Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-10-12

II LOCO roCo DEMoCRACY.-lhe present loco
foco party have. for so long time, usurped
the title of democrats" that great many
honest people have, we have no doubt, imag-
ned that they were really the true democracy
6f the country, and have subscribed to many of
their measures under this belief 1t is time
that they were stripped of the mask-that this
assumed name were taken from them, and that
the trckery and cunning, by which they have
maintained it, and the corruption and rotten
ness, which they have concealed under 1t,
should be laid open. The locos are not the
true democrats, and for few very good rea-
sons. Their leaders are not laboring for the
| public veal, their measures are not directed
to the same end. Fifteen years since they
adopted the motto of "to the victors belong the
sposs," and to this time they have acted up to
it most faithfully. They commenced their po-
lltcal career by prescribing men for opinion
sake, and the federal and loco foco State gov
ernments have gathered about them an army of
office holders taken from the most faithful of
their partizans, and are feeding them to replc-
tion with the revenue derived from the enter
prise and hard earnings of the merchant aud
manufacturer, the mechanic and laborer and
by this same partizan system they have gath
cred about them an equal number of greedy
office seekers, ready to turn in, when the others
have turned out, satiated with the "spoils. -
In looking after the welfare of these faithful
supporters, they are making, daily making
wide distinction between the interests of the
Government and the interests Of the People,
and the public have been informed in the mes
sages of the President, that the People are not
to look to the Government, the rulers of their
own choice, for any relief in their distress and
suferings. Democrats, indeed, whose democ-
racy consists in creating an innumerable host
of officers, with splendid salaries, and in
scramblng for the same, while the great mass
Of the people, who help to fill the Golfers of
this democratic administration, may whistle for
any concern that is felt for them.
The locos are not the true Democrats, or,
to say the best of them, they are democrats of
very little judgment and wisdom, for by their
senselcss experiments, and rash schemes, di-
rected to the increase and establishment of
their own power, they have brought the coun-
try to its present distressed and almost bank,
rupt condition. They broke down the U. S.
Bank, because they could not make an elec-
tioneering tool of it, and took into high favor
the State Banks and by the inordnate facli-
ties they extended to them, they led the coun-
try gradually into mad run of speculation
and gambling for large fortunes, and when
these pets failed to answer their purpose, and
this money fever was at the highest, they cast
them off, and commenced bitter warfare
against the whole credit system, and have by
the measures they have pursued-the repeal of
the tariff of ls42-by plunging the nation into
an unjust and unrighteous war, brought us to
our present embarrassed state; and worst of
all, they have enacted the sub-treasury-a
Government Bank-a plan, designed in its
operations TO make the rich richer, and the poor,
poorer.
i The locos are not the true Democrats mas.
much as, instead of fostering the interests of
every honest profession and pursuit Instead
of gradually allaying any idea of distinction
of any sort existing between them, and ina
king them mutually dependant upon and inter-
ested in each others welfare, they have labor
ed most increasingly to set the different classes
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