Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-09-19
PELF AND PLACE.

We come to the question, how it is that the
! Slave Power has been able to accomplish the
extraordinary trlumphs, which we have been
roctinr.
| Its history is but the history of all arstocra.
cjcs, and all other arbitrary governments. after
/ they have become to a considerable degree con
solidaed. 1t is able to bribe; to brow-bcat: and.
through its bought or frightened instruments. to
deceive. Andthrough these appliances it works
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We do not enquire what members of the Gov
eminent put money in theirpurses by the passage
OF the Texas Boundary Bill, with its grant often
millions OF dollars from the Federal treasury
I The question whether this or that member of
the cabinet that used its great influence for the
measure or this or that Senator or Representa-
tive That voted for it, lingering any of the pro-
cecds, Is one with which we give ourselves no
conce m. But we should convict ourselves of
the simplicity Of idiots, if we pretended to sup
pose that money bought no votes. Whv,-the
history OF corruption in governments, has it come
to sudden end Just now Have all trading pol
tIcIans ceased 20 love money all at once, and have
all trading politicians forgotten bow to use the
pubic money for their ends We are not 90
my to say HAT when Mr.. Clay and Mr. Pearce.
pat the grant Of three millions into their bills
they had \, b. or Gin view as the person whose
influence aud vote would be thereby secured IN
their behalf. But either Of those gentlemen. we
presume, would laugh at the folly of the person
vino should pretend TO think that they did not eX-
pect that grant to prove fruitful ofthe votes they
wanted.
The Texas scrip was in the market. 1t was
in the hands Of holders, far and wide. who bad
bought It for next to nothing. Ii they could
bring over Il sufficient number Of Representa-
1. 10 e
value, they could afford to endow large mum
ber OF Representatives, each with a pretty for
tune, by sharing the scrip with them, and still
make great operation for themselves. What
was to prevent their doing il Are all the Rep
rcsentaJIvrS al Washington incOrrupubIe ? Are
they all very Cutos in integrity, and contempt
for gold Who, that knows anything of the
place Will put on sober face and pretend any
such thing Are the movers in the scheme of
granting the money, To be supposed incapable of
any such calculation WHY is it to be snppoS-
ed that they are different from most of the men.
who, as long as arlstoCraces. have existed. nave
controlled taeir affairs Why is it to be imag-
med that the same class OF persons who, in Bu~-
ton, argue in the newspapers that man ought
to be starved if he will not do the work of Sa-
very, should Washington BE- scrupnlcus about
making il worth his while to DO it Charge them
with it, and what would be their answer p
d" " hat Is il to Us, what use the money is pat
to We want it voted to Texas, to settle
troublesome question. If private letters, inter-
e>ted for their own purposes to carry the meas
ures through, chousc to exert themselves to that
and IN one or another way. that is their affair. and
we ask no question about it," This they would
say, calculating all the while, and with the best
reason, that, under the management OF other per-
sons, whom 1t was no business of theirs to know
the money which they threw into the scramble
would help to do the work.
We shall not be put off from &C cusinc the
Slave Power of this method of action. bv any
outcryagalnsto tour making an unsupported change
OF corruption. We do not 60 out of our way
to charge any body in particular But when a
large number ot votes Is suddenly changed
without any apparent public reason, and when
the change Of those votes Instantly converts a
snail sum into ten millions of dollars. portion Of
which would easily be transferred bv mere sale
of stock into the voters pockets to the enriching
of both buyer and seller at the nations expense
we are not quite so incapable of tracing an ap-
parent cause in a simple effect as to suppose that
none of the influence or of the votes wanted
were augled for, and were caught. with hook
so bajicd The holders of Texan securities
would be the last men 10 thank US for supposi0g
them 50 simple as not to know how to make
something Of such an opportunity and the franz
erS Of the bills would not teel that their sagacitv
was complimenied ii we should pretend to think
that their grant Of money was not intended 10 be
put to such a use,
Bat this was a measure somewhat aside from
the common course Of operation, resorted to c
MAORI cIHslg, in special stress Of affairs. tho
capable ct being repeated As often As 4 sufficient
occasion shall arise. The regular method OF &C
ton Is through that vast patronage which the
Slavery interest exercises by securing to itself
the appointed power.
There are perhaps thirty thousand Offices held
under the government of the United Slates.-
For The principle Of thcm, the President romj-
mates a candidate and the Senate confirms or
rejects; and the principal Officers in different de-
partmeniS apfon, the suborljna,es 50 that at.
ter all, in the Pesdent and Senate ultimately re-
sides all the appointing power. Thirty Sena-