Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-06-19
Ntrtelt0auU GGoDtH,
TRIDAY MORNING, JUNE lg, 1879.


Tue Public Prin,er--Some 10 days or more OF
less ago. the editor cf,hc Enquirer coutradicted,
if it had bcvu highly injurious to him, q -umour
which he said, prevailed at Fredericksburg, and had
at onc,e'u,e, prevailed in Richmond, that he to
supercedo Mai. Gibbon, the Hero OF Stony Point. as
the Collector of the Customs for this Port. The
air and style of the contradiction, calculated and
we think designed, 10 imf:.Ss this iden-that his
feelings of deicacy and propriety, would never per-
NIT him, So much as TO wish to he the instrument Of
displacng man to whom the couutry owed so deep
a debt of gratitude. Tue ruipour was stigmati-
zed highly malignant and cruel to Maj. Gibbon;
it characterized BY him who had witnessed with
silent appreciation, the removal of Melville, Client
WORTH Barbce and others, also distinguished soldiers
of the Revolution II struck that there was much
hollow pretension in the article and we stated os
very Sufficient reason why Mr.. Richie would not
succeed Maj. Gibbon that the Colectorsbip was
incompatible with his office of Public Printer. and
that the latter vas much more lucrative than the
former The statement repeated by the Balti'
more Patriot in reply to which paper, the Enquirer
of Tuesday has the following:
"The Bait Pao, only exposes i,scto rduculc by s.ccho
Ing assertion fro, another Coalition PRINT which IL entitled
10 Of confidence The Editor of this Paper does
ceiv@ fourth perhaps fifth much for the public printing
of Va the collector this port derives from his office
utterly untrue, that the Office of public printer vastly
profitable hnn the cocctorship This of misrepcscn,a
ton has ber So often exposed upon other evidence than OUT
own, that any ough, 10 he ashamed IN repeatii"
We have pat ourselves to the trouble of sitting
this matter, and find ourselves horne out in o,ir
original statement; as the editor of the Enquirer
very well knew wcshonld bu, when ne penued the
above iusinccre statement.
BY eXamioation of the register, we find that the
gross profits of Maj. Gbbous oGicr for the wear
S,8, amounted to s,799, from which must be de-
ducted $500 for house rent, land here in Justice to
Maj. Gbbnn, we take occasion TO contradict a re-
port assiduousy circulated, that he had improperly
charged he Government, with tho rent of the Gus
tom house Office. Upt September last. Maj Glib.
bon year for year, paid that rent out of his salary
amounting TO about $500 per nnnsru.) Upon fur
Their enquiry, we found that his receipts for 1923
exceeded those of ordinary years. and that upon an
average, the gross receipts were about 81 600 per
annum. This point determined, we went to the aud.
TORS Office, and required him to give statement Of
y. RIchies gross receipts Public Printer for the
same year. They follows:
Annual Salary of the Public Printer 600
Amount paid for extra printing at last
session of Legislature s237 50
1887 SO
We understand that in some years this amount is
exceeded. Yet afirms this gentleman of adrpiyable
caador, 'the Editor Of the Enquirer does not fccnive
a JooTti, or perhaps i'm much for the Public
Printing of Virginia the Collector of this Port e-
rires from his Office This is really going the whole
hog; nevertheless, We mean not to accuse the Ed
tor OF the Enquirer of Intentional mcuducity. We
really believe him incapable Of wilful and deliberate
faschood, however ngenousy in matters of political
concernrnent, he may whip the Devil round tho
stump" We rather incline 70 believe him laboring
under sorno strange bancinotiop to this mattcr
else, (which we deem the most probable conjccturc)
the untoward events n; Washington the necessity h,
thinks no Is under of defending this fantic Admins
ton (whosc course lie in truth utterly disapprovesl
at any rate until the public pnlse is better felt-tlcsc
things VIC say, have bc1gildcred and perpcxed the
worthy Editors mind, never of the strongest texture
that be bangs away random. To man TO whom
ma)oFityis so habtual and by whom it is 70 dearly
beloved the predicament IN which the Editor of the
Enquirer finds hiinself-comrnttcd tn defend md
snstan crazy Administration. whose nets ore 50
rate them-Nr. Rtehe's predcamcnt we say, is On
confounding and embarrassing, that il ought In rca.
soE, TO excuse mucfr.
"ekDow how he will try 10 get over this statement
and sustain 1--WE think he will qvaEfy that Hnlel his
own-namcy by reducing the nett profits of his Office
tn an amount that shall correspond with his assertion
above made, But he may pare them down NJ h,
Pfea'e', and yet he will be unable to make good the
assertion that his profits four or five" times cst
than Mai Gibbons, unless lie proves e. for ought wc
know he can do this) that the public printing bring
him hrgeiy in del" IF lie shall do this, how much
cause for admiration 6 his patriotism win the worlt
have IN his pcrsistiDg for Is years together, in do
( ing the public printing q, Iovs! when too, there
were so many Printers in Richmond, willing to tax,
the burthen oFhs shoulders! But badinare apart-wt
believe haZtrd but little in saying that tho d,ya