Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-07-21
Nov for THAR ac,s

tOu, IT'S WICKED anu corrupt intent, dOu IOul
means of getting it done, and its disastrous
and bloody consequences, you are all sufi
GENTLY acquainted; an | only name it TO give
it it's place at the head and front of all the
evil measures of this Administration.
2. Prostitution of the whole appointing
power TO electionee-ing purposes. This was
openly done from the first moment of IFS ex
Istence. Appointments were wholly mad
with q view 10 affect the sections, State and
Federal, and TO operate for or against psrri
cular men; and for this purpose the most IN
BIT characters would be taken in preference To
the best. You know how il was in this State
and as II was here so il was every where.
Nulli6ers and Free Sellers, apostates and rem
egsdes-al were fish in their net One sim
gle qualification was reqUisite-thst of work.
ing IN the elections-and the only preference
that seemed to be shown was in favor otthose
who had been most violent against this Un-
n. On that principle it was that an editor
WAS taken and sent into Egypt, not into bon
daRe, as better men have been sent there, but
as Consul General of the United States; which
editor had published daily paper in Washing
ton City for three years, wholly devoted To
The separation OF the Slave from the Free
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8. Inft appointments on foreign missions.
This is notifying head of accusation
against the present administra ion. Never
were such men sent abroad to represent our
country!-men without a particle of the know.
/. ledge which diplomacy requires, and even
without manners-withUut knowing how To
behave in company-mere political dema-
gognes, to reward them for services past and
services to come at the federal and state cleo
tons They send such abroad in order to give
them indemnity for past services at the polls,
and to enable them TO come back and re com
meHce their partisan labors. Formerly the
United States Ministers were the pride of our
country, and the admiration of the courts t.
which they were sent. Talented, educated,
replete with knowledge, polished in manners,
modest, virtuous-such were formerly our
ministers abroad. What a contrast TO those
we DOW send abroad What contrast to the
Rufus Kings, the John M,rshals, the Albert
Gallatus, the John Quincy Adamses, the
Plckneys If South Carolina, and the PIckney
of Maryland, the Henry lays, and the long
list of splendid names which grace our diplo-
matte annals. Such appointments as this ad-
mlnistratun makes-I speak of the mass, for
there are few exceptOns-are not onty
Disgrace but an injury to our country. They
njure our national reputation. They iniure
the whole character of Republican Govern
meDt. Many of them not only of bad manners
pul bad morals. Only think of that Dale
/. Owen who published newspaper, and wrote
book to abolish the institution of marriage,
and TO persuade men and women To live to
gelher like beasts OF the field H. is sent to
foreign court for his election services, and
must convey the idea wherever he goes that
the whole United States Is a nation OF Nor
mons returning 10 the stale OF forest animas
But II he must 60, be has certainly gone TO the
right place. They sent him 10 Naples, where
his doctrine may meet with less adherence
than in any other part of the civilized world
And all these missions are multiplied TO the
grea. est possible understanding these unfit
men To places where they have nothing to do,
even II they could do anything, merely to give
them their pay-and where many OF them by
their vulgsrIty aud misconduct are excluded
from social intercourse, and confined to the
privileges which the treaties secure them, and
lett to the low company which their manners
and TASTES require.
L. EXtravagant expenditure is the characteristic
OF this Administration. Never was such a profit
gate waste Of public money seen! Seventy to
eighty millions squandered per annum, aud not a
symptom OF any abatement. When Mr.. Polk went
out OF Office, which was at-r the acquisition of all
our new territories, he computed the annual eI
ty SIX millions; now is three times that amount
and getting worse. Increase OF offices and salaries
increase Of army and naVy-multiplication of
useless agents to attend tue elections under the
preteXt OF filling some Otiice-Waste of money in
building ships 10 rot, while refusing a dollar for
the improvement Of our great rivers such are their
devices to get rid of the public money. Nearly
thousand dollars Il man Is now the average cost of
every man IN the army and Eavy, and the civil pen
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port. And both army and navy reduced az fast
DOS 1lble, TO the condition Of government estab
meuJs-presideutal and not national institutions
All appointments conducted on that principle;
al dsms-lOns and reductions conducted on the
same. Two hundred officers have lately been
turned out OF the navy by an open, scandaous aud
criminal perversiOn OF law; and the same operation
is desired TO be performed on the army-the rule
of disni-sOn being TO partissns aud favo-ites
AID to turn out good officers without regard g. ser-
vice or character, whose political afules or con.
nectious are notapprOVed,
8 Violated pledges rise up in Judgment against
this Administration. o not allude To the Inaugu
raj ddress: these addresses are now made Ike PIE
crusrs-tO be broken. | speak Of public speci6c
plrdgrs openly aud solemnly made, and OPENLY
and scandaOusy violated. There was the pledge
TO reduce unnecessary duties and get rid OF a cor
ripping surplus revenue. That pledge is violated
has been for four yrsrs-and sull is The
enormous revenue is kept up 10 increase patronage
TO purchase worthless land from Mexico, to cor.
rupG presses, to reward parti-ans to strengthen
tue Government, 10 build up armies aud uavies
and TO hg { foreign nations il they can succeed in
picking quarrels with them Equally tubIc was
the pledge, and equally scsndslous its violation, to
make naIol al highway TO the Pacific Ocean
-Four years ago the pl dye was made the time j.
out, ana the pledge not redeemed. The time hss
been lost IN making useless and costly surveys for
Two outside rosds-ous for the North and one for
the SOuth-Andin rndeaVOring TO purchase from
Mexico slice alter slice carry the Southern route
~ Quay mas the Gulf Of California Ten millions
were gwen for one slice il found to be WORTH
less, aud beside, would not include the place At
the last accounts further efforts we're making 70
ct another slice, al another ten twenty millions
still further South. la the mean time, the plain,
direct national o ira route srepudiated, sthough
1t is one-Ihird made; for the railroads west
from Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Atlantic
points, nov penetrate the West, converge TO tn
centre before they reach the Mississippi; and con.
meet with the Missouri road, now com olete TO the
centre OF the State, aud advancing to the western
border. Yet this direct national route, though
one-third made, is rejected and repudiated for an
Out-ide route through Mexico, and = ship canal
through foreign territory in the Spanish part of
America
Neglect OF the territorial governments is an Of
fence OF this administration. Political partizaus and
pol-hOuse demAgogues are sent out TO dill all their
ofices-men unit il they we're disposed, but mere
" eectioneerers, engaged in the state aud feder-
81 elections, while the protection OF the General
Government is utterly unknown, aud violence.
bloodshed aud disorder oy,rspreAd the land Brse
whose ascendance over the savage mind charmed
the Indians into iufante submission vas DISMISS
- d. h.ae ala L.
tor pot-hOuse demagOgue, Who could do nothing
else. CalIfJrnia. Oregon. New Mexico are ali the
seune OF bloody outrage Indian wa,s rage-pd.
Sate marder pruVAils-laW Is impOteut-the i,dsr