The Georgetown news., 1856-03-20

"Mr. Flint thought it would be economy
if they should insert an appropriation r.
buy up all the 'one horse presses in the
State.''
! Undoubtedly. Just what atraitor would
be likely to think. " The price of the zone
horse presses are probably estimated by
this political Judas by the amount that
votes on the Senatorial question are worth;
but the expense of purchasing these ''one
horse concerns might prove a very extraY-
agant Investment, might drain, to depletion,
the State treasury. 1t is possible that these
zone horse presses" might consider the inde-
pendence of the press-the right to exer-
else freedom Of speech according to the die
tates Of conscience triae above the val
ue Of the thirty pieces of silver" They
might estimate the privilege Of being free
to excoriate political traitors above the
price usually paid for treason. 1t is posi-
ble they might object altogether to being
"bought and sold, and be an appanage unto
Others
1t comes with very good grace from
this zone horse Senator from San Francis
CO, to talk about purchasing the right of
the press Of this State to think and speak
for themselves.
Last summer he who is now without a
party to acknowledge his membership whose
afiliation is now repudiated by men Of all
political parties, was sturnping the State in
opposition to the very party by whom he
was warmed into political life-in loud
mouthed hostility to those from whom he
first received the nomination for, and, in
part, his subsequent election to, the posi-
tion which he now desecrates. The Amer
lean party might have been assured that
man who could coolly turn round and
anathematize the party by virtue Of whose
suffrages he was then holding the position
Of Senator, and bend al his energies to
their defeat, would be q fit instrument in
the hands Of others to use against Itself
And so it was. After the Legislature con-
vened, under the pressure Of circumstances
it became c0nUeaieit for him who had Yaun-
ted so loudly during the political campaign
of patriotism and incorruptibility, who be-
lieyed it to be the right and privilege of
Americans to rule America, to become the
lever which should oYerturn the power of
the majority to elect a United States Sena-
tor-the instrument by which the wishes of
the people were to be set at nought, and
the State left partially unrepresented in the
National councils, at the very time when
her necessities required an unbroken repre-
sentation.
There was weak and siekly attempt on
the part of the opposition press to applaud
the treachery which enabled them to com
pass the defeat Of the Senatorial election,
but the effort was too nauseating for even
them, and they only damned with faint
praise.
Already ne Of zone horse" notoriety be-
gan to feel the penalty Of violated faith, in
the distrust and aversion manifested toward
him by those whose tool he had been, and
in desperate attempt TO regain caste, he
lifted himself before the multitude and pro-
claimed that "he felt himself al home again
the Democracy" Poor mortal. it was of
no avail; no encouraging response met the
There was no need Of dis
stimulation now On the part Of the Democ-
racy; for had he not proclaimed that he
would support no man Of Southern nativity
and education? And did he not virtually
read himself ont Of that party by assuming
position which ignored the main plank in
their platform? They could not trust one
who had wantonly violated the solemn obi
CATION he was under 10 abide by the deeis-
ion Of majority of his compeers; and so
they passed him by on the other side'-
just as all honest men Of all parties will
from this time heuceforth do, leaving him
to find consolation, as best he may, in soil
tary ignominy.