The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-12-18

The summer OF 1871 was an ekclt-
ing one for the citizens of Hagers-
town. It was during this summer
that hot battle was waged between
the supporters of Andrew Jackson
for the president of the United
States, and the Administration, as
the ticket for the reelection of Ad-
ans was called.
An Administration meeting was
called in Hagerstown, the chairman
being J. Zeller and the secretaries
were Alex NELL and David Clagett.
A large delegation was chosen from
the leading men of the County and
sent to the state convention in Bal
timore. Among these were William
Price, Major David C. Yost, DR..
Frederick Dorsey, Col. Frisby Thigh
man. Franklin Anderson, DR.. Mi
chael IT, Findlay, Alex. Neill, Col.
John Blackboard, Joseph Gabby,
Thomas B. Hall and Samuel M. Hit
The Jacksonians were not to be
outdone and two months later held
a meeting at the Court House with
John VOLCANO and Elias Baker serv-
ing as chairmen, and John d. Grove
and Daniel Rench acting as secre-
taries. About one thousand attend
ed that meeting.
Thomas Kennedy was the main
speaker and was greatly in favor of
Jackson for President. The Wings
got all excited over his speech and
accused Kennedy of "basest treach-
cry and ingratitude that one who
had accepted Office under the adj
ministration should now join its en-
emies" President Adams had ap-
pointed Kennedy Postmaster of Ha-
gerstown and an examiner at West
Point. They said either he should
return these favors by campaigning
for Adams or remain silent
While this controversy was going
on between these two parties, third
party was formed with BENZ. Gallo
way as candidate. Galloway offered
as bait half Of his pay, which would
be $500 per day, to be given to the
Poor House. Galloway was an &c
centric gentleman.) The people
paid little attention to this magnifi-
cent offer and the Jackson ticket won
by vote of 2,l00 to 1850 for Adams.
The following is a good example
of the many attacks the parties
made on each other. This one APP
peared in one of the Wing news
papers. It is simply description of
a formerly respected citizen who had
become so degraded as to critic the
supporters of Adams. This gentle
man resorted to calling the admins
tration sympathizers ''two legged
swine" but the answer which Ap-
pears below should prove an in
spiration to all political mud singers
of today.
In my former Nos. I have shown
that this grey-headed slanderer is
in principle a coward and by educa-
ton an aristocrat-that he was
TORY in the revolution and a mon
archist in later days-that he was a
traitor to his party, and recreant
from duty-that he was the tool of
a faction and the slave of a cabal-
that he was the slanderer of his own
father, and the defamer of his own
that he has been the
sport of the little boys and the pity
of the humane and benevolent-th
his whole character constitutes a
compound of venality and iniquity,
which no pen can paint, and which
nc. man can comprehend. This polit-
ical mountebank-this moral desper-
at times denounces and
at times pays court to the people
but a few days since publicly de-
clared, that not one man out of fifty
should be entitled to vote-that one
half of that number were fools and
the other half knaves. And, but two
days ago denounced over his own
as two legged swine. This
man, whose very breath speaks pes
thence, and in whose every action
is personifed, is now en-
gagged with the industry of demon
and the malignity of fiend in sland-
dering the best men of the country
and in sowing the seeds of disor-
ganization-this man of morbid soul
this compound of cold-hearted vii
lainy-is rendering himself conspic-
uous by the prostitution of his worn
out powers to the basest political
drudgery, which has ever been re-
sorted to by the most depraved OF
one party for the injury of another.
This man must be chained by his
friends or scourged by his enemies,
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