Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-25

I puDllc opinion at tne polls; IN other words, Ia
carry elections. The Secretary of be NAVY
among others, may know something of this ii
he should not, the Patterson letter, with the Pres
| idents endorsement, may afford him information
Public property of great value is sold privately
and covertly, at tithe of its worth; other is
bought at almost fabulous prices. Navy Yards
post oiiices, custom houses and mints have been
stocked, crowded, crammed, for weeks and
months, with superanuates and dlers and paid
the wages only due to well schooled craft acd de.
serving industry, for the mere purpose of over
riding the legal voters, returning parasites. tum
bier and trencher friends to Congress, and pub
fishing an attested lie to the world. These facts
these fragrant violations of preservative law and
decent behavior-have all been endorsed here in
this place, in this house, and uttered and publish
ed as true and genuine Democracy. God save
the Republicl And knowing them all, and in
the face of them all, the President himself, to
whom but three short years ago we give the full
ness of our confidence, now blahching before the
frowns of an outraged and insulted constituency,
cants and whines in hypocrtical numbers over
the degeneracy of the times, and in the express
sion OF fear lest elections should be carried by
gold. Catching the sounds of lamentatIon as they
issue from the open easements and portals of the
White House, your Biglers, Joneses, ct I'D Omne
| genus, move with the hushed and solemn tread of
mourners and shed gouty tears fblood
! The indefensbe and destructive management
OF the Post Office Department, requires especially
to be noticed. Within very short period, for
the mere purpose of cnrching contractors, be-
slowing largesses upon sterile and uninhabited
districts of the South, and acquiring power, the
expenditures have been almost doubled-run up
to the enormous sum oftwenty millions of dollars
and the mail system made bv-word and re-
proach. With new, extended and expensive
routes, without corresponding returns sunk in
fathomless debt aye, paralyzed by burdens, its
chief Justify cries for help, and piteOusly beps the
GIp NJ r,alf Drt,
does he callP Upon those to whom the appeal is
always made when money, votes, soldiers, or
other effective help is required, upon the laborng
thrifty-the "mudss" of the eastern, northern
middle and western States. 1t is consong
to know we are good enough to pay, if not to re-
ceive. We are at least able, if not respectable.
If we have not chivalry, we have fields, farms
and factories. Let us then, without whimpering,
"split the difference" The "F. F. vs. or the
"F. +. It's" shall take all the posts of patronage,
and we pay their debts. The plan proposed, by
which we shall do this, is very simple one. We
have only to pay FIVE cents instead of three, on
each letter we write, abolish the present crank
ing privilege" and consequently, cut off the dis.
trbution Of all seeds and agricultural and me
chanica and political information from our peo-
pie, and the thing is, IN a great measure acc I'M
plished. And why not do this? To be sure ere
more than pay ROa0 for all our postal service and
these documents are highly priced by us, but do
we not know that "the domestic institution" is
too poor to pay, and too ignorant to read. We
seem to be prone eternally to forget that we were
made for hewers OF wood and drawers of water.
live would remember this fact, | think we could
cordially unite with those who met here on the
9Th ut., and join then in peans and praise to
the new American Monarchy.
1t has become humiliatng to pride to speak the
truth, for it has become uniashionable and al.
most incredible. Largely in debt, pressed on all
sides by voracious creditors, with present abil-
iftv fn Il
bilities, the President of the United States has
shown himself incompetent to carry any measure
of relief. Yet, this man and his cabinet are ap-
paled, terrorstricken and motionless, in view OF
the natural results of their own policy. If it wers
permissible, would recommend them to nfuse
little fire into the INSTRUMENTATION
"Ihstead of sanding, staring altogether,
like garden gods-and not so decent, either"
To blind our sight to its short comings, to COW
up its dsgraceful defects and to reconstruct its
sinking fortunes. the administration now propo-
ses, by virtue of transfer of the war-making
power to itself, to visit chastisement upon feeble
States for imaginary wrongs, and by the acquisi-
tion OF Cuba to extend the area of freedom glut-
tonized on slavery. man sefmade mad, and
then sefdestroyed-a Lear in rags and not in
robes-having lost the sceptre by the weakness
of fclly, clutches the flying air, aud seeks to
mount again to power and influence. Vanity Of
vanities there is no restitution for fallen great
ness.
A few material inquiries may possibly present
themselves, when we come to consider the pro-
priety OF the purchase of the vain and much prais-
ed "Queen of the Antilles" and of bringing her
into our loving and lecherous embrace In what
way, by what mysterious means, with what magic
key will you draw the thirty golden millions de-
manded by the President as earnest money. and
the hundreds of millions afterwards, from a
strong box, empty as the heart Of its keeper, and
which is more secure in locking it in How far
will a well regulated prudence determine us to
go, in entrusting such vast amounts in the hands
of one who has already deceived us-in whom we
have no confidence By what legal secret will we
be able to consummate purchase of Spain, who
has determined not to sell? And how can we bet
ter secure ourselves against those, who, in league
with the President, have sought to humiliate us
by adding to their power and extension, and bv
giving them the control of the Gulf of Mexico as
they may have it over the Mississippi? think |
can school myself to love my enemies; but not
better than myself ! can willingly admit my
brother to an equal enjoyment of a common in
heritance; but cannot when he does me violence
and injustice, strengthen his arm so as to enable
him fOrcby to take it all. Sir, | can and will
love my southern neighbor. freely admit him
to an equal participation Of all the fruits of our
generous system. will divide with him the tenn
| Pile of Liberty. will shield him from the evil
! doer. But when he denies to me what am will
ing to grant to him, and that which my title COW
ers, | will not stultify myself and place weapons
IN his hand for my destruction; and will never
pay tribute for either his kindness or forbear-
| anee.
Cuba may be important to the Union; will
admit that it will be so when we have Just and
equal laws and honest officers, but before we ac-
quire it | desire to be informed whether any legis-
ation can possibly be had as beneficial to Penn
sylvana as the purchase would be to Tennessee
or Georgia and above all shall seek to know
| rd U-p rpt IN ba cd Enrif
am traitor, an unconscious and unrewarded
one to either thrty-three or fifteen States | will
not add to the enormity of my Offense by extend
ing the number ofStates against which my guilt
must operate
have stated as concsey as | could, nv iudg-
ment of the management of the government for
| the last two years. | trust have made it plain
an distinct have not descended to minute par
ticulars the proof of my declarations having be-
come matter Of enduring record has rendered it
unnecessary to do so. | leave it before you and
the country as a full justification for our present
course, and the reason for our settled determi-
nation to refuse to be identified with movements
we both deplore and despise. Desiring to be fair,
we cannot tolerate deception. Sustaining right,
we must denounce usurpation. Asking justice,
we cannot infiict wrong Economy is not pre-
sented TO us as a choice it is forced upon ms as a
necessity; and having been schooled in a system
of politics that we love, and taught to regard
purity as essential to power, il is too late in our
lives to turn demagogues to maintain maior.ties,
or to barter for smiles ON o ten rule. 1t true
that renewed and continued denunciation and
prescription are likely TO be our reward for the
choice that we make, but | cannot avoid limiting
to those who suppose they have tlrOttled the
wolf, that they may have only caught him by the
ears.
1t is told that when the Belvidere Apollo was in
the Louvre, lady of gushing and tascinat ng
beauty, came with each returning sun to look up
-. .ttfi