Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-05-30
From the Murfreesboro Telegraph.

This is great country and dcmocracy'is a
great ~ institution. and the people of a por-
ton of Rutherford and Wilson counties are
now reaping directly some of the fruits of
democracy. There mas be IN for several years
past weekly mail from Murfreesboro to Leb-
anon, via Lascasas Milton, GAINESVILLE, Hud-
deston's X Roads, &c. This mail was car
ried on horseback, and left Murfreesboro every
Saturday morning. The people in the vicini-
ty of the above named places depended upon
this mail for their papers and letters. We
learn that the contractor for carrying the
mails for this route has abandoned it, because
the government was not able to pay him for
his services. Thus see the evil effects of
the democratic administration right here in
our midst. The people by hundreds are de-
prived of their newspapers and letters weekly
through the corruption and extravaganza of
the government.
But democratic editors will tell you that
the fault lies among the Opposition members
of Congress who voted against the Post Office
Appropriation Bill. But not so fasti you
please. Numbers of Southern democrats vo-
ted against this bill; prominent among them
we find ToOmbs, of Georgia. and Davis, of
Mississippi. with hosts OF others whom We
could mention.
Reflect upon this state of affairs, honest
democrat. Your lnrdly democratic members
OF Congress can take their ease upon ninety
tUe dollar lounge and comb their democratic
heads before thirteen hundred and fifty dollar
lOoking-glass while hundr, DIS of you hard
listed democrats have to BE- deprived of your
usual Saturdays mail and of your Saturday
evenings reading, because the gOveCnm MT
has, by its extravaganza, rendered itself una
BILE to pay two hundred dollars per annum to
carry the mail from Murfreesboro to Lebanon,
and remember also that this same govern
ment could afford to pay thousands of dollars
for surplus hands to work in Navy Yards in
order to secure the election of democratic
members to Congress.
Can the honest hard. listed democracy of
Rutherford county, vote for men who uphold
the policy of this corrupt party? We think
they cannot Hitherto the corruptiOns of the
government have not been felt so sensibly by
the people. because they have not OPP rated 50
directly upon them, but now they can be felt
by every man, woman aud child in the land.
1t is through the mails that the farmer gets
intelligence of the price of produce, through
it the client communicates with his lawyer,
the merchant makes his remittances, the lone
ly wife receives intelligence from her absent
husband, the fond mother from her dear boy
who sojOurns in strange land. the sister
from an absent but a beloved brother and
through it the people generally get the rews
of the day. This must now DC cut off because
of a reckless, eXIravagant government, and
that government welded by the democracy.
We really do feel astOnished that any p rSon
who endorses 'he general policy Of this dolHainis-
trdtOn' can have assurance to ask any man To
vote for him, when he ought to know that he
is endorsing policy which is bringing ineyi-
table ruin upon the country.