The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-03-23

The Posr OFFICE. The wretched misman-
agement of the General Post Office department
under the present administration has become
so lnsupportable, es to begin to call forth the
denunciations, even of the jackson men them
selves. The following artic le on the subject
IS from the Camden Journal, decided jackson
paper printed in South Carolina.
The United States Post Office Department
as at present conducted, is an abomination, ana
there is no use in mincing the matter. We
don't know but Mr.. Barry is the best Post Mas
ter General to be found any where in the civ
iZed world. We do not undertake to say that
he is not one of the most attentive and business
like men upon the face of the Globe-but this
we do know, and this we do say the United
States mails may as well be given up, and the
whole establishment abandoned as a bad bar
gain, unless some Improvement: takes place
There is no use in talking to as about " bad
weather, and bad roads" and all that sort of
moon-shne-it is bad management and nothing
more or less. The same weather and the came
roads that bring us papers from three hundred
miles beyond New York, can furnish us with
papers from that city and the same mail that
brings us one paper from there can as we'll bring
I them all. Four newspaper mails are now due
1 here, to say nothing ofsomc two or three hun
6red newspapers a month old, that probably
neUer aoW come. We are out of all patience,
as is most likely perceived by this time, by those
who have read this paragraph
THE ADMINISTRATIONS. One Congress has
passed under the administration of Andrew
Jackson. The policy ofthe administration may
be looked upon as perfectly developed. Does
it accord fundamentally, in the superstructure,
! ar in bn nj until ha n
cedent professions ofthe General or his friends ?
1t need not be suggested that no man ever, be-
fore election, marked out palmer chart of his
intended course in Office, than the now Pres-
dent. The burden of his song while candi-
date was reiteratioa of his own unbounded
honesty, sincerity, and decision He, in his
own conception, was the Hercules who was to
right the disjointed times. His works cry out
to him in the language of Timon /" smoke and
lukewarm water are your periections. His
reforms have been all personal, and if he turned
knave out of office, he took care to fill his
place with one ten times worse. A few of his
early appointments were judicious Rives, Me-
Lane, Mclean, Baldwin, Berrien, do them
: selves and their country honor in the places
they occupy. But these instances, so few, are
lost in the crowd Of place-hunters thrust into
important places, where they plumber and dis.
gust and disgrace the people. Reform has dis
closed itself in q system Of favortism more
extensive and revolving than any TO be found
in the most petty principality in Italy. Fawn-
ing and toadying are the merits which recon-
mend applicants to favor at the American Court;
integrity, industry, capacity, give place to time
serving; independence in the discharge of duty
to sycophancy, and manly reliance upon merit
to mean dependence on personal favor
Such is the character of personal reform. The
adminlstr alive reform corresponds to 1t.
For efficiency look TO the Navy, for learning
to the War, for sincerity to the State, for hon.
esty to the Post Office, for Amos Kendall to
the Treasury Department; and for patriotism
to all of them. The ineompetency of Branch
the ignorance of Eaton. the duplicity of Van
Buren,, the knavery of Barry, all combined in
Kendall, make the Cabinet, including the an
derstrappers, a medley as motley " as a coat
guarded with Yellow The measures of the
administration are, saving the pun, as parti.
colcred as the cabinet. The doctrine of State
Rights is asserted, and yet the most absolute
discretion if not authority is reserved to the
Presdint will above Congress and beyonc
the people. The United States Bank is Geclar
ed. unconstitutional, and the very pustule o
corruption, Treasury Bank, proposed as sub
stitute; veto is laid upon internal improve
ment, because in the judgment ofthe President
more comprehensive than that of Congress
and more clear than that of the Supreme
Court, it also is unconstitutional, and yet mon
, ey is proposed 10 be distributed to the States
with the INJUNCTION that it be devoted TO inter
nal improvement. 1t avows itself favorable t.
a tariff, and yet recommends atcertain way Il
break it up. And finally the President ex
presses ii as his solemn conviction that no mar
can be twice elected to the Presidency wthou
endangering the constitution and the freedom
Of the country, and-proposes himself as can
dldate for re-election.-.N. HaU6n Advertiser.