Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-02

IL addition ~ tLese Wonderful improvements, Not
find that como fiay or sixty editors of newspapers
have, for their loyalty heen engaged assist IN this
work Of reform. Petty editors of country uewspa-
pers arc made Second Comptroers' and Fourth
AUDITORS and Amos Kendall wiclds tho trident of
Neptune. aud holds in his hunds the tesScs of that
navy which has tr'umphed an every sea, and uniur!cd
the star spsnged banner IN the tace of every mari
time nation earth Sir IN tbs aspect of our a.airs,
it Is time TO be little serious and to ponder well
The press was intended be, ind once in reality was
the palladium OF our liberties Ii was the press u.
the people. II the Government should have attCmp-
ted to subsidiZe usurp IT, the cry would have been
hands oil touch not, handle not, 1t is Ed
tors are cur watchmen-cur seniines the outposts
of liberty. When these be seduced or bribca,
the citadel Is gone. II Inns been asked, is an editor
TO be excluded from Officer yes, SO long as
ne remains SUCH unless the people, whose servant he
~, shall select him II ire would he govern.
ment, let him first abandon orr service. but let him
not desert, and acquire honnrs at expense. Sir.
1t is my deliberate belief that there is no way
restore tho press TO what 1t and what, every
free government IL always should be- but by carrying
the principle out.
But be this 1t may, ccrinin It is, that rewarding
the partisan editors Of the successful Chief, high
Offices. Is eiFectualy currupIing the press Alter this
example, what reliance hereafter to be placed upon
newspapers Those rewarded, are TO snsta,n tho
Government right or wrong. Those striving for n
change must oppose IN every thing pcrvcr; ITS meg
sures, and abuse its motives. an editors, hose
hopes depend upon the success of their respective
candidates. will forget in their zeal their duty to the
people end no dependence be- placed on what
they publish Edr ors are but men, no purer than
others; and then, is not this the necessary result?
The specimens OF reform, not vet noticed arc ma nv,
but VIII be passed over briefly. You proposed TO
raise the salaries Of your district Judges r6uut fifty
per cent, and this bill has passed the Senate. The
House increased he compensation OF the rIarsha!s
for taxing the thirty three per cent and the
Senate raised II 10 a hundred. You hsyr bill he
fore you reported by the Judiciary Committee, to
establish "a law department IN obedience to the re
commentator Of the President IN his message with
salary for the Attorney General of So COO and an
assistant, clerks aid messengers, in ths bargain
Additional officers are appointed TO your rcvcnue
cutters To increase their cmo'umcBts, when they arc
only 10 perform the ducs which 5clongt the custom
house officers, Notwithstanding you he:. Increased
;hcr number o: least fifty All these things cnrsi-
tutc reform and 'retreuchIncn'.' Reform on. and
rrlrrnch in this way, and very you wi! reform
and retrench 'hc people cut Of both their money and
thcir liberty!
On another occasion in my defence of New Eng
land, | REQUIRED to this prescription which have
here exposed, and remarked that tins Administration
had glutted us vengeance the purcSi patriots OF
earth; that neither age. condition, sect sex had
escaped. For tins have received "a r,buSe f. ON the
Senator from Louisiana by which il appears that this
language IS too plain and too strong for the decat
sen>Ioiity Of this ve-y sensitive Adn INST ration
Our friends have been swept OF by hundreds, aye,
thousands; we have not been permitted TO knv CT
to asa for the cause, aud are 20 be deni
ed the poor consola ion of complaining. It appears
that spoke III tone that acceptable To thlt
Senator regret exceedingly t.at the sound of my
dues not better harmonIze with his refined taste
But he should recoiect that conditions are very
different. lie was brought M az the feet of Cana
ael, received hts education the first c,ry and has
since been improving it in the most polite and accom-
Plished city IN The Union. am from the woods
efS q. 9 6q JT mGn nv who ~
know, have no city airs. nor CITY ma narcrncnt
have no fashionable modula,ion of yclce No a,t-
tude nor stare, nor start theatrc practsed at the
glass
But, sir, to tho substance Is il not ,-po- ;ba
the Executive has glutrod It's vengeance upon the
Purcst patriots on earth; that nci Der uce
sect or sex has escaped? shall speak plain-cni
things by their right names. How. must | sncrifce
the rights of my constituent To fastiilcus dclicac,
Have right here TO indulge in aTec, aiionp No
EN- III man or woman, but most IN and, most of
alln man who assumes to sustain the people agains,
their oPpTessors, from my SOUL lonthe all alhctation
Il IS the object Of my scorn-my raplacable DISGUST
/ What! Is man he only thing in Gods creation ,ha :
must appear IN disguise: All nature else Is ruled nv
nnerrlng laws, penned by All unerring hand--thp
brutes obey their God and fellow their desliny
lnanIina,c creation, those orb5 which shine and
sparkle around US, oil concur 20 i their great Gre
ntor's purpose. And shall man, the creature Of an
hour-nsn whose breath IS IN his nostrils' who to-
any is, and to slumberirg in his humble tomb
and mlnglng with his kindred drst-shall be alone
put on airs. I'D play bis anck tricks before brb
heaven" Mono. Let hun speak as he thinks
and act undisgulsed-al else is rank hypocrisy md
deceit.
Then, let us speak out, md speak the truth The
venerable Melville was The lasr of the tea Dartv'-
the last OF she cooked hats He was alvyays 70.
publican, from the destruction of he tea To- the pres
eni moment, without the shadow of turning lie
has bees prescribed To be sure, be 10 not ponr-hc
hss ty his economy and fidelity acquired small Dit
tancc--has little change in his pocket 10 bear HE
expenses on the small remnant Of the road he has 10
pass, and from which no traveller rcturng 10 nav lis
to at that gate which is very TO be forever shut
alter hn' But ElbHdgc Gerry-bo was a republi-
can from the first 10 the last lie was ono of those
fearless patriots, who took their lives in their hands
and slyned your Declaration of Independence. lie
was one Of the trainers Of this Constitution the bnss
on which we now stand Hc had been succesalvely
Minister TO France, Governor of Massachusetts
! wee president OF the United Stains, and President
OF the Senate, occupying the very chair yb,eb vn,
SIR, AL with so much talent IL died here and Il
slumbering yonder. lie was poor and pennylcss. az
every honest Evolutionary patriot necessarily was.
Iio left widow, three helpless daughters anil n son
his own Image and superscrpton' in every thing 49,
The patriotic and klnd-heared Monroe gave this son
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