The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-09-15
THE UNION.

einquish the idea of vested rights of Office II will teach
them especially eschew all interference with the prm
tive elections Of the people, the virgin purity OF which Is
the precious jewel of that sovereignty they have reserved
themselves For my part the helpless pauper
in the world would yet be content to receive cent
from the public treasury could the present denquen,s have
summary justice, and the people be protected in future In
the exercise Of their sovereignty while their servants de-
competent undivided and unalloyed attention to
their official duties JEFFERSON.
The italics are our own, and we have made use OF
them to bring out in bold relief the Infamous proposition
which the letter imbodies II is such wretches the
writer Of the letter which have copied above, that
now cater for this adminstra on, and employed by
the cabinet and by their chief instrument and tool Tru
man Smith, to carry out more eccually the fagitious
system Of prescription pracsed by the cabinet, in viola
ton not only OF General Taylors solemn promises and
declarations, but their personal pledges and assur
ances
We now invoke the candid and serious attention OF
the American people to the facts which we have
stated and which the letter above abundantly proves
We call the attention OF the honest and patriotic
men OF all parties in Pennsylvania and Maryland,
who are soon to express their Judgments upon the
acts and measures Of this administration the state of
things which not only exists here, but throughout the
country Here we have the secret system Of espionage,
despotc countries where free thoughand free speech
deemed dangerous to the existing government Il does
not indeed doom its victims to the dungeon the nqu-
sion the gibbet or to exile, it does Spain, Rome
Austria and Russia But even here nvades the sancty
OF mans home, follows his footsteps into the public tho
roughfares, ferrets out bis private interests and affairs.
and watches and notes down his speech uttered in
the confidence OF frendshp-al Of which il reports 10
the government who Furnishes the recusan BY removing
him from his Office The cabinet can do no more, be-
cause it has not the power The American citizen
cannot yet be ncarceated prison, hung, nor shot,
nor exled, for his political opinions But this infa-
nous system does not stop here. II invites one por-
ton of the citizens of this country to turn secret spies
and common intormers and to lay in wait about their
neighbors' domcils, to watch their footsteps, in or
der secretly to pick up their unguarded and casual
pressons, and to report them 10 the government that
they may be punished by prescription. We invoke the
American people contemplate the nature and tendency
Of this monsrous and detesable system What is il to
lead to and where is to end /! Will it not break up
all confidence between man and man Does il not strike
at the very vitas of society," And if persisted in will il
not lead 10 deeds Of violence and boods We again in
woke the American people 10 contemplate the nature and
of this vile and Infamous system OF secret
espionage which has been established under the patron
age of the cabinet and which its shameless instruments
and agents are attempting to extendo every neghbor-
hood in the Union.