The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-13
LETTERS FROM WASHINGTON.
xxrRAcTtD FROM suNDRT PAPERS.
WAsn1NeToN, Jan. l.


WAsHINeToN, Jan. l.
Courier Of the North What charm or
speil has overcome your neighbors and CO.
temporaries, the Ceniineis and Palladlums,
the Inquirefs and Commentators. the Spies
and Arguses of New England, once so SEN
sitively alive to every thing that looked like
IN oversight of New England claims or an
affront to New England honor, that no CON-
ment has vet been offered on the unaccount-
able composition of some of the standing
committees of the House Of Representa-
tives? Do you not imagine that you are I'M
der great obligations to an impartial Speak
er, that, in the appointment OF committee
to amend the constitution, the eastern states
have no representative Pas if they had no
interest in question of that sort that, in
the committee on manufactures, the great
manufacturing district Of Massachusetts,
N Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecti-
cut, is without member ?-that in the COM
mittee on public lands, five of the seven
members are from Tennessee, Indiana, IL
linois, Ohio, and Alabama ?-that in the
committee on Indian Affairs, FIVE of the sew
en- are from Tennessee, Georgia, Mississip-
ri, Kentucky, and Alabama ?-and, above
all, DO YOU not esteem your interests greatly
favored in the fact that, in the committee on
military affairs, the committee which has
the care Of the long contested Massachu-
sets claim, there is not a member north of
Maryland ? Are you all satisfied with this
equitable distribution of public sentiment
and of public rights Perhaps, if you feel
some little discomfort ut this arrangement,
you may think the honorable Speaker has
given you an Offset in the unexpected honor
he has conferred upon your state, Ivy placing
her Davis on Mr.. Chilton's committee of re-
trenchment, removing her Everett from a
prominent and responsible station in the
committee on foreign affairs, and throwing
her Gorham almost at the fag end of file
of Jumpers This, however, is not an affair
of much interest to me, and if your part oi
the country is content, there is no reason
why others should complain; hut if Virginia
had been used thus. she would have yelped
louder than puppy with hot dumping in
his stomach.
do not recollect that, in any of my let
tiers, yon have had any account of my v-i
to the President, which, rs in duty otCed,
paid soon after my arrival. Among the in
mates of this magnificent mansion. the mos
interesting of course is "the greatest anC
best of men," so called 10y Governor Branch
and Governor Branch never speaks without
thinking. This Conserved of all observers
is a tall old lady, and dresses in black. HI
is pattern Of industry, although some %
the malicious Clayites pretend that his love
oil labor is all affectation. Open the table
of your Imagination, and lei me tlelineate
thereon the figure of this venerable OLE
chieftain, seated at his writing table. Be
si,le him sits Wisdom personifed, ivou re-
member the figure of Minerva in Tooke':
Pantheon, and the emblem of Wisdom at hel
feet) in the gentleman whose Office il is tc
think for the President-that operation be
ing rather out of has lire. Action, prompt
decided action, is the old chieftain's forte
but as the process Of ratiocination is some
times indispensable in the Presidents closet
and as he is too old, and his habits, intel
lectual and physical, too inveterately fixet
to admit of any essential change in this re
spect, or of the substitution of thought 70
imPulse, he has been allowed, by those who
placed him where he is, and who have al
interest in making him appear something
like what President should he, to think b.
prory. Governor Branch was selected a:
the properest man in all the world 10 do thi,
business; and truly he may say, .Mdgnifca
DO GpostOtdium meunl. There sit the Pres
dent and the Governor, writing as if thei
lives and the fate of the universe depended
on the quantity of paper they can conver
into manuscript in given time. HEAVIER
only knows mot you nor II how many idea:
are engendered between two sdch heads
and Heaven forbid that any malignant de-
mon of the opposition shorld ever put the
Governor into two-ounce phal and cork
him up with a metaphor And then the
Governor thinks that the existence of the
world THAT is the Carolinas) is sustained by
his fat.
Boston Courier.