The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-04-03

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have applied in vain.
ms trenruious apprehension of newsbrint
ing poitrnaitefs eau eaiily oe traced up to its
real .ource. During the twelve fri years
1.-The federal government, a great number Of
federal editors bad been put into the poit Office;
and 1t is like enough that fomc of them, as
well as other poitmafers, abufed their .ruR.
The Object with MIR: G rangeris to get rid of
all federal potmaiters, as faft as he can, whe
tier they print newspapers or NOT. But he
hadnot the courage TO tell them this in frank
manly manner. 1t was necchary 10 go round
about the bulhcs, and come in blythe 6ack frack.
For this purpole, our Connecticut field mar
tEal preached tic new doctrine of expeliing
all ncwsprinters from the pof office; and It
was finder this prete2ec that he wrote his i'm
peachment of Hobby. He miGook this rem
tleman for painter. But the fame propen-
ttty tor biunders which led him into that mfr
take produced another, which BETRAYED the
iecret He gave an additional reafon for the
diifniial, and this was thatnotable one of agc-
eating and eoyysjpondiHg with federal cha
rzGfcrS. If this la& crime was iuffcicnr for
authorizing ffobby's diicharge, the accu.:tiori
Fl ;lewsprintlng niight have been fpared Or
II 1ewsprineing was enough, the Guilt of
corresponding with the executive might have
been kept out dfthe " ay. 10th iides OF this
iaapeachinent were very weak, and, as the
iaipmis OF rafhnefs, MIR. Granger placed
iinieifbetwceh two fires at once. He had
not talents capable of that ambiguous dexterity
which admits of ten different ycrfions of a,
Jingle ientence, WHICH, in a word, means any
ching or nothing But it is the nature of
hvpocri!y to drop its maxi. On the contrary,
truth feands always firm and erect urdcr the
aiiaults OF hoitility, or the frowns of fortune.
She requires no. tenderness of npefi"ation.
She dlfdains al ilbterfuges. She groveis not
IN the kennel OF petty articles. She watches
not for trallienq popularity, which is TO be
purchaica at The expence Of future detection
and contempt. She looks forward 70 the
impartial Judgement OF thar day, when the
head that is then thinking, and the band that
is then writing, ihall have mouldesed inro
duff.
he canting file of our man 6fleffey,, at
once infolent and mean, hypocritical and un-
guarded, Demonstrates rhst be cannot Goar "a
ientiments like thefe. In language, there
fore, which defends to the level Of his Intel
le6t, it may be pardonable TO INFORM him chat
g cowardice is always defpifcd; and deceit
6 universally deteifed,"t Mr.. JeEerion,
foon after his aeceGion 60 the chair, turned
quit the parihai0f Vermont, whole behaviour
IN the ieditlosi cafe OF mar flaIc 10 euinentl5
delerYed this mark OF dilfinSlion. Weunder-
itand that the PRECEDENT hath iince exprefIed
ms regret for having chofen fuccelor quite
as worthless as the former MARTIAL. II is To
be hoped, or at leaf 10 be defired, that he NAV
not have capfe alto to repent his choice Of tbs
fucce6or of Mr.. Habefiham
We thould not have addrei:c! our readers \
third time on the adventures of Mr.. Granger.
If freih tpifie Gf dji1ai0ian had not feeTnej
10 require it, Mr.. Davis has received his
diichargc. In q letter upon this fubje6t, Gid
con ohierves that he can have no rea(on TO
complain OF diimiGion, as be has received, in
the couric of his fervice, fourteen thouiand
three hundred ana eighty dollars, and thirty
nine cents. This letter, with an anCwer
from Mr. Davis, is on It's way to the prcfS.
ne antwer oblerYeS that the amount ef the
fun received was of no concern to Mr..
Granger; that all the money came to no more
upon medium, than fourteen hundred dol
2fs a year; and of this fun, large propor-
ton had gone for afFifance, and houfe rent
,betldcS the pfFfonal attendance, the labour
and rJfk OF MI. D2Yis Rimfelft This makes
q part of the contents OF. the correspondence
Now 1t mutt be obfervcd that Mr.. Day:<
has not been gamer, b:t ioier, by the latl
three years of his pofeRion of the Richmond
pot office. a fhort retrolpet viii illufrare
and prove this atiertion, On the 9th Of IAN
uary, 1899, the a1emblv of this fate paa
law, 6y which perion holding an ofTeeuader
tne federal government cannot, at the fame
time, hold another under die fate. The
act, as we conceive, is in iticif extremely
proper, Rut-rnark fhe ronfp,,tre,rc. r. "a
Davis He had, for many years, been annm-
ally chofcn printer TO the commonwealth !.
and this law reduced him to dif}re9ing d.
JENNA. lie was either to give up the Office
Of federal pofmafter, or TO forfeit all pofilil-
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