Litchfield enquirer., 1845-10-16
TRAE ENQUlRER. LITCHFIELD, OCT. 10, Is45.
.rrroR,ocRApHY OF LoCoFocoIsM.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LoCoFoColSM.
 The frs, appearance of McKenzie's " Lives and
 ninions" of the leading politicians of the Van Bu- ren school in the State of New York, was like the bursting of a bomb.shell in the eremy'S camp. The members of the " Regency" whose real opinions and character were thereby brought to light. were for a time at loss how to act or wha: to say for themselves. But after due delberation, theIr Ph'' losophy and spec'dGtimg prOpensi'es prevailed and they determined to set up defence, and sue for share in the pTo6ts of the concern. Accordingly their official organ, the Evening Post" declares the letters to "contain nothing which any none" man should be ashamed of;' and suits were forth- with commenced by Hoyt, for the proceeds ot the sale of the york; the ground that the letters were hisproperty! New York has long been regarded by the Whgs as the head quarters of political lnIquy and New York politicians as the most corrupt Tn ,he country-and these letters go to establish the ,act. They present truly deplorable picture of the inner man of many ofthe leading politicians ot that State, who held sway under the Jackson and Van Buren dynasty-of their gambling in elections, their recklessness, cupidity, and profanity. The great defaulters figure here large as life Swart- wout says to Jesse Hoyt in letter dated Washing ton, March IA, 1929:
 "Ihold to yo,v doctrine fully. that .NO D-O RASCAL WHO MADE USE OF HIS OF- FTCE OR ITS PROFITS for Me purpose ct kseping Mfr. Adams in and General Jnchson out, is entitled to the least ieriy mercy. save that of hanging. So we think both alike on that head"
 Again he says-" Whether or not shall get any thing in the GENERAL SCRAMBLE FOR PLUM DER, remains to be proven; but rather guess l shall"
 We rather gwess he did-more than his share.- After s' Swartwouting' from the public treasury some $1 200, ,O00 he removed, to give place to his particular friend, Jesse Hoyt--who, having pocketed his share of the " plunder" to the tune of few hundred thousands of the public money, fol- lowed in the footsteps of his lustrous predeces- sor." The Salem Register remarks
 "The political gambling of the whole posse whose sins are laid bare, are presented in such way as to show clearly thar the party, whose head and front these men are, is the most corrupt and inioultous that ever existed in this country. Men may we'll shudder a. the political proAigacy here exposed, and if this unveiling of the inner temple of locofocosm does not open the eyes of the honest men of the party to its utter hideousness, nothing will"
 We ate free to confess that we have vastly more confidence in the political integrity of Mr. Polk, and the majority of those whom he has constituted his "legal advisers,' than we have or ever had in that of MT. Van Buren and his office holders. Our present national Chief Magistrate-though belong. ing to the same party-was not educated in the same school, or by the same political teachers. as his predecessor; his administration has thus far ue~" characterized by far less political corruption and " "fnanciering." --
 The moral sense' of some of the administration editors appears to be awfuly shocked at the "rec- lessness' of the Whig papers in giving extracts of these letters to the public; and yet these same ed- itors. few months since. could copy. and comment upon, the private letter from c. M. Clay to Hon. H. Clay, which had been stolen from the Tribune office and it's seal broken, by some unprncipled ,partisan. To such editors we commend the fol- flowing extract from a letter in the Ohio States man, from MT. Van Buren's Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Daoid Hensha,0, concerning the famous Haze. we'll letter:
 "I have little to say of his [Gov. Moron's] views as to the sacredness of private espondencethe lecture more properly belongs to his friend Tap pan. Nor do 1 subscribe to all the maw- ksh sentiment often expressed when some proud mans secret islanders are, to him, unexpectedly published. The time to blush is sche, such letters sDritten, not trhen published. And, surely, private correspondence cannot be deemed very cred when it is not priviledged by law, and where it be brought before the public by legal process in any suit involving five dollars interest"