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


shall have few more ready.
"TuE TRAVELLING CABINET"
When Mr.. Adams took IA summer excursion to
Massachusetts, or Mr.. Clay to Kentucky, or Mr..
Barbour to Virginia, during the Presidency of the
former gentleman, the welkn rung with the de-
ANNEXATION of the Jackson presses. "TIIE TRAY
ELLING CABINET" in glaring capitals, was
a stcreotypcd term-and ridiculc and abuse follow
ed the footsteps of the President and his Sccreta-
Ics, whenever they sought temporary relaxation
from their official duties and this, too, in a peri
cd Of profound peace, when no sound of war was
heard within borders, and our external rcla-
tons unagtatcd by ripple. But now, behold
the change Indian wars raging our from
tiers and within one of our Tcrrtories-the nu-
,ncrous savage tribes to be agitated and rest
less, if they we're prcmcditating desperate and
protractcd struggle-a civil war between neigh
boring power and one of its States, the ranks OF
whose armies are ,lcd up with men openly re-
cruted in our streets, in defiance OF our neutral
obligations and of our laws, isGercey contestcd-a
commanding General, stationed on the frontiers OF
a friendly nation, has usurped the war-makine
power, by invading IA foreign territory and Selling
upon of its posts-thc higher officers of our
army are arraycd against each other, and a COM
mandcr- chief, recalled from his post, in conse-
q,encc of "private" letter written by one of his
subordinatcs to a man unconnected with the gov
eminent, finds, on obcyng the order to repair to
Washington, "the government" scattered to the
four winds of heaven, and he is compelled to report
to CLERK in the War oisicc-and, vet, we hear
no complaints about a F." Travelling Cabinet"
What was garing outrage eight years ago, is now
all right, although, il there atime when the
personal comfort of the President and his Cabinet
should have yielded to their public duties, it is at
this time, when every DAYS events are big with
importance. Even their elcctioneering purposes
should be postponed, when important duties de-
mand that they should be at their posts.
4 fact to be noted Tile Washington Glob e,
the New York Evening Post, and other Northern
Van Buren, papers are abusing Gen. Harrison for
voting against the proposition of the Abotionists,
IN lS2O to impose an Anti-Slavery restriction up
on the State of Missouri, as prerequisite TO her
admission into the Union-a fact which should no,
much astonish us, however, when we remember
that their leader Mr.. Van Buren, himself, declar-
ed that that restriction should be deemed an " in
dispensibie condition. of the admission of all new
States into the Union Mr.. Jefferson and all the
Southern statesmen of that day, (see Jeferson's
letters, regarded this effort to spread Abolition
doctrines by Congressional legislation, a direct
attack upon the right Of the slaveholding States to
exercise exclusive jurisdiction over the slave pop
"'alion within their respective limits, and the
assertion, by its advocates, of the power Of Con
sfcss to cmancipatc the slaves within the States.
AND yet we now the strange spectacle of
I. Southern men supporting Missouri Restriction
stfor the Chief Magisracy of the Union, while his
Northern friends are assaling Gen. Harrison for
opposing that restriction !!
W We observe that the Richmond Enquirer
anu us echoes arc quoting "A paragraph from "A
speccn oil Zen. Harrison, in which he expires Sod IA
""''"ghess to devote the surplus revenue to the G.
Emancipation of slaves, " WITH THE CON
SENT OF THE STATES" for the purpose of
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