Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-05

kentucky. Our advceS are strong tnat KENTUCKY
Is safe for the American nominees and that Fill
more stock is rising with unprecedented rapidity.
To the Editor of the american Organ sIi3
SIR: AS the American party has been stigma
tzed by the Sag NIGHTS papers Of this city as the
most proscriptve party that ever existed" and as
they have reiterated the alsehood until they have
perhaps forgotten the authorship of the Islander,
and come to believe that which the father Of
lies" prompted them to utter Gas is said to be the
case with those given over to hardness of heart
and doomed to perdtion," y and as / would fin
open the eyes of the editors and correspondents
Of these papers to sense Of their own degrade
tion and prompt them to an effort to escape from
the thraldom of those sordid interests that have
crushed the spirit of American independence in
their bosoms, AMI made them crouch and COVER
beneath the power and influence of the Romish
Church and OF the petty tyrant, whose days, thank
God, have been numbered, numbered by those
who, in an evil hour for the country, gave him Off
cial life and being; propose to hold up in con-
trast to their view, and that of more honest and
discerning public, the conduct Of the present May
or of a minority and of John T.. Towers-John T.
Towers the representative of a party stigmatzed
the most proscriptive that ever existed, !" but
who failed to rise ito the full stature of
man." whenever or wherever occasion called for
the exhibition of mans nobler nature and higher
Quulitico, NuHe III are HOt HieH WHO wear the
human shape" even although they may I" stand
six feet two in their stockings" and Stay whole
hecatombs of their felow-men with the same wea
pom that Samson slew the Phistines, exclaiming
they don for the first time their ocisl robes un-
der the inspiration of "whiskey galore" and lager
beer, off with his head; so much for Bucking-
haml"
Upon Mr. Towers's accession to the Mayoralty,
he found in Office several gentlemen who had taken,
m ACTIVE and pr0mipapf part In IN, bio
election; yet he did not remove one Of them by
the exercise of that absolute and arbitrary power
which the Charter vests in the Mayor, but waited
the action of the Board of Aldermen upon his
nominations. Nor was there, in the sending up of
those nominations, anything Of that hot indecent,
rude and vindictive haste which marks the conduct
Of the present Mayor If my memory is correct,
II was not until the 10th of July, six weeks after
his Inauguration, that the first nominations of Mr.
Towers were made, Many were permitted to re-
main in Office for three months, and the clerk Of
the former Mayor was not removed until the 4th
of January, 1856, seven months after the inaugu-
ration of Mr.. Towers.
Such was the conduct of the representative of
" the most proscriptive party that ever existed"
Respectful to the Board of Aldermen who, by the
charter, are made to share with the Mayor re-
sponsibility to the public for the qualifications and
competency Of the appointees to office; regardful
OF the public interests (now neglected and suffer
ing by the vindictive and reckless course of the
present Mayor J and eminently liberal and mag
unanimous towards his opponents, who, through
the columns of the Union, the Sentinel, and the
Star had grossly misrepresented and fcully villied
his political principles and those of his party
while some of them descended to the lowest per-
sonal abuse, culing the rarest flowers of Bilins-
gate to form bouquets wherewith to grace the clas
sic columns Of certain other uncomfortable
sheet" and crafty the delicate and refined tastes
of its readers.
And now let Us turn for moment to contem-
plate the present incumbent and compare his con-
duct with that of his predecessor. Animated as
it would SEEM by conglomeration in his bosom
of Danton, Robespierre and Marat, behold him
hurrying from the Council Chamber, where he had
rudely and indecently declared that he would not
permit the oath Of office to be administered to him
by the President of the Board of Aldermen, and
called upon Catholic Justice of the Peace there
present to offciate--behold him, with ears laid
back, teeth set, dlated nostril, flushed face, and
frowning brow, hurrying to his work of death. I
have no idea that he fully glutted his vengeance,
and that of his privy council but know that
within the first halt hour Of his official existence
he slaughtered some sixty-five or seventy as good
and efficient officers as ever served community
Each faithful heart, bloody sacrifice,
Torn from Its breast TO glut tyrant's eyes,"
And here pause to challenge comparison be-
tween his appointees upon the Auxiliary Guard
and the Municipal Police, and those whom he first
displaced and then foully slandcroi
Why sleeps his thundtr Iywy looked to see
another pronuncament0 Is the Circuit Court,
against the monstrous dereliction OF the Marshal
and his guards. Or does this Jupiter Tonans,
gorged with the blood Of bis victims himself sleep,
unconscious Of the general jail delivery on the
night Of the 10Th ultimog
Up to- the period of DR.. Msgruders accession to
the Mayoralty, he has been distinguished for his
slowness in all matters and things-domestic, pro-
fessional, political, municipal Heaven knows he
has been fast enough since, and can only account
for the astonishing change that has come over him
by supposing that he has sold his shadow TO
the gentleman in black" for the Mayoralty, and