Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-02

in the several Departments.
Immaculate Democracy And this mode OF
official Democratic extortioD, is in accordance
with the Democratic maxim, (is 10 y that ''tax-
alton and represention should 60 hand in hand
that is !; that the official Democratic tax
gatherer, should make representation OF
the importance to the "great Democratic par
ty," of such taxation and this tara
ton should follow this representation -
and if the poor trembling taxpayer should not
be content with the above mentioned "repre-
sentation, as sufficient ground for the " tax
alton, why then the further representation =
should be made to him, that he might take
the consequences of refusing to consent to such
taxation" upon such representation p
Great principle that taxation and represen-
tation should go hand in hand I" Great party |
that new-fangled- Ostend-manifesto- squatter-
sovereign-D Democracy
And Pennsylvania Git is said) is to be carried
by means Of this taxation of the Clerks
sold Squatter Sovereign is to purchase up
(through his friends) the suffrages of the good
people of Pennsylvania, with the money thus
wrung from the reluctant Clerks under the
penalty of dismission from office, if they re-
fused to submit to this Black-mail tariff Is
there an honest man in the nation who will not
condemn this infamous system of sham Demo-
cratic plumber? Is this one Of the Demo
cratic institutions" left us by Jefferson, the
apostle of Democracy Is this what he meant
by the injunction, that /" the patronage of the
government should not be brought in conflict
with the purity Of the ballotbox 2' Is this
what he designed when he forbade the officers
of the Federal Government to interfere with
electionsp Did Thomas Jefferson tar the off,
cers of the government to create fund for
electioneering purposesp Shame on such De-
mocracy!
But it will be said by the hirelings of this
sham Democracy, that it was optional with
the clerks to subscribe or not, as they might
think fit OF course it was, and so is it OPP
tsonat with the man accosted by highway
robber to surrender his purse, or have his
brains blown out with pistol He can take
his choice-so could the clerks subscribe the
amount assessed, Or" take the consequencesi'
Will the honest yeomanry of the country sus-
tain that party which resorts to such means
as these, to raise corruption fund to food
the country with Misrepresentation of honest
men, and vile abuse of honored patriots
Twenty thousand dollars raised in one week,
in the public departments at Washington, by
assessments upon hard working clerks, whose
salaries scantily supply the wants of their
families
And this same process is to be repeated at
the end of October, to reimburse such advances
as the faithful may make, to aid in carrying
the Pennsylvania election, on the 14th of this
present month Notice has been given that
this further robbery will be committed on
ay-day" in October
Now we say to our readers and the country
that we "speak By the card" We knoso and
we can proce what we assert, and we here say,
that whilst, under no circumstances, shall we
be made the means through which the process
Of decapitatien, for revenge, can be carried out
BY this administration, aoe soiU, on the first
Monday in December next, demand, through
Congress, an investigation into this scheme Of
plumber, and assume the responsibility of es-
it by proofs, which no man or set of
men, can countervail Will the officers OF the
government facilitate this Investigations
A word more, and we leave these matters to
the consideration of the voters of the country.
Upon the result of the election in Pennsylva
MIA, on the 14th Of this present month, rest
all the hopes of the "squatter sovereigns ~
Therefore it is that all the energies of their
are to be expended in that State
in the next few days. To this end money is
to be squandered- documents are to be scat
tered-orators are to let off their gas in Penn
sylyania- and the whole power of federal in
fuence also is there to be exercised. 1t is the
last expiring effcrt-the last CONCLUSIVE strug-
gle of sham Democracy. Note oar preIictioni
1t is fit, that in State, honored as the
Keystone of the arch of our glorious Uni
on, that party should meet its death It is fit
that Pennsylvania, hitherto and always true to
the Union, and to genuine Democratic princi-
Piles, should, in imitation of the noble Brutus,
demonstrate her love Of justice, and her devo-
ted patriotism, by signing the death-warrant
Of her oson recreant son
Pennsylvania Election.
We warn our friends in Pennsylvania to be
on their guard against the wiles and tricks of
the sham Democracy, Nearly all the commit
tee rooms of that party in Washington are
closed, and the wire-workers have gone hence