Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-07-13
MONDAY MORNING, JULY ,sao


OFF!-The Norfolk Herald of Friday evening
mentions that Mr, Branch Secretary of the NAVY
passed through that place on that day. on visit r.
North Carolina.
What has not happened since the foundation off the
Government, neither the President nor single head
of Department, nor member of the Cabine ct excen,
the Postmaster General left at the seat of Govern
ment We have heretofore alluded to this subject
sportVey merely to remind some consistent brethren
OF what they thought and said of travelling ca
olnets, under former administration In serious
mood, we call the attention of the public 10 the
extraordinary fact that the President and every head
OF department should be absent the same time
and leave the Government of twelve millions of peo-
pie to irresponsible Auditors and Clerks!.
IL verify appears to US, that the judgment of Heav-
en- rs upon this administration. They seem to be ur
geo on by an irresistible fatality, self destruction
~hat argument might fail to acheve-what the no
nor and dignity of the nation might have prov
cd insufficient to eect-what the safety of our ma
tionai institutions Itself might have reused the
people to do-this moon struck administration seems
resolved to eccomplsh--we mean their own seuues-
tratlon from power IF seems to be their DARLING
pleasure to cross all the hopes of their friends TO
fasify all the promises and pledges which procured
them power, and more than to fulfil all the our,ro.
OF their foes. Increased expenditure for "Retrencb
MISREPRESENTATION for opinion sake, for Reform
the appointment of SO Editors and members of Con-
gress, instead of the practical execution of the senti
ment, which avowed alarm Governments tanner
ing with the press, and snufed corruption in the he
sto"ai OF office upon those clothed with legislative
functIons-such were the promises and thus have
hoo MI.
Win violating the permanent principles sanctioned
oy the people in the choice of Gen. jackson, seem
determined to disgrace all the accidental arguments
which aided his election. One of these vas that the
Hero wished to serve bat term-yet in the first
year OF that term, we find him. with his own consent
nominated for second! Unspeakable abuse was la
Wished upon the late administration for ali
sence from Washington; and the argument answered
that end As an illustration of the sincerity with
which 1t was used, the jackson Cabinet is at this
ment dispersed over the continent, from ALBANY to
Nashville! The President in one State-tbe Secre
tary of State and of War in another-the ATTORNEY
General in thrd-the Secretary of the Treasury in
q fourth-of the Navy in eth. We do not Know
that there Is possibility of any exinency, which
indispensably requires the presence of these
wanderers at the seat of Governments; vet the pre-
sumption is, that such exgences may arise IF they
do, where is TIE head to direct, or the members ia
ADVISE! Every thing must stand STILL until the fupi
tlFes return unless the all sufficient Mr. Kendall in
the pienltude OF his conceit, shall assume to person
the Greatest and Best, and his wandering Cbiefs.-
Should no such exigency occur, the spectacle OF
great Government abandoned by all its responsible
agents, left without head or arms. is indecent aud
ridiculous
VIII our neighbor say nothing upon this remarka
Die state OF things? Is his wit respect to Gravel
ling Cabinets" all exhausted Are his faors for pub
Tic afairs deserted by those chosen and paid to d.
rect thom, all quoted?
But his silence cannot hoodwnk the people The
enthusiasm which the name of Henry Claw insnired
at the national festival in almost every quarter. is
warning not to be mstoken-an Interpretation not "a
be msread. Popular opinion is heavine with
mighty Revolution. Tdolatry is quitting its images
and generous people deceived into persecution and
injury. resolved upon splendid reputation.
The Georgetown Columbian saws:
mo circumstance can more torcbly illustrate the
character OF TIE present Administration than the fact
Which we nournfully record that at the dinner pvep
In w ashngton. on Monday by the mechanics and o.
her citizens favorable to the Ans rican system and
t5enry Clay, not single Cleric or nny Deysoo ane,.
the control Of the General Government rcas present'
Had any Office holder dared to show his face there
no man doubts that he would have been Gaze,ted. or
Photographed rather, soon as the Greatest g. Bes,
returDed--A. B. in place of c. D. removed. The
despotism that reigns at Washington is sufficiently
marked by the above fact but it is still more strong
ly manifested, by the total reserve on the part OF
those holding Offices in society," In Mr. Adams,