Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-10-11
A ISLANDER MET.

A Democratic Mass Meeting recently held In
Washington city-the President and several of the
Vice Presidents of which were men holding fat Off
ces under The Administration denounced mons
trous fraud which they allege the Wings of tina,
city are pcrpetra,ing on the country. They say:
''They the Whigs1 have now in this city two
separate publishing rooms, in one of which docu-
mentS are prepared for the NORTH, representing
General Taylor ''Wimot Proviso" man, and
Cen. Cass as the advocate Of the extension of sa-
very IN the other, documents prepared for the
SOUTH, which represent Gen. Cass as a ..Winot
Provso" man, and Gen. Taylor as the champion
and interc:ted friend of the extension of slavery ::
they have in circulation FOURTEEN DIFFERENT
LIVES OF TAYLOR, representing him as ono thing
IN one, and another thing in another suting him TO
each meridian, and 10 every faction in each meri,
dian of the country"
This charge has been met by the National INTEL
ligencer, on the authority of gentlemen who speak
from personal knowledge, and pronounced to be
unquallhedly false 1t is also contradicted in the
amplest manner, by RICHARD WALLAcm, ESQ.
the President of The Central Rough and Ready
Club In card which he addressed to the editor
of the Union, but which failing TO appear in that
paper he has had published in the In,elligencer.
MIR. Wallach says:
."Ihere are but two Wing rooms OF places in this
city from whence Wing documents of any charac
ter, Kind or nature are sent. One, the room ofth
Wing Congressional Committee, on Pennsylvania
avenue; the other, that of the Central ROUGH and
Ready Club, on 9Th street. From these rooms
documents OF like nature and character arc sent
TO all parts OF The Union-North, South. East and
West-and not, as the resolution of the Democratic
meeting AYERS, particular sectional documents TO
particular parts deny that there was ever more
than one life of Gen. Taylor sent from the room ON
Gin street, which was SENT as other political docu-
mens, alike into every section of the Union ar
that there was ever more than one life of Cen Tay-
Tor published In this city, and | challenge any De
mocrat. Wing, or other person to produce second.
deem II unnecessary to offer to the citizens of
Washington, to many of whom am personally
known, any proof OF what here allege but should
you, to whom am unknown, or any one else. de-
sire evidence of the truth of what here assert.
extend to you or them an invitation to visit the room
on OH Street, which is now, has, and shall al
ways be, open alike to Wing or Democrat"
AS the election approaches, we may expect to
see such fabrications in abundance We were not
prepared, however, for any thing so bold as this,
where exposure was so certain
The National lntegeDcer gives the fabricators
the following Rowland for their Oliver,'-It
says: We learn that the Conuicts in the Peniten
f1my are actually employed in preparing and paint
ing Democratic I1ansparencies, for use, for cleo
tioneerlng purposes, not only in this city, but in O.
Their quarters. Whether this be proper employ
ment for these convlcts our readers are quite as
competent to Judge we are. We find further. in
paper called 1.-The Battery" printed in this CT
ty, the following statement, which we are assured
is literally true:
And next we have, in the eectioncering field -,
the UNITED STATES PENIrENTIARY! The Super-
lntendent of that institution not only signs docu
ments now as Chairman of an Executive Commit
tee of Cass and Butler Club, but absolutely makes
huge Cass and Butler Document Room of the
UNITED STATES PENITENTIARy! Cart loads of
documents go there to be directed; but whether the
convIcts are taken from their other hard labor and
made to direct these Cass and Butler documents, or
not, is more than has as yet transpired. Somebody
there directs them, at all events"