Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-10-14
John L. N. Stratton.

THE nomination of this gentleman as q can
didate for Congress from this district, gives
the best of satisfaction to the people in every
quarter of our County, and considerable un-
e~asiness to the Lecompton Democracy. Nor
l s this feeling confined to Monmouth alone.
From every quarter of the district the reports
indicate the umPn
1.-THE Lecomptonites in their last agonies, are
resorting to every species of stratagem to
enable them to make a shoao but it is of no
use-the people will no longer submit to their
trickery. As usual Col. WALL has mounted
his Quarantine hobby, and shore appropriation
bill. and a few of his friends along our coasts
are endeavring to persuade the people that SO
far as their interests are concerned, the cleo
ton of Col. WALL is the most important event
that could ~happen-that liberal appropriations
will be made by the Administration for the
preservation of life and property or the coast,
should the Col. succeed bat in case he should
not, the efforts of any other person will not be
regarded. Such logic must be disgusting to
every sensible man, and in fact has called forth
censure from very many of the well-meaning,
sensible portion of the Democracy. An ar
ticle in the Ocean Emblem" of the 9th inst,
fully meets our views upon the subject, from
which we make the following truthful ex-
tracts
s"Eveh those Democrats for whose especial
benefit this offer is made, acknowledge that
the Government is trespassing on the rights
of the people-that the Administration are,
in this particular, attempting to alternate the
per9gatiVe> Of freemen, and yet they partici
pate in the wrong--become a party to the
Federal corruption and brides, by which
means they seem to Obtain the votes of free
men. We call upon the voters along shore
and throughout the District to remember this:
The Administration say that the people Of
this District must elect Col. VAIL if they wist
liDera appropriations, as the efforts of an OPP.
position Representative will not he snSta ned .
This is the language Of Mir Buchanan aud his
CABINET, as reported BY the person to whom,
it was communicated Freeman, OF the Sec
o d .District, how do you like IL?
.
OpiiSbitubiOhdi fiSliOo vi Iu6 pSOpl0 III IL Tune
to arouse--it is time for men OF all parties,
Republicans, Americans and Democrats to
unite against the growing despotism and crnsh
it in the bud Such will be the action of the
voters of this District ; they will repeI the
gross insult and reject the candidate and the
bride offered by the President and his Cabinet
with a derisiye scorn, whitening the very vitals
of the corrupt party who dares thus to insult
t ieir integrity"
Let every freeman of our district remember
t lat, though they contribute the proportion Of
the one hundred millions of dollars expended by
the Government, aud though the Administra-
tion acknowledges that the Government is un-
der obligations to make liberal appropriations
for our coast, and coastmen yet the President
requires that the people shall exercise no choice
ia the selection of their Representative, but
that 1hey shall elect d Representative selected
by him aud his cabinet as a condition for said
appropriations. Modesty and virtue have long
taken their departure from the lips that coul0
utter such an insult to the people. Shame
would cover the yisage of Satan with bushes,
were he to entertain such q thought, and burn
upon his brow in its utterance.
Independent of the wish of Mr.. Buchanan |
and his cabinet and regardless Of their threats,
the people have selected a candidate of their
own, JOHN. L. N. SrRArFoN, for his election,
Administration interference and brides are
not needed.