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 SAYINGS AND DOINGS, 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ^ Dear Reader; In'presenting this little work for your perusal, your at- 
 ^tention is asked, your consideration of its merits invoked, from the convic- 
 « tion that it contains some truths, which you ought to know; and know- 
 •^ing, will at once set about correcting the evils therein detailed. For the 
 *^moment'throw aside any prejudice that may have been engendered in 
 {^your mind at the name or title of this book, or by a hasty glance at its 
 contents; and with the careful and candid research ofa seeker after truth, 
 canvass the whole work, test the existence of the circumstances alluded 
 to, — the unreasonableness, impolicy, and injustice of the facts presented — 
 ^ and in the honest, sober sense of duty you owe to yourself, judge fairly and 
 discriminately, praise where it is merited and condemn^where it is deserved. 
 It may be asked by the reader, who is perhaps no politician; what have 
 I to do with the operations of the Ofiice Holders 1 it is no concern of mine ! ! 
 indeed ! dear friend it is of concern to you! You have something to do in 
 tills mitter — are you not interested intlie proper discharge of all Official 
 duties, have you not a right to expect, yea, to demand that all the offices 
 required tor the purposes of Government,shall be filled by discreet, prudent 
 and faithful men ; whose salaries shall be fair and just, proportionate to 
 their duties, and in all cases large enough,in no instance too high, and never 
 too low. It is your right, to expect every man to do his duty when paid 
 for it. 
 
 Are you not interested in the collection of the duties, imposed by law 
 tipon foreign imported goods, and the safe and timely transfer of the rev- 
 enue thus derived, to the people's treasury ; are you not concerned in the 
 xlelivery and receipt of your letters ta'proper season, and in good condition! 
 these questions apply themselves to every man, and the answer is at 
 hand. 
 
 To tlie politician, to the party man, we say, you are concerned for the 
 honor of the party: you are interested in a judicious distribution of the of- 
 fices. — You have a right as a party man, independent of your right as a 
 citizen, to have all offices filled with such individuals as are competent to 
 perform the duties,capab]e of appreciating the responsibility oftheir station, 
 and to be in all cases, of such age and experience in life, as will enable them 
 to place a just estimation upon every official relation, in which they stand 
 io the party and the people. 
 
 If these are your rights, interests, and privileges ! you certainly cannot 
 
rind fault with me for putting you in the possession of facts, and reasoning 
 with you, for the purpose ot inducing you to look to these things. The ob- 
 ject of the author, is to have you know and maintain your rights, take care 
 of your interests, and exercise all the privileges of a freeman! 
 
 'It may bo suggested to your mind, that the author, who professes to be a 
 member of the Democratic party, is one who has been disappointed in his 
 ambitious strelches foi office, and consequently disaftccted: it is not soithe 
 author's views and feelings, never have been changed for such reasons, nor 
 could they be,for in all his desires or applications for situations of any kind, 
 and he lias held several responsible ones, he has always conceived, that 
 others had claims equal and many superior to him. The reader, if he knows 
 any thing about human nature, will perceive, that, a man with such views 
 would not become disaffected, because disappointed; provided he was fairly 
 dealt with: disaffection, lukewarmness, treachery and opposition are the 
 consequences upon those, who think their merits greater, and claims strong- 
 er than those of anj one else. 
 
IVe oflen hear men talk of Democracy — of democratic principles; and 
 FhonlJ we ask them what democracy is, they would say, it was that form 
 of Government, in which the people are rulers, and wherein all are consid- 
 ered alike free and equal; where all have the prJvileg-e of voting, and 
 every man, no matter how poorer humble, is eligible to the highest office 
 in the nation. Now this is all correct, so far as it g-oes; but democrat* 
 should look farther than this, for although in freedom, equality,suifrag'e, and 
 eligibility, we may realize the fundamental principles of Republican De- 
 inocracy, we are still in want of something else, t.f) make demociacy con- 
 tribute to our peace, prosperity and happiness. What would freedom be, 
 without the love of it? there is no love of it, nor can there be, without a 
 practical demonstration of it. It we love freedom as democrats, we love it 
 •not for ourselves alone, but love it for alL, and endeavour to perpetuate the 
 possession of it to all. 
 
 [four freedom is not used fi^r the promotion o!"tlie general good, it is not 
 a democratic freedom : if it serves to make ns unhappy and unprosperous 
 it is worse tlmn slavery. What is all our boast of the cherished principle of 
 equality, if it is not exemplified in evary act of the government, and car- 
 ried out by the people in all their political operations: Equality ! talk not, 
 of it, while the thousand acts, passed by our State Legislatures, give spe 
 cial priveleges to one man, to one body of men, for his, or their exclusive 
 •benefit: talk not of equality, while in the administration of law and justice, 
 the law is perverted, and justice withheld; when men are estimated on ac- 
 count of their parentage, wealth, fashionable life, or some other a,dventi- 
 tious circumstance; when virtue and intelligence are not taken into consi- 
 deration — when the hopes of men are raised and flattered, not because of 
 -any intrinsic worth in themselves, but, because they are orators, or distin- 
 guished in popular view, for what is erroneously call'd "inflnencial men." 
 Equality! thou art but a name! And what is that dearest and inestimable 
 blcssing,called iSuffrage! it is an unmeaning word in the democratic diction- 
 ary, an illusion, a solemn mockery of the independence we profess to enjoy, 
 find of those glorious rights and privileges, wliich we claim under tJie 
 Constitution, if the intenlion and design of the voter, is perverted by fraud, 
 'Or frustrated by intimidation or open violence. The experience of several 
 years past, has almost induced many, very many, to speak lightly of uni- 
 versal suffrage; yea, the most decided friends of this great lepubiican privf- 
 lege, have been almost driven from their love and admiration of it. It i< 
 useless to refer to particular cases, wherein the most daring frauds have 
 been perpetrated, for there cannot be a man in the eonimunity, vvho do*'* 
 not know something cibout them — Eligibility, considered as a privilege in 
 the U. {StateL--, is one of the firjt principles .of equality; every man is privi- 
 leg'd to seek for appointment, or election to any office, provided for in the 
 constitution, or the lav^s made under it. There is no disquailification, ex- 
 cept as penalties for offences committed against the laws. Every go<>i 
 citizen has the privilege, itje right, whenever he pleases, to seek for office. 
 It belongs to ever}^ freeman ! ! But, because it is .every jnan's privilege 
 i;hus to do, we do not say, that every man should exercise it : the contrary, 
 we would say, that all should not, and wh^ ] hecausej neither b^ japtai,^ 
 
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 nor education are all qualified for public duties; incompetency is a 
 disability which should be recognised by freeman, when the law does 
 not interpose any. In justice to himself, every man ought to regard as a 
 cardinal doctrine and practice of Democracy,never to vote for, or aid in any 
 way in the obtainment of a public situation, any man, who is not compe- 
 tent, or able to qualify himself immediately for the duties thereof — But 
 hov^' is it with respect to party practices upon this subject. Competency 
 is very rarely considered ; and to the shame of the democratic party be it 
 «aid,that the most zealous, industrious,persevering, and otherwise deserving 
 Democrat, seldom or never gets an office worth any thing. Eligibility, is 
 less than a shadow- and worth nothing to an individual,un1ess he intrigues 
 with the leaders : without management or circumvention, it is next to an 
 in possibility, for him to realize, one half of the blessings, guaranteed to 
 hhn by the constitution and laws of his country. 
 
 Thus you see, there is something more necessary to ensure thehappiness 
 paace, and prosperity of the people, than the bare existence of Ireedom, 
 e<:[uality, sulfrage, and eligibility: there must be an honest purpose of the 
 heart in all our jwlitical acts. We must love freedom; there must be a 
 value set upon it according to that love, so that, we may practice upon 
 it relatively to our fellow men. There is no republican freedom, unless all 
 ■enjoy it; no love of it, without a desire and determination to extend itto alL 
 AVithout the love of freedom, it can not be universal, nor of long duration! 
 Remember this. 
 
 And, so with suffrage, honesty o? purpose and of practice is required. 
 This is the medium tlirougii which the people speak their desires, and ex- 
 ercise their dearest right of sovreignty. How can these desires be ex- 
 pressed and understood through the ballot 1:h3X, if not honestly given, and 
 when so given, honestly canvassed, considered, and accounted. The people 
 do not rule if their wishes are frustrated* they do not exert their sovreign- 
 ty, if they are cheated in tlie exercise of their right of suffrage ! 
 
 And, so with equality, is honesty of purpose required; we must be hon-" 
 est with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, we must be just to our 
 fellow citizens in our estimation of their rights and privileges — and allow 
 them upon fair principles, every civil, religious and political benefit they 
 are entitled to. 
 
 And lastly, eligibility is worse than ifit did not exist, -Nvhere it is not 
 f roperly regarded, and with honesty of purpose, made to contribute to 
 the honor of official stations, to the general good of the people, by the 
 -Election, and appointment of honest and competent men to office. 
 
 FROM THE VETO. 
 
 We are Democrats, and as such, anxious that the principles, the funda* 
 7mrnta.l and ever-living principles of our Republican form of Govcrnnient 
 .«hnll be practically illustrated in every act and measure of our country — 
 ve want the privileges and blessings secured to us by the constitution and 
 lifvlaws made under it, to be as extensively enjoyed as the circuit of our- 
 naLopal jurisuictioii ; we want the man in the hovel to realize the ^ue- 
 
^rentces of the constitution under which he lives, as well as him who dwells 
 in the palace; we want every man, no matter how low and humble, to " lee 
 tliat he is an American Citizen that he is entitled to freedom in its broadest 
 and most comprehensive sense; and knowing that he is a freeman — main- 
 tain the spirit and character of one. 
 
 We are opposed to all and every kind of ultraism ; believing that ex- 
 tremes are dangerous — we shall endeavor therefore to gain the medium 
 ground, and stand or fall upon it. Moderation exhibits itself in all the 
 prin:iples of democracy; the charter of our rights; the constitution of our 
 country breathes it spirit — our very liberty is to be preserved by the exer- 
 cise of it — moderation will carry us into the citadel of the heart, where tho 
 intelligent and reasonable man can be appealed to, and no> in vain ; and 
 even those whose passions and ill-humour get the better of their judge- 
 ment may be restrained by the force of example, when all precepts upon 
 moderation have been unavailing. We have no idea of being led or con- 
 trolled by radicalism of any kind, especially that of foreign growth, which 
 tianplanted in our genial soil, will,if not checked, choke our delicious fruits 
 of freedom and prosperity. 
 
