The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-30
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, oCT'R 30. 1914
STILL AT IT'S OLD TRICKS.

STILL AT ITS OLD TRICKS.
We have on several occasions stated the fact,
that as soon as the Wings ferret out and expose
Locoioco defaulters, leg-treasurers, forgers, and
what not, the Globe and its echoes are ready to
cry out, I" Oh, these fellows are all Whgs--no
one of them was ever Democrat! !"
1t now appears that some notice has been made
at the North of the Polk and Dallas flag
which floats from the tall hickory pole in the en-
closure Of Mr.. Thomas Williams, of this city
The Intelligencer and Mr.. George Watterston,
Corresponding Secretary of the Washington City
Clay Club, have testified that such flag floats
from the hickory pole in Mr.. Williams's yard
In commenting upon this fact, the Globe of last
evening says:
But both Mr.. Gales in his paper, and Mr..
Watterson in his secret circular, forgot to state.
the material fact that this slave dealer and flag.
raiser has always been one of their own coon
Wings, and recently marched in their great Clay
procession in this city. Judging from this fact
from his intimate association with Whggery-
who can doubt but that this Polk and Dallas flag
was raised over the negro prison to give birth to
the subjoined letter of the Clay Club, sent before
as pioneer to introduce Mr.. Clay's two slave
holding friends, Green and Archer, to the conf
dence of the abolitionists :"
This is one of the old tricks of the Globe. 1t
is tremblingly anxious, just now. to get help for
its party from the Abolitionists at the North and
Northwest, and hence it unscrupulously perpe-
trates the glazing falsehood-which it hopes to
make them believe as truth-that Mr. Williams
is Wing! The man has the right to raise on
his own ground what pole, and as tall pole, as
he pleases. and float therefrom whatever flag he
pleases. But no one has the right-no, not even
his friend of the Globe-to utter falsehood about
his politics, in order to deceive the Abotions,s
and obtain votes for Mr.. Wlliams's favortes,
Polk and Dallas" Mr.. Williams is an out
and-out Locofoco-is not Wing, and never has
been one. but claims to have been all his life a
"Democrat." He has made very heavy bets
that Polk will beat Clay for the Presidency, all
politicians in this city know-and therefore would
be, to say the least of it, rather out of place
marching in great Clay procession in this ci-
ty." We do not believe that Mr.. Williams ever
marched in Clay or Wing procession, anywhere,
in his life. He is not the man to pretend to be a
Wing. And yet the audacous Globe, even in
this community, and only two days before the
election in Pennsylvania, knowing that contra
diction will be too late to defeat its base object,
says:
Williams, the slave-dealer, whose pen has
the Polk and Dallas flag in its vicinity-who
marches in Wing professions, and is hail-fellow-
well-met with the coons, wherever he meets
them-n all likelihood has this Polk and Dallas
flag raised by his slaves for the very use in which
it is now employed"
Can impudence and audacity 60 beyond this !!
Does Mr.. Williams consent that his friend of the
Globe-both in politics and betting on Folks
election to the amount of thousands, if nothing
ese-shall thus, for party purposes msrepresent
and belle him We shall see.