Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20


ferrcd to the Committee on Territories which
motion was not agreed to--yeas "a, rays 105.
The bill was then retired to the select COM
mittee of fifteen, +.
The House has portion Of the time had
under consideration an army bill reported by
Mr.. Quitman, rom the committee on Military
Affairs. 80 enfi7 AZ
We read Of religious papers, among the va
rious denominations of Protestant Christians,
but we are satisfied, that, taking our country in
its length and breadth, the people are growing
worse. From the testimony which comes be-
fore us by every mail, we are forced to conclude,
that the standard of public virtue is sinking
lower and lower every day, and that our boast
ed oirtues are fast degenerating into loo doaon
RIGHTEOUSNESS AS nation, though less than
one hundred years old, we are rapidly verging
into crime, profigacy, and corruption, Our
once mild and enlightened Republican,
boasted representative government, is now the
most corrupt government in the civilized world!
And the present administration of the General
Government is the most weak, profigate, and
corrupt of any we have had, since the organi-
cation ofthe government. And we see no
promise of any thing better in the future
whether we look to the difficult questions which
are now occupying the public mind, or the
corrupt agents by whom these questions are to
be settled. As many as two Territories, Utah
and Kansas, are in state Of open rebellion,
calling for strong and expensive military ex-
petitions, to stay the Tide of bloodshed and
revolution-al growing out of the weakness,
mismanagement, and culpable remissness of
the present administration. The North is ar
rayed against the South, andthe South against
the North, in fierce sectional hostilities Our
great lights, Clay, Webster, Calhoun, and
others, who shone with such brilliancy in the
halls of legislation, and who inspired the minds
of our people with confidence in the stability
of.our institutions, and the perpetuity Of our
Union, have gone down to their graves.
We know no remedy for these evils, present
and prospective. The real people are honest
they are the Warwicks TO make and unmake
laws and governments-but they have been,
and are still, deluded by their leaders, and by
designing and corrupt men in power. We are
fast going the way Of former Republics cover
cd with disgrace, RIGHTEOUSNESS, and corruption.
We would not If we could, preserve our gov
eminent any longer, in such hands, and under
such rule. Down with the stars and stripes-let
the ships State be given to the angry winds and
waves--let her 60 down ingloriously into. the
deep, rather than see her disgraccd and plum
dered by set of thieves and peuurcd williams,
who claim to be her officers and guardiansi
And now all this national decentralization,
may be traced to the leaders Of a spurious De-
mocracy, latter day Democrats, who have de-
parted from the faith Of true Democracy, and
disgrace that sacred name Their scramble for
the spoils, their system Of prescription, their
intolerance Of opinion, the Sepoy vengeance
with which they hunt down all opposed to
them in sentiment, their false issues their two
faces, one for the North and another for the
South, are working out nothing but corruption,
and the ruin and overthrow of the laws and
constitutions Of the country All this must,
and ought to end, either in the disruption of
that party, or in the destruction Of the gov
crnment the noblest one ever founded by the
wisdom, the virtue, and patriotism Of man, and
cemented by the blood Of patriotsl
But we sat out to give an incident Of cor
ruption which occurred at Washington between
the Administration and certain parties in our
own State. The "Cairo Mail Company"
through Bremen 4 Patterson, we believe, bid
off daily line under Pierce's administration,
'the Boats TO be owned or controlled by the
Company" and to run as Mail Packets be-
tween Cairo and New Orleans. This contract
was bid off at $685., 900, and were to forfeit
three times daily mail pay for each failure
The "Mcmpbis q New Orleans Packet Com
pany," wealthy Company, owning six Of the
most reliable and expeditions steamers on the
Mississippi, bid what they could afford 10 per-
form the service for. This Company, perfectly
responsible, lost the bid and an irresponsible
Company, having no Boats, got the contract
For seven consecutive trips, the memphis q
New Orleans Packet Company" carried the
mails for the irresponsible Company, at $500
per tip. The Company having the contract,
made business Of picking up Boats as they
could, and these being trading or freighting
Boats they delayed at all the points, and failed
to reach Memphis haiftheir time. In order 70
get Off the mail at New Orleans, they have
been sending It on any slow Boat they could
catch up; and the next day, they would take
IL off and ship 1t on faster Boat passing This
was going on, as II still is, under the admins
tration Of Pierce. "
Now, the failures Of this 'Cairo Mail Com
pany, /" brought upon their devoted heads fines
to the amount Of $14o,oee, which Postmaster
General, Campbell, with Roman firmress, re-
fused to set aside Gov Jones, before his Sem
storial term Of service expired, got a bin pass
ed requiring the matter Of these fines TO be re-
considered Aaron v. Brown proved obsti-
nate, and the case, under the management Of