 Democratic principles are plain, 9asy to be understood, and as easily 
 practised. The will oftlie majority of.the people is the law of the land — 
 that will, must be fairly and honestly expressed— and when expressed must 
 be religiously adhered to. The people are capable of self-government, 
 -WR mean by this, that they are not only able to govern, but to govern 
 well — and while they are virtuous and intelligent, submitting to the dic- 
 tates of reason, and exercising moderation and prudence in all their mea- 
 sures — there is no cause offearfbr the Republic. -On all occasions, at all 
 times, it is necessary that great care should be exercised in the choice of 
 ■men to administer the government. Men should be well tried before they 
 are selected for any responsible oiRce — and leaders must be scrupulously 
 w^atched, particularly wdiere they make strong professions of disinterested- 
 ness, and where they are very vigilant in getting up a new measure, or 
 industrious in the prom.otion of the views of a certain individual. Those 
 who make the most noise must be closely looked after — he who professes to 
 know all about the the tricks of the enemy, keep an eye on him, he is a 
 dangerous man — he who would die rather than change his principles — hs 
 that wants nothing — he that can get an office for any body and every 
 body must have his goings narrowly watched ; more than all, he that is e- 
 temally -suspicious of others should be watched, foi- "all is infected that the 
 infected spv." 
 
 DEMOCRATS, 
 
 Look around you, turn about and see tor yourselves, iliat yo« 
 %ave been the dupes of designing men for maRv years 
 past; you have been more generous then just, you "have 
 been too submissive to the dictates of men who ^have led 
 you ; confiding in their professed love of Roaie, you 
 have overlooked their ambition; professing disinierestfclness, the^ 
 have amassed wealth; and added house to house, and far.j£ o ana 
 ^iirough the credulity of a conikBiijg people^ 
 
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 While the honest Democrat, the serupulous supporter of his 
 |>rofessed principles, has rejected base ofters, or refused to fall in 
 with the train i)^ political speculation', while he has been consult- 
 ing his conscience upon the justice or propriety of a proposed 
 measure, some Sincere, IIoxest, Faithful leader has accepted 
 the terms, and made a handsome round svivo. for the benefit of him- 
 sell and famiij of sons and daigliters, who would feel themselves 
 disgraced by association, or the offer of the hand of aj90(?;vrepub- 
 can. 
 
 Look at the contracts for supplies, buildings, &c. Wlio gets 
 them? Look at the creation of offices expressly to give to some 
 favorite families, a chance to furnish two or three of their /jro/e^- 
 hional sons for the '^service," of Official Loaffing; look at the le- 
 gislative enactments, confering corporate powers and privileoes, 
 all, all created with the sole view of making moiiey vvithout^la- 
 borj i«it possible then, that a people, whose every interest is 
 identified wiih all these things, can look upon them with such 
 manifest indifference any longer? for the Democracy of the coun- 
 ty, we answer nol The man who works upon his "^seat all day 
 long, he who stands at his bench Aom sunrise till sunset, he who 
 drives his team 'a field is not consulted in the projected measures 
 of the party— neither his convenience or interests are taken 
 into consideration; but when matters are concoctttd, when plans 
 are cut and dried, then the laborer, the mechanic is told,'«so and 
 so we have done, so and so is the case. We want you to go a- 
 
 head, it is all right. Col, is decidedly in favor of it, and 
 
 Dr, says it is the only thing that wilfsave the party." If 
 
 ^ioubts are suggested, then it is said -don't be humbug'd, it will 
 all be right, there will be a chance for you, and what itan do for 
 jou, depend upon it, shall be done," They want it done at Wash- 
 ington" meanings that they at Washington want it done; this has 
 its effect and the honest, confiding democrat thinks, that in 
 fufilling the wishes of the leaders here and there, he is supporting 
 his party and doing the State some service. From this time let 
 every republican looJi out for hiinscU^and not be deceived by any 
 l^arty leaderi 
 
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 WHO GET THE OFFICES. 
 
 Tht! man who labors day and nio-ht for the g-ood of the party ? Nol the 
 poor democrat who allows himself to be used upon ever occasion as delegate, 
 as a member of committees &c. ] No ! The mm who sacrifices his time, 
 epends his money^ impairs his health, looses his friends, does he rretan office? 
 No ! The man who stands aJl day long- upon the eieclion ground, who runs 
 the risk of broken limbs, and peihaps his life, does ho gat an office? Oh No! 
 ««he's safe enough" he works from the love ofj^rinciple, there is iio use is 
 give him anj tiling. 2 
 
WHO ARE THE DEVIOORATIO LEADEIS! 
 
 We need not answer this quesiion for the ;icuveand busy por- 
 tion of the pyrty, tney knew ihem, but we answer it, for tlie be- 
 nefit of those who ate good Republicans, whose hearts are warm- 
 ed by the principles of Democracy, and wlo upon every occa- 
 sion, when ca/l'd, come forward and modestly put in their Votes; 
 who are not loud and boisterous, who run not from Dan to Beer- 
 sheba with hurtah-) ! who ar»" uot forever enquiring the newsl 
 and retailing slander from tavein to tavern; to such, we feel 
 bound to answer Mie question, that they may know who tlie men 
 are. that dictate tUjcirines for iheir advocacy, propose measures 
 for their support and put foivvard men for their suffrages. 
 
 To begin then ; the one Vv'hu stands most prominent on the 
 list, is the Man whose every word is soft as oil, whose lips speak 
 nothing impure or utiholy. whose heart yearns over the interests 
 of the DEAii PKoPi>K, whose highesi ambition is to live for their 
 honor and f/ze under the floating flag of the constitution rather 
 thcin the -'l/o/ic^yjo;/;er shrill navt* the ascendency over them. — 
 ^leed we say, that we allude to Col . James Page, who, as a Gen- 
 tleman comi5ities all the ietiuisitt characteristics, and of whom 
 asaCiiizt-n we may be higiilv {)!iiud. 
 
 Ihis leader, as we all k'.ow, is the Postmaster of the city, and 
 as such is expected to have, and does exercise an extensive po- 
 litical inBuence. We know '-oi. Page to be ardent; his zeal is of 
 no ordinary kind, but we fear the sincerity of his professions will 
 not be justified by his measures = He is the sworn enemy of 
 banks; the money po'i^er is the avvfnl hyd-a that startles him at 
 e\ery step, and whose desiruc.ioTi hr- seems determined to ef- 
 fect. 
 
 It is an axiotn in politics as well as morals, that a man's con- 
 duct must corresj)ond with his profession — that his practice 
 should be the counterpart of his theory, in order to enjoy the 
 merit of honesty ; this criterion alone is the test of sincer- 
 ity. 
 
 Taking his political character ao >.■... r.rinw it from his speech- 
 es and his writings, hov/ does his conduct comport with an un- 
 cotnpromismg hosiilhy w banks &€. We enquire, does he not 
 keep an account with two or three banks, depositing his 
 surplus funds from day to day with them, are they not 
 strengthened and fortiiied by it, (loes it not add a mite 
 to the dividends of the stockholders? in this ihen, he helps the 
 very power he professes to abhorl! 'Does he not obtain, Z«rg« 
 loans from these banks, in this then he feeds the monster, sus- 
 tains its vitality, and gives to it the very streiigth and power 
 requisite t© the consumation of its base designs. 
 
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 The above is not conjecture, the premi'>es are founded in fact, 
 and the conclusions are valid Howl can a man come before the 
 honest, unpretending democracy of the city and county, and in 
 the mosienihusiaslic manner denounce these institutions, tear- 
 in,Q; ihem piecemeal, exposint^ in glovvin.q; Characters their enor- 
 mities,and averini^ before heaven and his fellow men, with strong 
 and emphatic appeals to his own conscience, that with life, and 
 in deaih, he is, and will be,the unflinching and untiring foe 
 of the money powerl and at the same time is contributing the 
 very means of coniinuiug its existence! Such du])licity must be 
 exposed, such hypocric\ must be exhibited openly to view* Shall 
 we, the lianl workin gjaboring portion of the party, be made the 
 dupes of such men? shall wa be influenced by their empty profes- 
 sions; and while tt'eare practicing honestly the principles avowed ^ 
 by our leaders, bringing curses ui)on our heads, ruin upon our 
 families by our devotion and industry, they are parleying with 
 the enemy, and adding to their wealth and affluence through his 
 kind and beneficent instrumentality. Shall we submit to these 
 things any longer, No! No! '1 he honest jeomanry of the country 
 are beginning to look around them, we shall soon witness a re- 
 generation, when Jefiersonion Dtmecracy shall prevail, and 
 triumpnantly sustain the Hepuolicar instiiuiions of our Country. ' 
 We do not wish to do injustice to any man, especially members 
 of the same party with ourselves; But the duty we owe the par- 
 ty we have been a member of for many years, and yet more, the 
 duty we owe to theAmejican family; and still more than all, 
 the love we have for X26er/?y, impels us to speak plainly, and if^ 
 possible, be the means, in part, of bringing about a change for the 
 better. 
 
 Col Page enjoys the implicit confidence of his party, this gives 
 him almost unbounded inliuence, and renders him capable of 
 doing a great deal of good or of harm. He is consulted, or 
 seeks to be consuUed, upon every party appoinunent and nomi- 
 nation; in these matters his oj)inion settles the pro. et, con at once. 
 'I'o many, very many, he is the great oracle of Democracy and 
 j-cferVl to with the same sincere deference and devotion 
 that many of theeastc rn nations consulted theoracles of their day. 
 Tbisforms an additional and overpowering reason, why the peo 
 pie should know him- We have heard him speak times without 
 number, a' d every speech has teemed with praises of the people 
 with avowals ot h"s unlimited trust and confidence in them, that 
 
 the people, left to themselves could do no wrong" &c. We heard 
 
 omething however but a few weeks since, which disproved his 
 averments of confidence in the people and their representa- 
 tives. 
 
II 
 
 We have it from good authority, that he wanted the counts 
 DELEGATION to hokl its sessiotis with open doorsia. thinci; unpre- 
 cedented, and which would be the height of impolicy; a course, 
 ■which the rw/es for governing- the delegation, if not strictly, yet 
 tacitly forbid, and which the Col- no donbt knew. 
 
 For what did he want this? we cant imagine, unless it was ta 
 give hinn an opportunity for a personal supervision of thatbody, 
 or for the purpose of giving h'l'i prochcin. amy, of pugulisiic and 
 knock down notoriety, a chance to browbeat and menace, where 
 the proffers of an office, or the power of his el'jC|uence, could not 
 succeed, in carrying a point, or tak'uig off aman* 
 
 Professing unlimited confidence in the |)eople and yet a de- 
 sire to watch them!! The very suggestion supposes doubt and 
 suspicion, and denies the existence of sincerity in the profes- 
 sor! 
 
