Loco-Focoism illustrated.
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The PeekskiH Democrat OF the 18th, giving
an account of L9co-Foco meeting at Croton
Point, saws that Mr. T. L. Nichols, OF the En-
pie Club OF this City, 'repeIed Indignantly
the Wing ISLANDERS on that club, and then


He alluded to the speech of Horace Greeley delivered N
.ys vhe ;b issgo Isndr, ugea the Democracy Of New
place


Nov !, is = fact Of which there are Eve hun
dred witnesses that SAID nothing 'ehGtcrer Of
the character Of either party in this City at the
meeting referred to. Neither have | said any
thing OF the kind above stated at aRy meeting.


A correspondent in the same paper makes the
following statement


= ~ ss s ot ia .anss Al tie hotel took occasion 10
eTsrk hst ;hs Democracy New ork Ci;y vas Tade "
rom the .iauchs Five Pont, gamblers and all ihe dsfs
spe-tzble inhabitants OF the city, sc. &c


TIE villain who makes this charge against me
well knows that II is the basest ialsehood. He
TIED to pat the same construction on what did
say a, the time, out | stopped him and made
eveyv body =ee and realize that ne was har.
stated expressly that very large proportion oi
our citizens of both parties are honest, we'll
medlIn. men, " 10 mean 10 Vote IL TIC NCui
tr;'s good requires; but that we have beside
these in our City q very large number who live
BY gambling, keeping houses OF i'll fame, low
h.unts of drunkenness, Sc. and that Of these
pine.:snths support the LoeO-FOeo ticket. L
pointed them 10 the fact that the Election Dis
trict which includes the Five Points gives always
very heavy Loco Foco majority tat Which
embraces Corlaer's Hook another, and 50 OF every
den Of rctteaness in the City, and pressed them
TO tell me ,rbqt It is IN Loco-F -Focoisln which
makes-(not all Loco-Focos bad or dishonest
men, by any manner OF means)-bu! nearly all
outlaws and outcasls have such an instructive
attraction Tor the Loco-Foco cause,-This Is
what did say, and what wish every honest
sober, moral citizen to mediate upon. | am
willing that such men as T. l.. Nichols, Charles
Newman. and the Peekskill liar snail press it
upon the attention of the public, but they shall
not misreprcscnt nor slander me with imPunlty