Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-09-07
From The ,PiHs6urg Commercial Journal.
Col. WynkOOp i'm Eucks County.


great meeting of the Democracy of Bucks
County was held al Doylestown on Saturday, Au--I
gust 5th. Among the heroes present was he of
the ''sotue upon some ladrones"-Col. F. M.
WynkoopD. We copy him verbatim ct literatinl, ct
punctuatitn, Ct seriatim-it is characteristic and
capital--so transparent piece of imposure that
even SO profound an ass as Wynkoop might have
seen that it could not conceal his real motives and
design. He says:
:" Our brave men locked to their friends at home
for approval and encouragement for the sacrifices
they had made. What did they find Instead of
approval, bitter hostility and fierce denuncatons
almost preparing the gunpowder which was to
destroy u.s."
Now. this is simply wanton, gratuitous false
hood-"a lie of the whole cloth" This hero of
the ladrones'' cannot lay his finger upon the
Whig newspaper deserving of the name, through
the length and bredth of this Union, which exhib-
tied bitter hostility" or any hostility, to our SOL
diers in Mexico. We challenge him to name the
single instance in which fierce denunciations,"
or any denunciations we're uttered against SOL
ders in the field. or volunteering for the field even.
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We denounce it as an invention of Col. Wynkoop
"a mean, unnianly subteriuge to cover an aposta-
cy which he firds it difficult to explain, and des-
pite all his twisting, it will still wear aspect at
which decency will revot--from which honorable
men must draw conclusions fatal to Wynkoop's
character ea.rdaI q pfs se. Es
o The most bitter and unceasing opposers of the
war, confined their $ hostility" and s.denunca-
tions" to its authors-the Polk administrations
Perhaps we have gone as far in execration Of this
war and its plotters, perhaps have INDUCED in as
sharp denunciation Of the wickedness and the
meanness, the almost cowardice Of the Govern
ment. which precipitated this war, as any Wing
editor in the United States. Yet who will or who
can say, that we ever dropped an unkind word to
the soldier in arms at his couniry's call. So far
as in them lay the Whig press gave them aid, gave
them the keenest sympathies, rejoiced with them
in success, gfieved with them in their suffering,
prvations and tolls, and goried in their brilliant
achievements.
And all this Is to be interpreted by false and
shallow demagouge, into bitter hostility - fierce
denuncatons' of the soldier In the field, simply
because we did not like the corrupt aspirant for
promotion, shout peans to Polk. Dallas & Co.,
while we praised and caressed and honored the
Soldier Pshaw the matter is beneath argu-
menl. 1aa
But we have another point to make against this
redoubtable Col. g veracity 1t is a very homely
but an Old saw, that liars should have good mem
ories,' and COL Wynkoop is an illustration of the
necessity of that faculty in cases like his.
In the speech We copy, the Colonel attributes
his conversion to Democracy to Mr.. Clay's
speech at Lexington which he foundi Span
ish newspaper at Puebla. Now it happens to be
very fresh in our memory, and we shall make II
very fresh in his before we are done with him. that
in the letter in which he announces bis conversion
to Democracy, he attributes the change almost di-
recty to copy of paper with an article from the
| National Intelligencer which he captured "in a
sortie upon some ladrones." sw
Now it is very small matter whether Colonel
Wynkoop was converted to Polk by thirst after
promotion or by disgust with Henry Clay's
speech or by the anti.war practices of the Ma
tonal lntelligencer-bu it is of consequence that
mdn "lio dSSuiheS to dITdiSn Tie WHole WING
party and asperse their motives and conduct, shall
be convicted of starting his accusations upon lie,
however trivial the import of the lie.
And we shall examine his facts little further
/ Col F. M. Wynkoop tells the Democrats oi
Bucks County:
/ But the crowning act of all, which drove the
last drop of Wing blood from me, was Henry
Clay's Lexington speech. And where did read
it, In good spanish in Spanish newspaper al
i Puebla. And from the moment | read it, my
Wing principles were trampled in the dust, so help
me God, forever" (Great Cheering.)
Mr.. Clay then, is made responsible for this mo-
mentous detection from the Wing ranks, and we
are to believe that, but for this brilliant but mis-
guided statesman, the Wing party would still have
been permitted to rejoice and prosper in the friend
ship and support of COL F. M. Wynkoop. Mr..
Clay is and has been held responsible for many
unaccountable movements of politicians and trim
mers who found the mere association of his great
name with their dirty tricks sufficient to conceal
or qualify their own turpitude and treachery.--
Col. F. NJ Wynkoop's case is no exception to the
rule, and we are glad to relieve MIR. Clay of the
guilt Of having been, either Immediately or remote