 We all remember what a stickler the Col. was for rotation in 
 office and "two terrus," with wiiat cogency he argued the princi- 
 ples to be democratic, and insisted that it should be one of the 
 cardinal doctrines of the party, Q.r)(l practical /y carried out. But 
 how is the matter now ; we hear nothing of ii, all is calm and 
 quiet — nay, rather, we would say, that gentleman holding fat of- 
 fices, entertain quite different rotary notions; the doctrine now is? 
 that an officer, at the expiration of his two terms, stands Upon 
 even ground with his fellows, and lliat it will not be improper for 
 him to seek a resiomination! That neither the appointing power 
 nor the incumbent would violate the doctrines or the practices of 
 the party, by an extension to three or four terms. 
 
 We think the doctrine which is good for one democrat is 
 good for another, and the application of it should be made as well 
 in '38 and '41 as in 35, We are induced to suspect the sincerity 
 of professions when practises dont correspond; we should like to 
 witness consistency in every one, but especially in those who as- 
 sume to be, or are by popular admission, the leaders of the de- 
 mocratic party. 
 
 Who are the Democratic Leaders ! The next m order is Col. John J 
 M'Cahen. a perfect lion in his way, who would tear a man into ten thou- 
 sand pieces, was it not that he generally swallowed them whole. The 
 Col. is an excellent soldier, and by skilful manoevering- has obtained for 
 himself a goodly portion of the spoils ; possessing a tolerable share of self 
 confidence he has risen from the lowest stage of humble, yet respectable 
 life, to be, the second man in the county of Philadelphia. 
 
 One great fault we have against him, is his indiscribable hatred to a 
 plurality of offices, he having at one time no less than three^ the united 
 salaries amounting to near Four thousand dollars per annum, two of 
 which, a part of the time, he did not give his personal attention to, being 
 ©ut of the city. His zeal is of the loco-foco kind; and his ambition I Ceasa$ 
 
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 was a childtohirn in that respect ! ! Col. Simpson says he aspires to the 
 Presidency of the United States, and we cannot doubt what the Col. says, 
 for, altho he never had the endorsement for veracity tnat Henry Horn lias, 
 yet, we think he does tell some truths when it suit- him. We are satisfiod 
 "that the young Col. is ntade of sterner stuff than most of our men. We 
 have facts suflicient to set aside any doubts upon this subject, for, on one 
 occassion, we saw him scale the walls of the Exchange,to gain access to a 
 body of commissioners, who were dispjosing of rail road stock; he succeeded 
 and through several successive exploits has made himself a pretty consid- 
 erable shareholder of stocks. What horrid things these monied institutions 
 'are! how they manage the people: h(.w they are destroymg our liberty I 
 We shall one day, be the slaves of the ?no«ey power ?ind drag'd at the bid 
 of Bank aristocrats from prison to death for asserting our love of freedom. 
 Bnt no! such things can never be, vvhile we have these men interested in 
 tlie monied institutions of our country; their loud professions of Democracy 
 are guarantees that the money poicer shall never crush the people while 
 they are stockholders and directors; it is only when all the Demc crats have 
 made plenty of money ,and like Henry Horn withdraw their watchful care 
 from over them, and repudiate all association and connection with them, 
 that we will have to fear any great evil from them. 
 
 Two years ago, our hero, who was at that time a large stockholder in 
 the "Valley Rail Road" was very anxious that the State should either 
 loan the Compa,ny upon its stock, or purchase out the whole and make it 
 the entire property of the state. — How disinterested! how purely patriotic 
 it is to put a good bargain, unsolicited, into the hands of the people. ^ We 
 know all about this concern, and vye know too, that our hero is as disinter- 
 ested a little fellow, as there is in the party, 
 
 The next in order, is Jolm M- Head Esq. U. States Prosecu, 
 ting Attorney; he is the most cool ant! deliberate democrat we 
 know; having considerable foresight he can calculate upon- 
 changesand reclianges, upon action and reaction to a pretty con- 
 siderable certainty; but not being of a very amiable disposition 
 he is unable to make impressions, so strong and lasting "as some 
 of his compeers 
 
 He is not generally considered as honest as some others of (he 
 party leaders, particularly Col. Page,* we however see and judge 
 things differently, and say, that with less zeal than some others, 
 and professing less, he is more honest than most of them — at least 
 we believe he practices all he professes — and that's not much! 
 vet it is more than many others can be commended for 
 
 His Loco-Focoism is rather of a Quakprish character— soft and 
 gentle: he is not for breaking every bank, and destroying withf 
 one blow all the monied institutions in the country. 
 
 Being the solicitor for the Philadelphia Bank," and having an 
 interest in her continued existance, he could not, consulting his 
 pockets, go against her, and to be just and consistant he could 
 not opppose all except her; in thisdilema he steers clear ot each 
 extreme, and goes for the measuresof the party, except its crusade 
 against all the State Banks, 
 
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 Mr. Read is a shrewd politician ; this maj be attributed to his; 
 experience and observation in the Federal Ranks, and Ins recent 
 association with that party; for it" we remember right, it is but a 
 few years since he was with our opponents, and held office under 
 them. It is very iiard for us to reconcile his appointment to the 
 Attorney Generalship, with our views of party justice and good 
 policy; it is too much the practice of both parties to encourage 
 converts from the opposite side, to the prejudice of old, staunch, 
 and hionest party friends. 
 
 The time was.wnen the members of the democratic party would 
 scorn such an act; but now they turn from them old apostles of 
 the Democratic faith and practice, and hug to their bosoms men 
 who have been treacherous for years, or who have but recently 
 come over from the enc my, 
 
 I^ook for one moment at the noniinatioii of Mr, Kraiisa of 
 Daupiiin as a candidate for the Senate from that county.— This 
 Gentleman was at one time a Democrat, but since the Anti-Ma-, 
 sonic humbug he has been associated with that party, and aliho* 
 a Mason has been their representative in the legislature; and now 
 forsooth; because he sees the Anti-masonic bubble is about to 
 burst, and because our friends know him to be a popular man, he 
 must be the Democratic Candidate. 
 
 Comment is unnecessary — And so in Lancaster County, the 
 Democrats thei:e intendetr to take up Mr, Strohni, a well known, 
 thorough going Antimason for, the State Legislature, but the 
 Anti- Masons have done it themselves, and we are saved the 
 mnrtiFication and disgrace ofa deed, the will to do which, is a 
 blot upon our character this day. So it is; so it will be while 
 corruption works more than honesty-the man that adheres to his 
 party — who spends every thing in its service may look in vaiJi 
 for respectful treatmeiit, while the traitor is cherished, and grows 
 rich and iniluencial under its smiles. 
 
 We think that the "'hewers of wood and drawers of water" in 
 our party, should bi^. prelere/1 to aposta.tes, or even to the 
 DRONES that slay about the democratic hive. 
 
 We shall now take notice of tlse old veteran of Democracy Got" 
 Jno, Thompson; iliis murs locks have become whitened in the 
 cause of Democracy, and his cheeks are furrowed with a p-ootl 
 old age, yet he continues as earnest, and fights as manfully as the 
 youngest amongst us. . 
 
 In the heat of youth he fought on, the side of Democracy, in 
 maturer age '-in nianhood's active might," his manly and noble 
 voice was heard in the cause of the people, and even now when 
 three score years and tea have passed over him, yoa still find him 
 
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 ih all kinds of weather, upon all occasions battling against ilie 
 ent^mii'* mC <I mocracy. 
 
 Col. Thompson's career has been different from the most of our leaders; 
 no amateur politician, he has done all kinds of work, from the finest and 
 HiDst crmpfptf^ piece of political mechanism to the splitting- of logs, and 
 even of hairs. IsaChairman wanted, Col. Thompson is the man; a delegate, 
 Col 7 homj).-on is settled upon ; a committeeman, Col. 1 hompson serves 
 witliout hesitation; he has been the f/oss and the hodman successively, all 
 the yonrs or'his political life. He has indeed been favored with several 
 unimportant public st itions, making altogether no compensation for one 
 year of service he has rendered the party — th'o, by tjie by, he may have 
 been satisfied with the fact of his fame being spread all over the world, and 
 whifli perhaofi the party also have deemed an equivalent for a more aub- 
 stanti-'.l consideration. 
 
 Wo consider the Col, a very "good meaning mair," we know him to be 
 a real drudge ; and if any man ever deserved good treatment at the hands 
 ofhis fri'.'nds itisCol. Jno. Thompson, if ever a ♦leserving man was illy 
 treat -d, 't has been Col. Jno, Thompson, These things we observe Vv'ith 
 con.siderabb^ pmotion, and why should we not feel? when v/e see young 
 |joy« (Mijoying the honors and emoluments of office, while old Veterans arc 
 put at one s (ie V; starve, and die ; when strangers and lofers are provided 
 with means to make a ahow, living handsomely by the party, with power 
 to create and destroy, while the Democrat of 98 must bo satisfied with the 
 cru'r!bsthit fall frorahis masters table.- 
 
 Itisan oM saying and a very trae one, that "the horse ihat earns the 
 oats vv-r gets them," this is verified in the conduct of all political par- 
 tiesl particularly our o\vn ; for we see hundreds who are zealous, have 
 been ^o tor yp.irs, have spent their time and m;»ney in the cause, and what 
 have they ever received. Nothing; when tfiey have asked for something, 
 they have been denied, and the fiiver bestowed upon some favorite, wdio 
 having a friend at court could purchase, at the expense sf his honor or tfic- 
 sacr fice oi'some other individual, a place for himself or a friend. 
 
 Our old Friend has been overlooked, this should not be, he has aright to 
 ejcpect somethmg s^ood at the hand of the party; and that party will be 
 guilty o "black inn-ratitude if it- shall not reward the toils of long a life, and 
 make joyous in his old age, the heart of one of the great pioneers of De- 
 mocracy; shall a man labour all day, pass sleepless nigiits, expose himself 
 to dangers of various kind, loose personal friends, destroy his health, lessen 
 thecomiorts o' his fiimily, and in a thousand ways make a thousand sacri- 
 fices for the good of the party, and when he becomes old and infirm, only, 
 realize "the word oC promise spoken to the car, but broken to the hope." 
 
 LOADING ON. 
 
