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The Loco Focos are “ crowing' ,tiidSt ltlStily
j* their papers as well as in. handbills, over their
“ enormous gams," at the recent elections. On
this point, we commend to our readers the fol­
lowing, from the Albany Daily Advertiser of
Monday :—
TH E “ GAINS” OF LOCO FOCOISM.
M a r t i n V a n B u r e n was elected President in
1836, having 170 electoral votes, to 124 cast
against him. He had a popular majority of
about 20,000 votes, counting South Carolina as
nothing, (the people of that State not voting for
Presidential Electors.) The next year, public
attention was more emphatically directed to the
nature and effects of his policy, than it had ev­
er before been; his principles and character
were more fully developed in his Sub-Treasury
project, his recommendation of a Bankrupt Law
for banks, and his refusal to obey the voice of
Congress by repealing the specie circular. A
whirlwind of indignation overswept the land,
and, could it have reached him, would have hurl­
ed him from power. But he could not be touch­
ed. The first tempest of justly incensed feeling
has passed, and all the arts of patronage and
temporarily impregnable power have been put
in requisition to coax the people into submission
to his wishes or “ fatigue them into compliance.”
These acts have been partially successful; or
rather, the people, seeing no prospect of throw­
ing off the incubus which paralyzes their ener­
gies at present, have m many states thought
best to preserve their energies unwasted for the
great, decisive struggle of 1840. In other cases,
local and extraneous influences have been dex­
terously employed m his favor. And because
the people have b e e n partially i n e r t , and power
has sometimes stolen a march upon or gained
an advantage over them, the advocates of mis­
rule, fancy that the day is their own—the battle
has been fought and the Whig spirit conquered!
They are bitterly mistaken! The People will
“ meet them at Phillippi!”
In a late number of the Argus, there is a pre­
tended “ Recapitulation o f Democratic Gains within the last two years.” To show the utter falsity
of this statement, wn will rnmparp the result of
the latest elections in the several States, with
that of the Presidential election of 1836, when
Van Buren was directly before the People :
Ct ,
V. B. maj. V. B. maj. 'Whig
Mates.
m j 33 g
at
eiec. gain.
Maine,
7,661
6,000
1,661
New Hampshire, 12,191
0,471
6,020
Virginia,
6,793
2,000
4,793
North Carolina,
2,5-12
even
2,542
Illinois,
2,983
1,000
1,983
Michigan,
3,287
315
2,972
Total
35,760
15,789
19,971
Hero we have six regular Van Buren States,
in all of which but the last, signal Van Buren
gains are claimed by the Argus, but which have
really given an aggregate majority reduced by
more than one-half irom 1836, or an amount
equal to Van Buren's whole majority of 1836!
But there is another class of States in which the
change is still more striking:
Q. .
V. B. maj.
Whig maj.
Whig
in 1836.
at last alec.
gain.
Connecticut,
542
2,544
3,086
Rhode Island,
254
400
651
N ew Y ork,
28,272
10,421 0 ^ 3 8 ,6 9 3
Mississippi,
291
940
1,231
Louisiana,
270
837
1,107
Total,
29,629
15,142 00=44,771
Here is a further Whig gam of 44,771, in five
more States; and though many of the remain­
der show real or apparent gains for Van Buren,
many of them are known to be delusive. Thus,
G e o r g ia and D e l a w a r e are lost to us by very
small majorities, on questions wholly aside from
politics; and I n d ia n a partially alienated by lo­
cal and personal considerations. But every one
of these States is Whig at the heart, and will al­
most certainly vote so in 1840. V a n B u r e n is m
THREE
ERAS
IN THE
L IF E
o f
a
s h b -T re a s itre r.
Ah here’s a man of Loco clan,
Who seems to feel quite funny,
The while he hugs his carpet rugs,
All filled with specie money !
For party toils he’s got “ the spoils,”
Full up to Marcy’s m easure;
And see him grin, e’en to his chin,
Expressive of his pleasure.
“ Let Government itself protect,”
(This is the text he preaches,)
“ And on the people let it prey
Like countless hosts of leeches;
And let the folks who wear the yokes
Submit to what we tell ’em,
Vote as we say, and us obey—
Or, by the gods, we’ll sell ’e m !
Give Martin thanks for broken banks,
And all such like disasters,
For ne h are GOLD that we aan hold,
W hile the v u lg ar have shin-plasters !
And i f they scowl— why, let them growl,
And strike us from the docket,—
But they will know whene’er me go,
T he cash is in OUR pocket
Thus spoke the cub, they call a Sub
Of Treasury Independent,
Evincing still a kind of will
In impudence transcendant,—
Declaring, as said Martin Van,
The Empire State was bought u p ;
That by the banks, aud bribes, and thanks,
The voteis had been caught u p !
