Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-03-24
" TIE SPOlLS.


mporlant stations, sent 10 that body by the PrcSi
lion, and some of which bad hc ctotorc met with
, different fate. We suhioin the VOC Oh each of
these nominations:
On the nomination of ROGER 3. fancy, as
Chief Justice Of the United States the vote >tood
thus:
YEAS-Mcs,rs. Benton, Brown, Buchanan,
Cm6bcrr. Davis, Ewing Of H., Grun3>, Hen
bricks, Illl IIubbard, kng Of Ala, kmg of
/ Ga. Linn, Mexican, Moor', Morris, Nicholas,
| Mics. prcnis>, Rivc>, Robinson, Rupelcs, Shcp-
| lev, Swift, Tamadge, Upton, Walker, Wall,
/ Nriehi-29.
NAYS-Mr>srs Black, Calhoun, Clay, Crit
tndcn, Ewing of Ohio, Leigh Mangum, Nandain,
Porter, Preston Robbins, Southland, TomIinson,
Webster, Whitc-l5.
Future Secretaries of,llc Treasury may from
this learn that the road to preterment consists in
passire ob,dience to their mastcr-in giving up
,hc KEYS Of the money chest into his hands when-
ever they are ordered 10 do!
The nomination Of 2. p. Barbour as Justice
ne the Supreme Court, was then taken up and,
after an Intellectual motion of NJ Webster to de-
for action upon it until ii shoui4 ,sccrtancd
whether tie number of Judges Of tie said Court
shall be altered by any law of the present session
ofCangr,S>, it was confirmed, is follows
YEAS-Mes>r>. Benton, Brown, Buchanan,
Crinendcn. Cuhber, Ewing OF Illinois, Glundv,
Hendricks, llill, Hubbard, King of Alabama,
Ming of Georgia, leigh, Linn, NJ, kcan, Morris,
Nicholas, Niles, Preston Rjvr>, Robinson, Rug
res, Nherle,, larmadec, Tirron, Tomlin,cr,
Walker, Wall, White, Wright-;io.
NAYS-Mcssrs. Black, Davis. Ewing of Ohio,
Manpum, Naudain, Porter, Prcntiss, Robbins,
Smhard, Swift " cbstcr-1l.
bought up, boueht up, Sir" as John Randolph
once exclaimed. Sl500 per annum for life is
snug snccure, for holding ones tongue when enc
dsapprovcs decidedly, and for "damning with
fam, praise such measures as one deems equiv
Nngina's t,-hcr profoundcst constitutional
lawyer,-one who could "split hairs ';WiNt south
and southwest side" should play second fiddle to
a not very renowned Maryland Attorney And,
most wonderful of all, that Republican of the
'9S School, rigid cons'ructionist, par erceHtnce,
should be embraced in the category with an
Alien and Scdjtion law ederali,I, who sported the
black cockadc, in the reign OF terror. by
what lcgerdemain have these strange associations
bech brought about What drugs, what opatcs
steep the public sense, that these Antipodcs may
occupy the bed, and cover with the same
blanket, without exciting special wonder Is there
any charm in the term " Democratic Republican
party" that the people cannot detect the cheat
which turks under the name : Or is ii true that
mords the counters OF wise men and tie coin
Of fool, Philip Pcndeton Barbour sitting as
Associate Justice fthe Supreme Court Benchwh
Roger Brooke fancy as Chief! Twenty years
ago the man who had foretod this ominous con-
junction would have been deemed lunatic. Fire
and powder might as soon, at that day, have been
expected to minglc in harmonious union. But pol
tics, like misery, make one acquainted with
strange bedielows, especially when the leading
arcl" IN the creed of the strong party Is that the
public Offices are the spoils Of the vlctors. Under
tins motto, the merccnary ambitious OF all parties
mddlc together, and patriotism and principle arc
lost sight of in the scramble for the loavcs and
hshes, the largest share of which falls 10 the lot Of
The most cunning and scryilc Of the crew
Amos Kendall comes next docket His
nomination, as Postmaster General was confirmed
oy the following vote:
AEAS-Messrs Benton, Brown, Buchanan,
Unlhberl, Ewing of H., Grundy, Hendricks, Ill.,
Hubbard, hing Of Ala, King OF Ga, Linn, Nc
Mean, Morris, Nicholas, Niles, EIves. Robinson,
M,ugsles. sheplev, Talmadgc, Upton, W aih'r
Wall, Wright-25
NAlS-Mcssrs Black. Ewing of Ohio, Leigh
Mandarin, Preston, Southayd, Whlte-I
1t has been remarked that there are but two elas-
scs OF animals that can reach the summit OF the
Wramlds-lhe eagle and the reptile. We leave 1t
Tor our readers to decide VI I'll Of these classes
'h's quandam protcge Of H. Clay belongs.
When such men fill the high of. of government,
lew Oil doubt that =" the post OF honor is private
'a'ion.'-Nc were astonshcd at the vote upon
hendalfs nomination, until we observed, in the
National lnelligencer of the 18Th, the following
explanatory paragraph
I'VE are authorized to state that the smalncSS
NJ y, ole vote upon some Of the lafe nominations, "
Nif. Kendall, &c. eu ing to the unprccedent-
mo ii 1 - To-