Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-05-23
CIRCULAR.
The Municipal Election.

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The Municipal Election.
The municipal election in this city occurs on
the first Monday in June. It's result is awaited
with not little anxiety by the American party
throughout the Union. The extraordinary and
unprecedented interference of the Federal Ad-
nlinistration in our municipal affairs, has in
vested the elections in this city for the Nst
three years with an Importance which had not
previously been attached to them Under pre-
vious administrations, an election in Washing
ton attracted no more attention than an cleo
ton in Columbus, or Albany, or Richmond. -
But under the present administration it is re-
garded as a hand to-hand contest between the
government of the greatest Republic on earth
and small but devoted band of American pa
triots, who prefer principles to pelf, and the
religion of their fathers to the intolerant bigot
ry, the cruel tyranny, and the monstrous cor
ruption of foreign church governed by for
eign prince.
1t may, therefore, with truth, be said, that
the eyes Of the whole people will be directed to
Washington on the first Monday in June AT
two previous elections, the whole q American"
heart was rejoiced by the glorious result AT
the last election, the victory gained by the
American party in this city was universally
regarded as nearly an equivalent for the defeat
it had sustained in Virginia. On that occa-
sion our friends embarked in the contest under
the most discouraging circumstances, to en-
counter a foe flushed with victory, and mar
shalled into line by the INSCRIPTIONS and vim
dictive partisans of the Federal Government
How they met them and how they overthrow
them is known to the whole country.
That still more decisive and more glorious
victory is about to "crown the American
arms" this year we do not doubt. The Amer
leans have presented as their candidate for the
Mayoralty, a gentleman Of superior intelligence
and high character, of long experience in the
municipal councils, and deeply interested in
the prosperity Of the city. Twenty -four years
of his life have been passed in our midst, and
the tongue Of SANDER may be defied to bring
he slightest reproach against him. To bis
charge the interests of the Corporation may
be safely intrusted. He will carefully protect
them, and SO administer the office of Chief
Magistrate as to guard the finances from inn
proper waste and improvident expenditure,
and preserve the peace Of our citizens from
disturbance, and their property from depreda-
ton
The anti-American candidate, Dr. VIM. B.
Magruder, is so well known to our citizens,
that it is hardly necessary to say that he is, in
almost every respect, the precise opposite of
Mr.. Hill In the present canvass he has aban-
doned his patients, and assumed the part Of a
political Thersites. He stands in the market
: place, and on the corners Of the streets, and
wags his tongue with all the venom by which
renegades are usually characterized, against
the best and purest men in the city. In the
midnight dens of the Sag NIGHTS, in the for
eign rum-shops, and the loathsome pot-houses,
which abound in certain localities, his voice
can be heard, ut almost any hour, continually
CRYING for votes. A spectacle 30 humiliating
was never before witnessed in this city. Never
before, since the foundations of the Capitol
were laid was such a candidate presented for
the Mayoralty by any party in Washington |
Gales Seaton, Force, Weghtman, Lenox, and
Maury were for thirty years invested with the
Mayoralty. They administered the Office with
an efficiency and dignity which has been
amply sustained by the present Mayor
Is it possible that any large number of our
permanent residents desire to see VIM. B. Ma
gruder included id a list of names SO eminently
respectable?
1t is impossible. The supposition is an alb
surdity. The honest and industrious mechan-
les of Washington, as well as her merchants,
her manufacturers, and her capitalists will cast
their votes almost in solid phalanx for Silas
ii. Hill and allow DIR. Magruder to resume the
pestle and the pill-box, which, for his own
sake, he viii regret that he ever laid down, for
the purpose Of exhibiting his political weak
ness in contest with the invincible leader Of
the American party.
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