New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-07-11

Points in New all with the appreciation Of the
for the Office holders would not be
there {absent from their duties and drawing their
Epay1 without the consent of their employers. ltwas
81 scandalous collection Tile members of Congress
in the double breach Of their duties They were
neglecting their legislative duties, and doing what
They had been interdicted from doing. .
Thirty years ago the nomination of Presidential
Ecandidates was taken from Congress on account Of
the corruption which it ndered, and given to
deegates intended to be fresh from the people and TO
Eobey5their will, and the nomination removed from
Washington to Baltimore TO get out Of the reach q
President making members. But these members fol
flowed to- Baltimore, getting proxies from some dele
gate when they could get NJ .hom me
You'd their reachthe Conv Itself was removed
from Baltimore to Cincinnati.
Vain effort to escape them They followed on to-
Cincinnati. They broke up Congress to get to this
very hard hearted file does notrenember them when
he comes to the distribution of office. From Wash
ington City came new corps, never before put upon
such sergcethe Office holders in the in
/ the departing nts-heads Of burea men who have
no vote in any federal election POLITICAL hybrids, I'M
able to act a mans part in any election but sent to
Cincinnati as 4 life guard to support the admnlstra-
| ton. KS ;;Sj5 S8
Such was the complexion Of nearly one-half of the
whole convention house officers postmasers,
salaried clerks packed delegates, straw
litcaI eunuchs, members of Congress, district attor,
neys federal marshas. The place which they met,
and which had been provided by a packed admins
tration committee, was worthy Of the meeting. 1t
was sort Of den approached by long narrow pas
sage, barricaded by three doors each door guarded
by armed DULLES with orders to knock down any per-
son that approached without ticket from the com
tee, and special order to be prepared with arms
repulse the Missouri which came to vote
for Buchanan repulse which they attempted, ard
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4 81 This den had no windows by which people could
look in orsee, Or the light Of the sun enter.ony
row Of glass like steamboat skylight, thirty-fve
fleet above the floor. was the nearest representa-
ton Of the ssblack hole in Calcutta, and like that
hole had well nigh become notorious for similar ca
fonp ivots, and turned at to LET in air. rain came
on drove into the den and to exclude it, the panes
were turned up. 6 smothering smothering!" was
the cry the den land the glass had to be turned up
4 again. Over this place was small box for the adj
mission Of spectators, its approach barricaded and
I guarded, and entrance only obtained upon tickets
from the same packed committee, and to whom they
gave tickets was seen when the first votes were given
for Buchanan and when each State that voted for
Thin was 1ssed--even Virginia; and the kissing only
stopped by n threat to clear the galleries. Such is
1.-The pass to which the nomination of President is
A drought. .5s$z i55@
Is not that rich Never SO rich gem was set.n
4 Does it not bear internal evidence of TRUTH
4 Gould fancy eonjure up such scene? Dante, with
all his genius could never have pictured such
4 from imagination alone But let us give few more
extracts descriptive Of the administration, ETC.
4. Such fall announces the deplorable administration
i which our country has ever seen and such is the
a fact AT home and abroadn all its acts and policy
A both foreignand domestic-fagant misconduct has
been the order of the day. The field of its bad acts
is large to admit Of full survey occasion
Il like the present; can only seize and present the
Il most prominent, taking those which concern oll
home affairs frst-the foreign afterwards; but, first
4 sImust show who j mean by the administration, fol-
y No means consists Of all whose names compose
a After hitting Jefferson Davis lick under the fifth
Il rib he follows with what we consider ga first rate
j notice" Of Caleb Cushing, the Attorney General.
OF the outside force of nulliiers still less remains
III to be said. They govern when they please, and
always in the same styleby presenting q nenacine
! 'front.' of all these, the Attorney General is the
4 master spirit. He is o man of talent, of learning
Of indnstry-unscrnpulo double sexed double gen
h dered, and hermaphroditic in potics-with a hinge
lin his knee which he often crooks, that thrift may
B follow taWning.n He governs by subserviency and
to himi deferred the masters place in Mr.. Perces
cabinet WhenI heard that he was to come into the
cabinet set down Mr.. Pierce for doomed man and
foresaw the swift and full destruction which was tc
Y fall upon HIM i had known Mr. Gushing us an abo
litionst, voting against Arkansas because she
slave State, and backing Slade, of Vermont in thu
attempt to abolish slavery in the District of Coum
III bias 5$75 55555
\, had known him as a Wing, attacking the Democ
racy and all their measures and as Iylerite, ac
pioneering offices for Tyler as long as he had an Office
to go the hammer. 4 could have faith in an ad
nnistlation 50 led and foretold its calamtous tat
from the moment it was seen who was to be in it.
Next comes the Foreign Ministers. Is not what h,
q says jnst-true? s
Vi Unfit appointments on foreign missions. This is
notifying head of accusation against the present ad
mlnishation. Never were such men sent abroad tt
\ represent our country-men without particle of TIN
knowledge which diplomacy requires, and even with
Il out manners-without knowing how to behave ii
3 company mere political denaagogues, to rewar'
them for services past and services to come at TIL
Fedeiala and State elections. They send such abroad
. in order to give them indemnity for past services
e the polls, and to enable them to back and
: commence their partisan labors. Formerly, the Uni
ted States. Ministers were the pride of our country
and the admiration of the courts to which they wer
i sent Talented, educated, replete with knowledge
polished in manners modest, Virtuous, such were fol
. merly our Ministers abroad.
ia What contrast are those we now send abroad
ii What contrast to the Rufus Kings, the John MAJ
i sbas, tile Albert Galatians the John Quincy Adamses
/ the Pinckneys Of South Carolina and the Pinckney
Of Maryland, the Henry Clays, and the long list
Il Such appointments as this administration makes
speak Of the mass, for there are few exceptions
are not only disgrace, but an inlnryto our count,
They inlures our national reputation. They desrad
US IN the eyes OF foreign nations. They ijure til
L whole character of our republican Government Man
% of them not only of bad manner, but bad morals
!, Only think of that Dale Owen, who published
n newspaper and wrote book to abolish the institutio
y of marriage, and to persuade men and women to lin
togeherlke the beasts of the field He is sent to
foreign court for his election services and must COZ
vey the idea wherever he goes that the United State
is aWhole nation Of Mormons, returning to the stat
II Of forest animals But if he must CO. he has certain
9, gone to the right place. They sent him to Maple
If where his doctrine may meet with less abhorrenc
n than in any other part of the civilized world. An
all these missions are multiplied to the greatest poss
y BILE eXtentsending these unfit men to places whel
e they have nothing to do even if they could do an
i. sthng=-merely to give them pay and where many
thems by their ynlgarlty and misconduct are eXcu,
n ed Iromsocia intercourse and confined to the priv
leges which the treaties secure them, and left to IL
low company which their manners and tastes requir
Y Old Bullion Y does not like platforms lon til
= subject lie is clear and emphatic. Read what |
Is says: @
~ Eli Sitizens this business of making platforms is
Y. new nYention, unknown to the old Democracy, wi
ISL had no platform but the constitution, no aim but IL
public good and they are generally the work der
agogues who have no thought of the constitution
NO thought Of the country thought of8any thin
hue TO get Office and keep ehangingrfor that pu
poseNyth every change of administration and swea
Id lng to every creed that runs an hour. 1t has bee
n, my prefogatise to kick over these platforms / ";
bred IN political school IN which theywere unkow
ne constitution was the only platform known in M