Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-20
A Sketch of John slidell.

The N. o. Creole thus alludes to Hon. John Sill
dell, in connection with his recent letter to the
Democracy of Baton Rouge:
Mr.. Slide is the fountain source of the corrup-
tons with which his party in Louisiana is now eat
en- up. he inaugurated the system of fraud and
violence, of intrigue and bribery which has result
ed in ballotstufng, in overriding the will of the
majority by wholesale colonization of voters, and in
pollutng the ballot-box with the thousands of
fraudulent votes. The celebrated Plaquemine
frauds which will ever stand as disgrace
to the virtue and intelligence of the Democracy Of
Louisiana, is supposed not without reason, to have
been a coup de main planned by Senator Slidell.-
The voting upon the papers of the victims of the
visitation of 1853, when three thousand fraudulent
ballots controlled the honest expression of the pop
ular will and aided to give him his present exalted
position ia the Senate of the United States, was
the work of his teeming brain and his lavish ex-
pendture of money in the canvass. Does he re-
collect the eventful day when he entered the Dem
ocratic committee room, and, handing over several
thousand dollars, declared the election must be
carried at all hazardsp
There is no city in the Union, not even except
ing San Francisco, where more wrong has been
perpetrated upon the people, where more outrages
have been consummated upon the freedom and
purity of the ballot-box, than in New Orleans and
they have been the product of Democratic man
agement, of which Senator Slidel was the SOUL
the vivifying spirit
To redress these wrongs-to restore purity to
the ballot-box--to enable American citizens to
vote without exposure to nsolence, to rufianism,
to bows-to destroy the power of proAigate politi-
clans to parcel out the spos and use the people as
plant tools of their ambition and their avarice--
the American party sprang into being
That evils existed, which were intolerabe, Is
proved by the suddenness with which it acquired
power---the extent of its Decentralization of the
Democracy, and the unanimity with which the
popular voice has pronounced and repronounced
the verdict of condemnation upon the leaders and
intrigues of past years. For Senator Slidell, inn
plcated as he is with all the political wrongs Of
the past-the prostitution of the right Of suffrage,
the ballotboI stuffng at Plaquemine, the violence
of the Old Bloody Seventh Ward, the voting Of
the dead Metarie Ridge delegation-to rebuke the
American party, and to urge the Democracy to
preserve the purity Of the suffage-is the assump-
ton Of character in striking contrast with all that
has been observed of him in Louisiana for long
series of years.
Before he comes forward to impeach others, he
should have been careful that he was free from
blemish or reproach himself If he venture to
discourse upon the freedom of the ballot he must
have care that il is not patent 10 the community
that he has no respect for the rights Of others IL
they stands in the way of his ambition. When
scenes of violence and fraud are his themes, he
should see to it. that he not liable to the charge
of violating the hottest of rights TO secure the
handling OF $50, 900 he had bet upon the election
of Polk, or of defeating even the candidates Of
his own party in 1853, who were not favorable
to his election to the Senatorshp. In his new
character, he resembles Satyr playing the part OF
Hyperion.
w. Carey Jones, Fremont's brother-in1av, is