Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-02

class, Fresh in the memory ql6S~y sS9er
re.the almost daily and niGhtlJ genes a d.
oy1er and sSolsnSs for NJ Eh stcity vas =
DE- Amous, ana which! zsndE@ed her : by
wosd and rspr()eh. Hdk has been during
The Last two yesJA when every once, however
exalted or kumbl b, was occupied by native
born citizen, wtsse impulses and attachments
were all American In spite Of the difficulties
naturally arising from the consolidation of 50
many different districts, whose interests had
atwsSs been Ut war, that city became at once
remarkable for its good ORDER and the almost
entire absence Of those disgracefu scenes be-
tore 70 common II ia futile TO attempt an ex-
PLANTATION Of this great change on any other
grounds. Philadelphia was ruled BY Amer
cans, and the result was as certain and ~ nat
ural q cause and effect Neither is this an
isolated case Wherever . similar state Of
things has existed, similar has been the change
effected And, as has. been the result in one
or more minor corporations, SO. would i be.
throughout the entire country were the Amer
lean doctrines and principles to prevail /. II.
This subject is one to be discussed calmly
aud gravcly, and without the usual side-issues
and irrelevancies that. creep into all political
conflicts. The religion Of the parties need
have nothing to do with the principle and dog
ma embraced within it. A, question of pure
and simple policy is involved, in which every
native Of these States is deeply interested. Let
vs., then, study the history of the past, and
compare our records with those Of other nations.
Let us examine our present distracted condi-
ton, and ascertain from whence the evils under
which we suffer originate. Every true man,
every patriot, viii arrive at buton conclusion,
and win henceforth be found advocating the
doctrine Of our caption, realizing that our only
future safety, rs = people, is to be found in
carrying it out to the very letter
TO tho Editor Of the Organ B z.a
WAsHIEGTON, June Q, 1855. ~
"A writer in the Richmond Wing Of the 9th
ut., signing himself :. Mason" has INDUCED ii
structures regarding the Pension Office 30 infa.
mousy false and hbelous that he confesses his sp-
prehension that no paper in Washir gton city would
publish Them BY the extracts you have made In
your irsue of the 29th ut., however, you have
shown that even this statement the only one which
= Mason" made that had the seniblance of truth,
is a. destitute Of that ingredi mt as is every Other
line that he published on the subject. M
81 That writer saws that some years since clerk
in the Pension Office. wanting trip at govern
ment expense, got up prosecution against an in,
nocent man In Georgia, became drunk en- his rou e.
landed At Kentucky, and the affair was dropped.
In the case alluded to the clerk was in Georgia
long enough 10 have this innocent eli izen" ar
,ested, indicted, and brought to trial. when be-
escaped the consequences OF bis fraud by pleading
the statutes of Limitations. Mason and his infor-
maDt it 10 evident therefore, wilfally lied about
\. He complains that another outrage has recently
sen committed against another citizen of Georgia,
the facts Of which will briefly expose, a. his
modesty has withheld them. s,s 1000. !.
One n. A. Ramsay. OF that State, presented
some Revolutions y claims to the Pension office,
which the examiner believed to be fraudulent. A.
they we're pressed with great pertinacity, the Sec
uetary Of the Interior resolved Mt the instance OF
the Commissioner Of Pensions, to sehd an agent TO
Ge rgia 70 investigate them. Az soon AZ this de-
termination was known, Ramsay came 70 Wash.
ington to beg that the Investigation might not pro-
ed, but finding the Secretary resolule lef after
having told some Of HE friends ere that an agent,
and sonss thas clerk had offered to get his claims
through for ID per cent The agent whom he
named had refused to conduct the cases before any
Investigation had been ordered, the clerk he did
not name; but it would require as much turpitnde
and = much stupidity as e Mason possesses in
unusually happy combination, to believe that any
Official would offer TO allow cases which had been
pronounced fraudulent and which were then about
to undergo investigation under orders of the Com
sioner and the Secretary, the approval of both OF
whom was requisite to make his allowance of any
validity. f ss8 g3r.a
Immediately upon bis heels, in fact, was clerk
despatched with these ''meritorious claims to the
vicinage where they were fabrica. ed, who found
such evidence Of their spurious character that he
promptly caused the arrest of the intimate of this
responsible and reliable correspondent Of the
Wing, (if he be not the same man, who is now in
the custody of the marshal, unless the rumor be
true that he has escaped from that officer. It will
thus be seen that the second specification is as
false as the first.
The general charge Of corruption which g Ma
son brings forward is one most readily urged by
the most abandoned of men, and which the purest
cannot disprove. will, however, respectfully ask
TO introduce one witness, and that is yourself
You are not supposed to possess any peculiar love
for this administration but satisHed you would
not use the poisoned weapons of private defama-
ton in your war with it. You have had consider
able connexion with the Pension Office in times
past, and believe you know all the principal en-
ployees there now. Hvenality be rampant there
you must at least have heard of its existence and
i ask, therefore. that, having copied the charge
9you accompany the insertion of this reply with q
frank statement Of al you know to sustain it, *.
4 i ! would ask the Richmond Wing and such other
papers have published the charge to insert this
answer, with your own response. A CLERK.