Weekly conservative. (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1854-1860, 1855-06-09
Federal Interference in Elcc-
lions

The safeguard of American Liberty consists
in maintaining the independence of the indi-
jvidual citizen and protecting the purity of the
Ballot Box This sacred institution has of late
heen most wantonly and outrageously violated
by the Federal powers. In Virginia. men,
whose families were dependent for bread on
their daily labor, were thrown out of employ
ment, because they refused to vote according to
the tyrannical dictation of the Pierce andForney
Administration. We notice too that a system
of despotic.esp has been adopted, for the
coming election at Washington City that would
disgrace even the most odious despotsm of
learth The Administration clique has appoint
led spies, to be placed at the polls, to watch and
record the names of ~ government employees
Iwho may dare to exercise the rights of free
imam and vote contrary to Federal dctation-
Il But this vile dictation is not to be confined to
Virginia and Washington. 1t is to be attempt
led everywhere.
Il 1t appears that the entire Cabinet of Pres-
3,
jgone to their respective localities for the pur-
pose of planning schemes against the Amcr-
can party, Secretary Davis, to whomhe par
ty in this State conGde the safety of the Union,
and the integrity of the present Administration,
fearing that his prospects for the United States
Senate might suffer in his absence from the An
ti-American Caucus, which was holden in
Jackson, on last Monday, has forsaken tenn
porarly, the duties of Office to inform the peo-
pile of Mississippi how they should vote in the
corpjng campaign,
| II there were no other merits in the new Or
! rapi-.i-, .,'s,u oPP,sttiv,s damaaovueism
and party corruption, these of themselves, on Oh
to be sufficient to move the masses in solid pha-
lanx to embrace its principles. Snch are the
influences now brought to bear by the patron
age of the Government that, the people in real
ity hold the position of serfs to the pampged
fer who distribute the loaves and fishes. Eve
ry manner of glaring Inconsistency, empty pro-
fessions, corruption in Office and disloyalty to
the supreme law Of the land are being constant
ly INDUCED in; and yet some of the people,
blinded by partizan fanaticism, submissively
bow their necks, as though they recognized u
tyrant's rod as the sccptre by which they are to
be governed. Such, indeed, is the ultimate
destiny to which the government is rapidly ten
ding, and it remains for the people TO say,
whether they will tolerate it.
Should they continue to submit to such whole
sale Federal assumption and dictation, under
the syrcn song of Party, the time is not far
distant when, the glorious achievements of the
American Revolution will simply be remember
ed as monuments in the annals of history pont-
ing to Il miserable abortion of an attempted
self-government. Let us then avert the evil
| while the remedy is in our hand, by adopting
the rule, that it is better for the offices of the
country to hunt occupants, than to have to Gre
ate new ones to supply the ravenous multi
tudc daily seeking place; and never never,
trust any man who is greedy oiicc-seekcr to
fill even the humblest.