New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-03
LErTER FRosa WASHINGTON.

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LETTER FROm WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Grescent.l
WASHINGTON, August %, 1866. 4
" THE BREAD AND BUTTER BRIGADE.
4 We are in an unusual state of activity for this
season of the year. The city is crowded with
numbers Of patriotic strangers who have come
here with the ayowed purpose and serious deter
! minaton of saving the country from impending
i danger. How is this great end to be attained
1 BY new declaration of principles, by some
/ great stroke of craftsmanship? No; the country
is to be rescued by the removal of the Jonesville
postmaster or the Popkinsyille collector. Sir
tell you,2 saith disinterested party, 4" that MI
johnson is allowing himself to be deceived and
4 his policy to go by the board. Smith, OF my
i town, conceals in his heart the most obdurate
radca1ism, and yet sir, yet, sir, he is enjoying the
/ government Electromagnetic is actually holding the
! distinguished position of internal revenue col
Hector for my district. The country is in deplo-
rable condition. Now, sir, dom twant the office;
| / am not a public man; but my friends desire me
to accept it. if the President offers it to me, and
4 feel it would not be doing them justice to decline.
Just come in here for one minute; this is a nice,
| quiet spot. I want you to look at my papers,
i from the best people of my town. will venture
to say, sir, that no man ever came to Washington
with such papers, And unless you relieve your
self of this incubus in some manner, you will soon
be covered with rolls of dirty foolscap, inscribed
with illegibe signatures, and pressed on you for
. inspection as a pleasing literary entertainment
If your weakness still endures, your name will
soon be registered in the list of indorsers, as a
respectable and reliable merchant of town
ol-y1py
i We are actuallySoverrun with cormorants of this
4 type; who rehearse the abominable farce which
has been in the mouths of ofice-seekers since the
days Of Cicero.
The decree has properly gone forth from the
White House that no man can receive pay from
the thirty-sx States who is in favor of depriving
ten of those States of the rights and privileges of
freemen. Such an anomaly can no longer exist
it negative of every principle of popular gov
eminent and sets up despot where servant
should be. But no sooner had the intention of
the executive become known, than signals were
raised in every State, and the armyof "the outs"
marched in combined attack to storm the castle
of 1.-THE ins,'' eject them far beyond its gttering
walls and place in their stead new lords and mas
tiers of the administrative domain. They came on
in a surging tide Of patriotism, paying their own
4 expenses from the points of departure, merely to
see with their own eyes that the government was
placed in the hands of trustworthy citizens
Since the adjournment of the Philadelphia Con
yention, they have beseged the doors of every
department chief, The White House is like bank
just paying the dividend on some stock whose
status in the market had been hitherto doubtful.
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president. on this yery topic. In replv 10 q, re-
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\ than three are dissatisfied with every instance d
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vailed three hours per dav for the snaee of three
i weaIs Is obtain an interview with Mr. ,robnson
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