Delaware journal., 1827-12-18

and in the reclessnass Of lis pursuit even the COM
mon decencies and charities OF life are overlooked.
! Mr.. Johns has been wantonly and vulgarly as
salled because, iUIsooth, the present Speaker III
the House of Representatives, has not thought
proper 10 place him any of the standing commit
tees And to Justify what Harker considers in
territorial slight to the State he endeavours to shew,
or rather the pful blockhead asserts. that Mr..
Johns is without sufficient talent and requirements
for such situation This, affirm, is positively
false, and will be iumphantly proved whenever
his abilities put to the test. Mr.. Johns is not a
sudden made man. thrown out by the late political
excitement, which seems to have unhinged every
thing in the State. He has been for eight or ten
years at the Bar of this county, and earned by his
assiduous attention to his profession and amlabe de-
pertinent, not merely the goodwill, but the res
pect OF nearly all his associates Ills friends and
those who brought him forward on IA late Occa-
sion, saw in him degree of intelligence, united
with Il manly rectitude of purpose, which they
thought fully qualified him for his present situa-
ton. They knew that his judgment was sound.
and that his mind was sufficiently stored with
the important principles of law and legislation, to
render him safe depository of the trust they conf
ded to him. And they know and feel that the
cause of the omission alluded to- grows out of ve-
ry different from the assigned in the Ga
zette. They cannot permit themselves to doubt,
nor will any dsinterested and candid man (atter ex
aminng the complexion of the Committees that
have been appointed) that the why Mr..
Johns was passed over by the Speaker, was simply
because he known to be friendly to the present
Administration. What this state of things augurs
for the prosperity othe Country, is topic we will
not discuss.
Fortunately, the polluted source from which this
attack emenates, deplives it of the power to do mis-
chief-and nothing but the possibility of its receiv
ing credence abroad, where his character is unknown,
has induced me to notice it. should add, that the
writer of the present remarks, is not personal
friend of Mr.. Johns and that he has been inAuenc-
ed in what he has said solely from desire to do
justice. confess too, that am unwilling, as a
Deawarlan, to stand silently and see the reputation
Of man whom majority of my State has thought
worthy to represent her in Congress, assailed and
talsitied by any ignorant and degraded puppy who
may chance to edit paper And, additionally,
object that such creature as Harker, the willing
and humble tool of all or any who will consent to
employ him. should without contradiction, assume
to himself the province OF a public sentinel" We
Sir, who reside in this part of the country, knoU
him to be neither sentinel nor the organ of an,
party in the State. The most respectable of the
old Federalists, of whom he has been the worst en-
emy, and whose party he has so long labored t.
destroy, gave him up, one after another, some TIM
age. ne oe'noCFauC party always heio nun y
contempt. The present genuine &C bona .fde" Jack
sonitcs are afraid of his principles; for they Can
not forget that he has denounced their CHIEF " a
the most Objectionable of all the candidates for tn
presidency" And the eleventh hour Jackson mer
. who have the honor, or the disgrace to enrol hil
in their ranks not in very good circulation then
sclves, and at all events cannot be dgned with th
:: name ofa party. Let him. however, belong to wha
ever political sect he may, he has lost what litt
standing he had in the estimation of the better pa
0 of society, who in him the robber of priva
t reputation, and the ready sponsor of every politics
s. heresy. VlNDEA'