Jeffersonian Republican

HOW THE LOCOFOCOS ARE HELD TOGETHER.

The Cohesive Power of Public Plunder.--There are a few men in the Locofoco party, in Pennsylvania, who play the game of corruption so boldly that they actually disarm opposition by their open and avowed disclosure of their degrading sentiments. We were struck with the truth of this remark, a few days ago, when Mr. Porter of Northampton, in his speech in opposition to the election of Judges by the people, boldly declared that, when a member of the Convention which formed the present Constitution, he warned his brother Locofocos in that Convention, that if they went on as they had begun, to deprive the Governor of his patronage, the Locofoco party in the State of Pennsylvania, would soon be broken up, and that he desired to repeat the warning to his brother Locofocos in the present House of Representatives.--

Was there ever a more bold, yet truthful admission that the Locofoco party are "held together by the cohesive power of public plunder?" But Mr. Porter, instead of qualifying his language when this construction was put upon it, seemed to glory and exult in the fact, and made no attempt whatever to explain away the force of the declaration.

Mr. Porter further declared that the proposed amendment, or any change in the Constitution, giving the election of Judges to the people, would have the effect of giving at least two-thirds of the Judges to the Whig party, and this was another reason why he opposed it.

The people may now determine for themselves the true cause of the bitter opposition manifested by the leaders of the Locofoco party to the passage of this important measure.--Telegraph.