Republican Herald

From the Augusta Age.

"Murder Will Out!"—Developments of the knavery practiced by the federal party in the campaign of 1840, are every day being made. The extent of the fraudulent means which that party employed to break down the democratic party, although generally believed to be very great, are as yet but imperfectly known, but will require years to develope it, in all its length and breadth. A piece of fresh evidence, showing the corruption of the coon skin managers, has recently been brought to light. The "Ogle speech," containing all sorts of lies about the extravagance of President Van Buren's household, which was circulated throughout the Union, with more effect against the democratic candidate, than any other of the many lying documents put forth by the federalists, is now ascertained to have been a forgery, perpetrated by the Whig central committee of Washington city, of 1840. Ogle, on his death bed, as will be seen by the subjoined paragraph, declares, (as every member of Congress knew at the time,) that he never delivered the speech—that he never authorized his name to be appended to it and that he never knew of it until its publication by the Whig central committee at Washington to whom he immediately wrote, stating that he never uttered the speech, that it was untrue in its statements, and that great injustice was done to Mr. Van Buren therein. The whig committee replied that he must not divulge it —because it would injure the Whig cause. This is but a specimen of the iniquity practiced by the federalists in the contest of 1840. Is it any wonder, then, that a party triumphing by such means, has been overtaken by so overwhelming and terrible a retribution?

Ogle's Speech—his last illness and death.

The last moments of this man's life were melancholy. For several days before his death, his mind was greatly troubled in view of his political course in the Presidential canvass. In conversation with a political and personal friend, but a few days before his demise, he remarked, that great injustice was done to Van Buren in 1840—that the speech about the extravagance of his administration, attributed to him was not true—that he never delivered such a speech—that it was not his—that it was got up by the Whig Central Committee at the city of Washington and his name put to it as its author; that he immediately informed the Committee of the great injustice they had done him and Van Buren, and requested them to correct the error, but that they hesitated to do so, alleging if they did, it would injure the Whig cause. Upon being interrogated particularly as to the truth or falsehood of the speech, he readily admitted that it was full of gross errors and falsehood, from the beginning to the end, but he could not now help it.

We cannot find words to express our contempt of the base and unprincipled clique—the Whig Central Committee at Washington City in 1840—governing all the movements of the party—writing out speeches containing all manner of falsehoods, and giving circulation to them as having been delivered in Congress by some distinguished member of that body, resorting to every species of intrigue and deception to overthrow an administration too pure to have fellowship with such political knaves.

Western (Pa.) Union: Democrat