Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-12-08

We are aware that an extensive combine
ton has been formed, embracing, It is said,
not only several presses opposed TO us, but
some members Of the American party" to
elect the nominee of the administration as
Printer to the House, bat we are yet to be
made TO believe that any friend TO the Amer
lean !" cause will sell himself to Forneyism.
In relation to the matters for Congressional
investigation, which we have presented as the
current rumors of the city, we feel that we are
doing no injustice to any individual involved in
them. We but discharge a political obligation
in referring TO these matters. If the charges
contained in the rumors prove to DO untrue,
the subjects Of them win stand higher from
passing through the ordeal proposed. Ifthey
shall prove to be true it viii be their fault, and
not ours, that the facts Justify condemnation
4 Dag-We learn this morning that prominent
ex-ofHce-holder under this administration, who
was decapitated just previous ID our municipal
election, and who figured cohspicuously in GER
tain newspapers, is now candidate for the
Clerkship Of tho Hsuse Of Representatives.
We shall ascertain the truth Of this rumor be-
fore Monday next, and, If 1t be SO, our readers
may rest assured we shall not hesitate to ex-
pose certain things Of which the world as yet
knows but little. " @
Richmond Examiner and Senator Mason.
It will be recollected that both Houses Of
the Virginia Legislature passed resolution
setting apart to-day for the election Of United
States Senator in the place Of j. NJ. Mason.
The Richmond Examiner is out in opposition
to going into the election SO early, and takes
occasion to give Senator Mason a polt. We
make the following extract:
4 It has got to be the practice Of the modern lit
ter Of Democratic leaders, thus to trick the par
~ into precipitate endorsement of the delinquen
cies Of Democratic servants by the hobgoblin cry
of crisis" Upon every occasion when those
whose lackeys they are require new lease Of
spells and place, they put their little tea-pots Of
crisis on the fire, get up in them raging tempest,
and 20 on about the troubles Of their own con
cocting, as If "a Vesuyius or Chimborazo was about
to embowel Che human race. 1 The boy in the fable
did not cry "wolf" more frequently or frivolously
than these crisis makers have raised that hello
bell0o whenever it was necessary to plaster over
the delinquencies of asprants to Democratic Office.
There is no "crisis" upon us which hundred
men in Virginia are not as competent to meet as
Mr. Mason; and the pretence Of exclusive fitness
in him, Is no more less thap gross insult upon
every other talented man in the State, and upon
the Democratic party to which they belong. The
real crisis is not political but personal; and the
fright of these crisis makers at the possibility Of
opposition to their Mr.. Nonesuch is as ridiculous
as T. g pretence of political crisis is groundless
and specous. To such length has this cry of crisis
been carried, that the party has become like a
flock Of sheep much worried Of dogs, and ready,
at the barking Of the smallest and youngest thing
in the shape Of that animal to rush after its bell
wethers into any thicket or quagmire or destruc-
ton that may be at hand. The sort of personal
crisis Mr.. Mason is in was accurately described by
the lamented Walker Glmer: :" If you throw an
ear of corn amongst litter Of pigs, and one
seizes 1t and makes of, and the Others take after
him the pig with the corn--that particular pig,
la the one who feels that there is crisis"