The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-03-14

F0y1seNea bscOsds zscith 900 :,
Nreliable- friend, in a private letter datet
Washington, March 9, says: "An explosion
occurred IN the Republican wing of the Capt.
tot this morning, which has caused intense ex
element throughout the city; The renegade
and spy, sc. BoYSToN, the Jac'5tdn o
JouN W. FoRNEY, Clerk of the House Of
Representatives, has Hcome a grab" to thu
amount of about 100000 upon the Clerk
department. Of the House, as some say; while
another rumor says upon Mail Contractors
whose certificates be obtained possession of, as
their agent. and whose money he has collected
and ran of with, in company with a clancy
woman. You know him as a former Oberlin
Abolitionist, and a vilifer, with J1W. GRAY,
of JcHN K. MILLER and of the Administra-
ton of JAMES K. Polk. Having been per.
fdious to all parties and to all men who have
ever been silly enough to trust him, he has
finally, like all persons of his moral and po-
1iticaI calibre, proved false even to himself
He had become a WORKOUT hack here, and
none, except Back Republicans, of the Forney
and Helper school, were so poor as to do him
reverence @Ee sat s
we have som recollection of this man
BoyNToN.i In 1857, just prior to the meet
ing of the last Congress, We met him at
Washington. He was then holding a Clerk
shiptin in one of the Departments, and although
we had never, to our recollection, met the
man before, he greeted us with all the sang
Jroid of an old aequaintance-inquiring with
a patropiziug and confidential air, what brought
us to Washington, what he could do for US,
&c. and intimating that he was all-powerful
withlegerybody who ever had, who did now,
or eVcrawould hold the reins of official power,
andsthat nothing would afford him so much
pleasure as to sacrifice himself for a .'friend"
like, him whom he addressed: When we as
sured him that we were no applicant for Office,
and that he could do nothing for us, he ap-
peared much distressed,-renewed the express
sion Of his aFectionate and distinguished con-
siderstieA, !" and hoped that "s~omething would
turn up" inthe tue course of events by which
he could be of some service to us, &c.
We have met, in Our time, a few "Washing-
toa Blowers" but never one whose humbug-
gerry was more transparent or tedious to listen
to after the novelty wore away. His vile per-
sonal character was of so common n~otoriety
that he was dismissed from the Clerkship he
hedn one of the Departments, some two years
since. He had been educated up to the stan
dafd of -gmorals" required by this Brown Re-
publican Congress. He was an Oberlin politi-
clan, and the. only man from this District who
was successful under Mr.. BLAKE, in obtaining
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Congressional District in one of the most lu-
cratiyes Offices in the House of Representatives,
we shall look for a great scramble among Re
publican politicians for the place If we were
a political prophet we would risk the chances
on Mr.: F~A1RcHILDs or LANGsToN. The for
mer has probably done as much for the cause
Of. abolition and amalgamation as any other
Republican in the District, but LANasToN will
have the advantage of him in the fact of be-
himself part African. Whether either or
obtain the place, it will be an Oberlin
man of course, as that town is the great po-
Iiticaf manufacturing emporium of the Brown
and Helper Republican party of this Con-
gresssional District. !
If, the people were not called upon to suffer
in purse and reputation fog the r~ascality of
the leaders of this Republican party, there
would be an immense amount of fun in the
concern.
This BoYNToN, during the last two or three
years, has been one of the rats who furnished
the "sensation items" to one of the Editors of
the philadelphia Press, and which formed the
staple of the letters of Observation-Disclosures
which, although dated at Washington, were
by men Of the JAMESON school during
their econvivial moods in a drinking saloon
in the city of Philadelphia The letters of
Occasional" will hereafter lose much of their
Hspiritv-the hells of Washington will lose
one of their most conspicuous characters-and
Republican Congress will deplore the loss of
one of its most illustrious chiefs. Requae-
sedti Git outt
n ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the DOcss-
tsr aaEIsT t1= nle7ttS.
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