Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-07-30
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Mr.. Elitor:


i Washington County, of its position Of deter
mined opposition to the last dodge of the
plant tools of the usurping Slavcocracv, in
the nomination made at the funereal Con-
ventcn of the Buchanan otfice-holding inter-
est at Columbia Convention which was a
fair example Of the party which supports an
unworthy Administration.
OF the many thousand voters of the 9th
District, sad and lonely two score and ten,
composed mainly of oIce-holders and their
immediate dependents, was all that the boast
cd enthusiasm which is to elect the most
popular man." could, by coaxing and
fighting, possibly get together; and well did
it typify the bogus democratic party of the
present day, The great mass of the rank and
file are allowed to stand out in the cold to
do the dirty work, and humbly and meckly
obey the commands of their drill sergcants;
while the very few "aris.ocratic democrats
enter the inner temple, monopolis, all the
spoils, secure all the offices. and then laugh
in their sleeves at the stupidity Of the easy
guled people who support them.
The overcoming smile of the popular
man. or the chow do you do sir :" of the
Office holder just before election, is considered
reward enough for the faithful voter. As
the ostrich, who by hiding his head in the
sand. fatters himself he thereby conceals his
whole body from his enemies, 50 do the rank
and file of the Stockholders army, deluded by
the sophistres and the falsehoods of self-in-
terested Office holders, wilfully and blindly
vote for men and measures that are wholly
against their own best interests, and the
interests of the country.
Is not this plain a, the sun at noon day :?
The mass Of all parties is composed of men
who earn an honest living by honorable toll
That Labor may be dlgniiied and honorable
should be the care of every laboring man,
At the South where everything is performed
by slaves, labor is degraded and the whita
man who has to earn his living by the sweat
OF his brow, is consequently put down to
the same level with the slave, and is con-
temned and despised Did not Gov. Ham
mend of South Carolina say that laborng
men We're no batter than slaves? Did he
not insultingly call them the mere s.mud
sills' of society, and that they ought to be
kept in the degraded position that the poor
white man is forced to occupy in slavehold-
Ing states? Does not the very institution Of
slavery or TRACE every principle Of democra-
cy, and does it not surely tend to make the
poor man poorer and the free man slave :?
Where or how can there possibly be more
outrageous aristocracy than is presented by
an institution, which allows one man to own
the labor of hundreds without remuneration,
and which not only affects the black nan.
but ten thousand times more INJURIES and
ruins the laborins white man. Oh, We vo-
tiers of the 9th District who support this
curse to freemen, this ruination to all white
men who are obliged to earn their livelihood
by honest toll, by voting for self-intcrested
Office holders, who for the sake of the pay
they get from the Shareholders, are doing all
they can to delude you, SO that by your own
votes they can get the very power to keep
you in subsection, and to sell out your best
interests and fill their own pockets Ponder
well on the story of the monkey who per-
shaded the cat to pull the nuts from the fire,
and who, while the poor cat was mourning
over her burnt paws, very coolly amused
himself by eating all the chestnuts; for this
again is an illustration of the bogus democ-
racy Poor Arno Wiswell was laid out an
buried by the funereal convention of the
of the Shareholders tools; and why? Was
he not faithful servant: would he not
obey at the command of his southern mas
tiers? Oh yes but as he has never received
any special spoil as a reward, the managers
thought it safer to have a carl, and Bion
Bradbury, the quondam Collector of Pas
samaquoddy, was found as Offering the I'M
mlstakable guarantee of utter devotion t.
the will and the command of the slave-driycrs
in the fact that he had received some $40 .OOO
for his share so far, of the spoils, and tn,
magical eff ct which such another prospcc.
tive pile would have over poor weak human
nature, was plain TO all; and has alread,
given power to the candidate to attempt d
feat which no circus rider in the known
world has yet accomplished, that of riding
two horses on two tracks, and while pretend
ing from one side Of his mouth TO be a Pro
tectlve tariff man--for freedom in Kansas
a Douglas democrat, and opposed to the
Administration; is on the other, giving anc
taking aid and counsel from the administra.
ton slaves OF the Custom House; and shoulc
he talk his tongue off, could never convince
any who have known him that he is not de
voted heart and soul to the interests of tn,
aristocratic Shareholders, or that he woulc
vote If in Congress, for any measure thai
would not suit the South. wholly unmindfu
of the interests of his own section, or of the
cause of free labor.
Those who pretend to look through the
milestone, do say that Robert Burns, whe
SO smoothly tucked Bon out Of the Collec
torship, may at heart be really rejoiced Il
see him defeated in the present contest, fol
if defeated now he would be politically
buried as deep as poor Arno Wiswcll and