The Mississippi Creole

Inconsistency.-The Democratic press are

actually abusive of the Hon. Truman Smith

because he is devoting his time and attention,

as one of the Whig Central Committee at

Washington, to the distribution of Whig do-

cuments, and at the same time, our opponents

are parading the fact that their Central Com-

mittee, at the head of which is Senator Foote,

of Mississippi, have scattered broadcast over

the land, under Congressional and Postoffice

franks, the enormous quantity of 1,500,000

democratic documents. The other members

of the committee are an assistant Postmaster

General and the Commissioner of Patents,

both receiving large salaries from the Treasu-

ry, and neglecting those duties, for the per-

formance of which they are pocketing the peo-

ple's money, in order to attend to electioneer-

ing. Yet Mr. Smith, whose time is his own,

and who is not quartered upon the public

Treasury, is to be vilified for doing the same

as the officials do to the neglect of their public

duties.

The National Intelligencer, in alluding to

the subject of a late Democratic meeting in

Washington says:

"The person who called the meeting to or-

der was a Clerk in a public office: so was the

presiding officer: and a large portion of the

Vice Presidents and Secretaries were employ-

ees of the Government, one of them being the

Warden of the Penitentiary, holding that

trust by Executive appointment. We learn,

indeed, from the newspapers and other sources,

that the officers of the Government, some of a

higher grade than Clerks, and some of a lower,

make a practice to spread themselves over the

land, and especially in doubtful districts of

the adjoining States, thus giving up to the em-

ployment of electioneering that time which

they owe to the public.

"But we are well assured that even more

crying abuses than this are practiced in public

institutions in this city, immediately under the

control and direction of the Administration.

We learn, for example, that the Convicts in

the Penitentiary are actually employed in pre-

paring and painting Democratic Transparen-

cies, for electioneering purposes not only in

this city, but in other quarters. Whether this

be a proper employment for these convicts our

readers are quite as competent to judge as we

are."--N. O. Bulletin.