 In Old times, the Democratic Party in all tlieir elections, were governed 
 by alov.-^ t.f principle; for this they contended in the selection of Candidates 
 and the election of them to ofhce: they took up mcn^ because they were 
 Democrats: they rallied under the bright untojded banner of Republicaih- 
 ism ; they stood upon the broad plain ground of D^^mocracy; But riaw, the 
 leaders must lug in a thousand nevj propositions, new conditions upon 
 
Wuich a man ranst expect the suffrages of the party or remain within the pale 
 of it. At one time, he that is in favor of the State Bank deposite system iss 
 considered not a Democrat; a few short months roll round, and, he that is- 
 opposed to it, is no Democrat;— then again, those who are in favor of the ^ub- 
 Treasury system are put down as anti- democratic, and handled without 
 gloves by the party leaders ; in less than two years there is a complete 
 change of political scenc-ry, and he that does not look upon this once ill-fa- 
 voured scheme, is held up to the scorn of every honest doiaocrat, and is es- 
 teemed a lit subject for persecution and ostracism. At one time we are 
 bound by party edicts to oppose One Bank, which but six months previous 
 was a fiivorite with l*ennsylvania; and before we have demolished the One, 
 we are drummed up, equipped, and sent out upon a war of extermination 
 with lire. Mood and thunder, to destroy Eight hundred of them. 
 
 This is what we call Loading on, and it is this which has made such up- 
 hill work for tho Dom.ocratic p.irty, for these ten years. 
 
 Our candidates are borne down vvitii dead weights — opposition to Banks 
 opposition to Bank Notes — opposition to Corporations of all Kinds — opposi- 
 tion to Nick Biddle — opposition to Tiiadeus Stevens, and his Rail Road^— 
 opposition to a Tariff^ — opposition to the State Bank Deposite System — in 
 favour of a Gold and Silver Currency — in favour of Rotation in Oiiice — in 
 favour of the Sub-Treasury — in favour of this, and of that, are so many sub- 
 jects, which the party operatives are forced to contend for and ag' linat 
 in every Campaign. 
 
 Thi- state of things cannot last long — the jockies must be whip'd off, and 
 the /io.'2csi p lire democracy take the matter in their own hands. Heaven 
 . speed the happy day! 
 
 Tn elections, every man is deeply interested, not only, for his in- 
 dividual well being ! but for the honor of the republic; the peace, prosperi- 
 ty and liberty of his countrymen. Every freeman should remember, that he 
 h dds his present groat and inestimable civil and religious blessings in trust 
 for his chddren; that he is the agent of transfer from our Fathers to their 
 children's children, and that every vote he gives, afreets his own and his 
 ehildrens political welfare ; every vote he puts into the ballot box makes 
 for the wo::l or v/oe of succeeding generations, flow careful then should 
 we be, with what scrupulous at ention should we exainine the merits and 
 claims of every candidate, and before we commit into their hands the lib- 
 erties we enjoy, we should be well satisfied they are worthy of such a 
 trust. We should consider how vastly inportant an election by freeman 
 •is; what mighty interests are involv^jd; how big with the fate of a whole 
 KATioN. With what deep consideration, with what calm and dispassionate 
 investigation, with what impartial judgment, with what pure and fixed pur- 
 poses of raind,shoukl freemen enter upon the business of a popular election! 
 Candor, and a sense of Justice should govern our actions toward candidates 
 ifor ofHce, not suffering any prejudice or partiality to influence our choice, 
 .foreign to the dictates of Reason, and a love of Liberty. . 
 
 It may be asked.how shall we decide npon the relative merits and claims 
 of men v/here they profess the same political doctrines, and are really, or 
 apparently influenced by the same principles ! how shall ye judge ] We 
 wjil tell ^s^\\ ; you all know your own v/ants, you all know your interests; 
 
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 you are then to seeA; out, and mak3 choice of thai man, who, you believe ia 
 best acquainted with your wants, and who '■'kiiQioing your interests, will 
 maintain thera." The man who resides amon-^st you, who is your neiirh- 
 bor, who associates with your families, who takes a part ni all your public 
 affairs, who is not too proud to shake hands with you any ii^ne of the 
 year, is the man for you;. He whose wealth, and aflluence throws him en- 
 tirely out of your society, xvhose associations are not of a mixed, but ex- 
 clusively SELECT character, who being ignorant of your ten thousand 
 wants and interests, cannot possibly yeeZ and act tor your welfare; such a 
 man you do not want, such a man you must not Iiave ! 
 
 We would not wish to draw improper distinctions of character on tho 
 ground of wealth alone; we do not say that ail wealthy men do not appre- 
 ciate the condition of the great majority, b\it we do know, and we do say, 
 that they cannot generally be trusted with the interests of the poor man, 
 because, being ignorant of their general condition, they cannot act so fcel- 
 iur ly ia their behalf, i et the mechanic, the laborer, and all immediately 
 interested in the great Branches of Our National industry, Conmierce, 
 Mechanic Arts,and Agriculture, look around them; and before they put their 
 votes into the ballot box, be sure tiiat the Candidate of their choice is ono 
 like themselves, in feeling and in interest; one, who will from pure De- 
 mocratic views, support and protect the enterprise and industry of Ixis con- 
 stituent-?, one, who will defend you against imposition, and the foul slan- 
 ders of those who cannot, who do not, who will not, feel for the poor Ame- 
 rican Mechanic and Laborer ! 
 
 Our Repu"bUcan principles are a farce, our freedom but a name, 
 if the elections are not pure, if the will of the people is perverted 
 either by intrigue or interception. We have no hope in the perma- 
 uence of our civi! and political institutions, if by bribery and cor- 
 ruption, by cunning and dece it. '.r.en can elevate themselves to of- 
 ficial Stations! Shall prerogative, legislative and executive be ex- 
 ercised by such as wade through seas of duplicity to g"«m it^ 
 shall it be exercised by such as use every artifice and stratagem 
 to retain it' For the veneration we have for our fathers, the du- 
 ties we ov/e to ourselves, for the love we bear towards our Chil- 
 dren, we will denounce every species of vv-rong comi'iiitted against 
 the intelligence, virtue, and safety of the people. — Elections are 
 held, wherein the people through the ballots boxes intend to ex- 
 press their wil!^ but that will is not spoken, the tru^ sentiments 
 of the people are not known^if by official./Vaz^^/ the election is be- 
 gan, carried on, and concluded. The people do not govehx when 
 they are Cheated in the exercise of their Elective Franchise. 
 They are at the mercy of Demagogues and political freebooters 
 without knowing the danger to which they are exposed. 
 
 So also with the Nomination of Candidates for office: it is im- 
 portant that this also should be done fairly! but alas! the wire 
 working and chicaner)/ engaged to effect party nominations, can- 
 
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 not be imd.^lned !! One way for moving in Conventions for tio- 
 minatin.i^Candiclates, is, to oei alf the clelei!;ates to apply for office^ 
 this is ti^e scheme of a few lealers who promise the aid of their 
 rinfluence for every one» and when they have succeeded in coni- 
 miitin-r the f!eieg:ates in this wav» they impose, very good natu^ 
 ediy their views and wishes upon them. This thing was practi- 
 ced in 1837} for we verily beiieve that three fourths of the coun- 
 ty delesiates were applicaiKs to the Custom house ajv^d other pla- 
 ces for situati )ns. These things must not be; as a freeman, no 
 one should be bought; but, untramelled, rosist coercion, frustrate 
 the workings of corrupt men, and do his duty to himself, to his 
 countryj and to his God. 
 
 The Right Of Sjffuage!! the most |2;loriou8 boon of hono- 
 red siui'^s, tlie most magnanimous blf^ssing which could possi- 
 bly be bestowed upon a people; a legacy, dear to us, as it is 
 great and magnificent! Freemen! Freemen! Remember, the bles- 
 sings of LiBKRTY we enjoy, are the purchase of years of toil and 
 danger,the alchievement of the honest purpose and fervent hope of 
 our Fathers; the result of noble daring, the Reward of men, 
 determined to be Free, Tis our Inheritance, 'tis our Children's 
 PATRIMONY, anii our duty to preserve and perpetuate it to the 
 .enjoyment of generationsyetunborn--REMEMBERl that the"P*iCE 
 OF Liberty, Is Kternal Vigilance," and what we say unto one, 
 we say unto all, VVatoj-, Watch ! ! wgircb, that no one deceives you 
 watch, that you be not Roh\J, watch, that your Liberty] is not destroyed i 
 Guard against the wiles of deceitful PoLiTiciA]vs,who professing a great re- 
 verence tor the RepuhlicanhiSiitutions of our Country, who declaiming 
 loudly against the enemies o^ Freedom, are enable'd by their duplicity to 
 throw you off your Guard, and, taking advantage of your confidence, 
 aggrandize and enrich themselves, not caring whether you are Poor, Mis- 
 erable, or Enslaved. 
 
 Party Spirit has approached a Dano-erous Extreme, it rages like a 
 Tornado ravaging our Country, and will, if not stayed in it course, 
 make our Country a Waste, or worse, a Howling Viildsrness, filled with 
 beasts o^ prey and bloody Strife. 
 
 Freemenl put forth your hands, bend down your energies and stay the 
 ^Fell Destroyer, the generator of anarchy a,nd Confusion, the HatefuU 
 Parent of Despotism. 
 
 Be Calm, be Considerate, dont let your partizan feelings get tlie better 
 : of your judgment, dont let political on personal }3f edilections or prejudices 
 affect your course, and wound your Consciences! let Your Fotes be given 
 in good faith, looking to the Competency and honesty of the candidates^ — 
 looking to the interest you have in their conduct as your agents— looking 
 to the great Stake your Children and Their Children have, in the great 
 experiment of Popular independence, and Civil, Religious ajid Politi^a 
 iLiberly 
 
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 INCOMPETENCY. 
 
 why should the citizens select for offices, either legislative or 
 executive, men, v/ho are incompetent to perform their duties; 
 why siioulda man of but tolerable abilities send to the Legisla- 
 ture of his stale, an indivldnal, not as capable as himself; \vi\y 
 should a citizen entrust with another, his life, his property, his 
 liberty, whose incompetency is proverbial — who is known to be 
 utterly unPt for the slaiion. 
 
