Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-01

men 70 live together like the beasts Oh the heia.
He IA .ent TO foreign Court Tor his election ser
vices. and must convey the idea wherever he goes,
49,, ,ha Tnitsd States IL whole nation Of Nor
80 rsturning 20 the state Of forest animals.
n, Il he must go no has certainly gone TO the
;oht Mace They sent him 10 Naples, where hs
agsctr;ne NAV meet with less adherence than in
- other mart of the civilized world And all these
missions are multiplied 10 the greatest possible
extent Sending these unit men to places where
they have nothing TO do, even II they couiu 40
anything, merely TO give them pay, ana where
many of them, by their yulgarity and misconduct,
ara excluded from social intercourse, and confined
20 the privileges which the treaties secure them,
ana left to the low company which their manners
and tastes require.
4. Ertnyagant expenditure is the characters
tic of this administration. Never was such prof
ligate waste of public money SEEN Seventy to
eighty millions squandered per annum, and not
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-six millions now IL Is three times that amount
and getting worse. Increase OF offices and sala
ries--increase of army and navy-multpli
Of useless agents to attend TO the elections under
the pretext OF filing some ofice-waste OF money
In building ships to rot while refusing dollar Tor
the Improvement OF our great rivers such are
their devices to get rid OF the public money.
Nearly thousand dollars a man Is now the ave.
rage 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
establishments Presidential, and not national in
stitutions. All appointments are conducted on that
principle; all dsmissons and reductions are con-
Quoted on the same. Two hundred officers have
lately been turned out OF the navy by an open,
scandalous, and criminal perversion of law; and
the same operation Is desired to be performed on
the army, the rule of dismission being to save
partisans and favorites, and TO turn out good Off
GERS without regard TO service or character, whose
political afinties or connexions are not approved
S. Violated pledges rise up in judgment against
this administration do not alude to the inau-
gural address; these addresses are now made like
pie crust--to be broken. speak of public speci-
fc pledges, openly and solemnly made, and openly
and scandalously violated. There was the pledge
to reduce unnecessary duties and get rid of cor
rupting surplus revenue. That pledge is violated,
has been for four years, and still is. The enormous
revenue is kept up to increase patronage, to pur-
chase worthless land from Mexico, to corrupt
presses to reward partsans, to strengthen the gov
ernment, to build up armies and navies, and to
fight foreign nations, if they succeed in pick
Ing quarrels with them.
Equally ppSlis wu the pledge, and equally SCAN
dalous its yioask1ea. = make national highway to
the Pacific ocee1, -FOUR years ego the pledge wss-
made the tins = Sat and the nlsaa6n6E redeem.
ed. The time hss BEEN l0sf n making useless and
costly snryey1lbr two outside rOads--one for the
North and one fsr the Southland In endeavorng
TO purchase from Mexico slice after slice, the route
to Guymas, on the Gulf of California Ten millions
were given for one slice-it was found to be worth
less, and besides, would not include the place. AT
G,Aki
get another Slice at another ten twenty millions
still further south
In the meantime, the plain, direct, national cen
trial route is repudiated, although 1t il now one
third made for the railroads west from Baltimore
Philadelphia, and other Atlantic ports, now pene.
trate the West converge TO the centre before they
reach the Mississippi, and connect with the Nilsson
ri road, now complete to the centre of the State,
and advancing TO the Western border. Yet this
direct national route, though now one-third made,
il rejected and repudiated for an outside route
through Mexico, and 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
zeal partisans and pothouse demagogues are sent
out to gil their ofices-men unfit il they were dis
posed, but 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 Beale, whose ascendant over the savage
mind charmed the Indians into infantile submits
sion. was dismissed because he would not cleo
tioneer, to make room for pothouse demagugue,
who could do nothing else. California, Oregon,
New Mexico, are all the scenes OF bloody outrage.
Indian wars rage--private murder prevails-law Ia
impotent--the Federal officers are of no account,
and the citizens are driven TO the necessity Of pro
yiding for themselves.
need not mention Kansas, the condition of that
blood stained ground is sufficiently known to you.
/ viii speak Of Utah, where the Federal Govern
ment is ignored and repudiated; its laws and au-
thority set at defiance. The term OF the Mormon
Governor, Brigham Young, expired three years
ago. As he had thrown off the authority of the
United States, it was determined to send him a
successor, military graduate Of West Point, and
CAPTAIN Steptoe was called from his pleasant quar-
tiers to 90 upon the enterprise. When Brigham
heard of it. he made a speech TO his people, in
which he told them what President Pierce intend
ed, and what he himself intended-one sending
new Governor, and the other intending to repulse
the compliment; II was IN that speech that ne
said to his people that he intended to remain in
his place until the Lord should say to him, Brig
ham, don't want you to be Governor Of Utah any
longer"
The administration was afraid Of him, and un-
dertook to out-manGuvre him, and that in the
highest style of West Point tactics they deter
mined to smuggle Steptoe in. For that purpose
the military Governor was furnished with batta.
lion of soldiers, and directed to proceed to the
Mormon kingdom, as if he was going to California,
stop there to hibernate, and watching the chance,
slip into the govsrnorship some day when Brigham
was out-somethng like weazel that goes into
another hole when he finds the occupant gone
When heard of this fms scheme, said TO my ac-
quantances, and can prove that said it, flor ]
do not indulge in ca post fdcfo predictions that
the next time we should hear Of this Gov. Steptoe
again. he would be on his tip-toes, marching to the
tune of Hey, Betty Martin, tip-toe fine !" and SO
1t was; for before the Information over he was
on his march in good truth to California, to return
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