Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1860-01-26
The Bargain and Sale---shanghai
Democracv.

The Sussex Democrat of the 10th instant, o
conservative Democratic organ, comes ont
boldly and decidedly against the recent bar
gain and salt" arrangement between the Shang-
halls and Democrats in the organization Of the
House of Assembly. A week before the or.
ganization it gave the members from that coun-
~ fair warning that the Democracy Of Sussex
would stand no such agreement, and from the
article now before us we are satisfied that il
means to make good its warning. 1t Says:
= If there is any one thing in which all
Democrats are agreed, we sepposed it was q
determined opposition TO the old bigoted and
proscriptiye Native American Party Demo
Gratis have always claimed since the days o.
Jefferson, to be the defenders of the equal
constitutional rights of cur adopted citizens
and nowhere have they more uniformly ad
b red to this than in New Jersey where there
are thousands Of naturalized citizens perhaps
me quarter Of the whole Democratic party, and
in some places, Newark for one, more thar
half And yet last week. in the. organization
of the House of Assembly, three out Of the
four lucrative Offices in its gift were given tc
these natives and they the worst of the breed
being the regular West Jersey Shanghais
commonly called doYfi there, church-burncrs
from the fact of their having aided in burning
several Catholic churches. The Democrats
had thirty members of the Assembly, and the
Shanghais only two, and yet they got the lions
share. There was no necessity for this shame
full abandonment of Democratic principles, by
giving these lucrative offices to our heretofore
most bitter opponents, at the expense Of good
Democrats who were asking for them - Dem
ocrats who had already been hard working
and faithful-thus encouraging and keeping
alive this Shanghai party by the hope of more
such bargains in the future. BY standing
firm to our principles, and our own men, al
these Offices could have been secured by good
Democrats, and the party saved from the obi
um and disastrous results Of this bargain
There are many doubtful Assembly Districts
which we carry only by the help of our nat
uralized citizens, and we shall be greatly dis
appointed if they do not next fall, in those
Districts, resent this insult upon them by de
feating the members who perpetrated it.
While Messrs. Decker and Mackerly voted
for these Shanghais,. we rejoice that Mr. Cole
refused to make himself party to the comb
nation. If they have satisfactory reason te
give for their course TO the Democrats Of then
Districts, we are at loss to conceive what il
is"
The Sussex Register another of the ables
Journals of the State, thus refers to the sams
matter:
:" The most corrupt and unprincipled coali
ton ever formed. by political parties is thai
which now exists in our Legislature between
the Democrats and the Shanghai Americans
The officers of the House of Assembly were
divided between these two parties; three o
one kind and three of the other. Last Tues
day new Office was created, that of Keeper
of the House gallery, and George Wildly, {
full blown Shanghai, was placed in it, chief
ly by Democratic votes.
The Shanghai Americans are known .as " ma
tives" of the most ultra stripe, being the sam,
that burned the churches III Philadelphia
few years ago They had but two members o
the House; yet it SO happened, that Judg
Mar OF the True ARerIcdn could not be mad
printer of the Legislature without the votes 0
these two men, they were roped in" by al
lowing them to name four officers of tn
House. Every thing like principle was sarri
feed, to give Mar the printing. Out of thi
job the old fellow can make four or five thous
and dollars clear money, provided the Legis
lature permits things to go on in the extrava
CANT and rascally way which has been th
practice for three or four years pastn