The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-01-19
The Greed ofthe Spoilsmen.

Line DAY OF respite tor oillce-hOldlng wings
is growing towards its close. The hour OF
execution drawethnigh. Though they staked
their continuance in Office upon the contin-
gency of General SCOTS election, they begin
to SHOW fear ard trembling. Their knees
smite together, the joints OF their loins are
looseing, and the danger is that they will
die from terror, before their Just doom can
be inflicted.
Our commiseration of the poor fallen whig
party, becomes deeper and more agonizing
every day. They fight for spoil only-they
took up General Scott, not for his qualitca
tons, for nothing whatever, the hope that
his military popularity would rush him
through despite the calm Judgement Of the
people, and thus save the spoil to the whigs.--
Gen. Scott recognised this to be the mean
ing ofhis nomination, lie promised virtu-
ally in Lis letter of acceptance. !hat if made
President, he would secure all tic spoils to
the wings looking to due distribution to
each jarring interest. The whig place hold
ers rushed to his support with the ferceness
of boupdless appetite, whetted by four years
enjoyment. Myriads Of others, hungry and
sick with protracted longing, fockcd to that
standard bearing the appropriate symbol oI
their idolatry in the shape OF "a wooden soup,
bowl.
! Vain hopes, bitterly dashed to pieces by
the people. Padre Greedy, with sanity
charlatanry, confessed the corn on the spct,
and with admirably simulated manliness,
! advised whig office holders to let no theil
spool, With good grace. Nogn The Pa.
Dire oyerrated his influence. Spoil alone were
the wings fighting for. They were organ.
lied into free companies, selling their ser,
vices for mere pay, the clearest proof o
which is heard in the pitiable will lhe- or
gans are now setting up, as the 18th Of March
comes nearer. Their hold has grown rigid
around the necks of the money bags, and it
trends their finger joints to get them loose
They uncIutch their grasp with bitter and
impious curses, like the highwaymen, at the
power that comes between him and his res
| cued victim.
Is it not an occasion for pity? If fjustco
and the voice of the people would brook for
beamce, it would be mercy to spare every
whiy office holder in the land. They have
SO INDUCED and hardened the habits of off
cial speculation, that they actually see no
salvation from penury and want, butin hang
ing around an open treasury, unrestrained
by laws enforcing fidelity. Wing principles
are summed up in the word GaIphinism.-
1t is their vital blood physically and roli!i-
cally Why is the whig party deflnct?--
Why is defeat death to them? Because
spoil is their only vitalty-not more official
salary, but Gardnerism, and all that. Take
them from the treasury, where they pay
themselves by grabbing, instead of at legal
salaries, and you take out the heart Of the
party.
Well may they wall at the prospect Of ex
clusion from office, to give place for honest
men. Well may the Washington Rep&6ltc,
and the letter writer to the Courier and En-
quirer rave, at the decree of the people to
sweep out the Galphins." To sweep the
Galphins out Of office, is to sweep them into
their political graves. They have our sym
pathy, sincere, excruciating, and exquisite,
but risht must be done. Fiat justitia, ruat
Dhl1qerV!- Statesman