Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-02-18
Hon, G. B. Adrian.

The Trenton True American of last week,
thus assails the Hon. G. B. ADRIAN, the only
Democratic representative in Congress from
New Jersey, who had the moral courage to
stand up against the attempt of the President
and his Cabinet, to fasten the odious Lecomp-
ton stumble upon the Freemen Of Kansas-and
it was in consequence of that manly and truly
Democratic vote of Mr.. ABRAMS that the syc-
ophant of the True american has the impu-
dence thus to speak of q gentleman SO far his
superior in all the relations of life. But to the
extract:
+" We regretto see the name of Mr.. Adrain,
9 representative from the Third Congressional
District of this State, second ON the list of
black Republican members who voted to SUBJ
NIT the Lecompton Constitution to a commit
tee, with instructions which cannot be exer-
cised before a lapse of many months, and at an
enormous expense to the country. We regret
it, because we had always believed him to be
too true a Democrat, and too intelligent a
man, to become the dupe of the crafty and am
bilious men with whom he had chosen to Join
his fortunes. With the natural commiseration
AOA taO oulOlQC II CuuO ouOEBS lis luOIIdl tA-
istence in the full vigor of his life, we pity the
honorable member who has thus severed the
thread of his political existence, by a deliber-
ate and voluntary act of his own"
We find the following rejoinder in the Tren-
ton True Democrat, a new Democratic Jour-
nal recently established in that city-which we
presume will not set very agreeable upon the
delicate stomach of our pioas friend of the
True american.
We should be ashamed to place ourselves
before an honest public as the open advocate
of fraud and dishonesty, and expressing re-
grets that the incentive to do right, regardless
of consequences, had proven more omnipotent
than mere transient executive patronage or
displeasure. The people qoiU sustain Mr..
Adrain in the upright course he has taken, and
the ~out-spoken, fearless Democracy of New
Jersey recognize him as the true exponent of
their creed. The pity of the True A erican
might be more properly extended to those syco-
plants for favor who dare not express their SEN
timents in behalf Of right, for fear of political
guillotincn
Our friend of the True Democrat has given
Mr.. MAR some pretty good home thrusts in
the above, but he has omitted others equally
as strong, which we will endeaVor to supply.
The "regrsts" of Mr.. MAR are truly ludic-
rous. He regrets" that Mr.. ADRIAN voted
with the Republican members for the appoint
ment of a Committee to investigate and report
upon the frauds by which the L~ecompton
Constitution was gotten up and attempted to
be forced upon the Freemen of Kansas, against
the solemn protest of nearly nine.tenths Of her
%cltizens; and he bases his regrets" upon the
GROUND, that such an investigation will be "an
enormous expense to the country"
What an argument for a man who has been
plunging both hands into the Treasury Of New
Jersey for years past. But suppose it would
cost considerable to Investigate this matter,
to what better purpose can Uncle Sans mon
ey be appropriated, than toward securing to
the People Of a new State, the sacred rights
for which our forefathers so g~allantly fought
and so freely shed their blood ? Better-far
better-spend the Public Money in so just a
cause, than to let such sharks as the editor of
the True American pocket it for unholy pur-
poses. q.