 In ih'^, ordinary transactions of life, in business, we find that 
 agents ^c are select' d for their capacity; they are chosen, be- 
 cause the principal is assured, that they know as much, if not 
 more about that particular matter as he docs, and are fully as 
 capable a? himself to attend the duty! no one is so foolish as te 
 appoint aii agci\t ck,c. who is known to be disqualified for the du- 
 ty. Yet shame! Oh shame! that we, t!ie democracy of the coun- 
 ty should be guilty of that, politically,which we would not do any 
 other way! ktitnot be told any m.ore as a bye- word of reproacli* 
 thai we have no good men, that our members of the Legislature 
 are all dolls, that they are bitter ^zV/i', jet we must swallow them! 
 And how does such men get on our ticket? by the incompetency 
 of some of those appointed to select, and by the corrupt and 
 managing policy of others. 
 
 Freemen! Freemen! dont be deceived, dont be fool'd any lon- 
 ,qer — you had better put the Veto on such things at once, than 
 for your interests to be Veto'd forever through the incompetency 
 or dishonesty of your mis-representatives. 
 
 Rotaiioji in Office, — Wc are the advocates of this wholesome demo 
 cratic doctrine, we maintained the doctrine in 1635 fmm a conviction that 
 it was the only means by which a proper and just aiientionto public duties 
 ran be attained, and the institutions of our Government kept in a pure 
 nnd healthful state. We do not believctliat any man can remain a great 
 io-.ig'th of time in an office (particularly a lucrative one) without b' . j-m- 
 in^ an Aristocrat, We have witnessed the truth -of this remark ; living 
 rvideuces are now in existance. !Men, whose Democracy wasof tho po]> 
 vlar slump, who could appreciate the good of the people, Avho would treaJ 
 tliem respectfully on every occasion, have, by being- to long fed at the 
 *viblic crib grown fat, and kicked against so7«e of the -wholesome principles 
 and practises they once so ardently admired, or showa manifest disregard 
 ■for every thing that is democratic 
 
 By moans ofa profession, these men have been enabled to gull the peo- 
 \/)eand tho appointing power; taking advantage of excitements upon difier- 
 c;^t subjects, they have held a rod tearfully suspended over the heads of 
 successive jpo^«er5, and thus perpetuated their prerogative. -With every 
 years exorcise of power they become more aristocratic; and, but for their feari 
 of the revolutionary spirit of the people displacing them, they would eXbibiS 
 adl the cruelties of an arbitrary and hateful despotism. 
 
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 As the waters run from the rivers into the ocean, and periodically j-eturn- 
 • ing- again, contribute to keep them pure ; and the unobstructed and general 
 circulation of the blood through the syscem,preserves the health of the body,so 
 also a contijiual change messentiiiWynecessa.ry to the purity and health of 
 the body Politic. Let there be frequent changes, the errors cf the past will 
 be corrected, and evils removed,which by length of time allowed for growth, 
 '■ would become rank poison,and, like acanker, eatout the vitalsof the politic- 
 al system. Democrats, loolt to it ; let Your Bfottobe Democracy ! Rota- 
 eioninCJffics ! ! Faithvull SsavAi-jTi! !! and no aiiistochatio oefioh 
 HOLDERS ! ! ! ! 
 
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 Rofatlonin Office, This is Pennsylyanian Deraacratic doctrifse, 
 -settled and fixed by i\\Q. acts of ths party in 1835, Let no hon- 
 -est democrat forget or disregard ii nov.% or in future. Jt was 
 applied then, so Bhould it be now, and in all eomeing time. De- 
 mocrats look to it, dontbe whecdle'd or cajoled out of the prin- 
 ciple, or the application of it, to all whom it may concern. We 
 know that several Gentlemen who vvere strenous advocates of 
 the doctrine in the year 1835, give, at the present time a widely 
 different construction to the lule, evidently anxious to screen 
 tiiemselves from the action ot a salutary doctrine, the favorite, 
 the banijinf^ of their own creation. Democrats dont befooled! the 
 doctrine is good, hold on to it, and apply it without any reserva- 
 tion. 
 
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 independent doctrines o:|Democracy and at the same time descends to every 
 species o^bcggincr for office; whenv/ith hurniliatm-g sycophancy he followa 
 every leader, with his application, and by dint of importunity succeeds in 
 getting one thousand and one names, as recommenders. Wq are inspired 
 with no better feelings than that ofcontesipt for /Vim .who intrigues for o^ 
 fiee, who taking hold of an old list of names attaches them to his applica- 
 tions, or leaves one hundred of them v/rth so many tavern keeper's tor to 
 laake interest for him with their customer:^; or he v,ho hires men to put 
 forth his claims, and obtain the name of. Tom, Dick and Harry to-his^pt-ti- 
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PENxNSYLVANIA ELECTIONS— OFFICIAL ISITURNS. 
 
 COUiNTIES. 
 
 Adams, 
 
 AJleo-fieny, 
 
 Armstrono-, 
 
 Beaver, 
 
 Bedfurd, 
 
 i erks, 
 
 Brad ord, 
 
 Bucks, 
 
 Butler, 
 
 Cambria, 
 
 Centre, 
 
 Chester, 
 
 Clearfield, 
 
 Columbia, 
 
 Crawfbi-d, 
 
 Cumberland, 
 
 Dauphin, 
 
 Delaware, 
 
 Erie, 
 
 Fayette, 
 
 Franklin, 
 
 Greene, 
 
 Huntingdon, 
 
 Indiana, 
 
 Jefferson, 
 
 Juniata, 
 
 Lancaster, 
 
 Lebanon, 
 
 Lehigh, 
 
 Luzerne, 
 
 Lycoming, 
 
 JVIercer, 
 
 Mifflin, 
 
 Monroe. 
 
 Montgomery, 
 
 Northampton, 
 
 Northumberland, 
 
 I'erry. 
 
 Philadelphia city, 
 Philadelphia county, 
 Pike, 
 
 GOV. 
 
 
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 AMEND TS. 
 
 O 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 
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 ^ 
 
 
 3 
 
 O 
 
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 CfQ 
 
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 s 
 
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 CD 
 
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 f-^ 
 
 
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 ^ 
 
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 So 
 
 P 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1317 
 
 1517 
 
 1535 
 
 3310 
 
 300 
 
 4420 
 
 3232 
 
 3848 
 
 4505 
 
 6038 
 
 4460 
 
 5049 
 
 2(J62 
 
 1099 
 
 2781 
 
 1510 
 
 2597 
 
 949 
 
 1420 
 
 1669 
 
 1931 
 
 2457 
 
 24^5 
 
 1812 
 
 3G18 
 
 2036 
 
 2478 
 
 2386 
 
 9S7 
 
 2736" 
 
 5927 
 
 3022 
 
 7101 
 
 3215 
 
 582'i 
 
 3883 
 
 1910 
 
 1339 
 
 2420 
 
 2219 
 
 4116 
 
 182 
 
 3382 
 
 3532 
 
 4553 
 
 4147 
 
 4095 
 
 3362 
 
 131G 
 
 1303 
 
 1653 
 
 1700 
 
 2383 
 
 712 
 
 648 
 
 694 
 
 844 
 
 762 
 
 616 
 
 938 
 
 2188 
 
 1070 
 
 2580 
 
 1467 
 
 2082 
 
 1565 
 
 3376 
 
 4051 
 
 4527 
 
 4971 
 
 3879 
 
 5085 
 
 624 
 
 315 
 
 792 
 
 474 
 
 989 
 
 204^ 
 
 2115 
 
 767 
 
 2616 
 
 1088 
 
 1556 
 
 1506 
 
 1791 
 
 999 
 
 2304 
 
 1957 
 
 3344 
 
 517 
 
 2629 
 
 1748 
 
 2743 
 
 2316 
 
 2562 
 
 2419 
 
 1500 
 
 2320 
 
 2164 
 
 2556 
 
 1052 
 
 3204 
 
 1102 
 
 1240 
 
 1263 
 
 1731 
 
 1^99 
 
 1459 
 
 1444 
 
 1943 
 
 1565 
 
 2747 
 
 3175 
 
 454 
 
 2510 
 
 1705 
 
 2788 
 
 1984 
 
 3023 
 
 1145'' 
 
 2759 
 
 2207 
 
 2815 
 
 2569 
 
 1728 
 
 3315 
 
 ri392 
 
 1076 
 
 1349 
 
 1109 
 
 2399 
 
 74 
 
 1613 
 
 2449 
 
 2781 
 
 3687 
 
 2640 
 
 2349 
 
 990 
 
 1524 
 
 1202 
 
 1723 
 
 1248 
 
 1471 
 
 372 
 
 243, 
 
 591 
 
 421 
 
 593 
 
 356 
 
 637 
 
 5771 
 
 1049 
 
 863 
 
 657 
 
 1249 
 
 4754 
 
 7018 
 
 5503 
 
 85.58 
 
 2356 
 
 10059 
 
 •1057 
 
 1968 
 
 1543 
 
 2228 
 
 807 
 
 2573 
 
 2045 
 
 1914 
 
 2460 
 
 2349 
 
 1792 
 
 2244 
 
 2504 
 
 1188 
 
 3132 
 
 2592 
 
 3703 
 
 1141 
 
 2094 
 
 1277 
 
 2493 
 
 1555 
 
 1913 
 
 1477 
 
 1397 
 
 1686 
 
 2325 
 
 2935 
 
 330' > 
 
 1475 
 
 1018 
 
 872 
 
 1227 
 
 1059 
 
 1069 
 
 1153 
 
 796 
 
 166 
 
 1223 
 
 366 
 
 1248' 
 
 209 
 
 3346 
 
 3014 
 
 4558 
 
 3748 
 
 3690 
 
 4079 
 
 3533 
 
 2560 
 
 3635 
 
 2566 
 
 IG^U 
 
 3577 
 
 2031 
 
 882 
 
 2144 
 
 1164 
 
 86/ 
 
 ;il44 
 
 1502 
 
 762 
 
 1916 
 
 883 
 
 1216 
 
 1 US 
 
 3152 
 
 5042 
 
 3156 
 
 7203 
 
 3322 
 
 6792 
 
 8787 
 
 5591 
 
 7982 
 
 6187 
 
 809^3 
 
 5172 
 
 708 
 
 65' 
 
 528 
 
 117 
 
 
 
23 
 
 Potter and M'Kean, 
 
 469 
 
 128 
 
 mj. 292 
 
 
 641 
 
 2!' 
 
 Schuylkill, 
 
 1628 
 
 833 
 
 2271 
 
 1508 
 
 1460 
 
 1812 
 
 Somerset, 
 
 631 
 
 2031 
 
 883 
 
 2244 
 
 556 
 
 2029 
 
 Susquehanna, 
 
 1398 
 
 807 
 
 1530 
 
 1284 
 
 2085 
 
 412 
 
 Tioga. 
 
