The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-10-31
POLITICS VS.. RELIGION AND
FRIENDSHIP.

portant as pohucs; nOthlng winch Overrldes That,
save perhaps, now and then, family considerations.
Take for example, two men who are and have
long been, warm and intimate personal friends /;
they belong to the same church, protestant, their
families are intimate; they labor together in the
same benevolent cause, for foreign or domestic
MISSIONS for the poor, or other phiantropic OBJ
jects. One of the friends holds situation under
the government, and has the bestowal of no little
patronage; is Democrat, Of course. The other
is opposed to him in politics, out Of employment
and in Strengthened circumstances. Will his old
and intimate friend, on whom he has conferred
many favor, and for whom he has done many
kind act, aid him to employment? Ask If the
Indian will forgive his enemy, or forbear to take
his life whenever he has oppo, tunity to do so
if the Sioux will lie down in peace with the Chip
pewa, or the Chippewa with the Sioux. just as
soon, and no sooner, will Democrat give employ
ment to his most intimate friend who happens to-
think that Americans ought to be permitted to
rule their own country. -s.
The above is no " fancy sketch )" it is picture
of real life, of case known to us. The Demo
Graf would see his friend and family starve, sooner
than give him employment under the government !;
by doing SO, he would feel that he had been guilty
Of treason to his party, which, in his estimation is
higher crime, than treason to his country.
.ail t EXCELLENT.
"A worthy contemporary, whose kindly feelings
always prompt them to use the softest and most
soothing terms, even when compelled to censnre,
in abiding to the fact that Senator JONES, of Ten
hoe late cd xy;tb fba ofe -
those very Democrats whom he, while Mr.. Clay
lived, frought with so much zeal, warmth and en-
ergy,-says, "We had hoped that the Democracy,
in consideration of the soniewhat ALTERED RE-
LATIONS which Mr.. JONES has held towar DIS them
since the decline OF the Wing party, would have
had the magnanimity to obtain from applying to
his case the inexorible policy Of /" rotation
The relations between one who thinks proper
to join his former enemies, and the party he has
left, have heretofore been characterized by some
what harsh term, better suited to the feelings of
the one than the ear Of the other. But the term
altered relations at least saves the feelings and
the ear too, Of one of the parties concerned. No
man likes to be called traitor.
rHE FORT SMELLING "sTEELE."
Some one in the States, undertakes to fix the
value of the land comprised in the Fort Smelling
reservation, at 81 per acre. and declares it to be
worth no more. h .n""rs" '.At ....,ta...i., y
Let him attempt to purchase il Of its present
proprietors, to whom il was clandestineiy sold by
the government, for 800 an acre, and see if he
can induce them to part with it., Land is worth
what it will bring to those who own it and, at the
time it was sold, there we're those who would have
been glad to obtain it for 100000. 1t is proba-
BILE they know its value quite as well as he does
who resides many hundred miles distant. .e