Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 12, July 10, 1858
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Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 12, July 10, 1858
New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
_Let the Supervisors_ watch the operations of Richard B. Connolly, who
has prowled around the Aldermen and Councilmen and Supervisors for
several years, from whom he has had not a farthing less than $1,000,000
since he has been County Clerk. The Supervisors alone voted him $316,000
for the printing of his musty and worthless Records, which no paper
manufacturer would have purchased, nor even carted to their factories as
a donation. And they are of less value to the public in their printed
form, than to the paper makers. It is a study, and a sad one for the tax
payers, to see Dick Connolly and George H. Purser sitting in the Boards
of Aldermen and Councilmen and Supervisors at almost every session, for
many years past, watching and nudging and coaxing the members to vote
for their plundering enactments. These two scamps have never been
naturalised, and have perjured themselves, since they cast their first
ballots. But they don’t perjure themselves any more in that way, as they
don’t dare vote, and have not voted since I exposed their alienage,
three years since. They have packed more Grand and Petit Juries, and
condemned and imprisoned and hung more innocent men, and robbed the City
and Albany Treasuries to a greater extent than any other two public
thieves and precocious monsters who walk the streets of New York. And
both of these precious rascals now announce themselves as candidates for
Comptroller! And they intend to buy their nomination and election with
the very money they have stolen and are stealing daily from the people.
O that there was a Brutus or Cincinnatus to rebuke these villains, and
to stab them down, and to thus shame and scourge the people for
permitting such villains to go unpunished.
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