Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-07-12
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MONDAY MORNING.. JULY I2. 1880.

passed through that place on that day. on visit to
North Carolina.
What has not happened since the foundation oftho
Government, neither the President nor single head
OF Department, nor member of the Cabin ct, except
The Postmaster General left the scat Of Govern
mont! We have heretofore alluded to this subject
sporvey, merely to remind consistent brethren
OF what they thought and said of travelling Ca
bnets, under former administration In serious
mood, we call the attention of the public to the
extraordinary fact that the President and every head
of Department should be absent at the same time,
and leave the Government of twelve millions of peo-
pie to irresponsible Auditors and Clerks!
1t verify appears to us, that the judgment of Heav-
en- is upon this administration. They TO be ur-
gcd by irresistible fatality, to self destruction
What argument might fail to acheve--what the ho-
nor and dignity of the nation might have PROV
ed insufficient to eifect-what the safety of our ma
tional institutions itself, might have reused the
people to do-this moon struck administration seems
resolved to eccomplsh--we mean their own seques-
tration from power. If seems to be their darling
pleasure to cross oil the hopes of their friends, to
talsify oil the promises and pledges which procured
them power, and more than to fulfil all the augures
of their foes. Increased expenditure for R ctrench
ment'-persecution for opinion sake. for "Reform"--
gress instead of the practical execution of the senti-
ment, which avowcd alarm Governments tsmper-
ing with the press, andsnufed corruption in the be-
stowal Of Office upon those clothed with legislative
flnctons--such the promises, and Gus havo
they hesn kept! The administration, not content
with violating the permanent principles sanctioned
by the people in the choice of Gen Jackson, seem
determined to disgrace all the accidental arguments.
which of these pvaa hat 4 he
Hero wished to serve bat one term-yet in the FRS.
year of that term find him. with his own consent
I'D for second! Unspeakable abuse was Ia
Vshed upon the late administration for occasional alb
'ehce from w ashington and the argument answered
tha' end AS an Illustration of the sincerity with
winch 1t was used, the Jackson Cabinet at this mo.
lieht dispersed over the continent, from Albany to
Nashville! The President in one State-the S.cre
tory of State and of War in another-tbe Attorney
General in thrd-the Secretary of the Treasury in
fourth-of the Navy in , fifth We do not snou
that there is possibility of any exieencv which
Iindispensubly requires the presence of tbesa
wanderers at the seat of Government; vet the ure
sumption Is, that such eSgencies may arise IF thew
do, where is the head TO direct or the member. 10
adviser Every thing must stand still until the f,oi
tVes return unless the oil sufficient Mr. Kendall in
the penude Of his conceit, shall assume to person;fv
the Greatest and Best, and his wandering Cbiefa,-
Should no such exigency occur. the spectacle of n
great Government abandoned by all its responsible
agents. Lett without head or arms is ipdecen, and
ridiculous. ~
VIII our neighbor say nothing upon this romarks
bic state OF things! Is his wit in respect 10 Tr.voi
ing Cabinets, all exhausted? Arc his fears for pub
lie affairs, deserted by those chosen and paid 10 di
rect them, all quieted'
But his silence cannot hoodwnk the people. The
enthusiasm which the name of Henry CLAW manfred
at the national festival, in almost cVerv onartey 10
warning not TO be mistsken-an Interpretation m, n,
be misread Popular opinion is heaving with a
mighty Revolution. Idoatry IS quitting its images.
and generous people deceived into persecution and
injury, resolved upon a splendid repnrstop
The Georgetown Columbian snys:
mo circumstance can more furcibiy illustrate tLo
character Of the present Administration than tbo c,,
Whlcb we mournfuly record that Mt the dinner gven
IN Washington on Monday, by the n,ecbani ice o5d -
Their citizens favorable to tho American svsten al
Henry Clay, not single Clerk or mn pe,.son ,,nJ
NE control n NE General GoUeynHenf toas Dres,oI,n
Had any Office holder dared TO show his face ,Io,o
no man doubts that he would have been Gazet,cd or
Photographed rather as soon as the Greatest g. Bes,
returned--A. ID. in place of G.. d. renored Tho
desposm that reigns at Washington IS sufficiently
marked oy the above fact; but il s still more strong
~ monIiea<d by the total reserve on the pnrt az
those hoIdmg Offices in society. In Mr.. Adams,
time the clerks and subordnates we're oil politicians,
ano many OF thcm his most clamorous opponents