Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-07-09

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ANAN he scourges the Administration with
ont mercy. Having described the powers
that be" individually he says.
''Now for their acts:
l. The violation of the Missouri and Texan Com
promises With the facts of this violation, it's wick
ed and corrupt intent, and foul means of getting it
done, and its disastrous and bloody consequences,
you are all sufficiently acquainted and only name
il to give il its place at the head and front OF all
the evil measures of this Administration.
2. Prostitution Of the whole appointing power TO
eectioneering purposes. This was openly done
from che first moment of its existence. Appoints
ments were wholly made with view to affect the
elections, State aud Federal and to operate for or
against particular men; and for this purpose the
most unit characters would be taken in preference
70 the best. You know how il was in this State
and as it was here SO il was everywhere Nullfers
and Free Soilers apOstates and renegades-all we're
fish in their net One single qualification was re-
qusite-tbat OF working 10 the electiOns-and the
only preference that seemed to be shown in
favor Of those who had been most violent against
this Union. % that principle it that edit
or taken and sent into Egypt not into bondage,
as better men have been sent there, but as Consul
General Of the United States; which editor had
published daily paper in Washington City for
three years, wholly devoted to the separation of
the slave from the Free states.
3. Unfit appointments on foreign missions This
IS Notifying head of accusation against the pres
ent Administration. Never we're sueE men sent
abroad to represent country!-men without
particle OF the knowledge which diplomacy requires
and even without manners-without knowing how
to behave 10 company-mere political demagogues
to reward them for services past and services to
! come at the Federal and State elections. 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 commence their partisan labors
! Formerly, the United States Ministers were the
pride of our country, and the admiration Of the
courts to which they were sent Talented, educat
ed, repete with knowledge, polished IN manners,
modest virtuous; such formerly our Ministers
abroad. What a contrast to those we now send
abroad What q contrast to the Rufus Kings, the
John Msrshslls, the Albert Gsllatns, the John
Quincy Adamses, the Pickneys of South Carolina,
and the Pickney of Maryland, the Henry Clsys, aud
the long list of splendid names which grace d.
plomaiic annals. Such appointments as this Ad-
ministraton makes-I speak OF the mass, for there
are a few exceptiOns-are not only a disgrace,
but an injury to our country. Tuey lnJure our ma
tional reputation They injure the whole character
of Republican Government. Many OF them not
only of bad manners, but bad morals. Only think
of that Dale Owen, who published a newspaper and
wrote a book to abolish the institution OF marriage
and 10 persuade men and women TO live together
like the beasts of the field b. is sent to foreign
Court for his election services, and must convey
the idea, wherever he goes, that the United States
is a whole nation of MOrmOns, returning to the
state of forest animals. But if be must go, he has
certainly gone to the right place. They sent him
to Naples where his doctrine may meet with less
adherence than in any other part OF the civilized
world And all these missions multiplied 10
the greatest possible extent Sending these unfit
men to places where they have nothing to do, even
# they could do anything, merely to give them
pay, and where many Of them, by their vugarity
and misconduct, excluded from social inter-
course and confined to the privileges which the
treaties secure them, and left to the low company
which their manners and tastes require.
4 Extravagant expenditure is the characteristic
of this administration. Never was such profit
gate waste OF public money seen. Seventy TO
eighty millions sguandered per snnum, and not a
symptom Of any abatement. When Mr.. Polk went
out of office which was after the acquisition of all
our new Territories, he computed the annual ex-
penses of the government at twenty-five to TWEEN
ty-sx millions; now il is three times that amount |
and getting worse Increase of Offices and salaries
increase OF army and multiplication Of |
useless agents TO attend to the elections I'M |
Ger the pretext of filing some Ofhce-waste of
money in building ships to rot, while refusing a
dollar for the improvement of great rivers; such
are their devices to get rid of the public money.
Nearly thousand dollars man is now the aver |
age cost of every man in the army and navy, and |
the civil pension list of England proposed for their
further support. And both army and navy reduced
as fast as possible to the condition Of government
estabishments-Presden and not national in |
,tilutions. All appointments conducted on that |
principle; all dismissons and reductions
Quoted on the same. Two hundred officers have |
lately been turned out Of the navy by an open, |
scanduous and criminal perversiOn OF law; and the
same operation is desired to be performed on the |
army the rule of dismissiOn being to partisans
and flvorites, and to turn out good officers, with
regard services character, whose political al
finities or connections not approved.
g. Violated pledges rise up in judgment against
this administration. l do not sllude to the inau
gural address; these addresses now made like
pie crust-to be broken ] speak OF public speci-
nc pledges, openly aud soemnly made, and openly |
and scandAi0uSly violated. There was the pledge
to reduce unnecessary duties, and get rid of a cor
ruptinE surplus revenue. That pledge is violated,
has been for four years, and still is The enormous
revenue is kept up to increase patronage, 20 pur-
chase worthless land from Mexico, TO corrupt press
es to reward partisaRs, TO strengthen the govern
ment, to build up armies and navies, and to light
foreign nations, if they succeed in picking quar-
rels with them.
Equally public was the pledge, and equally scans
dalous its violation, to make national highway TO
the Pacific ocean. -Four years ago the pledge was
made; the time is out aud the pledge is not redeem
ed. The time has been lost in making useless and
costly surveys for two outside roads-one for the
North and one for the Southland in endeavoring
TO purchase from Mexico slice after slice, the route
TO Guymas on the Gulf of California Ten millions
were given for one sce-it was found TO be worth
less and besides, would not include the place. At
the last accounts, further efforts were making to
get another slice, at another ten or twenty Millions
still further south.
In the meantime, the plain, direct, national cen
trial route is repudated, although it is now one
third made; for the railroads west from Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and other Atlantic ports, now pene~
tate the West, converge to the centre before they
reach the Mississippi aud connect with the Missou-
ri road, now complete TO the contre OF the State,
and advancing 70 the Western border. ct this
direct national route, though now one-third made
is rejected and repudiated for outside route
through Mexico, and a ship canal through foreign
territory in the Spanish part of America.
6. Neglect Of the Territorial governments is ano'
Their Of the offences of this administration. Polit
cal psrtisans and pothOuse demagogues are sent
out TO all their ofices-men unfit, if they dis
posed, by merely electioneerers, engaged in the
State and Federal elections, while the protection
Of the Federal Government is perfectly unknown;
and violence bloodshed and disorder oVerspread
the land. Beal, whose ascendant over the savage
mind charmed the Indians into iniantile submission,
was dismissed because he would no electioneer, TO
make room for a pothouse deuagugu who could
do nothing else. California, Oregon New Mexico.
ali the scenes OF bloody outrage. Indian wars
rage-privats murder prevails-aw is impotent-
the Federal officers are OF no account and the Citi
zsns are driven to the necessity OF providing for
themselves.
need not mention Kansas, the condition Of that
hloodzstained ground is sufficiently known to you
| will speak of Utah, where the Federal Govern"
ment is ignored and repudated; its laws and su-
thority set at defiance The term OF the Mormon
Governor Brigham Young, expired three years ago.