Martinsburg Gazette

THEIR FOOT IN IT

Our last St. Louis papers are rejoicing over the passage of the River and Harbor bill, unsuspicious of the Veto thunderbolt about to blast their hopes. Here are letters from two Missouri Loco Focos in Congress rejoicing the hearts of their constituents with tidings of the passage of the bill.

"House of Representatives, July 24, 1846.

The River and Harbor bill has this moment passed the Senate without an amendment, by a vote of 34 to 16.

This gives us $240,000 for our Rivers and $75,000 for our Harbor. Thank God! it has triumphed over the machinations of hypocritical and false friends and open foes, and all is safe.

Yours in great haste, J. B. BOWLIN."

Ah James! you little dreamed how powerful was one "hypocritical and false friend" that you had never suspected. The Loco-Foco Editor introduces this with the joyous remark that "the bill only wants the signature of the President to become a law." True enough, but for want of only that, it is dead as Caesar.

Here is the letter of another Loco M. C. to the Missouri Reporter:

"House of Representatives, July 24, 1846.

Dear Sir: I have the pleasure to inform you that the River and Harbor bill which passed the House, has this moment passed the Senate without amendment, by a vote of 34 to 16.

It only requires the Executive sanction to become a law.

Yours truly,

JAMES H. Relfe.

Maj. Wm. C. Anderson."

On this the Reporter thus exults:

"The large vote for this bill in the Senate—more than two to one—shows that the Western policy is settled at last, and hereafter we anticipate less difficulty in securing proper appropriations for our large rivers." Unhappy Reporter! caught in the very act of propagating the rankest "Federalism" after years of valiant and profitable devotion to "Democracy." What will it do?—N. Y. Tribune.