 1039 
 
 478 
 
 1448 
 
 594 
 
 1974 
 
 16 
 
 Union, 
 
 1231 
 
 3185 
 
 1505 
 
 2270 
 
 442 
 
 3123 
 
 Venang'o, 
 
 1259 
 
 523 
 
 1768 
 
 828 
 
 1887 
 
 448 
 
 Warren, 
 
 635 
 
 252 
 
 700 
 
 537 
 
 1128 
 
 31 
 
 Wash in 0-ton, 
 
 2843 
 
 2179 
 
 3461 
 
 3528 
 
 4394 
 
 1576 
 
 Wayne, 
 
 829 
 
 226 
 
 10(32 
 
 538 
 
 1380 
 
 99 
 
 Westnioreltind, 
 
 34ii9 
 
 2191 
 
 4561 
 
 2315 
 
 4105 
 
 2224 
 
 York, 
 
 2728 
 
 2655 
 94,023 
 
 4197 
 
 130,485 
 
 3257 
 
 1233 
 
 5500 
 
 Total 
 
 l<>6,390 
 
 121,257 
 
 116,514 
 
 113,19a 
 
 
 94,(123 
 
 
 121,257 
 
 ~ 9,228 
 
 
 113,199 
 
 
 Maj. in 1835.- 
 
 12,387 
 
 3,315 
 
 
 The vote of the Nortl^ 
 
 lern Liberties, in 
 
 1838, has been rejected. 
 
 
 NF.W-YOKK DKMOCKACY. 
 Col. Pa,tc«^ ♦'iiifl mafiy others have contended, that the peopre 
 can do no vvronei;! we bt'lieve in the doctrine, but will alter the 
 ^hraseoh)ii,y, and sa- ; 'I'hat, what ever the people do, is right* 
 fVe weie t>etisibly struck with the force ot this doctrine at the 
 result of the Klection in the State of New York: the people there 
 have acte i, have :jct<^d wisely, have acted riffht; yet verily, A'C 
 believe, that in the face of the political faith of these gentlemen 
 -they will <lisciilow the righteousness of the proceedings of the, 
 l^eople of Nei\ York, and hesitate to subscribe to the oft repea- 
 ted adage, Vox pouwli, vox dei." That the people only do right 
 ■when ihey vcjie for men, w!ien they advocate and maintain 
 measures proposed by the honored and well fed, is the real senti- 
 ment of thf l^'a^^er s of the party -they have no idda that the people 
 do right, unless whatever they do, is consonant with their viewS^ 
 and designs, and subserves their interests and honor. 
 
 The peo{)le in New York were not to be gullM any longer^ 
 they were opposed to the cot morants in office, they wanted gene- 
 ral changes -thex wanted no conservative governor^ — they wanted 
 oneof the people's own kind for Executive of the Statc:they admire 
 the doctrine of two terms and rotation in office; and determined 
 to cut off the hope's, with the treasures of the Party Dictators 
 at Albany, went; for what? for a change — a great and gloriou* 
 CHANGE. The Den);)Crats of New York have effected a revolu- 
 tion there, which with care, will redound to their advantage 
 yet; let them put aside their present leaders, -who have been fat- 
 tening off the spoils for 20 or 30 years, arid be, as they ought to 
 *^e the Democratic party free, pure, strong and vicioriouB. 
 
CUSTOM-HOUSE; 
 
 We here present [ilist of the officers of tlie Custom House, 
 
 their salaries, the time some of them have been in oflice, and the 
 
 amount assessed by the committee of the DemocraticUnion Asso- 
 ciation — 
 
 Geo. Wolf, Collector S4400 Yrs. 4 pr. ct. Sir6,0a 
 
 John Kern, Deputy do. 1500 2o 2* S7.50 
 
 K.L, Howell, " *« 1500 14 2i n7.50 
 
 John Horn. Naval Officer, 3000 4 120,0(> 
 
 R. Parry, Hep., do. 1500 2| 37,50 
 
 Geo. W, Riter, Surveyor, 2500 3^ 67,50 
 
 A. Ford, Dep, do, 1500 2| 37,50 
 
 Henry Simpson Appraiser 1500 £^ 37,50 
 
 Thomas Stewart, do. 1500 20 2 57,50 
 
 Bcnj. E. Carpenter, asst. do. 1200 2 24,00 
 
 Francis E. Breuil do. do, 1200 2 24,00 
 
 George Guier, Weigher 1500 10 2^ 37,50 
 
 John'rhnmpson, Guager, 1500 '« 37,5-0 
 
 Dihvorth Wentz " ]5oO . '» 57,50 
 
 Charles S. Jackson, Marker 1500 12 <' 87^50 
 
 Joh.n Douglass Measurer 1500 18 *' 37,50 
 
 V/m. Hall, do. 1500 <« 37.50 
 
 Rich Bacon, *' 1500 '' 37,50 
 
 John Scott «« 1500 22 '« 37^50 
 
 Geo. W. Bartram, Inspector 1095 10 2 21,90 
 
 Theodore Colladay " "- << 21,90 
 
 Jolin Hentz, "' ** -< « 21,90 
 
 Geo. Clymcr, *« •< 14 <• 21,90 
 
 Jacob Collar, ** " »« 21,90 
 
 James H. Cole, *< ♦• «* 21,90 
 
 .lohn J. Logup, ^•' '' (< 21,00 
 
 Geori^e Dannaker, *< « 12 '* 21.90 
 
 Christian Read, '* m a 21,90 
 
 Samuel Edwards ^« <^ 10 '« 21,90 
 
 Wm. E glish, '^ « <.' 21,90 
 
 Jacob H, Fisler, « << 14 '< 21,90 
 
 Huieman, <• *« 10 •« 21,90 
 
 George Gideon ^' *' <t 21,90 
 
 Wm, Bnzarth «•' <t tt 21,90 
 
 John F. Stump. *< " a 21,90 
 
 Alex. McFherson, << <* <« 2h90 
 
 J. M.G. Lescure, *' <« <t 21,90 
 
 John Keefe. << <' <« 21 '90 
 
 F. F. Faeass, « «. 1§ «« 21 390 
 
25 
 
 John Steel, « « ** 21, 9« 
 
 Thos. Maxwell, " " 10 « 21,90 
 
 Dan, K. Miller, «' " « 21,90 
 
 Robert Moore, " « 14 <» 21,90 
 
 R, Patton, " " 14 « 21,90 
 
 John Thompson jr. «< *« « 21,90 
 
 Robt,Rice, « <« " 21,90 
 
 B, F- Rogers « " «* 21,90 
 
 Anthony Felton, « <• <* 2t,90 
 
 John Dallam «' «' ** 21,90 
 
 Jacob B. Coates <« •* « 21,90 
 
 John D. Miles, *' « " 21,90 
 
 David Etter, «« «« •« 21,90 
 
 Joseph L, Kay, '< »« 10 « 21,90 
 
 James H. Hutchinson, «* <* <* 21,90 
 
 Joseph L.Thomas, « *< ** 21,90 
 
 James Serrill, <* ^* ** 21,90 
 
 R. L. Lloyd, *' . '* ** 21,90 
 
 P. Kline, jn. « •' " 21,90 
 
 B. McGuire, *' *' " 21,90 
 
 Joseph Worrall, jr. <^ '* 10 «* 21,90 
 
 John H. Sheets,' « - '^ 21.90 
 
 J. R. Graves, ** ** ** 21,90 
 
 Thomas F Vallett, Clerk 1020 20 2 10,40 
 
 Charles Treichel " 840 U 12,60 
 
 Robert Steele, " 720 20 ^ 10,8o 
 
 Lenard K. Bell, ** 720 *» 10,80 
 
 Thomas Ashmead <' 720 22 '* 10,80 
 
 John C. Pechin, « 660 « , 9,90 
 
 Abrm. Martin, « 1000 2 20,00 
 
 Thomas Latimer, ** 660 17 H 9,90 
 
 Francis C.Deimling'* 650 ^* 9,75 
 
 Jos, B. Howell '* 650 « 9,75 
 
 JohnMcAdams « 600 <« 9,00 
 
 Thomas Hopkins " 600 "' 9,00 
 
 Robert Heysham •* 850 14 «' 12,75 
 
 John Wolf '* 720 " 10,80 
 
 John S. Cummings « 600 '* 9,oO 
 
 891,315 g2073,45 
 
 The reader will observe, that we have now gone through the 
 Custom House and made the following discoveries, viz. That 
 there are seventy seven persons employed in various capacities 
 including collector and naval officer. The table prefixed, exhibits 
 not only their names, but the amount of salary received, with the 
 
25 
 
 rate per centum they were charged by the Democratic Union as^ 
 so€iation,aiKl the amt assessed for the purpose of carrying on the" 
 recent Election. 
 
 We are inclined to think, tbat this list does not comprise 
 the whole number, as there are some whose salaries are below 
 S500 per annum and consequently not noticed by said committe- 
 We think also, that the salaries as stated are not quite correct 
 throughout. 
 
 The custom House, compared with the post office, in point of 
 labor performed,responsibility, and respectability of station is fac 
 above it. The officers are generally men of age, having families, 
 i>f settled principles and habits. They are more independent than 
 those in the post office, and much better paid for their services, tho, 
 the salaries of some of the Clerks, might with propriety, and in 
 justice ought to be increased. 
 
 ause exists for complaint agai-nst the C. H. there are- several 
 men connected with it whose intemperate lives should exclude 
 them from such a place,. there are others who are incompetent to 
 discharge their duties well and truly, there are others who have 
 enjoyed the benefits of office for 20 or 30 years without being 
 any advantage to the party in power. There are too many there, 
 who are able to live v/ithout such situations, whose incomes from 
 stocks or House rents &c is more than sufficient to render them 
 a good living: such incumbents keep out the worthy poor man. 
 The zealous, honest democrat stands no chance against the effect 
 <nf family influence that has obtained there, and the petty preju- 
 dice and partiality of those wlia hold the patronage of office^ 
 
 Democratic County Convention. The raseality practised for 
 several years past in this body, has made it necessary, that some- 
 thing should be done by the honest part of the party, so that there 
 will be a fair and just expression of opinion with regard to the 
 selection of Candidates, and the ultimate election of competent 
 and honest men to office. We would suggest then, that all candi- 
 dates should be proposed before the election of Delegates, so 
 that the people would elect their Delegates with reference direct- 
 lydito the Candidates themselves; for, as it is,^ the delegates being 
 free they use their freedom as best suits their prejudice,partiality, 
 or interestjor that of some friend or party leader. In all cases,every 
 Democratic citizen should turn out to the Delegate elections: no 
 one ought to think his attendance unnecessary, but should go,and,. 
 take his neigbor with him. This course, itself, would cure many 
 lis now prevalent. 
 
