Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-09-21
P0a4aFECAL.
From The frankfort (kg,) Commentator.
WILLIAM T. BARRY.

WILLIAM T. BARRY
His Liability 10 he General Post Office De.
pnrimem aud defaicaiion--of Tong Standing
| Sing lar Expedien for eriricating himseT fran
The hgcaity-dnd not altogether asscet@fui for
| HIM and Of no SeruiCe 10 The GOrefnntnL
| When we repnbllShed the defensive address
| of Mr.. J. II. Hawkins, the punished" Post
master of the town OF Frankfort, aud took oC-
casion To invite the public atteniion.to the no.
table statements contained IN that paper, we
could not wholly refrain from mountaineering
| upon the course Of the Post Master General TO.
wards that gentleman. Il appeared that Mr..
Barry had caused Nh Hawkins 10 be arragn.
| ed befro the public ms deiaultnr. the deiul
| cation beng assigned ns the reason for mea.
sure of no ineonsiderable severiiy--ihe depri-
va.ion OF his Office. The charge was refuted,
| aud il struck us that II had come With an i'll
grace from one who, WI knew stood himself ~
that attitude towards the department over which
he now presdes.
The records and circumstances TO which we
alluded though not generally known, were no
! aecicts here. They bad never been circulated
| in print, however, and probably never would
| have been, bnt for the monsr ops practice beguH
| aud pursued by the agents and defenders of the
present administration, oil attempting 10 excuse
and Justify tha proscrirtive course Of the gov
gah.sf the sufferers, aud the subject would
probably have remained untouched by us, but
| for the feelings excited by the strong view pre-
| scented by Mr.. Hawkins, OF case in which the
Post Master General was directly implicated as
n principal actor.
| Among all the various papers ia this state
devoted to the present administration, aud
with all the zeal Of the editors To defend the
measures, and the acts oil each oil its members,
no; one, far as we know. thought II prudent
| To attempt 10 refuie, ~ 10 give any sort Of an
| sw TO our suggestion. They would have Clio.
red in such an enori If they had believed the
suggestion was not well founded. But with
then knowledge, they deemed IL brsl 10 let thai
pass by, as one upon which the less said the
better Aud we bad no call again 10 revert TO
| H. until our little article had travelled 10 Wash
ington city, aud back again. The Argus how
ever, of last week, after dead silence of near
a month, embroidered, perhaps, by the denial Of
he Telegraph, aud 70 sewing lis xample, ven
lures to assert emphailcally. thai the records oil
the Federal Court IioRe the S a'Gmeni false. y
The reader will see presently how that IS.
|" Mr.. Barry III adds WAS sued by the govern
ment upon some sup posed liability ior another,
the decision, instead of being NJ aust hio, was IL
for him" Tins is quibblo.-a qnibbe which,
rIilful as il is. COMFORTS very well with the
name that stauds AT the head OF thai paper and
we have nothing TO say TO j.. II the defence
had been rosortel 10 under the sanction OF ano-
Their name, we should only say TO the wriler-
! you did not search the record quite far enough.
- There are more things in this world Horntio,
than are dreampt OF III your philosophy
There has been no aliempt to mesI md re, list
The demand upon its merirs.-The judgment
was upon grounds not merely technical, but
erroneous Six DAYS afterwards il was set a
side and annaIIed IL never came 10 be a So v.
.n days wonder Is hi. the mode in which
M Barry's friends here intend TO defend him
against what they are pleased TO say, is n Ia lse
mpui alion by a u ,ltfy qulbble "A technical
aubbng defence night serve Tor a time in a
pers.
In The district Of Columbia whore the Pos,
Master General ,s bette known by his ufbanil,
aud bandshmc ITS, tpan by the history Of his
affairs in Kcnfacky, our ssegp ,tion appears Ia
have produced a sensation rather uaexpe cted
TO Us. One friendly pnprr says ",here must Ger.
tain!y be some mis- axe in this matter Another
equally friendly, seems perpleged it'll doubts
and earnestly invokes IL, Tor our own sakes
to sustain the chaigr, and also TO expose the
transactions which we said /" would make com.
mon inrn stare, but which il Is pleased TO un.
derstand we're tingei with enofmity ."-a y.
warns us that IL We fail TO do so, " having
thrown out the charge,n We shall he i" obnos.
ions TO uubc censure,' &c. Then comes tho
Telegraph, the government paper, with his ten.
| ergetic paragraph, by which the editor, no
doubt imagints he had settled tho whole matter