Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-09-18
For the Gazette.
THE rRAEKINa PRIVILEGE.
Mr.. EproR:

this State, which are engaged almostexcll
sively in adyocatiug free trade in wliiske,
and negroes. seem intensely hofritied Attn
seem g abuse of the above privilege b.
your huablc servant, while giant wrongs
stalk unrebuked before their eyes, and Jude
4 their very noses, unnoticed, so long as per
petrated by the rats that iniest the nstiona
J treasury, or the hiielings that do the bidding
OF deoased ADMINISTRATION.
! am opposed to the existence fthc frank
/ ing privilege, and win so as far as any one
t in its repeal, and il that question comes up
in Congress while | am member, you viii
/ htid my vote recorded in favor of it's repeal,
The Thanking privilege is no security nor
safety agains, the thieves and corrupt oiti-
GERS of the State, with a few honorable cx-
ceptions. My frank placed on letter is a
sure guarantee that it will be opened at
some post office in this State. In Lucas
county is one of those places, whence came
the erusion Of the sick Kao,e Nothing, of the
Burlington Gasttts, an official of the Admin.
istration who either instigated the Postmas-
ter or did rob the mail of the letter, and pub
lish the same in the above named paper on
the mornng of the election. Their base
ness reeoiled upon themselves as both Luz
cas- and Des Moines counties returned free
men for office.holders.
While il Is asserted TO be all wrong in
Thoiington to send Know Nothing docu-
ments, and that it is abusing the ranking
privilege, and while they steal his letters,
publish them and utter falsehoods about
them, not one word is uttered in condemna-
ton of the incum5en,s of the post Office at
Chicago, where thousands of dollars are
stolen with the most open and barefaeed ef-
frontery. This is apparently all right, as
the pro-slasery and whiskey organs are
perfectly mum on the subject, They wink
at the stealing Of Thorington's letters. and
and keep silent about the thousands OF let
tiers destroyed and made way with and the
hundreds Of dollars stolen from the depart
ment, but at the same time heapupon Thor
ington every abuse for franking letters to
the Know Nothings, although he has the
legal right, and notwithstanding Judge
Douglas floods Illinois through the same
privilege, Gen. Jones, Iowa, and Dr. Olds,
Ohio, with his professional notices, and
notwithstanding they send pounds where
Thorington sends ounces.
The Thanking privilege is greatly abused
and corruptly used by Thorington in the es-
timation OF these correctors and guardians
of the dear peoples liberties and morals,
when at the same time they read column after
column Of the wholesale tramplng under foot
and the violation Of the dearest rights OF
free born citizens-the right to the pursuit
of happiness, to life, TO liberty and an hon.
estexpression Of opinion--aud that is all
right; kans as is in the hands OF our friends
they reason. we wont say one word abou,
il, but Thorington must not frank letters to
the Know Nothings
Read what the "Cedar County Adycrtis-
er" OF the 18th inst, over the signature of
Jordan" and in the editorial columns OF
the week previous, says about Pariee But
Ter. How many papers in this State devo.
ted to the slave propagandists, and free trade
in whiskey, will notice in the same manly
style, the treatment of fellow citizen, one
~ ho has a.-Dnl III bra,l h., ,ba s,,o,, 4, r
his brow in Iowa, a citizen Of their adopted
State; natures nobleman. an honest and
honorable man. Mark his treatment in
Kansas and his manly bearing and fearless
independence. He had right 10 claim the
protection Of the press of Iowa, and yet
these sheets say nothing about that matter,
and at the same time waste therr thunder
upon Thorngton for ranking document to
the Know Nothings!
The article copiedfrom the Union Of Keo-
sauqua, into the Banner of the 14th inst,
editorial aad all, speaks Of freemen entering
our Councils and becoming slaves, ''being
schooled in lasehood an all kinds OF polit-
zeal frauds and trickery." This effrouttry
is only eqnalled by their Kansas legislature,
where by their laws they would make free
men slaves. After such cool and deliberate
sitting of the freedom of speech, the seiz-
ing Of property uniawfully, the desecratioa
fall legal, civil, religious and political
rights, theyshould not mention freedom with
out blushing. Freedom occnpies pima
Gle so high, that to them it would require
something more than the elfulgcnt light of
the sun 10 see her in her fair robes
They condemn the rranhing privilege
Does not the slavery propagandist abuse il.
Have you no favorites in your ranks that
ever oyerstep the bounds Of moderation in
its use One would think not from the
silence Of your organs. Now act honor
ably for once in your lives, if bat to try the
novelty oft. Raise your standard, adyo-
cate repeal or modification, do not care
which, and viii Join in the effort and do
what can to attain the object