The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-09-15

WIGS AAiS ufS. 80 gNSNg 49, - ~t.rE
asaw Indians and Wss improperly paid
page Is ib.)
Such, fellow-eitizens, is the ChickasaW
case; and it requires veryniee powers Of dis
elimination to determine the order which
the transactions should take in the scale OF
official mismanagemept.
| might pursue this investigation farther
if / had the time; but have said enough
TO show that our finar cipl history since ls49,
is calculated to dishopor the government
and all who are connected with it. Indeed,
its mismanagrment will draw down dIshon-
or upon You, if yon dongt stamp It with the
mark of yopr condemnation. Nay more,
transactions ike those have referred TO
lead to consequences far more serious than
those which concern the public men loose
first and impure afterwards-to surround
the Capital With individuals whose only aim
is 10 fasten themselves upon the treasury as
the agents of public plunder, to destroy all
accountability in the ! xccutive departments,
and, what is worse, to impair the confidence
of the people in the government itself.
l wish you to bearin mind that the facts
nave SldlCu are ttIdNIl ublil pun
lished by the House Of Representatives, and
that have referred to the pages on which
thew are TO be found. | make no imputatiOn
against the claimants. The bias every man
is apt to have in favor of his own cause may
very well make the prosecution of claim
by patty in interest consistent with entire
fairness, even though other, who have no
such bias, may consider it utterly groundless.
Nor have intended to charge the high pub
lie functiOnaries concerned in these lrapsac-
tons, with impure motive. | make no such
charge noW. Their offence against the com
mpnity is in carrying into the administration
If the Constitution and laws laxity of in
terpreta!ion leading by direct and inevitable
tendenGies to impurily and corruption. and
reshlting naturally, il no: necessarily, from
the loose principles by which the whole pol
icy of our opponents is guided. A higheg
responsibility rests on one of the parties-
AS member of the government. he has
contributed to drmoraIize it by an rXtor-
ton, in which he IVES one of the chief par
ticipantS.
Ii there ere any of our political opponents
within the reach of my voice, wish TO call
their attention to a significant fact. 1t is
said that most of thOse who were SO promi-
nent in the transactions referred 10 were a.
mong Gen. SCOTS warmcst supporters. Why
is this? Is it because they do not consider
cr Mr. Webster and Mr.. Fillmore so we'll
qualified rs General Scot to administer the
government? Or is it because under / Chief
Magistrate who has no experience in civil
government, better opportunity is offered
for the practices in which they bore 50 con-
spicuous part? Is the official miSmanagc
ment which was so successful for time un-
der one military President, to be renewed
under another? If these inquiries cap b.
satisfactorily answered, as sincerely wish
they may, then | desire to propound anoth
er OF graver import, because ii effects a par
ty and not few individuals mercl,. Mr..
Ewing, the late Secretary of the Interior,
was chosen from all the eminen: wings of
the country to preside at the Lundy'S Lane
celebration-a meeting designed to make the
national response Of the whig party to their
nomination at Baltimore. Why was this
preeminence given to him by the united
voice of that numerous and respectable as
sembly? 1t is the practice of all parties on
occasions Of unusual magnitude and impor
tance, to place in the foreground those who,
from their restap ptished regulations, may serve
as an index to the principles and the policy
by which the united body is governed
Was this the design in giving to Mr.. Ewing
the post OF honor? Did the whig patty in
tend to notify the American people that the
principles by which Mr.. Ewing Was goyern-
ed in The management Of the department Of
the Interior, are to be carried ont, if they
SUCCEED, in the administration Of the gevprn-
ment? Whether it be so intended Or not, it
will be regarde by those who hope to profit
by loose, not to say II lIcentiouS, adniipis-
tratiop of the public treasure, as an invitu-
tion to rally ip' support of the military candi-
date. Agents for spurious claims, plotters
of all sorts against a pure ADMINISTRATION of
the treasury, men of loose principles and
Iooser practices will discern and teel in this
movement the vibration Ola sympathetic cord
20 bind them TO the military car which has
been put in march 'or the Capital under the
auspices of one of the chief agents in the
transactions have described.
May not say, fellow-ciizens, for you and
for myself that we wish them Joy Of the as
sociation? We desire no fraternity with
them Our reliance is in other and purer
aids. We look for Success to the honest de-
mocracy of the country-to these who earn
their bread in the sweat of their brows, and
who would consider it as disreputable to take
money from the treasury under false preten
ccs as they would to take it by force from a
traveller on the public highway, apd tar
more demoralizing in its influence OIL the
community.
have devoted so much time to this dis
custom that, | have none left to speak of the
qualifications Of the two distinguished can
didates for the presidency. | need 10
regret it, however, as the distinguished
ana eloquent gentlemen who have pre-
ceded me (Col, Savage and Col. Clemens,
have left littlg to be said on this subject
But am unwilling to pass it by without :
single remark. know both the candidates
personally and we'll; and while / honor Gen
eral Scott as soldier and man. who has
shed lustre on the. military reputation of thu
country, hold him to be entirely unqualified
for the high civil trust for Which he has beer
nominated, lie has neither the experience
the requirements nor the fitness Of tempe
for d safe or successful administration Of thu
government; and say this without the
slightest impeachment Of his integrity as I
man Nv fhn ntbar hand T cnnSidar (,an