The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18
Frauds.

Our pious neighbors of the ex-official
organ base their opposition to President
TAYLOR on the sole ground that, after hav
ing promised to be President of the peo-
pie, he has countenanced the removal of
Locofocos from office-not even reserving
Virginia Office holders from the common
doom. 1t is not the removals they object
to-these are all right; but it is the immo-
rality of understanding his promise in a
sense that will admit of the PRESIDENTS
disturbing Locofocos in their tenure Of
office.
Well, what becomes of the morality of
MIR. PoLK's promise to be President Of
the people, and then excluding WIGS
from Officer This promise Mr.. Polk
made in the very words attributed to Pre-
sident TAYLOR. The official organ went
through four years very comfortably, with
out finding any fault with Mr.. Polk on
this score. Now, we wish to know where
in is the distinction between the two cases9
The country would like to know. We
want categorical answer from the Union.
We know this mode of putting questions
is not exactly the civil thing-but it is a
favorite mode of argument with our neigh
bors over the way. The Union has been
waging sanguinary war against President
TAYLOR, because he promised just as Mr..
Polk promised; and has removed com
paratively small number of Locos-and at
least three Virginians-from office. We
shall repeat our interrogatory from time to
time, till we bring our venerable contempt
rary to the scratch.
Once more. While we are on the fruit
full subject of frauds-what says the Union
to that greatest of all political frauds on
record, by which the vote of Pennsylvania
was secured to Mr.. Polk in 1844' 1t is
in proof that Mr.. BUCHANAN told the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania that Mr. POLK was as
good tariff man as Mr.. CLAY. TO char
acterize this statement properly, we should
have to borrow an expression of DIR. JOHN
SON, which we avoid applying on account of
its rudeness. The doctor was in the habit
of saying of man who spoke falsely with
knowledge-''The dog lies--and he knows
he lies" This only shows that the doc
tor did not remember his own dictionary,
which would have taught him that the
second clause of the sentence was su-
perhuous. But this is DEPRESSION. Not
only did Mr.. BUCHANAN in his white era
vat, looking for all the world like saint
in black coat and pantaloons-not only did
this sold Federalist" fib in this manner
but every where, through the whole
length and breadth of the State, the battle
was fought on the cry Of "PoLK, DALLAS,
and the Tariff of 1912" Was ever so
base fraud practised upon electofs' And
yet we have no recollection of any indig-
nation excited in the breast of the ex-organ
by this abominable cheat.
There is one more fraud we should like
to have explained. What does the ex-
organ think of telling the people that the
Sub-treasury was an arrangement by
which the public money was to be kept
safely, with no chance for defalcation ?
What does it think of there being an as
certained and hopeless defalcation OF
Sf55, 900, and communication TO Con-
gress, in the teeth of this fact, stating that
no money has been lost, even in efiecting
"distant transfersw Was there any fraud
in thisl If so, who was the agent of it,
And why does not the Union visit IT with
few of its ''infernal" epithets