The true Democrat., 1856-07-22
The Public Printing.

| The Know Nothing editor of the Real Es tate Bank organ is still growing because the Governor had the acts and journals of the last Leg ,Iature printed and distributed among the people. The editor of the bank organ feels outraged at this publicity given the acts and proceedings of the General Assembly almost as much as he did when we gave publicity to the Know Nothing ritual and constitution. He is opposed to the peoples scrutinizing the acts and doings of their servants, and hopes to in- troduce secrecy even into the operations of the government This is the first step towards federalism, of which Know Nottingham is the successor-it is but carrying out the old "sedi- ton law" which made it criminal in the peo- pie to discuss public characters and measures.
 And he IS nceused at the Governor, too, be- cause he was not selected by his excellencv to do the printing Had the job been given to him we would have heard nothing of the ex- pense of the work to the treasury. There would have been no growing and grumbiug He would have pocketed the cash with as much complacency as he did the five or six thousand dollars he made out of the swamp land advertisements. By the way, the adver- tzing of the swamp lands was one of the great est lmposltions ever practised upon the State, and 1t was made so by a decision of Danlev. then auditor. If we are correctly informed. one of the land agents asked Danley's opinion in relation to the manner of the ad vertisementS. and desired to put in the papers the simple notice that, on day and at place named he would sell all the swamp lands in his district Dahiey decided that such an advertisement would not be proper, but that each minute sub- division of land should be rected in the ad vertlsement By the compliance with this opinion of c. C. Danley, the advertisements cost the State not one cent less than S2O,OOO. | Danley then owned the Gazette, and knowing that three of the land agents were his friends and would give him their advertisements, it was his interest so to decide as to make them as lengthy and costly as possible. Hence his cx- traordinary decision.
 ! The editor of the bank organ now busters about the cost of printing the acts and Journals, i He only does because he was not the reel pent of the Governors patronage. As 10 the cost of printing the acts and journals, they were printed at the prices paid for such public work during the last four or five years, notwithstand- ing printing materials, printing paper and jour neymens wages have advanced in the mean time very considerably. That the sum amount 1 ed to about $8OOO was because the acts and journals were unusually voluminous They could not have been printed for less at any printing establishment in the country. There was but little made upon the job considering the labor, trouble and capital invested
 The Know Nothing editor is exceedingly scrupulous with the peoples money when any body else but himself Is the recipient of it, There is no mans pockets that have been so extravagantly and inexcusably filled from the treasury as those of c. c. Danley He has shown himself to be blood sucker of no or dinary capacity.