Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-03-12
Tactics of the shamocracY.

have adopted Of late, in all The Northern
States. Conscious thai the acts of the
administration Cannot be defended, and
that the condemnation Of its course i,
certain wherever men love freedom and
hate tyranny, they have given up all al
tempts at defense as worse than useless,
and content themselves with villifying
their opponents, The Republicans Nm
game too small, no trick too mean, no
falsehood too absurd, if they think !;
a be made to serve a temporary pur-
pose.
In the last Den0crot We notice a de-
scent a little lower than we had sup
posed even that journal could get a We
have noticed from timeto time its retail
of missiatement concerning the Republic
can party, and thought that in exposing
its false assertions concerning a CLERK Of
the House, we were dealing with rather
small business; but now we find a new
lot of stHl smaller. potatoes. The Demo
era, has really attacked a door. ke per Of
the house, and no. only a door keeper,
but an assistdai doOr-Etepsr, and seeks
to lure back 10 tie bosom of the Pierce
& Douglas party all those who have left
III n disgust, by asserting tsnd falsely.
but that's 10 matter thatthe House have
elected a door ke per and worst of all an
assistant door keeper who are actually as
badly pro slavery as our neighbor of the
Democrat himself
The Rel ublicans impcach Franklin
Pierce and his party of treachery to free
dom. and of deliberately aFetting the
murder Of our brothers in Kansas and
the Democratic organ in this county
spologetically whines out, ''but hat as
sistantdoor-keePcr is a most as bad as
Mr.. Picrcel" Wecharge theirleader, Ar.
mold Douglas with wilfully disturbing the
peace of the country. byintroduciug a mon
strous plan Of Slavery PrOpagandism with
his own printed assertion that such a bill
was dangerous, s,aring him in the face /;
and the answer again squeaked out, is
Mr.. Nokes the door-keeper.' We
charge them with asserting in the person
of Petit, another of their leadersin Con-
gress. hat the declaration of Indepen-
dence is a self evident lie. We charge
them with having abandoned every doc.
thine of Democracy held by Jefferson and
Madison, and selling themselves to
Southern masters who despise them I;
and still they ring charges on the answer,
'sCullom and Darling and S:okes-Nokes
and Cullen and Darling.
II men who are prominent in our party
are attacked we shall feel it our duty to
notice the charges, becauses such men are
representatives of our principles, and We
shall defend Them if maIigned. or Join in
discriminating censure if they do any
real wrong. But If the Democratic press
thinks it can find profit or amusement in
enquiring whether the dust man, that
works at the Capitol in Washington, or
bis brother, or two other near relatives. is
or is nota member of the backbone party,
We shall give it JOY of its chosen compa.
ny and let it go on IFS way unmolested.
Since we have adverted TO itslast start
ling assertion concerning Republican
gfciaistf we will simplyinform any who
NAV be curious in such statistics, that
the story that W. Darling. the door-keep-
er ofthe Hou e is a STAKEHOLDER and a
slavery propagandist, is a romance
n founded on fact. That that i:npor-
tant parsonage was, before his present
high official position, known as Captain
Darling of POughkepsie. in the State of
New York; that before the organization
of the Republican party he was a member
ofthe the her existing Democratic party;
that he had served in the regular army
OF the United States; that he was a
Republican out and outF in favor Of
the election of Banks: all of which facts
are attesied by Col. Schouler of the Gin
cinnaii Gazeae. who wrote them from
Washington at the time, and over his
o.sn signature.
As to Nokes or Stokes or whatever
else the most worthy assistant d~oor-keep
eris called, We frankly admit tha' We
have NOT the honor of his acquaintance
even by name, and if our neighbor Of
the Democrat knows him, o knows any
body else that knows him. ne must still
further admit that he has the advantage
of US in the number and high %oficialt
character of his friends. But We have
yet to learn that assistant door keepers,
assistant clerks, or any other assistants,
from the assistant clerks Of the very re-
spectacle vender Of pea nuts in the lobby.
upward, is, or ever has been elected to
his responsible Office BY the votes Of the
the members of the House of R@presen-
~Iaiiyes. In fact we have a very decided
belief that no such election takes place,
and on the strength CT that faith which
Is in us, we venture tie assertion that
the story about horrid pro-slavery
Nokes is as romantic as the other, and
that there is therefore a hop left that the
Republican party may survive. So mote
i. bel