New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-07-12
Banners across Street.-The Spirit oil Loco-


Asihe Loco-Focos OF this City have Just hoist- +
ed Haunting Banner across the whole street 0y
our office, from Tammany Hall to their POKE
stalk by the Park, we are impelledto 1--WE history
of similar act on the part OF the " hlgs OF Cai-
ton, ST. Lawrence Co.
On the day before the late Wing Mass Con-
ven,ioa in that village, the Locos raised Two
ascs-one for Texas, one for Polk and Dallas
and the Wings also raised one, stretching across
the street. The Locos soon began to threaten
that this should not stand, and then Club mace
formal demand that II should be taken down prlof
TO their Mass Convention, their party would
no. march under Wing banner. The Clay
Club was called to meet next day and consider
the request; meantime, one Of the poles was
sawed in the night, and the Wing banner thrown
down-and, to add insult to injury, the Locos at
once accused the Ways Of cutting do'1n the"
oun flag!
The. Wings Immediately went 10 work and
hoisted their banner agan-this time twenty feet
higher than before, or fifty feet clear from the
ground 80 as utterly to obviate the cavil that 1t
obstructed the highway The Clay Club now
held meeting, and prepared written answer TO
the demand Of their opponents, stating that the
banner was now in nobodys way, but, for the
sake of peace and and good feeling, they gave the
Locos full permission to take it down the night
before their Mass Meeting if they would put 1t up
the day after Was not this all that could be
asked? Should it not have satisfied their oppo-
nen,s Yet it did not They held meeting on
the next evening, June 22d,) and resolved as
follows:
of Canton held n, the Reading Room the I'D june, 1914
Resored That oar Marql. for the Mass Conven9n ne
Instructed sccede to the proposal oil NeS,r. "eeh,
Iioody Cook down the Banner acr. the m- IN
Conven,ion Thst the members this Association 6aiers
be legally and morally rroHs Jor nnv political gsry 20
portscn Of our eni:sns. VINO with Their teams be o9:ed
%a pass 9a s ' FG& THE s shKE Of FEAC
Wings do comply with their arrangements ana e
Sp1Ees FPns On I'VE ArTH fl
fpossibc travelling the highway ma! NO De
sim to remove the Banner they instructed 10 perform that
duty little offensive to the feelings OF our poii
''i op'O"F"'S - '''''' ELISHA CLARK. President.
So said, so done. The Wings did nothing
more, and the Locos, on the morning Of the 25th,
took down the Wing Banner, without forcible
opposition from the Club. 1t now lies where the
Locos by violence placed it. The Wings might
haze had fight about it, but they chose to ap
peal to the calm judgment of the People. Can
Ton gave LIZ Loco majority in lS40 snd 227 in
'43 We shall see what ii gives in N
VIII the Evening Post and Pebean tell US
what they think Of this matter, and especially o.
the doctrine set forth in the above resolution
viii they apply this doctrine to the case Of the
great Banner before Tammany Hall
wme FAlRsEss-s.me OF the Whis fo Ky. wan, Of some
s $50 6So Th". as 6aelsced ia school as wa: ever Ut
tered The Deb, OF eIns not much any, more than hall
umnS her debts, but endeHvcr to Keep out OF s the FAC,
That we are to lake IN return fifty tunes that sum n ySunOe
u We give above the Standards whole para
graph, and we ask it to give this reply; 1t is
Col. Benton, who is well informed with regard
to Texas, who states the Public Debt Of that
Country at T,centy-t,co Millions, most of which
IS running at ten per cent. interest, of which no
portion has been rad The Government OF
Texas does not taOl1 hO,c much its Debt is, hav.
ing kept no correct account of the Bonds, Scrip
and Treasury Notes is has issued but it stipu-
lated in the Tyler Treaty that we should pay
only Ten Millions, TO be divided ratably among
the creditors Of that Country. Here is Repudia-
ton at once, and fulfil at that; for Texas owes
the full face Of her several evidences of debt and
il her sovereignty is absorbed in ours, ue shall |
owe every cent, whatever bargain we may make
with her. man who marries wife owes all
her debts, whatever bargain he may make with
her to pay only part of them. A man who
buys or acquires farm owes all the mortgages
upon it, though he may have agreed ever so
strongly with the last occupant to pay only
quarter of them. If we take Texas, we must
pay all she owes-not her bonds and scrip only.
but the clams of her soldiers, sailors, functiona-
rics, &c. who received very little in the course
Of a seven years war. Then will come an end
less array of claims for services rendered or prop
erty taken for the public service or destroyed by
the enemy. We are as sure as that the sun Will
rise tomorrow that Fifty Millions will not pay
the actual Public Debt Of Texas.
Then to the Public Lands of Texas-we
say that there are no such lands of any practical
value. We have late and authentic Map Of
that Country open before us, on which nearly
every foot claimed by Texas (and twice as much
as she actually possesses IS marked off as
Austin's Grant, 'BuTneu's Grant Beale's
Grant, sc. Sc We state from examination
that there is not One Million Dollars worth OF
Public Land in Texas, and II is more likely that
the settlement Of conflicting land claims in
Texas would compel our Government 10 grant
away lands in our own Country in addition to all
there is in Texas Dare the Standard give these
statements to its readers
The Libelers or the Author of the 'Junlus
Tracts
Ii was hardly to be expected that men, who
could Go mean thing, would have virtue enough |
to back cut with credit. Why did not the Rico
mond Enquirer and the New-York Evening Post
do the clean thing, when convicted OF the wrong
in regard to the author OF the Junius Tracts p !
They certainly deserve credit for ingenious shifts
to keep out of the hands of public Justice. We