TO Pre-
sdent Tyler, as consideration for the appoint
ment of his brother 10 a sea, IN the Cabinet
He declared that The Governor himself had
once absolutely handed him communication,
at the request of third person, intended for
publication, which approved of President Ty-
ler's vetoes That was enough The Globe,
the Pennsy lvanian, and the Richmond Enquirer,
at once hooted the Governor and his brother out
of the party And since that lime the Harris
| BURG Union has been regarded by the Globe and
The Enquirer the Simon Pure Jacobin organ
| in Pennsylvania. They have praised it and
| quoted it without stint; aud while commencing
| its orthodoxy and honesty, the Globe has never
| neglected an opportunity 10 dwell upon The Gov
ernor's "apostacy" and dishonesty.
AT a subsequent period TO the Governors
| accommodation, however, it was found that
he was not altogether spritless and powerless,
though unsparingly denounced. BY hook and
by crook the editors Of the Union procured
legislative appointment to do the printing.
Either the bill or resolution, or whatever II was,
was unconstitutional. and the Governor uetoed
Fit. He had also received information that all
was not right in the means used 10 procure The
appointment.
This, OF course, caused another outcry among
the honest and indignant JacobD presses, and
we don't know how many charges of "brbery
and corruption" were fabricated against the
Porlers," to use the Globes favorte expression
Well, the Governor was as firm as rock, and
challenged an investigation all round. And
what does the reader suppose was devel-
oped :? As il is not likely he will ever see it in
the Globe, we will copy it from late Phiadel-
phia Democratic paper, which stood by the Gov
error, as given in its leading editorial:
Faom the Philadelphia Spirit erthe Times.
THE NEW GUNPOWDER PLOT DISCOv-
ERED-THE tBRIBERY AND CORRUP-
TiON" OF CERTAIN LEGISLATORS EX-
POSED-POLITICAL SAINTS vs. POLL
TICAL SINNERS.
The truth is out at last Our suspicious, and those
of every opponent to legislative rottenness
than verified in relation to the surrepttous means
by which Messrs Mckinley and others were elected
State Printers at Harrisburg by the last Legislature.
The Committee of Investigation has already. de-
veloped that Isaac q. Mckinley, the would be State
printer-the immaculate incarnation Of the whole
Democracy of thus Commonweath--the gentleman
who was so shocked at the merceuary atmosphere
k.okh he
was compelled to turn migrate to avoid contamina-
tonit turns out that this ink of patriotism, this
quntessence of political honesty, this Mahomet Of
Democracy, has been guilty Of that very thing which
he has been all along so industriousy charging upon
others II turns out that he has really given his
"promisas to pay 10 the amount Of S. 500 in order
to buy up the bodies and souls of certain Legislators
] and that he did thus purchase them instruments
for the accomplishment of his election State prn
| ter
Oh, most virtuous of political reformers Oh most
pious worshipper at the iootsool of Public Faith
Oh disnterested adoraior Of the Peoples good
| Thou, whose shr cry Of stop thief" piercing the
dull popular ear from morn 10 noon, and from
to night, but the frght-shrek of cunning guilt to
avert attention from the lGtd scent of thine own
| footprints Thou, in whose mouth the butter of
self interest scarcely seemed 10 melt yet down whose
ample hryat the putrescen oil of rank yenalty pour
| est like ichorous Niagara
Plainly and sincerely, what are the quiet lockers
on among the great mass of the people, to think OF
this disgusting spectacle Is it not enough almost to
sicken the greatest enthusiast in the doctrine Of hu
man integrity Is 1t not enough almost nausea ate
| us with almost every profession Of patriotism-to
convince us that cant and hypocrisy the natural
language OF almost every tongue-and that when men
exhibit such holy horror Of treacbery and fraud,
! they only honest 10 as far as that horror is dis
PLAYED for the treachery and fraud which is not pecu-
4 liarly their own Thank Heaven however, ali men
are not Mckinley s. Lescures & Co and for Il sake
Of humanity, we are ready TO believe that there
thousands whom sordid considerations could tempt
| to boast of having proftaby deceived an indulgent
peope-could tempt TO bride a whole legislatuTe-or
| claim the highw aymaps reward for having stabbed
! the hand that kept them from ragged restitution
Well, so it is. Agreeably to Gen. Camerons tes-
timony, these political saints, the sodisant State
Printers agreed to pay S. 600 for enough votes to
secure their election. As IT was calculated that the
"pckinas and stealngs" in that Office would be worth
ten thousand per annum, the bargsin, IN pecunary
point of light, was not bad one and to its
rality why have all heard of distinguish
ed man who betrayed his master and sold himself to
perdton for considerably less To be sure the lat
ter we are told, "went and hanged himself suisse
| quently and il the estate Plunderers" would only
/ ego and do likewise, the analogy would not only
grow symmetrcslly perfect but 1t would be source
/ Of relief 10 the Commonwealth, and add much to
strengthen belief in the justice Of reirbu,ive
Providence.
How many votes these $500 purchased is not ye,
| known.
I Yet, reader, uhese are the men VINO arrogaie 10
themselves the title Of tie Democracy and pretend
to instruct every other individual in the State as to
the nature of honesty, consistency and sound patri-
! otto principles. These are the men who hold them
selves up examples Of political purity ard
have insoenuy abused every man whose con-
science would not permit him to pin his faith
TO their coat-tails, or more properly their breecbes-
| rockets These ATE the men who denounced
us because we did not choose TO follow in their
contemplate lead and who while reeking with the
stencil Of political corruption, accused every journal
in PENNSYLVANIA Of turp,ude which did not share in
the profits Of pu,ridiiy with themselves.