Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-08-15

lo, a.,,A,lni.ly Ion hcin. put and kept IL office
CONNECTED Nth lnd sales) which Il thy hcepa
lew wears they are sure 10 make th" moot "f'f-
, crown fortunes. b. tbs means the President
has hosto OF adhcrcnts IN this country, m whose
eyes. do what he may, he can never do wrong. II
/ h. hid espouscd Reuben Whitney iaStead Of Mr..
/ VA Bnrcn Is his successor ~ ohce, AN comb
! dcni ilicsc men and their followers would have
i been "a, much for Whitney rs thrv are for Van
Buren,. No king ever lld more absolute power
over Ire will oi lns hired merecnafics than Gen.
Jackson has over the office holders in the South
West. II one happens TO be ndiicreally honest,
.on will always find lin more neglected and less
IN favor at Washington than any Other and he Is
soon kicked out or gets broad hint to walk out,
10 save ms teeiHgs, from bemg dismissed.
The Public Lands are Il source oil great and III
oreasing wealth, bu am convinced in my own
mud, tia, they are and will more and more be a
curse TO the country. believe they have fully
doubled the President. power by doubling his
patronage, and when think how much alarmed
our fathers were in '9S, at the increasing power OF
the Executive can but smllc at their lclrGfs, and
ask myself what the old patriots Of llla age would
say could they lift heir heads from the grave,
and witness the almost ,nbonndcd power that one
man has attained will not say throughout the L.
States, bu, here, and elsewhere Compared with
old John Adams, Gen. Jackson, power is like a
steamboat compared witlia skin. But bad as tbs
is, it is not HE worst. The public lands are CIV
inc birth To the most extensive and mad Spccua-
tons, gambling OF the highest degree, winch must
produce wide ruin and conynlsion. But the worst Is
not told Vet. They giving birth to the most foul
corruption and fraud which tins country or any
other ever saw. Give your Imagination the feinS
and you can hardly conceive the truth. admit IT
IS hard for the Government To check these vlai-
MES, bat all will say it ought TO try. Instead Of
that, il, AGENTS are tine worst of the set II he will
bu, be thorough going iull-boo1ed puritan for
the Government and Van Buren,, he may cheat
and dclraud To any extern the pleascs. The crimes
that are acted here against the nation and the In
dams are enough 10 call down the judgment ollie
ven on the land that suffers it. trust that the old
States will do something at the ballot boxes TO re-
strain these great and growing evils. Mr.. an
Buren, will certainly continue in office and power
the present olcc-hollers "ho are doing much
for him. That YOU know is the New York creed
Of" rewards and punishmcnts," and dividing the
SpolIS. The only way and hope is to break up the
present cXccrablc system and its abuses by put
ing into the Presidency man who wW sweep
the lood-suckers out. Old Hugh is the boy for
that. \ lirmcr and honester man never brcaIed,
and he knows these Jackson Van Buren, Office
holding parzanS since he broke with jackson, if he
did not know them before. Give us old Hugh if
possible !; but if YOU can't eve him, give us any
body WHO will put FIRE TO the nest OF scorpions"
Richmond Wig.