The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-09-09
ACCOUNTABLE FALsEHooDs.


As the evidences of the total rout of the Loco
foco party, by the triumphant election of Henry
Clay to the Presidency, come stronger and
stronger upon the understanding of the editor OF
the Globe, and tell him in no mistakable lam
guage that he and his fiscal partner have lost The
ten thousand dollars, they have SO foolishly bet
on the result, that mendacious falsi6er redoubles
his energy in studding his columns all over with
lies Of the most abominabe character. Take the
Globe of last Saturday evening, for example.
Speaking of the public assembages of the two
parties, the editor says:
"None can charge on the Democratic leaders
the employment of the means used by federal
ism to draw together and agitate the masses.
The log cabins. or Clay club houses, erected as
drinking rendezvous-as places OF debauch and
gamblng--as the scenes of mummery and coon
tricks and displays, attracting idle curiosity-are
not heard of among the Democracy. On the
side of the Democracy there is no secret service
money contributed by banks and manufacturing
monopolies, by foreign fundhoders, investing a
per centum of their stocks in eectioneerlng,
hoping to compass an immense speculation by a
federal assumption of the State debts, and BY a
corrupt government interested 10 limit The growth
Of the Union, and preferrng TO try the purse be-
fore it resorts to the sword. This is the source
of The organization of federalism, and lis vast
eIectioneerng outlay"
Now, here are falsehoods, direct and indirect,
of the most at,rocous nature. The utterer Of
them knows them to be such, and cannot produce
a particle of proof to sustain what he asserts. In
fact, his eagerness to lie against the Wings
throws him occasionally off his guard, and makes
him contradict his own assertions. In this very
article, from which we quote, and as if in reply
to his assertion that his party make use Of no
such means as the Wings employ "to draw to-
.gether and agitate the Masses" he adopts, with
commentator, description by the Philadelphia
Ledger, OF mass Locofoco meeting held last
week in a county adjoining Philadelphia, and
which says:
Music and song singing, as the various pro-
cessions passed through the streets, seemed for
the time to have put a stop to all business. That
those residing in less excited districts may form
some idea Of the doings Of the day, an individual
who counted one of the professions from county
district stated that there were two hundred and
ninety-two carriages, between forty and fifty of
which were four, six, and eight horse teams, al
most all of them containing one, and many of them
five or six hickory poles, from which were sus-
pended various flags, banners, and notices. We
noticed one team of twelve horses, and another
on which was burning lime-klln. The wagons
of the several professions were filled, and the
shelviDgs of some OF tile teams were corded up
with human beings as heavily and almost as COM
pacty as the farmer ever slowed them with
sheaves of wheat"
So much for the Globes falsehoods of Saturday
evening last, part of which, as we have shown,
he has himself (though Internationally, of course!)
contradicted. We shall have eye upon the
editor in future, and observe the effect the anti
cpated loss of that cool ten thousand will have
| upon him.