Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-06-02

the services of skilfu Engineer for making the
survey during the present summer.
4th. Resolved, also, That the Chairman of this
meeting be, and he is hereby authorized open cor
respondence with the Chairman of the Board of Com
missoners at Lynchburg, as to the most judicous
eecual means to DO adopted for the attainment of the
legislative Object in the incorporation of the company
aforesaid-andtO the said Board of Commission
ers, that this meeting will render every assistance in
their forhat purposo-and that the Chairman of
this citing do send to the Chairman of the Lynch.
burg Commissioners, and to the Chairman of the meet
of the citizens of this place. be held on this even
ing, each. copy of these proceedings.
5th. Resolved That the Editors of nswspapers in
tins city be requested to publish these rIoceedings
JAMES RAwL:sos, Secretary.
Our motive in publishing the letter which follows, is
not one of vanity, but afording opportunity to
JOIN our voices In thai indignant remonsrance against
the abuses, the failures and the negligence of the Pest
'hco Department, which is ascending the of
the President, from every State, almost from every
neighborhocd, of the Union, The complaints which
reach the conductors of the political Press of this city
from all quarters, are appalling in number, and most
disheartening. All the sins of the Post Offices how.
palpaby and hcontrovertiby theirs and not the
Editors visite of course, upon the heads of the
latter Yet how gan they help the grievances CON-
planned off What more they do, than deposit
their papers in the Post Office, in right condition. and
| III General
VIGOROUSLY incomptent-f that Department is left to
the management ef irresponsible agents-f penalties
upon mail contractors enforced or the state
of the Offices Inspected by agents-if as a nat
ural Consequence, the vigor and discipline of the Inst
tuition relaxed, and it's army of agents left to the
liberty of doing ther duty negecting it, as is most
agreeable to themsslves-how can we help it 7 What
other state of things be expected This is the
Reform of the Greatest and Best, Post Master Barry
| and that most conscientious Christian, Obadiah B.
Brown! Jackson least, ought not to complain
They would have change and they have got it, with
a vengeance.
1t is obvious that we not even to hope for an
ameloration. The Greatest and Best has takon Post
Master General Barry, under his special protee
tion and has announced the extraordinary resou
ton (aPpauded of course frank and Iuagnanimous
by his sycophanc Press) of keeping him in Office IN
he vndicates himself from the charges preferred the
last session of Congress! By this rule the eff
cent means of keeping functionary in Office, to ac
him of crimes; and the graver the charge and
more suspicious the circumstance the greater the
cessy OF vlndieaton it follows of course. that by how
mich the probability of crime and unworthiness IL in
creased by much Is the propriety of keeping the
functonary in oe also increased, until he can NEE
the accusation! If Mr.. B lrry had been accused un
der pregnant suspicion, of using the public funds in
stead of classifying records, there would b. according
to the Hero's logic, yet weghtier for keeping
him in office! BY such absurd, and un.enable and in.
sulting reasoning, does the President OF the u States
endeavor disguise his favoritism.
May 18TH 1881
Messrs. Editors: am sorry to find it necessary to
complain to you of the great rregularity of the arr
val of your valuable paper at the Post Office kept
this place. The time has Just passed when would
! to nla
So great my confidence in the talents and niexble
integrity of the present Chief Magistrate and his Cab
met that had folded my in perfect safety and
satisfaction, upon my little rn, not caring to open
the folds of any newspaper; but deveopements
have tended IN great measure to arouse me from my
lethargy. l hni the ra""~., govern nent in a most
abomnabe state g 3z0;-a:ic@ lad aecrepitude, mo-
fusion aad n-,..tA - ..-s..,-s ,ssLad - nv
duty, and feeling intense eolicitude equal to
the momentous crisis of present internal politics.
do you gentlemen feel disappointed and MORT.
fed upon not receiving your inestnable paper, the
time 1T is due do therefore earnestly beseech you,
should it be an omission in your Office, Immediately
| apply corrective, and much obige plain country
subs riber In haste, your obt serv't, ----.
r 3. would not have intruded at such length upon
your time and patience, but for the great loss at
| for your paper.
Both Mr.. Chiffon and Colonel Crockett, recently re-
ported to have paid the debt of nature are alive and
we'll. They do not intend to crafty THAR Jackson
friends by dying, until the great battle fought and
won.
~ John Norvell, Esq late editor of jackson paper
in Philadelphia has been rewarded with the Post Office
| at Detroit. To provide Norvell with a snug place
Judge Abbott for % years Post Master and among the
Oldest residents, was removed No misconduct is pro.
tended, though doubtless according to the morals oil
the system of rewards and punishments if Abbott OF
his friends complain, the pensioned Press will be in
structed to him Of dishonourable conduct Il
give color of justice to his pun ishment.
Mr.. T. FHlebrOwn.-This gentleman it will DO re-
membored, early victim of Reform" and as il
has habitually DONE the Administration cused and
prosecuted him defduer and pecuator in order to
| Justify his removal. Like Mr. Nourse Mr. Fillebrovn
has been able TO vndicate himself and the verdict of
Jury has established not that he owed the Government
but that the Government owed him! Was ever Gov
9rument exposed to humiliation 50 deep and btter7-
Did Government before stoop to the degradation
of waging upon the honor and reputation of it's
citizens7 Did the rulers of groat people find it