Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-02-28
Judge Allen and his Defamers.

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have his name so used.
Judge Allen and his Defsmers.
Yesterday the whole bunker press, Tray, Blanche,
and Sweetheart, without single exception, so far as we
have seen or heard opened their rabid mouths upon
the representative in Congress from this district, be-
cause he had dared to bring light the infamous bar
ganngs of the Secretary of State and the corrupng
influences by which his independence is sacrificed, and
his conscience placed in the keeping of the brokers'
board; just the same if the &c god-like' werenot
man, but bundle of scrip, requiring only the sigma
lures of President directors, and company to be made
available for any purpose avarice, specuaton
usury
The terrible alarm and outcry in the bunker camp
shows with what true aim the arrows of truth have
been sent to the vitas of that corrupt and prohgate
whom the people of Massachusetts once delighted
to honor but who has now sold HIMSELF body and SOUL
to the slave dealers of the South, and their miserable
allies, the money lenders, in the Northern cities Fhe
opponents of Judge Allen, who have been harping
upon the lie, that Judge Allen has done nothing since
he took his seat in the Congress of the United States
can now have something else to do, in ralying with
their pasters and catapasms that mass of besot
ted corruption and roeness which has so long contain
mated the political atmosphere, not of Washington
only, but Of Boston, New York and other cities of the
North.
The representative from the 9TH district does not
hunt for small game. He leaves the pursuit of the
toads and lizzards that breed in the slime of politics.
to men to whom such occupation is, by the crcum-
stances of their nature, congenial.
Sin in high places the mark he sought"
And when he found it-when the evidence of the Sec
retarys purchase made palpable to his eyes,
when the terms OF that infamous bargain were made
KNOWN by which, for palry gold the first man in the
cabinet of the President became the spaniel of slave
hunters and the stool pigeon speculators he has had
the moral courage to arragn the royal culprit at the
bar ofthe country, and open up the eyes the world
the blackness of his guilt and turpitude.
In debate in the House the 10th instant Mr.
Allen succeeded in ENGRAVING upon the bill for the or
ganization of Committee Clams an amendment, to
prevent speculation by members of Congress, in any of
the numerous claims upon which that committee would
be called upon to act which some of those who had
calculated upon big cks at the government purse were
not little disappointed. Upon that OCCASION saws the
Globe,
Mr.. Allen moved to amend the bill by inserting the
following:
PROVIDED, That no member of the present Congress-
shall be appointed any office created under this act
MIR. Wentworth. object to that. 1t is personal.
Mr.. Allen said his amendment might not be
broad enough to cover the great defect in the bill but
1t would, in some degree, diminish great evil He
had scarcely taken up newspaper for year or two
past, without seeing notice of the appointment to H.
cratiVe office of some or brother of a member of
Congress.
Mr.. Campbell. You do not mean me
IL I.
refer to any member 1t is to be presumed that such
appointments have been made without the solicitation
or knowledge OF those whose friends have been kindly
provided for But it has caused much scandal in the
community that so many offices have been confer
red upon the families of Representatives and Senators
The bill under consideration contained NAV hIpb pri
zes and the Executive, in the kindness of his heart
may conclude that they should be bestowed not uoon
the younger members, but upon such heads Of families
as may have been stricken down in popular
tor the purpose OF guarding the public mind against
the false impression that Congress, in its last DAYS is
engaged in establishing infrmary for its own woun
ded and disabled, offer the amendment which Is on
YOUR desk The ostensibe object Of tae bill is ;nst;ce
to public creditors. Let thele be no imputaton upop
gentlemen that there is any other than this ostensble
object that mingled with regard for long suffering
claimants, there is any THAT charity which begins at
home
The amendmen; was adopted BY large majority, and
thus thousands Of honest creditors Of the Government
will be saved the depletion of their pockets by men ac-
ting in double capacities legislators and councillors,
and the nation, too, will be saved from the corrupng
influences Of brides, offered in the shape of legal fees,
for the prosecution Of claims in the success of which
members of Congress would become pecuniary nteres-
ted
But 1t was not our purpose TO speak of this matter at
the present time, any further than to record this tr-
umph of justice and principle to the credit Of our Rep
resentaye. lie has got the arch traitor himself
blythe horns, and 1--WE have no fears for the result Judge
Allen talks at random. He never makes his as
eertions, and hunts up his facts afterwards to prove
them What he means, he says, and what he says, he
means; and however much It may go against the grain
Of Hunkerdom to have lis idol convicted Of taking
bribes to do its bidding to the tune Of fifty thousand
dollars at hall, the fact will be woyed And If the
people Of this country TO remain ignorant Of the
amount aud value Of the current coin which Daniel
Webster received for his Iscarot treason to Liberty
twill not be beca,,se the representative from Central
Massachusetts hesated OF feared to do his duty.