Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-07-28
From tie Portsmouth ConHlsycsiy ?dCsyfSer
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SUBSCRIBING TIE IRESS
Our readers have forgOtLer tie cons,.
med by four weeks discussion Congress, years since
upon he danger to tie liberties Of The co,,y GOV.
enents ssIsi=i"g tie press Ii VIII be remembered ton
what was the tfu occasion Of This loud long alarm
was The Pce which the Secretary of State had OF paying three
printers State eighty dollars publishing Laws
1t not, that President Then appointed twenty 0.
thirty printers 20 high Offices will salaries amounting abuus
one HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS year. tine President
has done. Why do hear from qariolic gentle.
Pie Of ,e'r danger: Why are hey so dumb so .chnp aen
now! Besides the iauG days speech of Roinutus Rigmaroe
MS spruce beer boa" and "pled of and witty
matter OF the pat will give and leave
our readers 10 make their application
ii an administration thus circnnsanccd has any pats
best calculated render the power engine
Serv!en to Their peculiar aud ercitSire interests fully
sensible of tie moral force of these engines power and
GXpansbity OF their deep influence public opinion ,h.
decisions they create aud the deusion they may spe!-
at once the ministers of light and darkness you think
such an administration conscious Of their original
OeaknsSs, suspected Ivy their enemies and even
serted 10y then friends would be guilty % suc suicidal folly,
as to neglect the o defence and warfare, this
patronage would place at their dIsposaN No, depend upon il
hesc eSy"o PRESSES would be pht on the diet OF whole
some regimen and in the of saluaEy discipline The
sturdy and independent would be out, on s,r,
oha as they might be able topok up ul the whole pack
should open in iu! and harmonious cry, in noe
from the sturdy masiif 'ai hOws door tic Treasury
10 tho most s'afver tn thai hafs on the iahest lanS.
OF fiontcrevei wilderness Indian sOi;uIep
iI"w Charming and how complimentary printers TOOL
for ii Secretary of State can, by the exercise o. an
irresponsible 6cren apply the patronage If Govern.
country 10 praise every thing the Administration should
subject their PropferorS To the punishment o the loss of this
tncy Government Press, which is alarming The
Hb,rGS Of tie gsgyt, the organization whole Of
General Brown, OF thousand formed
OF the palace Let say, that control of kind
4yerhe press Is mort dangerous 10 as "2e'e than mos, of the
conas law ri libel eNpOunded 10y the
mrion OF The liberty the press liable abuse
corruption OF purity bGG p~Lc aud Ind public
prGjscd when He becomes
EaGste for lese sercces the evil is infinitely augmented
For what the services which the Press, under such
stances expected to lcnc Tor the partial kindness
OF the Gover'hcT Why, all their approaches
arbitrary power; to defend each
ton; find excuses and apologies for
although the interest and honor the country jcoa.
died by apathy, neglect above all subject
those VINO do think the ''CNsne
confidence OF the people the unspafing caunnv and
abuse ii eshiywo presses be made speak were
III voice, that all tIi the Government does
and all those opposed them say false and fctos this
constant, combined and concerted language
tendency 10 make those who hear little else,
true Nor 10 the percU consequences of the praise
OF dcmpercd press stop here those, govern, read
almost exclusively these cky aud perverted of public
sauary bitter of free II
tina; there y. be abuse press than when
is devoted unmeritcd praise public men aud is an,
evil IN its far tiau
good nrC0 truth will do the latter ;,
tiCe, whilst the former, through corruption has
chief past remedy ''if tine. free tie
Administration stand GOOD chance wiki as their
opponents They have the field, the
arbators IL their and wise tIev viii
triump-it the contrary, they will he, they ought TO be
defeated To avoid this consequence ought the
have neTcenary squadron peTver that hch the mea-
sures oi Il free government must stand or Gallr
When tire speech made from which above was
extracted, there bad not been unprciped printers
appointed to 5000 dollar Offices the door Of trcasurv
another 10 the Office in Boston
VeyohiP of the port OF New York, and more than twenty
others to the hest Offices could made vacant for them
with regard to their fnesbut merely part of system
OF RclCGydS and PpsisiDcHts.