Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-07-30

could raise, pledged the industry Of the peo.
pie for years to come borrowed money M.
on what they dare not steal, " I'd bestowed
upon the town legacy Of unps id debts. and
accumulating interest s...,
The treasure thus pillaged supplied means
to exait the robbers, and psspetuate tho rob-
berry: TIE people were reduced by poverty
to a Helpless state Of ,vassa lage. The tax
the Irish tax--must be paid, or the property
con6scated, to satisfy q partisan law, and, in
in either case, the money to enable the op.
pressors to continue and extend the oppres-
sion. 80.
Many poor wretch lost the labor of years
from failing to redee'm his little property from
the bhghting curse IF this villainous trick
He found an uneq, .al race between honest in
tegrity and roguish villainy, and sunk with
despair, striving to redeem his property from
tax almost equal to its value, and that
drawing IS per cent. interest; and further,
was he disheartened by conviction that
the tax, when paid, was bestowed upon the
basest of creatures, and for the basest of pur-
poses.
1t was from such sources of revenue
wealth distilled from the tears of the multi
tude-by laws passed first to entrap proper
| ty, and then challenge resistance-that plac-
ed II. NJ. Rice in the United States Senate,
and Sbley in the position he now occupies
The acts which brought about these results
have been bountiful only in tears, miseries,
poverty, and every evil free people can sui:
fer, except despair.
IF this be the doctrine of "equal rights'' =
of Republican principles"-for Gods sake
let US try change. Anything. even the Au.
tocracy of Russia, would be blessing in
comparison. MINNEsoTUs.
DEMOCRATIC C0NscRIPrIONs AND LEvIEs FOE
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1860.
WASHINGTON, June 90.
The system of registering and taxing the
salaries of officers has already commenced
This system Of accumulating an immense
corruption fund was introduced for the first
time in the history of the government the last
campaign. In 1856 an average clerkship was
taxed $40. This is not conjectural, but fact
which no honest party man dare deny
These levies alone would produce fund of q
million ofdollars, without estimating the sums
raised from private party subscriptions.
The collections commenced yesterday II
the Post Office Department, were first in
stallment Of So each, and as tomorrow is the
payday in the Treasury Department, it is
anticipated the collector will be on hand.
Commencing thus early to make monthly
collections, who can estimate the fabulous
sums the party will have on hand some year
and half hence.
This is done. too, to retain in power par.
ty which the nation despises and breads. A
party which has abandoned principles and in
terests wholly to anarchy and corruption fo1
success.
Mark the consistency of these redoubtable
politicians. Mr.. Buchanan, in his letter tc
the Pittsburg meeting, says: "Should thu
practice Of employing money to carry cleo
tons continue, the fountain of free govern
nent will be poisoned at its source, and w
must end in a military despoasm"
The old man, in this letter, appeals to his
long experience-to his great age to his
want of ambition for longer public life-te
his love for the Republic, and to the privilege
OF an OH man to siv" parental advice ant
yet the deadly and sure work OF ,..~sfsrrine
the Republic into military despotism,'' i
going on more extravagantly than ever, in thu
very departments over which he has absolute
! control.
assert two facts, and defy contradiction
first, that in 1856 the officers of government
we're assessed and paid corruption money t.
elect Mr.. Buchanan, and that the sum O
about ST. 900 was yesterday collected in tn
Post Office Department alone; or else Dem
ocratic authority lies furiously ; and that THU
work cannot 60 forward without the knowl
edge and conniyance, if not the sanction, o
the President. He also said, on the 22d o
November, 1868, that such base corruption
would ruin the Republic and create a "mui
tary dsspotism."
If the present condition of things will no
rouse the people; If there is so little patriot
ism; so little public spirit and virtue left, tina
such unresisted tyranny may advance upo1
us with gigantic strides, then we are ALREADY
fit subjects for any kind of despotic master
We may fold our clean hands in ease ant
indifference for brief period longer, but un
less there be some miraculous change, we vii
stain the flagstaff of the Union with tn
t blood of patriots ere We replace it upon tn
= citadel of Liberty. MrNSEsorUs.
WASHINGTON, July 10, 1859.
To a man Of spirit. subordinate, or infe
ror office, is Objectionable, sersiie, mean, de
grading, or humiliating, when an unprnci
n