Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-03-16
The Charges Of Corruption against the
Rational Administration.

Whatever else may be said of the Oppo-
sition TO the Democracy it will not be de-
med that they are fruitful in cXpedients.
/ They have new front for every occasion.
When the public mind is diseased upon
any particular question, when reason is
| delhrored and passion and prejudice rule
| principle assume the garb of martyrs for
truth, and petition the people for their
! votes on high grounds. The whole Anti
Slavery movement Of the Opposition can
be covered by this view OF the motives
which influenced them. The same eau
with truth be said Of the position assumed
by the Opposition with reference to the
Bank question, the distribution Of the
Public Lands, and all other leading, promi-
Inent measures on which they antagoniled
the Democratic party. They must find
some ground on which to fight the Demo,
cratic element of the Nation, and hence
they seize hold of the prevailing bias of
public sentiment, and lead it sull further
astray from the path Of reason and justice
by artiul suggestions and the exhibition Of
but few Of the facts in each particular
case.
But in every instance where there really
was principle at stake to be contended for
the Democracy of the country appealed to
the intelligence Of the masses, and gained
decided victory. The Opposition were
Iunhorsed, and the contest ended so far rs
principles were concerned. Then, howe
yer, came the eXpediency dodge. When
no longer able 10 find reasonable obiec-
ton to the measures and policy Of Demo.
cratic Administration, they resort to the
ready made charge of corruption, and APP
Y peal to the fertile brains of nired defamers
to coin false charges, and send them broad.
cast over the land. This has been the
course pursued by the Opposition with
reference to the administration of James
Buchanan. They tried their metal on the
measures and policy of his administration,
and failed in most signal and significant
manner. His foreign policy elected the
commentator of the whole Conservative
portion Of the American people. The
measures resorted to in order to bring into
Isubjection the rebelliouS Mormons, were
! endorsed by an almost unanimous public
sentiment, while all the other prominent
acts and suggestions of the National Ad
ministratiOn were responded to in like
manner 10y the patriotic heart of the ma
e tion. The charges OF corruption, too, have
: been disproyen, but still they are iterateC
and reiterated as if the mere repetition O
a ialsehood could make it more worthy o
, belief. But this is no new feature in the
history of Democratic administrations
Gen. Jackson was the object Of most un
|, qualified abuse from the Opposition party
and the charges of corruption against hit
administration were even more boldly anC
audaciously persisted in than those now
, urged against that of Mr.. Buchanan. As
sample of these charges, read the follow.
ing from the National Journal, printed in
Washington in $780, That paper thus
= speake of the administration of Gen. Jack.
son:
"The foregoing incomplete list shows that
Gen. jackson has appointed to public off
ces forty.u1iG persons connected with tho
press. On its being viewed in connexion
with the public accounts, the following
/ facts will appear.
"The annual amount of public money
paid to tour only of the editors, &C., thus
rewarded, which four were among the con
ductors of single paper, is upwards o.
ten thousand .fce hundred dollars, viz $4,000
, 20 n. Green, $1,000 to A. Dunlap, S4,4OC
to D. Henshaw, and S2,l26 26 to I. Dex.
ter-all concerned in the Boston Statesman
the leading paper in favor of General
jackson In the State of Massachusetts,.
ITO nine of those editors, &C., the an
nual amount of money paid is about hcen-
ty,fUc thousand dollars, viz: $1,000 to Isaac
Hill, $1,000 to Kendall, S3,39l "a to Wag.
ner, $4,000 to Noah, S2,264 40 to Carr,
and to N. Green, Dunlap, Henshaw, and
Dexter, the respective sums already stated
"To t,centy-one Of those editors, &C., the
annual amount of public money paid is
upwards of torty-one .0o MousGnd doLar' viz