The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-01-22
THE WAY THE ADMINISTRATION
MAKE 1T "DEMOCRATIC" TO EX-
TEND SLAVERY

MAKE IT "DEMOCRATIC" TO EX.
| TEND SLAVERY.
The Editor of the Ohio Plaindealer--u thor.
ough going locofoco paper-made application
to the Post Master General to advertise the
mail contracts in Northern Ohio. He was
put off, and being at Washington he called up
on that functionary, to know the cause of the
delay usno other paper had asked for the job
The Plnndeaer had been recommended by
some of his political friends of the State, and
the "Democratic Central Committee"
The editor has published an account of his
call upon the Post Master General. He says:
"Judge my surprise when his august Majesty
informed me that the Plain Dealer was /" vii
! mat PrOrisO pager,-tLat he had lust received
"A copy oft, sent himb by the Post master at
! Ciereidnd, in which he found an article marked
| q. G. BLACK LINES drawn around iD which he
i said took very strong grounds ip favor of that
doctrine -
The rebuked Editor demonstrated and left
He poes on to give an account of his next
CALI
"a few days after :his, repaired again to
the old ma 5 quarters, ni,d asked if any dccis-
ion had been made in rcgasd TO printing Up
to this time no application FROM 2ny other pa
per in Northern Ohio except my own had been
made, and l was curious 20 know wat he
was going to do with the advertisement for
that section, as it was then considerably pas;
the time for publishing it.
Mr. Johnson said that "no decision had as
yet been made, that he cEpcctcd a cOninunica.
ton from me in icriting, to be put on file, de-
fn'ng more precisely my position on the Hit-
mot ProriSO''n
The most charitable construction could
put upon such language was, that if would
recerSe my position on that question, and give
HIM written pledge TO that effect, could
hare tho advertisement, and if not, not. J hare
no doubt cOddd hare rot tie printing on those
terms: certain itis did not comply with said
terms, and certain it did not ret the print
ing"
The honest men of the Polk party can see
how the Treasury-fed papers of their party
north are bought up by the administration to
go for Slavery and against freedom. Thus it
is that certain Vermont papers are made the
mouth pieces of the snve-e attending policy of
Mr. Polk, Iand purchased to teach doctrines
that lead to the perpetuity and extension of
Slavery Thus it is that these papers make it
" federal to oppose slavery and a war for its
extension and perpetuity. Thus it is that hon. !
est men, confding in the patriotism of these !
papers, are led to vote for Texas |
annexation--for WARRIOR SIavery-and hood |
winked into the beliefth to do SO is demo. !
cratic
And thus, using the money of the people,
the administration seeks to carry out its dc.
gns, and so far, but one editor of the party
has dared make the exposure-otbers have
bowed the knee and taken the bribel
Ofall the northern locofoco papers that we
nave seen, but one ventures TO rebuke this
liqh. handed measure ofthc Administration. L.
The New-York Globe, a locofoco paper, no.
ices the com plant of the editCr CT the Ceve-
and Plain Dealer, that the Postmaster Cen
rial refused him an advertisement of the mail
ettings, because ofhis opinions upon the Will q.
not proviso, and adds
"lf we, of the North, have to be prescribed
or the expression of an honest opinion, and
prescribed, too, by those we have aided to ell. !
waite to place and power, then it is certainly {
highly important that we should consider the :
'ropr'ety of retaliatory measures. fla Post
MASTER General, from n slave-holding state, {
las the andaoity to assign a reason for not ]
irving the "mail-lettings" TO a paper, that il
in favor of extending the institutions offree- :
om, and opposed TO extending slavery in free l
erritory, then we think Postmaster Gen. v
rails should be taken from the free states here {
fter
i.
8 becoming too absorbing. The liberties of l
he people to express their honest sentiments
re lnfrlnged upon. Sixteen or twenty thou :
and Postmasters and deputy postmasters, ,
Catered throughout the Union, all receiving
heir Instructions from the head ofthc depart.
lent, constitute power dangerous TO indie I
endence of thought. Every days experience
lore and more confirms us that the Post Office =
department. of our government is an over \
hadowing monopoly"
NH
The Globe might also have said the same of |
he Custom House Departmcnt--its appoint I
tent ofsecret officers, and many open ones, p
lerely for political purposes. Both of these 7
apartments, so far as it is considered safe TO il
o 50, are welded as immense political en- u
mes, and corruptly so too, against liberty and
lie rights of the people. v
COOP LUCK Mrs. Gaines, the wife of Gen.
Iaines ofthe U. S. Army, has won her long c
ending case before the u. S. Supreme Court.