Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1858 — They Prefer to Irish. [ARTICLE]

They Prefer to Irish.

The Washington, correspondent of the Tablet, the Catholic organ, gives the following instance of the way this pure Administration treats the foreign citizens who elected it., The Irish who hurrahed for Buchanan are getting paid gloriously for their assistance. Read it: “There is a .dead-lock in political affairs here at this time, if we except the occasional removals from and appointments to office. The richest, and, perhaps, most remarkable «xploit in this way happened a week or so since. Two worthy irishmen, having families, were employed under (. aptain Meigs at §1.25 per day each, to attend the furnace in the House of Representatives. By a recent j act the control of the apparatus was trans- j ferrcd to the Cl irk of the House from Captain Meigs. An assistant to Mr. Allen, named (farter, and part editor and owner of the. Union paper, in the absence o! his principal, removed the two Irish Democrats, arid put two negroes in their places. 1 his is not all. He even raised the pay of the veg roes to fifty dollars per month! 1 have not as yet learned whether the darkies are tree or slaves; if the latter, the motive for the change may he easily inferred; if the former, then negroes are better citizens than Irishmen under a Democratic Administration or a Democratic House of Representatives.’’ 'To : us there is nothing strange in the tibove. It is in perfect keeping \|yth the Democratic party. The §SO per month paid to these negroes undoubtedly finds its way into the pockets of Mr. Carter, j