Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-08-18
The L0cOfOcO County Meeting.


paying due homo: to the proceedings Of thi;
/ body, which, we must confess, are both anus
| ing and instructive-the former in exhibiting
the facility with which democracy" can
twist and turn itself to suit the Ii Hes, and the
latter in showing party protesting to be all
principle to be as devoid of that article as Ire
land is OF snakes. Passing over the rodomon-
tade of the principal speaker, we come 20 the
resolutions adopted, the first of which reads as
follows
ReS0,red, That we have no confidence in
the present National and State Admnistra-
tIOus.
If by "we' the meeting meant the office
holders and offce-seekers, this laconic con-
demnation of Gen. Taylor and Gov. Johnston
is no doubt correct-and we dare say that the
confidence" is fully recprocated by those
tunctlonares; but if they mean to assert that
the people of Mfilin county have no conf
dence in the National and State Adminstra-
tons, We believe they are mistaken. Next
we have
Resolued, That Gen. 4. Taylor, has forfeit
he induced many unsuspecnng Democrats to
vote fer him and thereby secured his election,
to wit that 8 he had no friends TO reward nor
no enemies TO punish, and that he would not
be the President of party"
Last year the locofocos were anxious to per-
snade the uHsuspectiHg democrats that Gen.
Taylor had no principles, but the honest de-
mocrats were wide awake, and have not yet
seeh cause to regret their votes We may
also remark that no such sentence as is attri-
buted to Gen. TAYLOR in the above resolution
was ever uttered or written by him. Ofall
the resolutions adopted within the last ten
years, there is none that surpasses the follow
ing:
Resoloed, That we have every confidence
IN the honesty and integrity OF our present
Democratic Canal Commissioners.
As il is well known that Longstreth and
Painter are wide as the poles asunder-that
the latter, under cover OF Jesse MIler's pa
per at Harrisburg, is even indirectly ossailing
Longstreth as guilty Of squandering The COM
monweath's flnds-we should like 10 know
how the meeting can have confidence IN both!
Some people, It is true, have the facility OF
blowing hot and cold with the same breath
of being tariff men one year aud free-trade
men the next--of being bank and anti.bank
men within a lunar change-of preaching
against monopolies and at the same time send
ing men to the Legislature who give their
votes and influence TO the creation OF these
dire monsters-but we should like 10 know
something Of the Haod5ls operaadi by which
sage meeting of locoioco democrats endorses
honesty and dishonesty at the same time
The late board of Canal Commissioners, COM
prising Burns, Power, and Longstreth, has re-
repeatedly been charged by Painters paper
with gross mismanagement, squandering of
the public funds, and even worse ; how, then,
If these charges have even the color of truth to
sustain them, can they have confidence in the
integrity and honesty Of both, when il clearly
follows that either Painter must belle Long
streth, or the latter be dishonestl India-rub-
ber, for stretching locofoco conscieuces, must
be in demand when such glaring Inconsistent
cies are swallowed without making a wry
/ face. Another resolution says:
! ReS0Iped, That the course Of the present
| State administration in relation to the Bank.
! ing system meets with our decided condemna-
! tlon, and we again endorse the position as
| sumed by the late lamented Francis K. Skunk
! Gov. Johnston's views, as promulgated in
! his annual message, are no doubt entertained
| by fiYe-sixths Of the people Of Pennsylvania,
| yet this meeting gives them their decided
! condemnation, while at the same time they
endorse the position assumed BY the late''
/ Governor. What this position Is, the meeting
| does not explain, perhaps because they could
| not. a number Of the bank charters now in
existence bear the approval Of Governor Shun <
| among them tia; model Of individual LA
biiity, the Lehigh County Bank-and lastly
we believe he prolessed TO be opposed % the
chartering Of all banks. Now here we have
at least three positions bank, individual LA
bity, and anti-bauk all at some time held by
the late Governor: which position do the loco
focos endorse in their resolution! Can any
one tell