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THE GAZETTE EDITOR ANSWERED..
The editor Of the Gazette is anxious to know why
We omitted to make any aiusion to the refusal ofthe
whiy members Of the Legislature last winter, TO go
into the election Of Senators and Judges. There is,
perhaps, little occasion for this anxiety on the
part Of the editor, as there is for his apprehen-
sions that our political associates may suffer from
che blows we have been aiming at the democrats
His symp,taies, we inform him,are entirely misplace
I'd. They need rot wander from home. They will
there Ind ample and verge enough to luxuriate,
upon occasions far more fitting for sympathy than
any which our political associates are likely to pre-
sent By reason Of wounds inflicted upon them by US,
while belaboring the locofocos. We beg leave,
moreover, to remind the editor, that it the
duct OF his political brethren that the subject
Of his commentator. He has not yet attempted an
encomium upon the wings. When he does, It WILL
perhaps, be time for to arraign their conduct as
We have that Of the democrats.
When he takes text and lectures US upon homes
q, We think the occasion fit one to strip off his
mask, and expose the hypocrisy and presumption of
the preacher who while holding forth upon honesty
end rsviiing the opposite party for their misdeeds,
40 Ia than rnn,nn opd tho mfr
lions ofknown right and duty by his own. When he
undertakes to hold up the acts of his political lea
ders as worthy Of appreciation, and to congratulate
the actors upon conduct which should have consign-
Cd them rather to infamy and contempt, shall be
EXCUSED for calling public attention, to the llustra-
zion which such occasion gives, Of the morals of a
sparty whose known rule Of conduct it is, to preach
one thing aud practice another.
But what excuse is it for locofoco short comings,
hat the wings have done badly or that they have
done worse9 Is the editor so hard run, that he
must justify our wrongful act by-what he is pleas
ID to deera-another? We thought he placed his
vndication Of the !ocofoco members of the legsla-
ture on other and different grounds--the verdict Of
The people. We supposed that he was sufficiently
versed in the code of locofoco morals to deem it
sudicient justification of any conduct of his party
leaders, however ontr aseous, that it was succes.
The end justifes the means, with them and success
10 the standard Of right and wrong.
But, says the editor of the Gazette: uIf the dem
ocrats did wrong two years ago, the wings did worse
sast winter with less excuse. The democrats met
IN joint convention and gave opportunity to elect
the whi-- refused altogether last winter. The res
possibility Of keeping the State without Senator's,
for one year atieast, lies with the wings. Rehnldl
how much better we are than the whigs!" Such is
the defence now made By the Gazette for the acts of
its party two years ago. When il is charged with
trampling on the constitution and laws;-when the
iocofoco members Of the State se2ae,arc arraigned
tos violating their oaths and disregarding duty
cher hal sworn to discharge, whereby they depriv-
ei the Statefor two years Of Senators in Congress-:
II puts up the ptiful plea that others are equally in
solved in the guilt, and that the wings must share
the responsibility well the punis hmc nj OF the
crime. And all this is mixed mp with other unin-
telligible nonsense about sunrepresented,', and
amisrepresented," and ssverdict of the people
passed upon the conduct Of both rartcs at the
polls;'untl it is hard to say whether the apology
does not Gil us with much contempt, as the con-
Duct does with indignation.
1 No one OF these excuses separately, nor all OF
them together, can. amount to good and sufficient
justification the conduct OF the locofoco members
Of the legislature two years ago, in refusing to 20
Into the election OF Senators in Congress. Much
less do they furnish valid title to that Immortality
ofgood name, to which these men have been con.
signed BY the editor Of the Gazette. We demuy
entirely to the whole proceeding, and in the name
Of common sense and common honesty-since the
editor likes the word-we enter our protest against
\, that we may. il rossibl., prevent Judgment going
" default, and having it ever hereafter deemed and
taken for granted thato when men commit perjury
they deserve rewards and commendation, rathe,
than punishment.
Lest there might, however, be some locofoco con
science that by some means had begun to relent ant
grow tender under the influence of reason and so
Der reflection, after having withstood all other ap
peas made to it, when called upon to vote for gon
into Joint conventionthe editor ofthc Gazette Think
ne has discovered salvo that will prove infallibe
and modestly hints that the locofocc members sdi,
meet in convention and give their opponents an OF
portunity to elect Senators.o Wise edtor!-infalli
BILE plaster for consciences! They did meet il
Joint convention, indeed! They gave an opportuni
y to elect Why was it not thought Of before9 Blu
what about their breaking up the conv er ton in
row. What about the threat of the President Of tn
senate, that he would march out of the Representa-
tives' Hall at the head Of his Senators, if the Join
convention did not adjourn upon his own terms
What about the noise, the confusion, the threats
violence made BY these same locofoco Senator'S
when il was found that a ademocrat proper'' coul
not be elected Senator the first ballot? And whe
thejoint convention, its business still undcne,
ried by the disorder and importantly Of these sam
men, adjourned to a certain day, and how, 10 m
plete the business before them,--what about the wi
full and contumacious refusal of these same men I
meet the House at the appointed hour, to 60 into Ii
election Of Senator's? These things we saw On
heard; in regard to them, however, the editor Of tn
Gazette maintains prudent silence. wisely confir
ing himself to the suggestion that ssthe democrat
met in convention and made an effort to elect"
this were valid excuse, no other would have bee
necessary. Hproper to be urged at all. it covere
the whole ground; -ifthe locofoco members, in goo
faith, went into convention and tried to elect Sen;
TORS they did all the law, oaths honor or conscicnc
required Of them. 4A
But how much worse than mockery--how muc
worse than hypocrisy is it, for this teacher Of pol
ical shonesty," to attempt to up the misGeed
Of his party by an excuse which is no excuse at ali