27 
 
 POST OFFICE, 
 
 James Pao;e 
 
 P.M. 
 
 Clerk 
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 -Charles H Kerk, 1st Clerk 
 
 Wm. Harbeson 2n(l ilo 
 
 B. Potter 
 
 Wm, S. Halliday 
 
 Wm. J. P, White 
 
 R. M. SI ay maker 
 
 S, B. Warner 
 
 A. P, Hesser 
 
 Robt. J.Parke 
 
 James Fisher 
 
 •SamK M. White 
 
 E. Bradshavv 
 
 John P. Reese 
 
 Wm. Sterne 
 
 Geo, W. Miles 
 
 Joseph Wood '' t^SO 
 
 Francis L. Cooper 
 
 Wm. Steele ") boys at 
 
 Saml. Collar U240 
 
 Franklin Reed J 
 
 A. Andrews, Carrier 
 W, H. Paxson 
 
 B. L. Perry 
 John Mirkel 
 Jos. C. Clark 
 J. Clinton 
 J. P. Coicord 
 Samuel Cook 
 William Mannings 
 T. F. Goodwin 
 H. Hannings 
 J. Johnson 
 J. Miller 
 
 J. J. McCahen $7* 
 
 John C. Smith 
 Isaac A. Stevens 
 M. Hart 
 
 §4000 
 
 4 p. ct. 
 
 8i6o,ao 
 
 1600 
 
 2f 
 
 ' 40,00 
 
 1440 
 
 2 
 
 28,80 
 
 1020 
 
 o 
 
 20,40 
 
 800 
 
 li 
 
 12,00 
 
 780 
 
 i(. 
 
 11,70 
 
 770 
 
 (.i 
 
 11,55 
 
 700 
 
 a 
 
 10,50 
 
 lor 840 
 
 i i 
 
 12,60 
 
 700 
 
 a 
 
 10,50 
 
 700 
 
 i-i 
 
 10,50 
 
 700 
 
 a 
 
 10,50 
 
 500 
 
 1 
 
 5,a0 
 
 600 
 
 n 
 
 9,00 
 
 500 
 
 1 
 
 5,00 
 
 500 
 
 u 
 
 5,00 
 
 500 
 
 a 
 
 5,00 
 
 500 
 
 • m 
 
 5,00 
 
 720 
 
 
 -'-— 
 
 
 
 373,05 
 
 17,870 
 
 
 
 $700 
 
 n 
 
 S10'50 
 
 700 
 
 a 
 
 10,50 
 
 500 
 
 1 
 
 5,00 
 
 .940 
 
 ih 
 
 14,00 
 
 700 
 
 a 
 
 10,50 
 
 C.00 
 
 (S 
 
 12,00 
 
 850 
 
 a 
 
 J2,75 
 
 700 
 
 a 
 
 10,50 
 
 600 
 
 u 
 
 9,00 
 
 1300 
 
 2 
 
 26,00 
 
 1000 
 
 i(. 
 
 20,00 
 
 600 
 
 u 
 
 9,00 
 
 850 
 
 it 
 
 12,75 
 
 1500 
 
 2-r 
 
 37,50 
 
 900 
 
 H 
 
 13,50 
 
 7 50 
 
 H 
 
 11,25 
 
 ireo 
 
 H 
 
 10,50 
 
 14,990 
 
 
 235,25 
 
 17,870 
 
 
 373,05 
 
 g31,060 
 
 ^608,30 
 
 =m 
 
 -See ^page 33, 
 
28 
 
 POST OFFICE. 
 We now give a view of the Phila Post Office, and we do say 
 that the rules for the regulation of business are unuece-ssarilj ri- 
 gid and severe, of the most aristocratic character unworthy of a 
 gentleman professing so much Democracy as Col. Page does; 
 the government is what may be called a Strong Government, 
 the place altogether a very Workhouse*. The situation of the 
 inmates so far as regards personal freedom, the enjoyments of 
 pleasure, the intensely onerous labor to be performed, with the 
 thankless returns for every exercise of mental and physical duty, 
 contrasted with southern slavery, is incomparably worse and more 
 detestable. Gentle reader, dont startle at this assertion; we 
 know what we say, we are satisfied that the comparison is just, 
 and you will, after having read this little work tlirough, respond 
 to the truth of our remark! Now look at it. In the first place, 
 you see, that a majority of the persons employed there, do not 
 receive more than one half enough compensation, considered, 
 either as a reward for their attention and labor, or as a means of 
 support. Fourteen out of the Nineteen (exclusive of the boys) 
 receiving not over 700 Dols. per annum, and several of them get- 
 ting not more than 400 dols. You will take notice, that there 
 are several boys employed, wiiOj altho they may be able to per- 
 form the duties enjoined upou ihem, and in most cases capable 
 of doing nearly as much as a man could do, yet in a place of this 
 
 *\Ve would ask, whether the clerks are not required to be at 
 their posts every alternate day,at 15 minutes after five o,clock A. 
 M. in Summer time, and at 15 minutes before 6 A. M. in the winter 
 season, and continue their labors (except meal times, for which 
 they are allowed one hour and a quarter.) untill Eight, and some- 
 times, untillO o'clock at night. We might ask, if a Book is not 
 kept for registering the arrival of the clerks in the Mornings 
 and from their meals, together with every instance of absence 
 from the office: and further, whether three and five minutes time 
 is not marked; We ask also, if at the end of each month, this 
 Book i» not canvass'd, and "every nice offence made to bear" 
 the commentof the P. M. when every delinquent clerk, except 
 
 such as is compejl'd "even to the very teeth and forehead of 
 
 his faults, to give in" an excuse! — apology!! Such a registry 
 
 &c, might be required for boys, but men^ fairly compensated 
 for their attention and labor, need no such means to produce a 
 proper performance of their duties!! We ask, if the clerks are 
 not on duty each alternate Sunday; We might ask several more 
 questions, all tending to show that the opinion given, was founded 
 upon circumstances, the knowledge of which, must in every can- 
 did mind, produce simular sentiments. 
 
3 
 
 ^klHdjthere should be no one employed but of years and experience, 
 of settled habits, of fixed moral principles, capable of estimating 
 their own and others moral characters, and of appreciating the 
 responsibilities of so important a situation, as a clerkship in the 
 Philadelphia Post Office: why is it that the Post master employs 
 minors far such responsible duties, why place the inexperienced, 
 the giddy, gay young man in the way of such great temptations; 
 vvhy, after all his experience and observation of juvenile weak- 
 ness continue to keep those employed, who in an evil hour may 
 abuse their trust, cause shame and distress to their parents, ren- 
 der the situation of their fellow clerks more unpleasant and em- 
 barrassing, and bring disrepute upon the office, the government 
 and the party! ! 
 
 Beside all this, minors have no claims upon the party for offices 
 a^ any kind, particularly such, as under every view, ought to be 
 occupied by men ; to men alone do they belong. The freeman, 
 vvho has a permanent residence amongst us, with a family or fami- 
 ly connections to bind his afteciions here; who, located in the 
 city proper or one of the districts, is identified with its interests 
 a-nd honor; who is a voter, contributing in every respect to the 
 general weal, and who, by his moral and political influence ad- 
 vantages the party in its honor and power, such have claims 
 upon the administration and upon those who indirectly exercise 
 governmental patronage; Such, in preference to boys should 
 have the offices. While upon the subject of minors connected 
 with the post office, we would turn the attention of the reader to 
 the list of clerks, where will be seen the name of one, marked with 
 a star, and the word "minor;" this young gentleman is the Post 
 Master's confident and particular associate at home, Balls, Thea- 
 ter, Harvest homes, and political meetings. This Major Domo's 
 duty at the post office has been gradually tlecreased forsome time, 
 untill now it comprises only two or three hours attention in the 
 evening, with what additional titne the young gentleman mav 
 choose to attend in the day time; for all of^vhich, he receives t!ie 
 -salary of 840 dollars: here then, you see a young man, without 
 family, almost without location, paying no taxes, not a voter, no 
 identity with the interest and honor of any district in the city or 
 ^county, receiving a salary, greater than^hree fourtlis of the other 
 .clerks, nearly all of wiioin are married, located, lax payers, and 
 voters. We ask you is this.right? should the patronao-e of the 
 government, ay, of our political party be thus disposed of ? we 
 imagine we hear your answer, and we re-echo k, No! No!! To 
 witness boy*s upstart pride, to be subjectrto their insolence is 
 jnortifying to the spirit of a man,but to have it sanctioned or altow- 
 ^ed with impunity by official power, is more thon freemen should 
 tubmit ta! 
 
30 
 
 We'shall now call the reatler's attention to another individual 
 in thel^ostpffice^who, in the return of the Post office clerks and 
 carriers and their salaries, to the committee of the Dem. Union 
 association was not classed among the clerks, but put with the 
 carriers, to which class you are referred,where you v/ill observe a 
 hand in tlie margin, pointing to gl500; we would remark here, 
 that this Gentleman should have been classed with both, for, be- 
 sides being a carrier, from which he derives an income of nearly 
 g2300,(less the sum of 500 which he pays to an assistant) he has 
 a clerkship no»ninally,< for which he receives a salary of STSO. 
 Vv'e find no fiulr. with Captain McCahen, for getting all he can, 
 atid keeping all he o;ets; but we censure Col. Page, first, for al- 
 luwinn^a monopoly (^f offices, (monopolies being sohatefullto him,) 
 anil Sf'condiy, for c^ranting this gentlemen leave of absence from 
 the oflice upon so many occasions,for weeks and months at a time, 
 imposing his duties upon others, he receiving the full am't of his 
 salury kc, NVe would say, there is something wrong about this 
 aftair, for if this clerkship is a reality^ then, the incumbent 
 should attend to its duties; but we suspect its reality, because 
 we k!iow, that during the Captain's attendance at Harrisburg as a 
 meiuber of the reform Convention, and while in the city attending 
 the same, and when at Washington city interfering with the re- 
 movals and appointments' of Gov. Wolf in the Custom House, and 
 when at Harrisburg conferring with our Govenor elect immedia- 
 tely after the late general election, and also, when at New-York, 
 <iaring tho ri^cent election, the business of the otlice, and that 
 p.itt especially of which his duties prescribe lo him the immedi- 
 ate supervision, was as faithfully and fully attended to, as when 
 p.reseiit — if so, why such a clerkship, why not abolish it, retain 
 tlie 75(^ dol. paid him as salary and return it to the Gen. Post 
 oHice, to become a part of the fund of that department; «r if it is 
 in r^'ality an office, requiring the personal attentionoi the incum- 
 kt-nt, how can the Post Master reconcile the facts of this casf, 
 with his sense of h>nor, of justice to the people, and the obliga- 
 tioH of his oathl if a reality should he not give it to some one of 
 tuc hundreds of poor men in the party, or if not, abi)lish it at once 
 in justice to the government. What! Shall one man to the exclu- 
 sioji of another, enjoy the emoluments of tu'o offices, in their na- 
 t ire distinct and seperate! shall he neglect one or both at his 
 ;)Zea5Mr<?, leaving the duties to be perforu^ed by odiersl he receiv- 
 ing full j)ay for services not rendered. We insist that in either 
 form of this case there is a palpable wrong, if the oliice is neces-, 
 sary and its duties should be performed regularly and properly 
 ihen failing to do so, is robbing the people; if it is x\oi necessary , 
 then the injustice is more glaring and reprehensible: in either 
 
