Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-12

Wise and the Democracy.
Our contemporary Of the Stannton Spectator
puts us in possession Of few of the couatless eYi'
deuces OF Mr.. wises deep and ranking aversion TO
the leaders and practices Of the Democratic party
in former days. Look At them
WISE ON KENDALL.
Rnt besides the falsehood in lact and the false
| hood IN principle contained In this letter. look
with indignation at It's audacious impudence ana
| naughty ipsolence. Its tone and temper DecoheS
this meek man, Amos, exceedingly! Is he VINO
thus dares to add insult to injury not Amos hsn'
dali STILL though he be Postmaster eenerall Ian
the leopard change his spots, or INC EtoPah -,
blacknessS (Ilere some one SAID SKIN, NO hos
AIN bIackuess. am speaking OF the intus, not
the cute Verify, sir, the man must be mad OF
he ,o,st imaeine that we have all forgotten who ne
"a who thus dsres to taunt public sentiment Dy
his proud oppression. But II Is natural SIR, oes
: pardon; never knew in my life maid OF man
servant promoted from the kitchen to the parior,
= but what he or she put on more AIRS thaii 'no0o
0 who had been in the parlor all their lives
y WISE OK 4 DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
c uThare was once a time when appointmnnts
! were not made from political considerations,
INT the question was asked, IL he honest 10 he
J, saitbfuI to the constitution Here Mr. Beau.
II mont of Penn, was heard 10 say, that Is Wha'
. constitutes Democrat Yes, less than that con
u stitutes true Democrat. would leave ous e,;.h
le word scapable > but give me an honest man, HUI
u f 10 the constitution and that suifceth WIN ny
81 far b;s Democracy viii not require man 10 y.
ie learned In order to be right in politics. or IN Pr
~ yate lfe The two qualifications alone are sum
gu Gent to make good Democrats put man aiu,
gu have all three qualifications to make goou onioe,
~ But nowadays each anu every Ine
IA ued attributes, honesty, capacity, ana -
to the constitution, totally dsqualiiics man ~
"a holding any Office In the compass OF the part.
N, natronsee. Instead of asking now whether ne
IL honest. they must know II he isa good sPon
IN monrer--whether he is capable OF being maze
loo,rvbethcr he is faithful to the constituted az
ms ,bor;t;as Times have monstrously changed an
To- the monsters of the change are in nothing grea''
pre- ,ban in the meaning ia the commonest words
ma the poical vocabulary, since the days OF Mr. Je
w. ferson, who prescribed forty, am told, during
.he administration, whilst no less than upwaros
~ eight hundred were prescribed in the nrst year
the first reign Of General Jackson SO much 4
rur the improvement of the age and the march
mind-the people will not say there is no matter
- WISE ON JACKSON AND KENDALL
~ "Sr, the President, in this letter, p.ated aoo
nv the records of the government and the puphc 90
10 uments, as If he had read and examined them.
doubt whether he ever examined, or read TO 9
pain anime any one subject thoroughly whilst Ae was
the office No, sir, venture to guess that An,os NE
exa- dali honest Iago whose official miscohai
yau- was most likely to be exposed, was the infamo
cry, author of this daring outrage he was too, nj
The be its author of every word and letter. ana d
main trine in Ii he was the Presidents thinking
ptils chine. and his scritiag machineaye, and MS
The ina machine Sir, If General Jackson had De
faL elected for the third term, one great good wo'
I've have come Of the evlAmos Kendall soonfd hf
been ,oorked to death r
: the WISE ON JACKSON.
cos. a Although the ADMINISTRATION Of General Jat
oe- son came into power p'oaissassay rgorm ~.
iainistratlon 50 IsnqUI.s, AND pnIsa FOR
CORRUPTION AND CRIME woRsE--rrN-roLD BLAc
weep Err THAN HAD EVER BEFoRE BEEN PERPErRArrD,
hes different one was heard from the party"
WISE ON POLK
,,o Sir, the whole party, from the President dov
to yon sf, resorted to every device to eyade, al
rms finally ddfed and denounced all inquiry and all
leer. vestigatpn. You all attempted to bell the ca
the You warned the rats You hid them After
his tensibE giving full scope in the resolution of
Ma quiry, y gull The people with fair pretensions y
A'u shut the doors of the departments yoH silenced
resolutions and interogatories in the commits
rooms"