Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-28

grants to the United States land at the port Of
New York. The Health Officer Of that port
is therefore intrusted with duties Of the high
est Importance not only to the citizens Of New
York, but to those Of the whole Union. For
from that city, in the course Of two or three
days, foreign emigrants are distributed by
thousands to every section Of the Union. They
are carried to St Louis, to Chicago, to Cincin-
natl, Louisville Charleston, Richmond, Balti-
more, Wheeling, Pittsburg, Cumberland, to
the coal mines of Pennsylvania, the copper
mines of Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia, in
from twelve to sixty -four hours. Alarge por-
ton Of these emigrants are afflicted with various
malignant diseases, such as ship-fever, yellow
fever, smallpox, cholera, &c, &c Conse-
quently If the Health Officer of New York be
ignorant or derelict of duty, vast mass Of
emigrants are scattered, as it were, broadcast
throughout the whole length and breadth Of
this Union, infected with diseases of the most
malignant type, to SOW in every quarter the
seeds of sickness and of death.
The Governor of New York has therefore no
right to appoint an ignorant or an incompe-
tentpe to post Of such high responsibility.
Humanity, the comfy due from one State to
anotherall the considerations, in fine, which
ought to regulate the conduct Of the Chief
Magistrate Of moral and Christian commu-
nifty towards the citizens Of all other commune
ties, imperatively require the appointment to
such post of learned and accomplished ply
stefan, deeply skilled in the diseases Of every
cline, and of undisputed experience in every
branch Of his profession. This, every right
minded citizen Of every State will readily admit.
But, unfortunately for the interests Of his own
State, and the Union at large, Governor Clark, Of
New York, thinks otherwise He regards the
post of Health Officer Of the Port Of New York
merely as so much political capital-as patron
age to the amount 81 $25, 900 per annum--and
acts in accordance with this opinion utterly
regardless of the lives or health Of thousands
Of American citizens He has conferred this
important Office upon a DR.. Thompson, Of AL
bany, person well known to the writer of
this article, as an obscure physician, destitute
Of professional learning, skill, or experience,
and known chiefly as an anti-Renter and q
Ward politician of the lowest school The APP
pointment Of this Thompson is the result of o
base bargain, made for the purpose of securing
the election of VIM. HI. Seward to the United
States Senate Thompson is the brother-in-law
of Littlejohn, the apostate Speaker of the New
York Assembly, who was elected by the citi-
zens Of Oswego to the Legislature, under an
express pledge to vote against Mr.. Seward. On
his arrival in Albany, he was informed by the
agents of Seward, that he could have the
Speakership, If he would use the influence of
that Office to promote the election of that per-
son to the United States Senate. This he
promised to do, provided his brother-in-law,
Thompson, should receive the appointment Of
Health Officer of New York, the most lucrative
Office in the gift of the Governor. The Gov
ernor consented; Seward was elected; Little
john was burnt in effigy, and stigmatized as a
traitor from one end Of the State to the other;
and now Thompson has been nominated by
the Governor as Health Officer.
Such is brief history Of one of the most
nefarious and corrupt political bargains ever
recorded in the annals of New York 1t re-
mains with the Senate Of that State to ratify
it The Seward party, having a controlling
majority in that body, will doubtless confirm
the nomination, as an act Of party allegiance,
however repugnant it may be to many Of the
Senators individually.
The history Of this dsgraceful affair forms a
perfect epitome Of Sewardism. To attain po-
litical preferment, Seward and his fraternizers
never hesitate at any act of baseness, treach-
cry or corruption. They have sacrificed again
and again to the demons Of anarchy, disunion
and demagoguism, the purest the ablest and
the noblest Wings Of New York. They have
encouraged the most fragrant notification OF
the laws Of property---haye fostered rebellion
against a law Of the United States, and reviled
and vilifed every honest citizen who upheld
them. And, finally, they have pandered to the
bigotry, prejudices and ignorance Of the for
eign-born Catholic population Of the State to
such degree that under their domination, no
man however exalted his talents or pure his
character, could receive State appointment,
unless fayorite Of this Popish rabble.
This rotten and corrupt dynasty now totters
to It's fall. The Americans Of New York have
entrenched themselves against il, and in No
vember next win compass its destruction. IN
wept and unhonored, thismonstrous and deform-
cd fabric Of imposture, fraud and falsehood
win then crumble into dust It's knell has been
already rung-its gallows is even now build
ing. Higher than Haman win its loathsome
carcass be hung,--a terror to oil demagognes, a
warning 10 all political swindlers. Such win
be the fitting end Of this low and insolent DOM
ination.
H- The Washington Union or this morn
ing contains the following announcement to
wit
"THr CANVASS IN VINO INIL.---Hon. s. A. Doug
las Of Illinois, was 10 have addressed the citizens
Of Richmond last evening. The Soutb.Side Demo