Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-05-23
LATE NEWS BY TIE MAILS.
From the Penny Post.
,.7g- HIGH-HANDED OUTRAGE. ~ggsa

We have Just been informed of proceeding
a, the part of the Admnstration--ac acting
dn,bt under the dietation of Mr.. Wise, who seems
- have taken the direction of affairs altogether
into his own hands-that would have been re-
rarded as a stretch Of despotic authority even ut
Snn.tantinoplr, and would beyond all question
-. created "A revelation in Paris.
II !. known that the urge majority of the work.
,,s, enpnyed in the Navy larl at Go.port be
nv Ia ne American party. President Pierce ha-
t.,rl # this, aud acting IN all probability u.der
~ Influence Of w., he has SEN down, aI cln.-
Il his secretary IN send DOWN. orders To Dis
Mss EVERY WORKMAN WHO DOES NOT
Y6rE TIE DEMOCRATICT lCkEr4 Six
- mechanics have gone before the Order and beg
.ssd to he excused from voting the American tick.
n alleging that while their hearts are a. warmly
Interested in its success rs ever, they are dcppn-
lent for the daily bread which feeds them and
their wives and children, their employment
rho patriotic citizens of Norfolk immediately set
about raising, by subscription, a sum for these
men, which shall enable them to live until the
next Presidential election, which will PROSTATE
the tyrant aud his ninions forever in the dust
Several gentlemen in this city have already sub
Seribed $50 piece to this good work. and there
i. every prospect that quite a considerable sum
will be raised We call ON all citizens who may
he able to contribute their mite to rescue their
fellow citizens from situation worse than
death.
There is no parallel in modern history to the
atrocity OF this proceeding. If any thing could
deepen the shades that darken around it, it is
10 he found in the fact, that while the poor me-
ehanics of GoSport forbidden, ON puin of star
walton. to esersice the rights of American free
men, the State officers fthe Capitol urc dragging
their robes in the dirty mre of party without
scruple and withou; rebuke- stumping it in va.
rious parts of the State, to the disgust of every
man who retains the slightest respect for the hon
or of his country-diSgracine this proud old
Commonwealth by such an exhibition rs II ncvcr
witnessed before, and we hope will never see
again. Yes! these men are high ofcinls-;hey
are men of intiuence-they receive large salaries
they are Democrats aud members of the Cen
trail Junto. Bat the poor mechanic can boast
of none of these advantages. His wife and
his children must starye, If he be deprived of
employment. What must be the hard hearted
tvrant that could take such advantages of such
weakness to grind his helpless victim in the dust!
What must be the man. who, for his own advance
ment, can advise or dictate such cruelty! OF
what substance are the hearts Of Franklin Pierce
and Henry \. Wise composed We say of Hen
Iy A. Wise for we are we'll convinced that
he is at the bottom of the whole proceeding. "a
we are that he is the most insolent, unplincipled
and vindictiye of American demagogucs.
Fellow citizens will you vote for such man as
thisl Provided, even, he had no hand in
this barbarous oppression, he vet in the city
of Washington, and could heye prevented it by
holding up his finger Will you vote for any
man who, to advance his own personal interest,
will give Il poor mechanic the alternative of starry
ing, or acting in direct conflict with the dictates
of his conscience! We feel assured that you will
not. Your love for the sacred right of the free.
man to nc: according to his conscience is too
deeply rooted in your very natures. You will ad-
minister 10 the tyrant and his tools such re-
bike as never heard since your forefathers
chased Dunmore and his myrmidons from your
shores-a rebuke that tyrants to come should
remember, and trembc when they think Of
Is IT TRUEl-We heard it stated on the
street yesterday fact, that the contract for
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