And call’d them slaves and reckless knaves,
And men devoid o f duty,
Because they did, a s freem en bid,
Refuse h im all the booty!
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I looked again—the Sub had gone,
And though they tried to find h im ;
Yet where he’d been, ’twas all sweptjclean :
He left NO SPOILS behind h im !
See here, how like the de’il he speeds—
Runs, like the very nation!
While m the pack upon his back,
H e’s taken scarce a ration.
But he has taken care—the scamp—
To send the GOLD before h im ;
So when he meets his journey’s end,
Tis all around and o'er h im !
Thus went old Swartwout—thus went Price,And thus went countless others,
Who all agree, as robbers will,
To steal like very brothers;
And thus is lost some millions three,
Right out the nation’s treasure—
And thus, if Subs are used, we’ll lose
In future without m easure!
U n io n .
At length arrived in England, France,
Or some of them in T exas;
In wealth they live, and seem to thrive,
As though it were to vex us.
To know that thus they lavished wealth,
Robb’d from our worthy yeomen,
Could only be condemned by all,
And welcome be to no man.
“ I se ld o m v o te ” —“ I n e v e r m e d d le w ith
P o litic s ,”
Are remarks, frequently used by persons who
wish to pass for very good citizens—but who
thus declare themselves unwilling to perform
oao of the most essential duties aud .obligations
resting upon freem en!
Yet. strange to say, there is a class,
(They are known as Loco Focos)
Who chuckle over all such thefts,
Which they term hocus pocus;
And take .good care when one has gone,
Another to have appointed,
So that this scheme of theft and fraud
Can never be disjointed.
IS STILL IN A DECIDED MINORITY IN THE U N IO N , AND
SINCE 1836 HAS LOST MORE VOTES IN N EW YORK
THAN IT HAS GAINED IN ALL THE S TA TES OF THE
But let's give thanks—though rascals may
Rule unchecked for a^eason,—
Yet virtue soon must have its day,
And law o’erpower treason;
And though these Subs awhile may thrive
In riot with their fellows,
The day will come, when they shall hang
Like this one, on the gallows!!
“ N ev er ju s t if y y o u r s e lf b y a n a b s e n c e
fro m th e p o lls u n d e r th e u n ju s tifia b le ,
f a lla c io u s p le a , t h a t y o u r s in g le v o te is
o f n o c o n s e q u e n c e . Some of the most im­
portant measures of legislative bodies here and
elsewhere, have been carried by a majority of
two or three.
The vote on the abdication of James II. and
the elevation of William and Mary to the throne
of Great Britain, was carried by a majority of
two—51 to 49 !!! Let this be an unceasing
warning to you of the importance of a vote or
two.”
Such is the language of the late venerable
M a t t h e w C a r e y , a man whose long life was
spent to promote the prosperity and best interests of his country.
When the S u b - T r e a s u r y Bill w a s before the
House of Representatives in 1835, every V an Bu
ren man voted against i t ! Since then different
wires have been pulled—and now they all gofo r
it!
“ I f sue do not take advantage o f the present cri­
sis—-join the Administration in the course they are
pursuing, B R E A K D O W N T H E COM M ER­
C IA L P R O S P E R I T Y o f the Northern Cities,
and build up on its ruins a commerce in the Cities
of the South, W E M U S T H A V E A S E P A ­
R A T IO N OF T H E UNION.”
So says John C. Calhoun—the southern friend
and political associate of Martin Van Buren.—
Could any course have been devised by the Go­
vernment better calculated to “ B r e a k d o w n t h e
C o m m e r c ia l P r o s p e r i t y o f t h e N o r t h , ” than
the one pursued by the National Administration
for years past ? We think not.
Although each of the Van Buren Governors
of this State, for the last ten years, has recom­
mended a DIRECT TAX, yet the Locos appear
to be all at once very much afraid that the Whigs
will carry out such recommendations—though
they well know that every species of taxation
is obnoxious to Whigs ; and that our present
excellent chief magistrate gave it as his opimon
in his Message at the opening of the last Legis
lature, that nothing o f the land was necessary.
P le d g e d a g a i n s t S m a ll B i lls .
The Loco Focos of New York have nomina­
ted their Assembly ticket, every Member of
which is pledged to use his vote and influence
AGAINST SMALL BILLS—pledged to advo­
cate the collection of the Revenue in SPECIE
exclusively,—and pledged to sustain and urge
forward in all things the most ultra and ruinous
^projects of Loco Focoism. And yet, the Locos
of this vicinity, have the baseness to assert that
it is not intended to interfere with the SMALL
BILL QUESTION!! or to do any thing else
calculated to throw our country into still deeper
ruin!
EPISCOPAL VISITATION.
Bishop DeLancy purposes to visit St. Peter's
Church at Auburn, on Sunday, Nov. 3d, A. M.
and P. M— Gosp. Mess.