The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-08-10

II ever tnere was IN array OF antl-he-
publican sentiments promulgated to the
American public they are those we have
quoted from the leading Catholic journal in
the country
Now the question reyerts back to our
former position, upon which we shall take
the privilege of ~propounding a few ques-
tons, as follows:-Are these fathers of the
Republic, the principles you wish engrafted
into the minds of your children? Was II
for this end that you established our glori-
GUS system of Common Schools We
leave you to answer for yourselves. What
say you?
ES-We feel compelled to refer again to
the Statesman in its pursuit of light on the
subjecto of corruption at Washington. We
are sorry to see an attempt to shift the re-
sponsibility ofthese things from the shout
ders of the Locofoco party, to that of the
Wings. It will not do. With every de-
partment of the Government within their
control; with a heavy majority in both
houses of Congress, the Statesman has the
temerity to talk of the Wings as the au-
thors of all these plundering schemes which
find so much favor at Washington, This
is a humiliating confession, ever if it were
true. tits, in substance, saying that the
large Locofoco majority is composed of
corrupt, purchasable materials; that they
can be, and are bought up by any set Of
men who have designs upon the treasury,
and who are willing to pay for their votes.
This is the attitude in which the Statesman
chooses to place its political friends. 1t is
very hattering, no doubt.
But what are the facts? Did the Wings
get up the scheme to pay Santa Anna ten
millions of dollars, seven millions of which
have just passed out of our treasury, to his
credit? That, we think; was an admins
tration movement.
The Statesman ''Jelteues" the Wing SEN
ators all voted for the "Texas iniquity," as
it calls the new bill to pay the debts of that
State. We ''belieue' they did no such
thing, and we want to see the votes before
we can admit it. But there are about two
Locofocos to n Wing in the Senate
Suppose every Wing voted for it; the bill
would have failed ifa large number of the
administration Senators had not voted with
them. In either view Of the case, there is
no excuse or consolation for the Statesman.
With regard to railroad plumber
| ealo..o, - xyo o,o rroI xya No fhoE ttN L.
VINroN" has any thing to do with them.
We remember that Mr.. Vinton, with 9th
ers, petitioned Congress to admit railroad
iron free of duty for the term of three years.
He thought we did not need the money in
the treasury, as we already had a large
surplus; and he also thought that the great
demand for iron would keep all our own
iron works busy, at full prices, for at least
that length of time. Itwould be granting
a benefit to the unfinished reads, without
injuring the prosperity of our home iron
works. twas limited to three years. 1t
was a pro tenn, free trade proposition. 1t
sought to try for three years what the
Statesman desires to render perpetual
Let the Statesman point out to us the OBJ
lection it has to the proposition. We nei-
Their advocate nor condemn it, but we would
like to see a free traders objection to it.
The Statesman also afirms that the To-
%cofoco party of the nation is and has been
opposed to the payment of bounties to the
ocean mail steamers. Now, this system of
bounties was first introduced under the ad-
ministration of Mr.. Polk. Whatever of
party character, or Of fraud there may be
about the system belongs to our opponents,
as they introduced it, and must stand re-
sponsible for it before the world.
1t is news to us that Mr.. CAMPBELL was
chosen Post Master General by PIERCE, on
account of his opposition to these appropri-
atoms. We understood at the time, and
such was the general understanding of the
nation, that Mr.. CAMPBELL, was appointed
Postmaster General, because he is a Ro-
man Catholic; and because he had been re-
jected by the pople of Pennsylvania for the
office of Supreme Court Judge. 1t was a
part of the consideration agreed upon, and
paid by the President, for the votes and in
%iuence of the foreigners and Catholics in
this country. r
The Statesman is equally unfortunate in
its refereuce to the "Galphin era," and in
its supposition that these things chad their
origin under the late Wing regime II
the editors will look back to the campaign
of 1910, they will read about certain schemes
Of plumber that put to blush anything that
has transpired since then, down to the adj
vent of the party now in power. We could
refresh their memory be referring to
SwARTwouT, and Price, and HARRIS, and
a long list Of defaulters and plunderers, who
did not ever stop to proeure the sanction Of
law, but stole the public money by millions,
without the shadow Of excuse. Did the
Statesman ever hear of these men and then
doings?
We admit with great pleasure that there
are thousands of honest citizens who have
voted with that party, and who do moi
sanction the acts of the plunderers either al
Washington, or in oursown State. 1t i:
upon this class the country must rely fol
its safety. They have seen how easily
their leaders can be led astray from duty
by the facility with which they were in.
duced to desert the Free North * the
question Of the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise. They know that corrupt mean:
were employed to carry Northern men fol
that measure in Congress, and they are
grieved to find the Statesman Dc Democra