Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-14


MEssRG. PAYN9 AND GE5aER.
On the 10th of March, 1851, Hon. B. F.
WADE was cleo ted to the United States Sen
ate, after a pr otracted contest, on the ttcentu-
seuenth ballot-receiving A votes to 81 for
| Hon. 3. B. PAYNE and z scattering We had
| the honor to give one of the votes that elected
Mr.. Wade; Gen.. j. 81. GEreER gave another
and with both of US, and our Wing colleagues
of. the Senate (of which Mr.. Payne was also a
memberl the defeat of that gentleman was re-
garded as a grand achievement, and a matter
of special exultation. Gen: Geiger was parti-
cularly iubilant over the result; for at that day
if there was anything upon earth he hated with
a perfect hatred, it was what he contemptuous-
ly termed q aPestIent koofooo." Now our old
Wing friend is zone of them" and engaged in
perambulating the State in company with this
same Mr.. Payne, discoursing upon the beauties
of locofocoism! Truly politics sometimes fur
nishes its ~votaries with strange bed-fellows.
These gentlemen held forth in Tenplar Hall
Tuesday eyening-and contrary to our wont,
mot being in the habit of intruding at Demo
cratic meetings) We heard them. The effort
of Gen. Geiger was one characteristic of the
man. It would be unnecessary to attempt to
describe it to those who have ever heard him !;
and to those who have not, any effort to con-
vey a correct idea of it. would be a failure
Parr;rr o1n rroza is~o,roSanfo4;ons IF fbo
aims, objects and principles of the Republican
| party, the greater portion of it was an attemp-
ted defense of himself aud others like him, who
having forsaken the faith eff their fathers to
wander after strange Gods, and from the Wing
fhave slid into the Democratic ranks, are INK
ious to explain or extenuate their recreancy-
He depicted in glowing oolors the ancient sins
of the Democracy, in spreading slavery by an
nexing Texas, &c, and gave as the chief rea-
son why he could not act with the Republicans
is that Chase, Spalding, Banks, Stone, VOL
colt, and other "old locofooos," are not only
members but leaders of the party. III could
not consort with such men, who have repented
"a eoOA4 o4bo ouu "a INV tdOiOu6uly IluOuUA
in faith and practice; yet he is in close fellow
ship and communion with that portion of them
who still have those old sins upon their heads,
in addition to those of deeper dye and more re-
cent commission. Oh consistency truly thou
art a jewel! He had the presumption, too, to
eulogize Henry Clay in extravagant terms, to
an audience composed principally of men whose
chief occupation for years was to abuse and
vii ify that distinguished statesman, and at the
head of the party to which they and Mr.. G.
belong stands Jas. Buchanan, the author of the
most base and damaging SANDER that was ever
uttered against Mr.. Clay.
Mr.. PayDe's remarks were brief. He is a
gentleman, and of course deported himself as
such. He is perhaps the most talented man
the party can boast in the State, and made the
most ont of a poor cause-but be is a reckless
partizan, and some of the positions he assumed
and charges in which he INDUCED in reference
to the Republicans, were unworthy of the man
and the position he occupies,