Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-03-29
LocoFoCoIsM IN THE GARB OF RE-
IIGIONl


1redswy-these boys have been employed on the
SabJath-and finally Locofoco Members Of Con-
gress frank the Tracts al The expense fhe Govern
ment.
No. is published at length in the National In
tegencer, with the exception of a base libel upon
the memory Of the late Mr.. Ogle of Pa libel
without excuse, as the Locofoco slanderers Of Mr..
Oge have been branded by verdict Of q jury Of
the country. Strange as itmay seem to those who
have recognized avowed infdels, dueists drunk
ards and street-brawlers among the Locos in Con-
gress, (the identical men, by the way, who will
frank these Tracts to the people there is a remar-
kabe strain of at least professedy religious senti-
ment in the Tracts This No. recounts a host of
provdentia events during and since 1910, from the
falling of picture of Gen. Harrison to his death,
to the death Of Legare, and to the Princeton disas
ter--a of which at one swoop are charged as
judgments of God for the sins of Whiggery Such
stuff would perhaps do honor to the Romsh priests,
who were wont, three hundred years ago, to rule
the people through their ignorance and superstiton
but at this day it only show FIAT the Locofoco
leaders place very low estimate upon the intelli-
gence of the nation We deny not the Providence
but the idea, carried by this Tract that the God Of
all the earth has singled out political party for
his especial dispeasure, and by consequence ex-
empted the opposite party, is too abominablc to adj
nit to record it without shuddering at this
mpious degradation of Jehovah. If such wretched
stuff required an answer, would ask, what con-
nection lbs the Tyler administration had with the
Wing party since the resignation of the Harrison
Cabnet-or what sympathy with Wing principles,
that all the Provdential occurrences since that date
are chargeable to Whiggerry? Who were the
victims Of the Princeton but enemies Of the Wings,
and men who were in almost every political meas
ure identified with Locofocoism? How happens it
that Gen. Harrison himself died from disease to
which he had often been subject, and that all the
members of the Harrison Cabinet are spared, while
very many of their enemies and successors have
persisted? And have not men Of all parties suffer
ed violent deaths ?-have Locofoco States been ex-
empted from fires and foods and "the grim mes
senger, Death?" But enough: we will only add
that this Tract, redoent of protested piety, con-
tains the following outrageous lie:
"Thc Sabbath witnessed military parade, at
tended by Henry Clay, with banners displayed and
music playing, marching with shouts through the
streets of New Orleans, drowning with their noise
the trumpet of the Gospel, and compelling wor-
shipping congregations to break up and dispense"
Now the facts are these: Mr.. Clay took passage
for New Orleans in the steamboat Grey Eagle, and
that boat reached New Orleans on Saturday eve
ming. AT Mr.. Clay'S request, TO avoid Il crowd,
the boat stopped at an unusual place. landed him pri
vaely, and he went direct to the house Of friend
and there spent the Sabbatlr nor did he attend
any public meeting while in the city, except church
each Sabbath. There no parade, nor show,
on his account, on the Sunday after his arrival
There was, however, the usual military parade on
that day, Sunday is the usual training-day,) which
Mr. C. did not attend, and the socofoco Governor No-
ton and suite DID attend and rcpie,c the troops! So
much for this lie, which members of Congress do
not scrupe to frank at the public expense. This
Tract makes a similar parade about MIR. Cay's
reaching Mobile on Sunday morning, and with
equal injustice it will doubtless turn out
Another tract is on Mr. Clays duels, and was
written by Amos Kendall. Let it be remembered
that Mr.. Clay has been engaged in two duels, in
neither of which did lie give the provocation-in
neither was life sacrfced-and finally that Mr.. C..
has since publicly condemned duelling and then
let it also be remembered that these miserable hyp-
ocrites almost defied Jackson, red with the blood
of Dickinson, and Benton, who endeavored to
kill Jackson himself! Can hypocrisy 60 further?
Yea the author of this tract applauded Gen. jack
son for one Of the most cold-blooded transactions
ever recorded involving the moral guilt of murder!
We copy from the New York Tribune:
".fmos Kendall has written most malignant, I'M
fair pamphlet, assailing Mr. Clay as a duellist.-
Now Mr.. Clay has been twice involved in duels,
much TO Our regret, and are sure to his own al
so, but in ench case he the grossly insued and
injured party as his opponent lived to see and ack-
nowledge, and he manifested no vindictiveness nor
revengeful feeling. He merely coniormed to most
absurd and wicked custom Of the community in
which he lved-a custom which he did not make
and ought to have disregarded. We are sure 1t -
a source of profound gratitude to him that other
evil than the sanction given to an abominable prac-
tce resulted from these meetings, and that no stain
of blood rests on his hands, He has declared in
an address to his neighbors that abhor
dueng more than he does, though deep sense of
wrong suffered, the momentary mastery of his in
dignation, impelled him to seek the redress falsely
styled honorable
"But this viper Kendall who has written the tract
to blacken Mr.. Clay for challenging and meeting
two men who had grossly nsulted and DETAINED
him, has written life of Gen. Jackson, in which
he narrates Jacksons duel with Dickinson origlna-
ting in gambling quarrel at horse race, and in
which Jackson, after receiving Dickinson's fire, de-
liberatey shot his antagonist dead. Amos winds
up his account of this bloody tragedy as follows:
''The hmness of exhibited by Gen. Jackson this
has ceased to be a subject Of ADMIRATION.
The pnpose which might in fact have neryed him.
best described by himself when expressed asonshmet
Mt his 'S said he Il should killed him 1hs
had shot through the braiR.'!!
sand yet the ddmiring narrator Of this horrible
business pretends to be shocked at the contempla-
ton of Mr. Clay's bloodless duels! What mon
strous hypocrisy"
Ellis course, in my judgment, has been eccen-
trio, whimsical, inconsistent, defended, in part, by
weak and inconclusve, not to say frivolous argu-
ments and taken as a whole, thus far, is unworthy
of a statesman of large views and right temper in
a great national conjunction. Birneys opinion Of
j. @ Adams.