Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-09-10
THE VRGs MAN
LYNCHBURG, SEPTIC. 1soo

Dg9s brain odGled There serns,
'atnity about The con duet of this man late.
simosi as astonishing as his mendacil, md
p"dence are detesfable and disgusting A.
weeks since, Col. Mckinney, our sun,tio,.
dant OF Indian Affairs, (who. by The wav son.
TO come IN for double portion OF the pau..,
bitterness Of the Telegraph delivered q M.
able and affecting Address before Society r..
Gently formed by number Of benrvoleo,
tlemen Of New York torihe purpose NJ o...
+ tanning the situation Of the Indians. and ,,..
Ing plan TO, the ameora,ion Of thq;r co.5
non. lhis Address vas published with big.
commentators, b, many Of the neu.,,no.
| one of which remarked that Col. Nck.u..
had been " instructed BY the presen, ,d,i,.
tratlon 10 wait upon the Sntiaiy, and fu,,h
With the views Of the government on the sab.
! ject.' We had no doubt of H.. truth NJ II;
statement, because il seemed to b. ppcnl,gr,.
! anproprnte ihal gentleman y no had Ion,
superintendent our Indian affairs and who. in n
capacity had acquitted vas fund of uset,
;nfarms,ioG With egard 10 their habits. dis,o
siion, pursuits capahiiy OF civilization 4,
should be sent on such a ms ion--pnfttrnl,.lv
al this time. when our relation. y ith son,e a.
he tribes are assuming delicate oharac,s,
| aui when the necessity Of adopting toward,
them some settled policy is becoming GslI,
more apparent. But, no sooner had the asser
lou been made than the of1i ai organ" of the
government (more generally known as the
+" mud machinery threw out the following con.
tradiciion
:" W, discover from the n Y Evening Pou
and the Columbian Gazette that the KICK anon
| Amba 'sador' is in New York. playing ofa hodz
upon he public. under prstsnce that he has been
| rhargedby the government Nth special mission,
for the purpose of getting w an Indian Emi.
grafton Snrieiv Thns L. M kenny charged
with a confidential arrangement by hi, admin.
Istra'i n !, We pouLd os soon beiiepe that To.
| bias Watkins Wds reindaied as Fourth AUDITOR
snd that Thos. Fillebrown was again nut in
posses ION Of the Navy Hospital Fund -
In THESE indignant strains did honest Duff re-
pei thr bar ntimaiion that /" this" administra.
ton had charged the Kickapoo Ambassador
with special mis- ion7 What, then, IL il turn
o"t that this administration did so appoint him ,
viii any reliance he hereafter placed in the
statements of the Telegraph Can any mans
standing and character be affected by its .neers
and denuuciations The sneering epthe, it has
applied to Col McKenney, falls harmless to
The ground In this day of general proscrip.
ton, the axe has rot fallen npon his neck. and
even the friends of Gen jackson will admit
that this is prinin facie evidence of his capacity
and integrity. As for its abuse no one heeds it,
as It's character for veraciiy is generally regar.
ded in the same point of view as that of the
criminal, who, pleading guilty" was acour
ted by the jury, en- The ground that he must be
innocent, as he was so habitual liar, il was
next to impossible he could have spoken the
truth. The first sentence in the quoted para.
graph is false. Il is unimporiani in itself, bu,
I goes to show the force of habit. Instead Of
being in New York, Us is said, Col McKenrey
had arrived at his residence, under Dutfs
nose, several days before. But, We return from
this aggression.
Scarcely had he contradicted the rumor, be-
fore he was compelled to contradict himself
He the defender the apologist, the mouh.pitc CT
OF " this adminisraIion-he who in his capa-
CITY OF mental, has already put to blush these
'in"s OF the saliris'-
" No nice extremes the true Italian knows
- SEND nm to hell, and straight to hell he goes'
He, uniting the extremes of dogmstism and
sycophancy, was under the hum iIiatIng neses.
suy OF admitting that he had s0iied his imma-
cuIate Telegraph with one isls h, cd. Hear
him:
As the article in question has been nisun
derslood, we conceive il necessary TO say that
some highly respectable individuals in n York,
solIcitous to cooperate in the humane policy
OF the government, which seems 10 be the only
remaining hope of preserving n portion of the
ahorlglna inhabitants of the country, wrote TO
Mr.. Mckennev making some enquiries. which
II was believed his situation in the depar ment
enabled him TO give. II was in consequence oil
the correspondence thus commenced that he
wdS INSTRUCTED 10 go TO New York, nth
permission TO explain the uie,es Of The government
SO far as they Were knODn 10 him
Col. Mckinney could not of course explain
any thing which was not known 10 him, IN.
less, like the Telegraph, he is in the habit OF
drawing on his Imagination for his facts. And,
IT, as The latter clause of the paragraph impIies,
this administration did not entrust its agent.
whom it specially deputed to Society, the de-
sign of which is to" CO operate in the humane
policy OF the government fully with Is views.
It was guilty of mean and intentional decep'
tion-@hich it should have had caution enough
10 save from exposure, by putting their blum
dering organ on its guard
But, is il not strange that Daft should thus
heedless'y sreak Has the fellow really turr-
ed simpleton enough not TO know that if he Is
greater than the throne" there is yet a great