The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-05-18


The locolocos say they're in favor o.
a tariff, don't they? Hear what the PIE
beian, the leading loco paper in New York
says about the defeat of Mckay's anti.
Tariff Bill.
"For all useful purposes, we think the
present Congress might as well adjourn
to rcceiv, the odium of an indignant and
Insnlted constituency. If ever measure
was demanded by the popular voice, that
measure was the repeal of the present obi
Gus and unjust Tariff of lS42-,hc only
important measure that Wing Congress
succeeded in fastening upon the people,
| Dissolution IF The Locof oco Pariy.-
The signs which are now visible in III .
political horizon are portentious of change
of astonishing, deep, and thorough.
change With legibili,y which needs
no Interpretation, they show forth that
the locofoco party is about TO be dissolv-
ed. When Gen. Jackson was brought
out for the Presidency, a loud, wild, and
clamorous popular shout went up in his
favor, which rang from one extremity of
the country 10 the other. This strong
breath of generous peoplc-gencrous
in awarding to man who had, at least,
'dOne the state some service" so disiin
guished all honor, was eagerly caught up
by designing political demagogucs, and
forced into corrupt and loathGul car
case, for which they stole the title of sDc-
mocracy." TO that carcase for a length
of time it gave life, and activity, and DER
whelming strength. But in it the seeds
Of disease and corruption were so deeply
seated, that the vital principle which had
been unnaturally forced into it, s,rovc in
vain to throw them of: They have been
constantly doing their work of death.
The strength. activity and life have stead
lily been eking out of the bloa,ed mon
s'er. His glossy coat grew rough and
dmgy, his fatness forsook him, limb after
limb has been dropping of, and now the
last breath is about 20 depart, and leave
the hateful trunk in all its corruption aud
rotenncss, nakcdly exposed to the gaze
of an injured people, upon whom il had
been wont to feed and falten.
The locofoCos now, taken as party,
have no unity either in regard 10 prnci-
pies or men. In one state they advocate
a tariff, in another free trade. Some are
fora sub-trcasury, others agains. it. Some
are for one Presidential term, while 9th
ers are even for bringing the old hero Of
the hermitage out for another trial Upon
the question of the anne xation of Texas,
their leaders differ and wrangle, and the
smaller ours are at loss whom to bark
in after. All these things show emphat-
icall that the distinctive features of a
great political party no longer exist in
their ranks. ''rhe cohesive attraction of
plunder," which Calhoun said held them
together, has no longer that effect, and
we now see different parts of the same
body, repeIing each other instead of al
tracing.
The efforts of Mr.. Van Buren, and his
active partizan leaders, TO be all things to
all men, have at length worked a just re-
| ward for him and all concerned in the
hypocrisy. Their confdmg adherents
believed them as they preached one doc
lrine in The North, another in the South
one in the East, and another in the West,
until at last we find they have created
amongst themselves a number of different
parties, whose principles are so entirely
at variance tina. coalesccnce can never be
formed.
Nor can they agree any better upon a
leader. They kuow not whether they
shall 60 to battle under Van Buren,, Tyler,
johnson, Cass, Benton, Buchanan, Stew
art, Old Hickory, or whom. As ali ex.
ample of the good feeling and harmony
that exists amongst them we give the fol-
lowing from the Petersburg Republican,
locoioco paper printed in Virginia.
BENTON, BLAIR & co.
awe scarcely know how to treat this
scurvy pack who undertake not only TO
make presidential CANDIDATES Tor the
Union, but to denounce and insult the
Republican party Of any State which re-
fuses to support THEIR candidate Even
Virginia, the noble and glorious Old Do
minon, whose sons whether at home, oil
| abroad stand where none can stand be.