Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-11-24
From the Harrisburg Herald
Facts for the American PeopIe---The Je-
suit P0stmasters at Work.

Recent developments have forced us to the con-
ciusion that there is no safety in ntustng letters
TO the present management of the post Office con-
troed as II Is by an intriguing Jesuit who has his
spies in all the subordinate Offices from Maine to
California The Jesuits want to know what their
enemies are doing and the seal has no secrecy for
them. In former issue we alluded to the ont
RACES recently perpetrated by the mnions Of the,
Pope of Rome, in breaking open letters, and ex-
tracing and publishing their contents without the
knowledge or consent of those by whom they were
written or TO whom they were addressed. We re-
peat that there is safety in sending letters by
mail while the Department is under tho control Of
sworn subject OF foreign potentatc, whose spies
arc scattered thick as autumn leaves throughout
this country. All the secrets OF the confidential
correspondence which the department carries. are
subject TO the prying gaze Of those who think Il
religious duty to maketuch inquisiton. II is high
time for the American people 20 act upon the fare
well advice OF the great and good Washington and
guard against I" the insdious wiles Of foreign infn.
ence." We have the following additional facts in
relation TO the recent outrages in New Jersey We
copy from letter in the Newark Advertiser
Americans read, and then act
On October 9th, VIM Lewis of Branchville, Sus.
sex county put In the post Office there letter d.
rcctcd to Willis L. Chlds, Of Paterson
On October sth, Robert T. Sinner, OF Newton,
placed in the post Office there letter directed TO
DR.. E. s Mcclellan, Of Paterson.
On October 18th, Peter j. Brown, Of Paterson,
placed in the post Office there letter directed to
Peter G. 0rsborne, of Branchville.
On the same day Virgil Broderick, Lafayette, put
IN the post Office there, letter directed 10 Willis
l.. Chids, Of Paterson.
M Mese letters toeye broken opc,t rkiLe IN ehargs
ofhc Post office department, coptcs thereof taken,
and the letters resealed and sent 70 Meir destination
Two Of the copies were furnished 10 the Banncrat
Morristown, and copies Of the others were publicly
circulated in Newton. The letters published In the
Banner were also published in the New Jersey Her.
aid at Newton, which in the same number had tho
following astonishing remarks respecting them:
The discovery and possession of these letters
viii show the plotters that heir morcnents are all
catchcd ond knovn their secret DISCUSSES win be
stripped from them and in future they will have to
act openly with the Wings"
!. The editor seems TO take pleasure in anuounc-
ing that II s the practice of those of those
having charge Of the mails in this district to break
open letters and thus watch the movements of
that part Of the Democracy who viii not throw up
their caps for George Vail IL should be stated
in justice TO the postmasters ia this district that
for the last few weeks there have been fro
clerks in Me Post Office department at Washing
Ton in this county one of whom claims to be
crct agent of the Postmaster General
This, remarks the Pittsburg Gazette, Is a deyel-
opment that is likely to throw us back upon first
principlcs II we are not to be secure in our
person and papers, as guaranteed by the constitu-
tion and that because the Jesuits have get control
Of the most important branch Of the government,
we must take such measures the necessity Of the
case demands.
The instinct Of political selEpreservation win sug
gest the remedy. Hitherto the post Office has been
a sacred depository, whittier no secret police could
intrude, and where letters were telgiously
guarded as II in the possession Of those writing and
receiving them. II this is not to continue--if the
secret agents Of the government are TO be permit
ted the privilege Of ripping open the seals OF our
letters and betraying their contents, then Is our
form of government farce and we are living un-
der the veriest despotsm. The monarchies Of
Europe claim no higher privilege Of tyranny than
this' That these cases in New Jersey are not
isolated ones is apparent. The same letter from
which we have quoted above, says;
From the fact that copies OF secret circnlars
issued in other States have bccn within the last
few weeks, after being mailed, copied and pub
lished without the knowledge or consent OF the
writer's, or those to whom they were addressed,