Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-04-20

years ago Cor department, Of Sate-,hs !. an abuse
u money be paid 10 man as Chaee d. Affairs, who
never appointed as SUCH in the shape OF OUTFIT coming
hOmc-- IS an abuse
If money from public treasury aud paid TO
political parznn, beaer Of depachcs to south America
and he does 60, bat seeks his pleasure and take. recreation
IN Europe public expense this would csi an abuse
Ii auoicer Of Go-ernmcu draws money rom the Urea
suy uhde P'e'enee that dawn for public service,
IA aet Tor his own USE, tins is than abuse.
II an aeeounin. officer OF Treasury pass IN uuus, and
"rsai claim against the Government, aui pref of
IInan pockets one thousand dollars tins should be dcno
mated an abuse
If navy agent allowed by an accounting Off OF the
treasury, under the sanction of head department, IN
,he shape Of extra commissions, SC. &C. ihousani dol
as per annum Tor ten years. when the law declares has
all VIII admit this to be II abuse
WIS should be poorly SCI to work at this time of
day answer charges which have been already an
swercd to the satisfaction Of al but that friendly TO-
noronce, in which Mr.. WyickHo contdc,, or OF that
lust oil otLce Which cannot be satisfied but in reve-
ing III the bowels of the Treasury. Some OF the
ABOVE charges are probably truc--several OF them
are contorted-more ;han one of them long ago
proved to DC scandaOus. That abuses existed under
Mr. Adams has never been denied-that abuses have
existed in ACHIEVEMENTS, and will ever exist history
and knowledge OF man inform us-that abuses I'M
der one government, justify abuses under another,
and that other Reforming Government, par CO.
ceIencc we learn for the first tims, from high ere
treuching" authority.
Passing by the residue of these charges we shall
merely reply to the which duplicates us personal
~, and this reply shall bc restricted to an inerroga.
tory.
II Mr. WicbhIe had employed an agent to 90 to
South America on his business, and this agent after
mourning great expense in finding the means of 90
ing, and after actually embarkng, was compelled BY
stress of health TO abandon the uudertahinr-uni
when The loss incurred by the agent. exceeded the
compensation what would he do as an honest man:
We ask nothing Of his hberaly, appeal to his ho
aesty' Would he pay the stipulated compensation,
or would he withhold it, We cannot do45t bis re-
ply, and we then ask hn, if he wculd have the GOV
ernment Of great country 20 be less LIBERAL less
just, less honest, than Mr.. Charles WickhH,,s
Such was one Of the argum ,u;s, which BE- mali
cious misrepresentation, and continued repetition
contributed wi soma others or,hc same kidney and
the great first born Bargain" story--;n which Mr.
Carson the first, and VIII be the last respectable in
dIvldua! TO avow his fa!th-to hur Mr.. Ad4ms from
power. But let them pass. The day OF judgment
is com!ng-thc millennium at least--which according
20 the great German Philosopher who is now enter
tanning Europe with his sPecllatons, actually will
commence IL the year 1893. He has not fixed upon
the dayand the hour, butaccordng to our horoscope
it will be exactly at high noon on the I.h day OF
MaEch-ar else a. midnigh, on the night oc the Mrd
Mr.. Wicklifs has enumerated many things which
nc calls abuses. We should be glad to have the onin
ion Of authority high upon the classification orlhe
following:
When psiiiica. party pretend - have discovered
many abuses N tic go:ernman,, and caiole the poo
PIE with promises Of Reform aaI Re.rcnchmcnt."
bat having obtained the coveted power, Increase in
stead Of "retgcnch" the public expcnses--how would
Mr.. Wickifa denomnate IL
When a candidate for the Presidency, accuses the
administration of corrupting the fountain of legisla
tion' IN appointing members of Congress TO office;
but being made President, appoints more members Of
Congress in one year, than had been appointed in
',oetrc gears beforc-how would Mr. WicklilTa call
that?
When the same individual complained that or 7
publishers of the laws had been changed, who sup
ported him, and the favor given 70 obcrs-but having
got the power into his hands, changes IL publishers
who had opposed, and bestows the fayors upon y
others who had supported hin--how would MIR.
Wickffe classify that
When the Richmond Enquirer, the TELEGRAPH and
athc Jackson Press unit in reprobatnr the chance
Of the seven, and in calling it bribery of the Pres
but Theoretically seal their lips IN regard to the sspen
y-t,0o-what in Mr. WcklifTss ethics, should thu,
be called?
When the same individual and bis party, fill the
country with suspicious Of the purity OF the Press
opposed to them, because one of the conductors
rs they expressed it, had been yco4rea-but havInr
obtained power, themselves reward fifty one individ
lals connected with and confronting their presses
how would Mr. WicliTe designate it,
When the persons most conspicuous in diffusinr
he above suspicion, and camoring about the purity
IF the press, observe profound and obstinate silence
1t the systematic and per5eyerng purpose of rewar-
ling Its eectionecrng services, discovered in appon
mighty one Of It's editors, proprictors and attaches
10 offCe-how would Mr.. WicklTa designate the
consistency and the indePendcncy of that course?
When the Hero and his-friends, one editor and con-
Ie%on Of Mr. Clay, (Jno. P. Erwin) being appoint
ed Post Master, quote pregnant evidence Of the
woiold design Of brbing the press, and filing the 1