South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-08-08


Spanish treaty, he was also President
! of the State Bank, which station the
i friends of the Bank prevented him
from resigning. While absent on the
! Commission, he still continued to corr
/ respond with and advise the Directors,
by which the Bank remained in very
| flourishing condition. After the expi-
ration of the commission, he found
| that his accustomed salary had been
passed to his account. We have IN,
questionable authority for saying, that
there is now due him, of undrawn sal-
airy, near eight thousand dollars, for
services rendered, as President of the
Bank during the time mentioned above,
and at other times when he was EN-,
ployed in public stations, v hich the Di-
rectory have repeatedly urged upon
his acceptance, but which, from del-
icacy that is not common, he has per-
emptorily and forever declined receiy-
ing.
What man in this Government can
hold up his public and private charac-
ter to scrutiny. and suffer SO little as
Judge Whitel What man can look
back upon long and eventful life with
less cause Of dissatisfaction, or look
forward with brighter prospects to 9
high and faal appreciation from the
country which he has SO long served.
Few, very few, have ever engaged in
the works and the interests of politics.
without some loss Of purity, of indie.
pendence, Of honor. But if the man
lives who has passed through the
scorching furnace, and come forth as
he wentin, tina, man is Hugh L. White
Ii nobler instances OF hallowed patrkA
otism, ofrejected honors, Of devotion
to duty, of forgetfulness Of self in the
cause of his country, can be found up-
on the page Of American history, we
must look for them only in the life of
the grea! Washington, the first and the
last of his race, whom no man has e.
qualed-wilh whom no man may be
compared.
Such is brief, and, as we believe
impartial sketch Of the life and services
of Hugh L. White. If any think that
we have not redeemed our pledge OF
impartiali,y, let him reflect, that when
brilliant series of acts, which require
ed thirty years to be performed, are
condensed aud brought TO view in the
space Of thirty minutes, they may shiae
with an effnlgence Of which they are
not capable when viewed singly, as
they were performed. But let him ale
so recollect, that unsullied worth is so
rare gem in the rubbish Of political ell
emenis, that its appearance challenges
our admiration, aud may palliate and
excuse earnestness of communication.
But to say that Hugh l.. White is not
great and a good man, in the face OF
all this evidence, after having made all
the deductions that any man will claim,
would argue conception of human
excellence and greatness not TO be ats
tanned by human means.
Such is the man who has been pres
sen,ed to the people of the United
States for the first Office within their
gift. If he have ability, if he have
honesty, if he have experience, let him
receive that support which they deserve.
Able, and it may be, honest and expe-
rienced competitors there are upon the
field {; but are they more SO than Hugh
L. White We would detract moths
ing from the well earned fame Of others.
1t is a doctrine OF the White school,
that fairness and high-minded honesty
make no enemies who need be fear-
ed--that defamation and detraction
make no friends worth the gaining.
The peculiar aspect of our country at
this time seems to need just the pecu.
liar qualifications of such man as
White. He is not fitted for the tear.
ing down and building up at random
Revolution is not the element in which
he moves. His doctrines g. his policy,
| as we'll as his disposition, are emlnently
pacific. And such is decidedly the pre-
sent policy of our public affairs. Most
Of the angry add boisterous questions,
which have rent 81 torn our national hat
mony, are now settled. France is too
wise to provoke her old ally to con.
test-and there will be no war. This
Bank has expired. The Tariff is laid
at rest. Modification has sunk to rise
no more-and the brave but deluded
men, who called it into life, have wit.
messed its death without tear, 81, with
a magnanimity worthy of their Stress
are holding a festival Of peace over its
grave with those who consigned il
there. And now, when our country is
| recnvarine from her thrnes and path4