The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-03
For the Wig Standard.
THE GLOBE AND THE "DEVICE."

Mr.. EDITOR: | profess not to be a politician.
| am freeborn citizen Of America and desire no
other title Of distinction. Aught that affects the
honor Of my country touches me keeny for
although one of the humblest of her sons, 4 have
ever considered my character, as an individual,
identified with hers as nation. rejoice in her
prosperity and sympathze in her adversely her
glory is my glory, her disgrace my disgrace -
Entertaining these sentiments. you may imagine
with what loathing | observed the unSpeakably
Infamous "dtvice" in the Globe of "Wednesday
evening. For while every man Of ordinary INTEL
lIgence will concede, that moral atrocities of that
character are the most potent engines which any
party can employ for it's own utter destruction
while every sane mind is convinced that the poll
cy which leads to their adoption s, Of all others,
the most suicidal yet, to the friend of human
ameloraton, the contemplation of prohigacy SO
deep, SO unaihomabe, must be peculiarly pain
ful--to the lovers of his country inexpressibly
Illuminating. Notwithstanding The regret may be
qualified and the sense of shame aleviated oy the
consciousness that resort to eXpedients vile
indicates unerringIy, the weakness of the cause,
10 subserve which they are devised, yet there is
an innate feeling of rectitude in every uncorrup-
ted heart which instnctively recoils at the ex-
hibitiOn of depravty so hideous. Ii is TO these
corruptors Of the fountains of intelligence that we
are indebted for the caus,ic animadversions upon
our political institutions and our social organza-
ton, which are so frequently and freely bestowed
by the enlightened of other countries. How
poignant must be the emotions of an American
gentleman, who, in foreign land amidst foes to
his own, should happen to discover, on receiving
copy of the Globe, the miserable caIcature by
which IT'S pages are adorned With how burn
ing glow of shame, for instance, will the features
Ct our accomplished representative at the Court
of Louis Philippe be sufused, should the vulgar
sheet find lis way to his hotel. La vain will he
plead the isolation of the case The prompt retort
will be ready that the perpetrator of the outrage
is the organ through whom are made known the
principles Of the Administration by which he is
accredited. In vain will he urge the early def
cheney of the reviIers in practices and usages Of
genteel and refined society. His ears will Jingle
at the reply that his paper is the metropolitan
index, which guides and directs the course of the
thousand underings of the press, to whom he
gives their daily bread from Bingsgate and the
Strand. And through very shame he will cease
to defend the indefensibIe crime Of the low
vituperator
The congregated volumes of Troope, Hamil-
tor, Dickens, Featherstonhaugh, and their kindred
coaduors, fail to furnish one 1.-THE of the scurrili-
ity to be found in file of the Globe. Its conspi-
cuous position gives currency to its ISLANDERS, and
species of adventtious authority to its fabrica-
tons. Were it an obscure village hebdomina,
conducted by renegade adventurer, whose only
talent is his depravity, which he is obliged to coin
into pence wrung from the loafcr and the rowdy,
to sustain his miserable existence. the injury
would be less extensive, and the country's fame
secure. One might suppose that the pecuniary
pros erity of this leader of party, numerically
powerful, would at least allow him to be decent !;
and that, having carved his road to wealth, by
means however foul, he could now afford TO aDe
gentlty, even at the expense of his place and his
popu arity. As it is, we driven to the conclu-
sion that his heart is in the work, and that he
reves in defamation, not of necessity, but con
dnnore.
And yet, Mr.. Editor, why should we be surpri-
sed at beholding such alterations, tabld and oten-
sive as they are upon the body polite! 1t re-
qured no prophetic eye to foresee, no slbylline
oracle to foretel, upon the elevation of General
Jackson and the declaration Of his policy, that the
rankest corruption must eventually ensue. The
wful breach of national covenants, the total dis
regard of the moral obligations of compacts, the
reckless infusion OF the impure spirit of party into
the sacred founts of justice, the thorough contempt
for the constitutional bulwarks of freedom, the
shameless patronage of rabd partisans, whose
only and sufficient recommendation was their
aptness at fatering the foibles and initiating the
vanity of the headstrong old man, the violence
and self-Wili which characterized that admlnlstra-
ton, most surely foretokened the lamentable re-
suit. Modest merit has shrunk from contest
with the Inscriptions proligacy of pretenders-
men, unwilling to forfeit their sefrespect by en-
tering upon the with the gadlatorial DULLES
of party, have retired from the scene-pimps
have been promoted to the judicial bench who were
not only ignorant of law, but not even law un-
to themse lves--peculators have been advanced to
offices of public trust who have been obliged
speedily to abandon the country "for their coun-
try's good !" human blood hounds, whose only
qualification consisted in their aptness at defama-
ton of virtue, and their willingness to scott at
honor, have been foisted into the editorial chair,
and gendral havoc of morality, principle, and relI-
glon, has ensued, until Locotucoism has become
a synonyme for political degeneracy, social depra-
witty, and practical atheism.
But, honor to the majestic virtue of the mass,
the day of redemption dawns and until that
day arrives in the fullness of its glory, when the
vcrnrin that have so long polluted high places,
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