The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-02-11

not the merit to cat them up 20 dlsuhction,
or the high elements to arouse the public
response.
Samuel Medary is not honest.
Outside Of Ohio an impression has gained
crcdence that the Democracy Of this State,
from some difference Of principles, aic devi-
dcd into two rancorous factions, and that they
are respectively headed by Col. Medary and
Col. Allen. 1t has grown out of the fact
that Medary, after many years of support ex-
tended, in harmony with the Democratic press
generally, to Allen, at a certain period began
to exhibit luke-warmness, which, as time ud-
vanced and afforded mantle to conver mo-
tives & causes, finally caused and ultimately
changed into hostility.
The cause was test of Medary's rotten
ness and mercenary unscrupulousness, which
had long been developing-and Of Aliens un-
fatering integrity and regard for the unblem-
ished character Of the public serUant-virtues
that are purer in no living statesman, and
which he retired from the Senate untarnished,
at the expense Of his reelection, and splen.
did Senatorial career to this period:
A party, in this city and other sections,
having made an interest in the Copper Region
of Lake Superior, found themselves embarras-
ed when they reached the War Department,
under Secretary Marcy, by the presence Of
other claimants for the same valuable section.
The former pressed their applications for a
lease, day after day, but with doubtful success.
They had their attorneys, their briefs, their
documents. But the others had theirs An
} enlargement of the interest was determined,
g. h. Ia, s,,4,
} might be had to operate upon the Depart
) ment. Col. Medary was taken into the COM
bnation for this purpose. We have never
heard it denied that his stock was bonus fol
a. political influence he, as loading Democrat
of Ohio, would naturally exert upon Secretary
) Marcy. Medary repaired to Washington
f to try his powers. He tried the Secretary o
: War. He tre ed President Polk. He triet
!, Congress TO have the copper interest trans
= erred to another Department, when the Pres
: dent refused to interfere.
b 1t was at this crisis, and in this copper ar
S fair, that Medary approached Allen for h
d Senatorial aid. Allen, intuitively, would have
= penetrated the mystery of SO much anxiety
}, og-ro' ling, briefs, attorney visits, etc, bu
I, he had more than sagacity to direct his judg
70 ment; lie had the intelligence Of reliable an
u dsinterestcd friends on the ground to inspir
bis prudence. Mcdary asked him'to interfer
g at the War Department. Allen frankly OF
& iered to take oil their papers and ask til
Z Secretary to carefully examine all the fact
Q and arguments in the case, ans do justice
IT his constituents. This was not enough
It McIary insisted upon his using his SENATOR;
IN. Al. IL.
e little less than their aHoraey-which Ale
p could not bend TO, even for 80 valuable
d friend. Medary muttcred in his wrath, BIT
it for the time kept dowie the violence Of hi
II Indignation.
j. 1t was when the scheme was tried in tn
l. Senate to take the administration of the cor
o per interest out OF the hands of Marcy, an
l. thus get rid of his formidable clog to the
speculation, end iehe, Allen did mol pois
1T suit Medary, that the last link was broken
1t and then was witnessed scene By fc,
to favored gentlemen ut Washington, whic
Sc would beggar description in print, and onl
r who haow the violence Of Medary's passions
j. when fully aroused can appreciate. Th
T. President, the Administration, the Secretar
II of War, the Ohio Eruator, ~cre eacil fn tur
n damned to II deeper depth OF pcrdition thai
n Satan himself is supposed to nhabit, an
f. men who had long regarded Mednry as uprigb
81 and incorruptible, were astounded at the evi
dences of corruption which his mercenarJ
passions had bubb!ed up! "By the eterna
10 c." exclaimed the onraged man walkin!
n the floor, and loamng with rage, "ttroat-cut
J. ting tin,e wW came, ard whem Il does, by e.
d be there TO take a hand!'
IS He kept his word Too cunning to g
If home and openly assal Allen for whom h,
= intended this violence and these threats, h
! allowed him faint hearing now and then il
= the Statesman, until the election brought to
d gether the Legislature of 1889, disclosing
, that FreeSotiiSm held the balance Of power
i II was spectacle over which corruption ant
{ rank hatred could well gloat, for Allen
] term in the United States Senate was to ex
a pire on the ensuing 4th of March, and tn
Y handful of Freesoiisrs in the Legislature, di
9 rected by cunning and crafty managers OF
the outside, were on hand to buy and sell tn,
offices of the State and the patronage Of iha
body.
$ Need we write another line in this unwel
come expose Of dishonest man! Need we
add more, than that Allen, standing in tn,
native dignity of Democrat, who had passe,
uncontamnated through two terms o
I Senatorial trial; who had never faltered wher
principle was to be defended; who was shield
, ed in the very hearts of the Democratic peo
pie, for they had watched him long and seel
him maintain the integrity of his and thei
principles, when others of lofty aspirations
but weaker faith, were falterng and falling
, around him, scorned to pander to any dis
honorable approach, or yield one jot of hi
I political inlexiblity, but saw himself sol,
out by factionists and corruptionists to Free
, soiism and salmon p. Chase, in the nam,
of the Democratic. party, as then represente,
, at Columbus, That Samuel Medary migh
reach his tang smoihercd revenge, and t0iih ii
POCKET THE MERcESARY PROCEEDS OF TIL
/ STATE pRlSTING
) We might to all this add another chapter
to exhibit to those who do not know him, an
unprincipled and mercenary man--we nigh,
arraign him for his hostility TO the nomina-