The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-01-26
MURDER WILL OUT 80 PICKINGS'
AND STEALINGSn


appointed Secretary of War-being the brother of
Governor Porter, who il was naturally supposed
approved OF his acceptance of office, notwith-
standing il WIS in riolati0a of the edct of the
Jacobin Club, The Globe, The Pennsylvania,
and one OF the editors OF the Harrisburg URon
denounced the whole family, and read them cut
OF The IAN Buren Democratic party. The
Union man charged The Governor OF design to
transfer the Democracy of Pennsy lvania TO Pre-
sldent Tyler, as consideration for the appoint
ment OF his brother 10 a seat in the Cabinet
| he declared that the Governor himself had
once absolutely handed him communication,
at the request oi a third person, intended for
publication, which approved Of President Ty-
ler's vetoes That was enough. The Globe,
The Pennsylvania, and the Richmond Enquirer,
at once hooied the Governor and his brother out
OF the party. And since that time the HARRIS
BURG UNION has been regarded by The Globe and
The Enquirer as the Simon Pure Jacobin organ
| IN Pennsylvania They have praised it and
quoted II without Stint; and while commencing
lis orthodoxy and honesty, the Globe has never
neglected an opportunity to dwell upon The Gov
ernors 'apostacy" and dishonesty.
! AT subsequent period to the Governors
communication, however, il was found that
he was not altogether spirtless and powerless
though unsparingly denounced. BY hook and
by crook, the editors of the Union procured
legislative appointment TO do the printing.
Either the bill or resolution, or whatever it was,
was unconstitutional, and the Governor petoed
| it. He had also received information that all
was not right III the means used TO procure the
appointment.
| This Of course, caused another outcry among
| the honest and indignant Jacobn presses, and
we don't know how many charges Of bribery
and corruption" were fabricated against ',he
Porlers," TO use the Globes favorite expression
Well, the Governor was as firm as a rock, and
challenged an investigation all round. And
what does the reader suppose was devel-
oped As i, is not likely he will ever it in
the Globe, we will copy il from late Phadel-
phia Democratic paper which stood by the Gov
err or, as siven in lis leading editorial:
Faom the Philadelphia Spirit efhe Times.
THE NEW GUNPOWDER PLOT DIsCOV-
ERED-THE tBRIBERY AND CORRUP-
| TION" OF CERTAIN LEGISLATORS EX-
POSED-POLITICAL SAINTS vs. POLL
| TICAL SINNERS.
The truth is out at last Our suspicious, and those
OF every opponent to legislative roenness,
than verified in relation to the surreptitous means
| by which Messrs Mckinley and others were elected
State Printers at Harrisburg by the last Legislature
! l he Committee of Investigation has already de-
/ veoped that Isaac G. Mckinley, the would be State
printer-the immaculate incarnation Of the whole
| Democracy of this Commonweath-tie gentleman
who was so shocked at the mercenary atmosphere
which he thought surrounded the Executive that he
was compelled to turn migrate to avoid contamina-
tion-- turns out that this link OF patriotism this
quintessence Of political honesty, this Mahomet of
Democracy, has been guilty Of that very thing which
he has been all along ndustriousy charging upon
others. 1t turns out that he has really given his
promises 10 pay" to the amount of SIS 500 in order
to buy up the bodies and souls of certain legislators
and that he did thus purchase them as instruments
for the accomplishment Of his election as State prin-
ter.
Oh, most virtuous Of political reGormers! Oh most
pious worshipper at the footstool of Public Faith
oh, most disnter sted adorator OF the Peoples good
Thou, whose shr cry of ''stop thief" piercing the
dull popular ear from morn TO noon, and from noon
to night but the frght-shrek of cunning guilt to
avert attention from the fGtd scent of thine own
| foot prints Thou, in whose mouth the butter of
elfnterest scarcely seemed to melt vet down whose
ample thryat the putrescent oil Of rank yenaty pour
est like an lchorous Niagara
Plainly and sincerely, what are the quiet lockers
among the great mass of the people, TO think Of
this disgusting spectacle j. ii not enough almost to
scken the greatest enthusiast in the doctrine of hu
man integrity? Is IT not enough almost to nauseate
| Us with almost every profession OF patriotsm-to
convince that cant aud hypocrisy the natural
language of almost every tongue-and that when men
! exhibit such holy horror of treachery and fraud,
they only honest in as far as that horror is dis
played for the treachery and fraud which is not pecu
| liary their own? Thank Heaven however, all men
are not Mcknley's Lescurc's & Co and for t sake
of humanity we ATE ready to believe that there are
thousands whom sordd considerations could tempt
to boast Of having pro6tsbly deceived indugeut
people-could tempt TO bride whole legslaure-or
claim the high W. aymans reward for having stabbed
the hand that kept them from ragged restitution.
/ Well, so it is Agreeably TO Gen Camerons tes-
timony these political saints, the soi-disant State
Printers, agreed to pay So 900 for enough votes TO
secure their election. As il was calculated that the
"pckints and steangsn in that office would be worth
Ten thousand per annum, the bargain, IN pecuHisy
point Of light was not bad one; and as to It's mo-
rality why We have all heard Of more distinguish
ed man who betrayed his master and sold himself to
perditon for considerably So. To be sure, the lat
ter, we are told event and hanged himself" suisse
quently; and if the estate Punderers" would only
ego and do likewise" the analogy would not only
grow numerically perfect, but II would be source
of relief TO the Commonwealth, and add much TO
strengthen our belief in the justice Of retributive
Providence.
How many votes these $500 purchased is not yet
known.
YET, reader, these the who srrogale to
themselves the title Of the Democracy and pretend
to instruct every other individual in the State as to
the nature Of honesty, consistency, and sound patri
r otto principles. These the men who hold them
selves up as examples Of political purity and
have insolenuy abused every whose con
T science would not permit him to pin his faith
TO their coat-tas, or more properly Their breeches-
rockets These ate the men who denounced
US because we did not choose TO follow in their
contemplate lead and who, while reeking with the
stencil Of political corruption accused every journal
in Pennsylvania of turpiIude, which did not share in
the profits of putridty with themselves.
A GOOD SET OF MEASURES
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