€ase, we say a wrong is done — it should be abolished, or given to 
 some poor democrat, — We have digressed from the subject refer- 
 ed toby the 0:^and ^1500,as alluded to above: we meant to call 
 the readers attention to the fact, that the Democratic Union as- 
 sociation ot the city and county of Philadelphia, organized some 
 time in 1836 or 7, for the purpose of uniting the factional parts of 
 the party,and renewing it in the vigor and strength possessed and 
 enjoyed before the schism of 1835, did, in the spring of the 
 present year, adopt a system of finance, the principle and practi- 
 cal operation of which has been exemplified in the tabular state- 
 ment exhibited on page 27, To carry it out, a committee of as- 
 sessment was appointed,which entered upon its duties and the re- 
 sult of tis labor, in the form of a report, is this same tabular State- 
 ment, Mr Jos. Yeager chairman of the committee received from 
 Col. Page and Capt. M'Cahen, in part from the latter we are cer- 
 tain, having Mr. Yeager's v/ord for it^the names of the carriers and 
 clerks of the P. 0. and the amount of their incomes and salaries. 
 V The reader must takei notice of the fact, as represented in the 
 ^ "^able of assessment, that the more an ofiicer received, the greater 
 \Iie per centum, and the larger the sum he was assessed. Now to 
 the point; you see then, that Capt,McCahen is sett down 1500dls,at 
 ^^ pr. ct. making 37,50 dols, payable to the party; we have said 
 that his income as carrier was 2300 dols, deducting 500 dols. for 
 assistant, would leave 1800 dols, which, added to his salary as 
 elerk would make about 82500, which amount, subject to S^pr, ct, 
 <liscount, would make his dues to the association or party 
 • 87,50 dols; here is a saving to hifn of.fift}' dollars! we dont stop 
 here, to ask why this is so —wo only say, that those who made the 
 return acted unjustly. Why charij;e oiher gpt.tkman the full 
 amounts received by them (comparatively sniall) and leave Mr, 
 Mc C. (receiving the largest amount of money of any one in the 
 Post Office) pass exonerated of a p;irt oi'txjust and equitable i<[.\} 
 Truth did not prevail iier?^ justice was supplanted, and the Col. 
 saved 50 dol. This is the way i\\G fav who are ''favorites of fate" 
 get along; this is the way the leaders of the party deceive those i& 
 the ranks. 
 
 Connected with this, is another fact, which we will mention. 
 It must be bourne in mind, that by a rule of the committee, those 
 persons receiving less than 500 dollai-s pr annum were not taxed; 
 but such as received that sum were assessed at the rate of 1 pr- 
 ct. making 5,00 dols. By this rule Mr. ^ood who received but 
 480 dols. and two others in the post office, one a special assorting 
 Clerk, acting with Mr. M'Caheia and receiving either 360 doL 
 or 420 dol. pr. annum, and the messenger, who now receives 420 
 dot., but at that time rec'd but 360 pr, an. were exempt from tax- 
 ation J but, either for the purpose of receiving the 5^00, m the 
 
32 
 
 more generous object of saving Mr. Woods feelings, he was ra- 
 ted at 500 dls, see statement, and charged accordingly: this was 
 done by the same persons who misstated Col. McCahen's receipts. 
 How can they justify their course? nay do they not feel sensible 
 of doing great injustice, tirst, in screening an individual receiv- 
 ing a large salary from the payment of 50 doL and on the other 
 hand, making a man who received an inadequate salary liable to 
 the assessment and tax of 5,00 dol. by representing his receipts 
 more than they really were. 
 
 The Pollowing was included in the report of the Commit- 
 tee of the Democratic Anion Association- 
 
 COiyZl^ISSARV aiU7£HAI.'S OFFICE. 
 
 Commissary Gen. g3000 4 
 
 Callender Irvine 
 
 Timothy Banger Clerk 
 
 William C. Irvine " 
 
 William Banger " 
 
 N. Campbell Inspector of Clothing 
 
 John Gethen Clothier 
 
 Matthew Grier, Inspector of Caps &,c. 
 
 1705 
 
 t200 
 
 1080 
 
 800 
 
 800 
 
 720 
 
 2-1 
 
 
 S9.305 
 
 UNITED STATES 3^1 ?iT. 
 
 Robert M. Patterson, Director gSOOO 
 
 Wm. Findley, Treasurer 1200 
 
 Adam Eckteldt Chief Coiner loOO 
 
 .Jacob R, Eckfeldt do I5OO 
 
 Franklin Peale, Melter and refiner 1500 
 
 William Kneass, Engraver 1200 
 
 Christian Gobreight, do 1200 
 
 J. S. Benezct, Treasurers cleik 1000 
 
 \V. E. Dij. Bois, Director 700 
 
 -Fid ward Sprague, Book keeper &00 
 
 3 pr. 
 
 2 
 
 21 
 
 (£ 
 
 (( 
 
 2 
 
 S120,00 
 42,62 
 24,00 
 21,60 
 12,00 
 12,00 
 10,80 
 
 ^ §243,02 
 
 ct 
 
 812,400 
 
 j\sab.sb:ai:.Su 
 
 ^STimuel D. Patterson S2000 3 
 
 .^lichael W. Ash 2000 3 
 
 U. 3. DISTRICT ATrORHEX 
 
 John M. Read 2000 .3 
 
 S60,00 
 , 24,00 
 37,50 
 37,50 
 37,50 
 ^4,00 
 24,00 
 20,00 
 10,50 
 9,00 
 
 S284,00 
 
 §60,006 
 
 60, Qq 
 
 .|'«Q,00 
 
33 
 
 The Whig's never had a political Light House,or if so it has been 
 of no service to them. They have dashed about upon the ocean 
 of Political strife with every assurance of reaching the desired 
 port, but unfortunately for them, just at the time when the haven 
 was in view,they have been stranded or completely wrecked. 
 
 We might convey our views by the use of a iigure, correspon- 
 ding with what we have said above, but it is better to speak plain; 
 We therefore say, that the Whigs have been too proscriptive; 
 having the power to exert this suicidal policy, they have carried 
 it too far; by it they have raised against them the indignation of 
 the mechanical and laboring classes, they have aroused the spirit 
 of freeman to hatred and contempt, for, not only the principles 
 which actuate, but the actors themselves. The whigs should re- 
 member, that a freeman, in whose soul the fire of freedom burns, 
 may be annihilated, but not humbled; he may be ruin'd, but will 
 never sacrifice his honor and his independence* The Whigs 
 must give up this policy. They must lay aside tliQir exdusiyeness 
 their pride, their contempt for the poor man; they must mix and 
 intermix with society generally^be sociable and compleasant,gen- 
 erous, good humoured all the year through,or they never can suc- 
 ceed: discard proscription for political opinion's sake, give mea 
 workwithout regard to their political preferences^ encourage every 
 man in business let his views be what they may, and in election 
 €anipaigns,never let a man's personal appearance, his family con- 
 nection, his business, and particularly his misfortunes be araign- 
 ed against him. Curb the violent tone of your presses and 
 public speakers, and insist that they shall' in future pay a 
 strict regard to truth .' 
 
 * We have heard, that the Post Master of Philadelphia realizes 
 Eight or Ten Thousand Dollars pr. an. from his office— we dont 
 know how it is. 
 
 t This Gentleman's Situation is worth to him about Thirteen 
 Hundred Dollars — he earns all he gets! 
 X Resigned, and ;^wo new Clerks entered. 
 
 See page 27 
 
34 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 We present the aggregate, amounts reported to be received by the offi- 
 cers of the Custom House, Post Office &c. We believe they come short of 
 the amounts actually received^ as in the Custom House, weknow there are 
 persons who were not noticed by the Committee, and, that in the Post Of- 
 fice there are others (as we have shown in one instance)whose incomes or 
 salaries arc greater than represented. 
 
 We also add the amt. assessed, 
 
 Custom House, 
 
 
 91,395,00 dol. - 
 
 2,073,45 doL 
 
 Post Office 
 
 elks. 
 
 18,590,00 
 
 373,05 
 
 (( u 
 
 Cars. 
 
 14,090,00 
 
 235,14 
 
 Com Genl Office 
 
 9,305,00 
 
 243,02 
 
 U S Mint 
 
 
 12,400 00 
 
 284,00 
 
 U. S. Dis. Attj. 
 
 
 2,000,'00 
 
 60,00 
 
 Marshall 
 
 
 * 2,000,00 
 
 60,00 
 
 ^Sivj Agent 
 
 '•" 
 
 2,000,00 
 
 60,00 
 
 
 151,780,00 dol. 
 
 3,387,66 dol. 
 
 The Marshall and navy agent's income were rated too high, the assess- 
 ment was accordingly abated. From the Commissary General's office not 
 one cent was collected-some of the Gentlemen there have enjoyed the 
 benefits of office for Uiirty Years — -the officers at the Mint declined 
 giving any thing to the Committees of Collection appointed by the Demo- 
 cratic Union association, but contributed to Committees appointed by the 
 citizens of several districts in the County. They declined, because they 
 deemed it a great assumption of power on the part of any body of men to 
 assess a tax of that kind, they would not recognise the levying of a Contri- 
 bution by any such constituted power. Of the 3,387,66 dol. assessed, about 
 1.700 dls. was collected,and applied by the several Committees of distribu- 
 ition to the purposes for which it was obtained. 
 
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