Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-06-13
LOCOFOCO aROBBER ADMIN1S-
TRATIONS.',
LOcOfOco Robber cOndemnsn9 his
Oyyn party.


and appropriate it TO their own use, should De 90
nounced from the house tops by every man pos
sessed of common integrity. lCdrt'ste voeunlee'.
We agree With the above in every particular,
and have ever acted upon the principle LAID down,
in exposing the robbery and plunder OF the puoiic
Treasury to the amount of millions on millions
| under Locofoco Administrations. But these words
Of honesty and professions of purity do not look
we'll when coming from one who is known TO nave
thrust his fingers into the State Treasury and Ia
ken ,herefrom thousands of dollars, as fraud,
and appropriating it TO his own use, without 'ne
least scruple eompunction OF conscience.
shows that all his professions Of honesty are
mere cloak to cover the deformty of the hyPo'
crite, and only intended as cheat to gull the SIM
pie
1t is therefore hardly worth while TO waste
words in reply to- deliberate falsiher--one who
utiers parrot-ke, the ISLANDERS coined oy the un'
scruplous and hired minions of his party at the
seat of Government, and whose only ambition 1t
is to weave the wool of lies thus manufactured to
his hand in the great national laboratory al Wash
ington into an apparently consistent and piausl'
BILE romance, without the slightest regard to honor,
justice, or decency. And yet, it may not be alto
ge,her Improbable to expose the character OF this
paper, which we regret to say is one OF class OF
Locofoco journals, far outnumberng all the others
in the country
When Dickens made his tour of the United
States, he seemed to be somewhat surprised 10
find class of jockies and small spectators, who
boldly vaunted of their villanies, and who passed
amongst the communities in which they lived, as
men of certain smar,ness and shrewdness, be-
cause they were so eminently successful in cion-
ing their conciences into gold. We have often
had occasion to remark that the Locofoco editori-
al corpse could furnish numerous class OF op-
| perators upon the same principle.
The Carlisle Volunteer, is paper Of this class.
The fundamental principle of its editorial conduct
is that a lie aceH stuck to is good the truth" !"
| Proceeding upon this plan, it becomes matter OF
great Importance to study the principles Of the
system. with view TO rendering il still more ef-
| fective. Al orators have often found, that even
truth, is sometimes aided and enforced by the help
Of art, it becomes subject of emulati~n with this
class Of editors to maize consist
| ent and plausible in Az us pa.as.
| To show what progress has been made in this
system Of editing Locofoco papers, we will endea
vor to analyze the little paragraph before US, and
extract the substantial mass of falsehoods from
the mere filing with which the warp is united and
held together
1.-The whole people are out agains, the Galphin
/! Administration ass.
| This we suppose means General Taylor's Adj
minist, ation and hardly needs to be characterized
/ as lie the first. It's friends were never more nu-
| merous or more devoted and enthusiastic than
they are at present Why did not the editor OF
the Volunteer point to some supporter of Gen.
Taylor's who had changed his opinion. If there
is such man in the Union, we have yet to hear
| of him.
"No honest man can he any thing else than an
opponent of an administration so notori0usly weak,
corrupt and dishonest as is the one now in wo-
wer." Rs
This, as it charges the Administration in gener-
al terms, with dishonesty and corruption, is lie the
second. The editor did not specify simply because
he could not. There was nothing for him to lay
hold of. Every body who takes any interest in the
affairs of the Government, knows that notwith-
standing all the base efforts of the Locofoco ma
jorty in Congress, to implicate the President and
| his Cabinet in dishonorable practises they have
signally failed. and that locofoco Committee have
/ been obliged to sustain them in their reports in
every instance. That makes no difference how.
ever, with the jockey press. "a lie well stuck to
is as good as the truth - and they continue to treat
/ it as though it had never been exploded.
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster-are not so
| lost to shame as TO sanction the duplicty and dis
honesty of the Robber Administration"
| This charge, it will be seen, is made to hang
upon the second : il is dependent upon the general
| allegation of corruption, which we have charac-
tersed lie the second; but, as il is slightly va
ried by the introduction of Messrs. Clay and Web
ster, who are in consequence of the alleged cor
ruption made to stand in hostile attitude to the
| Administration, it may be very properly charac-
tersed as lie the third. The only point Of differ
ence between Messrs Clay and Webster and the
! Administration, every body is perfectly aware, is
in reference TO the adoption of the Compromise.
| No charge of corruption, or any misconduct, has
ever been brought by either of these gentlemen.
| against the Administration On the contrary Mr.
/ Clay distinctly affirmed in his last Incorporate
speech, in which we were sorry to see that he ar.
raigned the Administration on the California Mes
sage, that ii was with great pain that he felt him
self called upon to oppose the President even up
on this subject, upon which it cannot be preten-
ded, that difference of opinion implies want of
purity and honesty Ifhe had thought the Adj
ministranon dishonest and corrupt in the payment
OF claims, and other matters, it can hardly be sup
/ posed that It would have given him pain to differ