The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-10-14
Friday Evening, Oct 8, 1852

ty fair show of Locofocos, Democrats aud
Wings at the Court House, last evening, cal
led together for the purpose OF hearing
speeches from Messrs. Cradlebaugh and
Gallagher. Drums, flies and hurrahs were
used as the means Of getting up a crowd
The Gee Club was on hand, but after try
ing three or four times TO sing for Pierce and
King, they made sorry out Of it.
Mr.. Cradlebaugh's speech was made up of
attempts TO defend the Legislature Of last
winter and in an attack upon Banks. Al
oft can be disposed OF in few words. The
Locofocos had exclusive power, they con-
J trolled everything; they raised salaries fifty
per cent; they raised their per diem and that
r OF their hangers on, one dollar; they en-
ployed twice as many assistants as there
was any necessity for; they paid Mcdary
$4,000 in violation of the Constitution; they
passed poor laws and violated almost every
pledge they made. They did not do any
more work than other Legislatures, and
what was done, they Pcrforrnedin a bung-
ling manner. Mr.. Cradlebaugh compared
the volume of General Laps with that Of the
, previous Legislature. What of this! That
was not Wing. But under the old Consti-
tu'ion the bulk Of the laws were printed in
, the LOcal statutes and The four volumes must
be compared. So far as his attacks upon
Banks were concerned, why did not these
Locofocos, when they had the power, fulfil
their promises and repeal their charters!-
Simply ,becausethey dared not not Go It.
Mr.. Gallagher commenced by saying that
he was Of Irish birth; but when fee years Of
age he left his country and when he was on
the vessel that brought him TO this country
he swore eternal hostility to the British Gov
: ernment and everlasting allegiance to A.
: merica, upon his bendcd knees. He was
precocious youth. He was only five years
of agewhen he did this. His speech thro'-
s out was made up, with few exceptions, of
the same kind of stuff, and with good lungs
and good voice, he makes very fair hur-
n rah tpeech, but bases all his arguments upon
@ seen. Jackson" and the word Democracy
If as he said, "Gen. Jackson" was always
" right" Locofocoism is essentially wrong.
- and he only told the truth when he declared
9 that the present Administration has been
It conducted upon purely Democratic princi-
pies, with the exception of "Galphinism," I"
which, he might have added, ifthere was any
: thing wrong about it, partook of the nature
t of Locofocoism.
= He saidno measures of public policy are
involved in this contest. No Wing speaker
raised his voice for protection to American
i Industry or any other Wing measure. He
a may tell that in the eighteenth Ward Of Bal
i timore, where he claims five hundred ma
: ijority for Locolocoism, but the people here
,. know better They know that every Whig
It speaker, in almost every speech, advocates
s strongly Protection to American Industry
t and River and Harbor improvements; and
we might add for the edification of the orator
that, in Ohio, we have State election, and
y that, notwithstanding his apparent igno-
= rance, State matters are in issue and some
" very important ones. The attention of the
l. people can't be drawn off from the seissuesor
3 account of the prof5 ssed ignorance of Loco
n foco stumpers. 4... ...--
'e The orator was equally happy in the mill
~ tary department of his speech He SAT-
iy that Pierce fought in the thickest Of tn
as fight, sword-hiIt to sword-hilt, boots boot;
dy and deserved more credit than Gen. Scot
ID Polk drove the latter to fight; the forme
ut went of his own accord. We have in vai
W hunted for these brilliant exploits of Genera
ne Pierce; we have examined the files of tn
Io War, and not one word of all these DARN.
feats is there recorded Shields, Qutman
Butler and others are there lauded TO tn
~ skies, but the great New Hampshire Genera
". finds no place in the columns of that paper
n until after his nomination for the Presiden
Oh cy. ....
o. But after all and that for which the speak
" ~ er was expressly designed, comes the relig
IT. ous test in Pierce's State, where his friend
er claim that he mouds the Democracy to hi
n will. The speaker would leave the impres
~ sion upon the audience that the test wa
lost on account of the two-thirds rule. Thu
mt two-tbirds rule is a terrible weapon for tn
ar Democracy. 1t killed Van Buren,, ,Cass, 3r
=" chanan, Marcy, Douglas, and will help
~ kill Pierce. Now we wish it distinctly ur
derstood that the clause for repeal Of tn
test did not get one-third of the entire vol
ar Of the State, where Locofocoism has larg
? majority. Let the friends of Gen. Pierc
in explain away the force of this fact. Fl
to either had not enough influence to rally hi
)th party to vote for the abolition Of the claus,
IN or having it, he did not it. 1t is inmate
i've rial to US, which horn of the dilemma the
take. lie also said that Robinson discover
ISL ed that Pierce's father was Protestunt.-
This is avoiding the fact. Robinson foun
70 from the records that Pierce's father hu
i've voted for the test in the original rOnstiutio
in every phase. The two facts have no col
,'n nection whatever. We may add that Rol
- inson is no employee of Greeley. He hi
no connection with the Tribune office.
my One word now in regard to the "religio-
question" in this campaign, and we are don
at 1t will suffice to show who has broughtit i