Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-08-30
LoeofoeO ralsehOod and Misrepresentation.

LOeofOcO FaIsehOOd and Misrepresentation
The address which the Pennsylvania Locofoco
State Central Committee have just submitted
for the consideration of the faithful, and which
is intended to operate upon the approaching
election, contains about rs many falsehoods,
direct and implied, as it possible for the
most ingenious fbber to crowd into document
Of equal dimensions. In this respect it certainly
is curiosity, and as rare a specimen OF loco
foco ingenuity as was ever seen. In the first
place, it sets out with the assumption that the
democratic party never occupied higher or
more enviable position than at the present time
Everybody knows, who knows anything that the
reverse is the truth The party is all split up
into Abolition, Old Hunker, and Free Soil fac
tions. If to be snarling and growing perpetu
ally, clique applying to the other the epithets
of traitor y mercenary,'' and other such like
loveable adectiyes we say, if this is occupy
ing q high" and j." enviable' position, then we
must say that the party is indeed high-yery
high
Then, again, are told that our foreign re-
lations, since the Wing administration came into
power have been conducted with " "blQndering
awkwardness." An assertion Of this character
may pass for what it is worth and among the
intelligent masses Of the democratic party in
Pennsylvania we quite that it is not
worth much, We shall not stop to point out the
many important treaties which have been nego-
tiated with foreign powers to the honor, and
credit, and profit Of the country, since the Fed
n Z
ministration. Many Of these are become mat
tiers of history now, and as such they speak for
themselves. Nor need we alIude to the varions
difficult and delicate questions, between this
Government and some Of the most powerful
European States, which have been satisfactorily
settled without any Of that disgraceful buster
which is an inseparable ingredient Of locofoeo
diplomacy. If the democracy of Pennsylvania
are yerdant enough to believe there was any
thing bungiing' or "a awkward" there, we shall
be forced TO the conclusion that they are yet in
volved in dense political darkness as that
in which they were cropping during the Presi-
Dental campaign of l344 when Clay's tariff
letters circulated with Polk's name attached,
and Polk's anti-tariG letters with Cay's sigma
ture stuck on, which enabled the locofocos to
get good many votes that did not honestly be-
long TO them. We hope better things of our
Pennsylvania friends Surely they know better
now than they did then the tricks and sublerfuges
Of the locofoco managers.
Secretary Corwn comes in for goodly share
Of abuse in this characteristic address WHY
not: Locofocoism is always abusing somebody,
. and it must always have subject TO operate
upon. They have not made much in that way
hitherto, out Of Congress, and in an Office which
necessarily precludes him from giving back blow
for blow, the cowardly hireliugs of the g State
Central Committee" know very well that their
stale Slang about " bloody hands" and % hospi-
table graves" will be permitted to pass without
any protest from him. Arguments such as
these must have immense weight with an intel
ligent people, certainly 1t is idle to follow up
in detail the remainder Of the indictments which
this precious " address brings against the Wing
party. Such as we have referred to are not bad
specimens of the whole batch. We refer 10
them merely 10 show our friends that our cid
enemy is as unscrupulous and desperate as ever
he was when party purposes were to be com
passed. To the Wings Of the keystone we
confidently leave the task Of teaching him such
a lesson, on the 6th of October next, as will be
well studied and initiated by the Wings of New
York in Noyember.-.helo York Express.