Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1858 — A Good Daguerreotype, [ARTICLE]

A Good Daguerreotype,

The Chicago Times, Mr. Douglas’ home organ, draws the following picture of those I in power at Washington, which we com- ; mend to the attention of the honest Democracy of this State: A petty tyrant holds office in the ury Department of Washington. He sought among the political .kennels of this city, a man fit to do a piece of dirty work. He found such a man—a public defaulter—a man covered all over with political degredation. He'violated the lawsol the land by having that man appointed to office. He [ has called to his aid others of the lowest scale of personal and political moral ty; one of these holds an office under the Treas- ' ury Department. That man has used the public money for his own private purposes; nay, has in his official capacity, sold drafts on the public} depository, in this city, when he had no money in such depository, and, if he had, that he had no authority to use it for his personal wants. Some cif these drafts have been protested, and the Secretary of the Treasury, instead of dismissing the man who had'violated tlie law of his official position, has dismissed the honest depository, who refused to pay the illegal and dishonored drafts. The despotism at Washington has made crime a passport to Federal office in Illinois, a virtuous observance of a law a cause for dismissal. Why talk of Bomba in Italy, when there is a Bomba in the Treasury Department. at Washington; and bigoted, furious Brights, Fitches, Slidells and Biglers in the Senate! Why talk of European tyranny, when the wholETorce of our Government is directed to compel the free people of Illinois to abandon their principles and forsake the creed of their fathers! Men are paid oufof the Federal Treasury to make war in this State upon the Democratic party, that Howell Cobb may, in his own estimation, be a step nearer the Presidency.