The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-04-25
TRAVELLING FALSEEOODS.

TRAVELLING FALSEEOODS.
1t is amusing to see how the Locofoco editors
all over the country seize upon hug, nurse, dandle,
cherish, and toss along every fasehood and libel
manufactured or begotten by brethren of the
same kidney, who have more invention or ability
in the way of manufacturing fbs than themselves
Start one of these little imps upon his journey,
and away he goes to the. uttermostsparts of the
earth, and, like horse-thief is sure to find
friends ready, upon his first appearance at their
door, to take him in protect him from pursuit,
and defend him against the assault Of TRUTH, who
, follows hard upon his heels No matter how
much denounced, no matter if proved to be lie,
his friends swear to their neghbors that he Is
TRUTH, and that Truth is lie. Nay, they will
swear this in the face and eyes of the whole
world, even though they know two-thirds of the
world cannot be deceived by their reservations.
That Obscure, unknown men, who have moth
thing to lose in character by such course,
should pursue it, is nothing strange but that
{" honorable" men-We mean men who are ca
o6icio honorable" and, therefore, supposed to
have too much regard for TRUTH to kick her out
of doors, and hug the harlot yfalsehood to their
bosoms-should be engaged in this business, was
hardly to have been expected.
We have been led to make these remarks by
observing two falsehoods, going the rounds Of the
Locofoco press, which have been branded as such
upon their foreheads, in a manner that no one can
plead the excuse of ignorance of their true cha
racter The first is the forgery made by one
Sam. Medary, editor of the Ohio Statesman,
which was brough! into the House of Represen-
tatives by Mr.. Brown, of Indiana, without at first
knowing it to be such, and which was then and
there branded as a forgery by Mr.. White. That
falsehood is the following garbled pretended ex-
tract from the speech of Mr. Clay in 1912, read
ing thus !:
Gary out the principles of the Compromise
Act. Look to ReUenue alone for the support of
Government. DO notraise The question Of PRoTEc-
TIoN, which had hoped had been put to rest
THERE IS NO NECESSITY FOR PROTECTION ~
Mr. Clay never uttered the above, nor anything
fairly convertible into it. What Mr.. Clay did say
was, that if we will but return the public land
proceeds to the States, and look to duties on i'm
ports alone to pay the public debt and support
the Government, levyng those duties by wisely
Disseminated Tariff, there will be no need of
raising the question of Protection for the sake of
Protection.
The other FALsEHooD to which we allude, is
the following pretended extract from speech of
Mr.. Clay, alleged and CERTIFIED by members Of
Congress to have been found in the report of the
proceedings of Congress in the National Intelli-
gencer of the 18th February, 1919:
"If gentlemen will not alloaO us to have black
slaves, they must let us have uhite ones for we
cannot cut our freUood, and black our shoes, and
HAVE OUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
WORK IN THE KITCHEN"
What will honest men think when assured
that no such language can be found in the Intel
IIgencer of that date, or any other; and that Mr..
Clay never uttered such sentiment in his life.
Who manufactured this falsehood, we know not
but its godfathers, those who are willing to be
come sponsors for it, are known, and if they have
not been SO long associated with Locofocoism as
to have lost all sense of shame, or power to blush,
we are sure the time will come if it have not.
when they will be ashamed of their bantlng and
blush at the sight of their adopted child.
We notice these two libels merely to show
how those which fill the Locofoco press are man.
uiactured, nurtured, cherished, and adhered to.
To notice all, would far exceed our limits.