Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-06-20
From the Daily Advertiser of June 10.
Mr.. BRADtEY'S SPEECH.


From the Daily Advertiser of June 49,.
MR., BRADtEY'S SPEECH.
We knew that Mr.. Edward Bradley,
of Marshall, had played game Of faith.
less perfdy at the Baltimore Locofoco
Convedtion-we knew that he had pro-
fessed the most entire devotion to Mr. Van
Boreu, and had reviled Governor Cass
with bitter personal and political abuse
we knew that for some unexplained con-
sideration, he had suddenly deserted and
betrayed Mr.. Van Buren,, aud cast his
vote In Convention for Gov. Cass, whose
/ democracy he had before impeached
and denied-.-we knew that after all, he
had hurried into the Polk movement with
q readiness and boisterous zeal that gave
too much reason to suspect him of double
distilled treachery, to both Cass and Van
Buren,. But this was no affair Of ours
our relations with him had been respect
full and friendly, and we paid him tn civ.
ility of attending to hear his speech, little
dreaming that we should be called upon to
listen to a false, base and most malignan!
calumny on every Wing. present or alb
sent. But we will not anticipate the or
der of his remarks.
When we entered, Mr. Bradley was be-
laboring the carcass of the defunct q.
s. Bank, forgetting, apparently, that the
man he had just nominated for Vice Presi-
dent had been the most strenuous advo-
cate of its re charter, in spite ofJackson's
reto. His success was equal to that Of
other asses in kicking dead liors.
He next touched upon tho distribution
Of the Land proceeds. which he denoun-
ced as scheme of the grasping and ra-
pacious old States, to plumber the new
ones. He thinks It better, we presume,
that the whole of this money should be
swallowed up, as it has been and will be,
in the Florida and Texas wars, and in the
pockets of defaulting Swartwouts, Boyds
and HAIRLESS, than that her proportionate
share oft, in addition to the extra 500, 900
4 acres, should come to Michigan, to ena.
bic her to carry the Central Railroad to
Marshall and westward.
| He then assailed the Tariff as griev-
Gus tax. and especially singled out the op-
pressive tax on tea and coffee, forgetting
apparently, that these articles are duty free
under the present Wing Tariff, and that
| Mr. Polk had proposed to tax them when
10 Congress. But on the whole, he trod
rather lightly on this subject, as if 1t were
dangerous ground.
He then charged the Wings with going
for the assumption of State debts, but as
he offered no proof of his empty assertion
We let that falsehood pass without com.
ment.
i He then took up the Texas question
and went the whole length of immediate
annexation. right or wrong, war or no wal
slavery or no slavery. We are too vel
plea sed with tie issue, to find fault or ex
pose his fallacious arguments. They
were strong enough, it seems. TO induce
the meeting to adopt resolution in favor
of the rejected Texas treaty!
! All this, however, was but ordinary pc.
litical slangwhanging, and We do not com.
plain. But finally, Mr.. Bradley made an
insidious and false-hearted appeal to the
? adopted citizens, unworthy of any honest
man. He declared thar the Wings were
the Native American party, and tina; they
had abetted at least, the burning of the
churches in Philadelphia. If he did moi
openly assert, he yet insinuated in terms,
well understood and meant to be under
stood, that the Wings actually burnt those
churches. Self:respect will not allow us
to speak Of this calumniaior as he de-
serves, but we mean to hold him to his
responsibility, now and hereafter. Here
in Marshall, throughout Michigan, and
wberesoever our paper circulates, Eas,
or West, he shall be known and appreci.
ated as the propagation of this detestabIe
falsehood and SANDER on one half of bis
Citizens. He NAV deride the pen.
atty, but he will yet live to rue the offence
J He bears the hated max Of Cain,