The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-03-19
Bribery on am Extensive scnEc.

The New York Tribune, contains the follow
ing item:
"'Mr. Webster, says the gossip of the day,
has been made entirely easy in his pecuniary
circumstances by contribution of 100000. |
made up for him by the wealthy men of Boston,
TO enable him 10 serve the public hereafter above
the necessity of pleading law for living. No
bly, done! If an intimation were given that n
National testimonial of 100000 would be ac-
ceptable to Mr.. Clay, the money would be forth
coming directly"
we had before seen articles of the same te-
nor in democratic papers going the rounds, but
now the whig prints themselves begin TO notice
this wholesale bribery of public man. Mr..
WEBSTER, instead of standing up in the U. S.
Senate, as the free minded and untrammcled rep
resentative Of Massachusetts, will be the bought
up mouth-pIece of few wealthy individuals of
the city of Boston. Bat this is not the first time
that Mr.. WEBsTER's pockets were filed with
base brbes. Who does not remember when
contribution was levied on the whig merchants
OF Boston, New York and Philadelphia, and an
immense sum of money raised to defray Mr..
Webster's profigate expenses to London? and
who does not remember the brbe he received
while in London, from the house of Barring &
Brothers? How we'll Webster advocated Bri-
tlsh interests, is familiar to every person who
knows anything in regard 10 his intercourse with
Lord Ashbunon and the statesmanshp he DIS
played in relation 10 the Maine boundary cues
ton. Mr.. Webster may be very good uAig
senator, but every honest American must fiown
with Indignation upon such corruption in high
places. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette, (whig) notices the brbed Massachusetts
senator:
For the Cincinnati Gazette
"MR. WEBSTER BOUGHT UP.
=" "Messrs. Editors: 1t was with great surprise
that read notice from the N. Y Tribune, Civ
ing the rumor as to Mr.. Webster and the Bos
ton contribution Of 100000, and speaking of
itas "nobIy done" Is it not wholesale bribery I?
is IL not an act prophetic of Gncounted mischief?
OF nnumerabe McNulty's? Massachuse its wants
good senator; she appoints Mr.. Webster; he
says, u can't go, as my profession is more lucra-
tive than politics, which means, in plain Eng
lish, "patriot as am, won't serve YOU unless
you pay higher than the law allows; now if any
OF You gentlemen manufacturers, whose interests
are at stake, will add $4,000 year. or say
pay me 100000 in hand, III serve yon with
pleasure" Serve whom? Massachusetts,? No
the party and the clique who 50 "noblyn brbe
ann. Surely we are getting back to the times
OF George IL, or those of Lord Bacam, if such
things as this are approved by the leading mora
papers OF any party. This is the third time
says gossip, that Mr.. Webster has been thus
bought; twice before the money has been paic
him-now the purchasers have learned wisdom
and put it in trust; they are beginning TO under
stand man, who, if rumor speaks truth, NAV in
deed rank with
The greatest wisest, meanest Of mankind.'
"But the Tribune goes farther. and offers Mr.
Clay 100000 if he'll only ask for it. Mr.
Clay, if he yet holds to duelling, ought to chul
iengte the Tribune editor for offering him deadl,
insult.-To be sure, TO pay him IS not to bribt
him, for he is out of public life; but TO make tn,
offer is to intimate that he has been laborno
not for the country, but for himself What wouI
Washington, Jay, Marshall, have said to this pi
tifnl thank-offering of those they had POLITICAL
served? With Indignation they would have an
swered, "We fought and labored for right, iustic
and our country--not like Swiss, for wages
When we are poverty stricken, our fellow citizen
will be thanked if they relieve our poverty, bu
in the language of one to come after us,* W
would rather 'work our fingers TO the bone tha
degrade our souls by receiving pay as mark ,
our country's gratitude"