Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-03-18


,ec.;ye votes for or against the new Constitu-
,;oo hut that they would be opened az the court
,o,,e, only. Such rs not the fact. Polls are
~ be held atihe separate elections itkeWtse.
4 qieam ofEght and truth We have been
,mone those who have ridicued Mr. Chiffon,
,se signer of the annexed eter-because W.
believed his motives were similar to the motives
otthose with whom he was associated any
thing bu, pure, up light and honorable. In his
Jam r, for a retrenchment in The publ espen-
,i;tnrps. and for a reduction of the number Of
nublic officers. We had seen so many things of
III. sort, calculated 10 disgust waichful spec
tator of the arlful game oil hnm5ug and treach-
ery which the reforming patriots of the
day have been paying-we had witnessed so
much of trick and hollow hearledness n the
thousand aud one schemes which the greedy
people, and to compass thrir own aggrandize'
ment at one and the same time-that, upon the
maxim Of noscitur a s0ciis, "a man is known by
the company he keeps,) we naturally enough
ranked Mr. Chiffon with the Wicklffes and
others of the same kidney. who, by thec half
smothered but successful efforts to defeat every
measure of public economy, introduced INTO
Congress duriag the presen' session, have CON
yerted the very term retrenchmen' into
bye word of contempt aud scoru. The sub
j1ned communication from Mr.. Chiffon, how
ever entirely removes the impression tbs We
formerly entertained aud expressed. Ii shows
conclusivey that he. at least, was in earnest, in
desiring and in expecting " retrenchment," and
that he meant something, when he told his con-
situenlS that there were more olficrrs than were
necessary 10 do the public business, feeding on,
of the public crib He meant something, when
lures had increased, were increasing, and ough
20 be diminished. And he made no idle prom
sse, which he never intended to comply with,
when he told them that he would use his best
exertions to root out abuses where they exist
ed and TO correct them where the hand Of
correction could be applied. He more than
dreamed, too, that. in the person of Andrew
Jackson, a second Jefferson had indeed arisen
mot one who bore his name alone but who
was covered with his mantle also He dreamed
ghat in the ReCluse Of the Hermitage ready
made Statesman had been found, who had
reached Mr.. Jefferson's proficiency in all the
atlanmen's which adorn Illustrious bene factor,
oftheir country,w without any preparatory study,
such as made the Philosopher of Monticello
~hat he was--and that although engaged in
youth, and 10 manhood, up to green old age,
an wild and reckless, and sometimes profigate
adventure, Gen Jackson presented to the world
character which might vie even with the NOR
al sublImity of his who had built his unsuIied
fePu alton on a strict adherence 10 the maxims
oil a school as rgidly abstemious as that of
socrates or of Seneca. Good Heavens what
wonderful delnsion what a strange infatua-
lion Almost as strange and wonderful. in
deed, as it would have been, had such a change
III the moral and intellectual character of the
man been in truth effected! No. No GRAY
haIred Inquty and folly never yet ripened into
'he rIch fruits of virtue and wisdom and al.
'nongn our country, in its rapid march TO pow
e'' and strength, and influence be itself mira
cle OF no ordinary character, vet even here,
we shall not find that sill greater miracle of a
man becoming wiser and better than his gener
a'ion as he vergeS 10 the decline of life, withou
''a' preparatory discipline which the second
Jefferson seems as studiously TO have shunneda as
MS satanic Majesty may be supposed to do the
no'y book OF our religion. But let that pass.
Mr. Chiffon was one Of the homes but delud.
I'd many wIo did believe even in this miracle,
Ana no" has thu result correspondent with the
oel'e Let facts ate st.
~ Jackson's administration. instead NJ he
ny characterized by the wise policy of that
''"'cn pretends to take for its model. has ex-
"'''eo one continued series of acts of unmitiga.
led tyranny.
instead OF establishing, as the administration
y WI Jefferson did, on irmer bass, the right
'"e IRE exercise of opinion, il pas been the
'''"''P' occupation of zen. Jackson TO punish
; "''h an inspiring hand, whenever it has mi.
""'eh against his Advancement.
'"S'eai Of giving tree scope to the liberty Of
'e PRESS he has thrown around ii A chain more
=, ye' and more powerfully controlling,
P"''e'-even than the pains and penalties Of
ny " furnishing as FAR as in him lay, the
'"'u''ofs oil those journals, who, in the honest
'"' conscientious discharge of their duty, on
'oseh his election, and by rewarding" those.
NV W Whatever motive actuated and howe
''oent'y they. on prior occasion. opposed
- p'e'ens'ons' aided during the late contest,
D ms elevation TO power.
'"s'ean Of reduction, there has been an IN I
'edsf' great increase in the nublic eYnendi