Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-01-19
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sErrERs FROM THE HILLS.

tins season Df the wear, Such as S1lOppfIlS
wood. mfnding fences and thrashmg grain.
will again devote an occasional leisure
hour to thrashing the lrcolocOs, who are
becoming more bold and reckless IN their
attacks on the old hero of Buena Vista and
our excellent Governor, III proportion as
1hey are ousted from the strongholds of Of
fee, TO which they have clung for the last
twenty wears with tenacity that seemed
TO say never let go while a dollar re-
mains in the treasury. Old Zach, as your
readers will remember, when first spoken
of for the Presidency, was endorsed by
the locoloco papers in all quarters as
good democrat and some of them even
went SO far as TO recommend him in county
conventions as a proper person to be NOM
mated by their national convention, altho'
II was well known at the time that he was
a whig, a democratic whig who was taught
in the JefiersOnian schOol-who was not
willing TO preach one doctrine to-day and
practice another tomorrow. When he
told Santa Anna that if attacked he would
fight, no matter what the odds were against
him, he meant arhGt he said and when
he told the locofocos that he was a whig.
he also meant what he said, as thev have
been made to see and feel since he has
been in office. Their love OF place, how
ever, was so strong, that those who had
hold of the teats of the treasury, who had
so long been fed on public pap, could not
realize that some OF them would have 10
earn their bread by the sweat of their
brows, as honest people should do. Ro-
tauon in office was an excellent principle
10 talk about TO the masses who vote, es-
pecIally about election time. but when the
principle came 10 be applied 10 them in
practice, what fall was there, nv cOun-
trymen - A pandemonium howl was
sent forth from these widemouthed pdtri-
0ts, these brawling advocates of :. equal
laws and equal rights these pretended
friends Of the poor man, that has not had
It's equal since The days OF Pharaoh. Old
Richie, the slanderer of General Andrew
Jackson. but now sole organ of modern
Forney, of the Pennsylvania,
the plfie-shirted dandy who can gIibly
pirate 10 his country readers about "whig
aristocracy," and at the same time would
hardly cast look at laboring man, for
fear he might soil his gloved hands by
closer contact-t0gelher with the whole
train Of inferior satellites revolving round |
their leader, al once let loose all the venom
of their natures, and proclaimed in ad-
vance that the administration Of General
Taylor was to be opposed. right or wrong,
to the d" bitter end This, to all honest
people, no matter of what politics, will ac-
counts {,- bo ,,,,-,,.l,6 ,I -
lOcofocO papers bestow on all the doings
Of the old hero, and for the ribald abuse Of
his mind. character, and person. This sac-
count for their taking sides with the French
minister, whose ignorance was only equal
led by ms Impudence, and whom General
lay lor at once promptly dismissed. This,
too, viii account for their anxiety 10 en-
broil Us with foreign nations. contrary TO
the practice hitherto pursued by our gov
rernmenl. from the davs of Washington 70
the present time, and in opposition 10 the
notes of warning laid down in his immor-
tai Farewell Address 10 the American peo-
pie.
OF piece with these systematic attacks
on the Administration, is the attempt TO
create an impression that the wings are
enemies. and the locOfocOs friends of the
poor To further this vile movement,
paragraphs are given, purpOrtIng to be from
what they call whig papers, in which the
poor man is told that he ought not to vote,
and should have no sayso in government.
! have one Of these paragraphs before me
now, followed by long string OF stuff al
legged to be whig sentiment. If true, | for
one would be willing to kick the writer
over to the IOcoiocos at ouce-say to the
Virginia I0cofocos-for there he would
naturally belong, as THEY prGciicc eracffy
7cIsot He prcaches! But is it true there's
the rub. Nearly everybody knows in the
warfare now waged against Gen. Taylor
and the wings. that the locOfocos will eX-
tract paragraph from the New \ ork He
raid, Journal Of Commerce, Boston Chro-
notype, or even the Ledger, and if it suits
their purpose, call either Of them a Whig
paper, while III nine cases out OF ten those
papers all take sides with the opposition.
And how stand the facts! To elucidate
truth, the best evidence is generally found
at or near home. Let us then empanel a
Jury and Try these friends Of the poor man
here. Let us see what evidence they can
procure to substantiate their claims. Who
for instance controls the public works
Why the locofocos. Wen, one would ma
turally suppose that here would be fine
opportunity to exhibit their love and
friendship for the poor, bat who ever heard
of that class being belriended when work
was TO be done? How many poor mer
have ever been employed in any other ca
pacty than the hardest kind Of labor 4
few of them are considered good enough
10 stand in mud and water, risking life AM
health for a dollar or SO Il day, but how
many have ever been appointed TO fill
boss-ship, or any other situation with lltt
labor and GOOD naN. when some hot-headeI