Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-02-22

i';eb would contain the speech with that article
II, If il would not, II was all mere ehlds play
=, ,.t M such a report, &c. lie shook his head
.ce,S;onnllv and tried 10 look mad and accom-.
,,Ixb..l nothing, for, before Ic began, MIR. Calhoun
on, ~, TO Mr.. Pierce and satisfactorily explained.
as he had before done 10 'ie senate, the cause
81 wishing the article read
uorsr or RrpEEsrSTATrvEs-As severe spar
-,, took place in the House on the 18th inst, be-
,.een Mr.. Gushing OF Mass. and the celebrated
:. h,,,ber-knife," Ben. Hardin of Ny. II was al
,oce,ber personal matter, in which the old Ken
In MAS rather wersted, which is seldom the
- these " Keen encounters OF the wits" At
.,,o close of Mr.. Cushine's speech, clapping of
A.. hands commenced in one of the galleries,
,areu,on Mr. flanagan of Ind. moved that it
- .lea,ed. though he said " he did not mean IN
.t.o,, The ladies'" This unintenional pun calm
H.. ,pcry pillows, and Sc, The House in a roar
Of laughter.
IA the 18th, Mr. Wise offered the following re-
solution
:. Pesolred, That a select committee, consisting
-, five members, with power to send Tor persons
- nd papers, be appointed to inquire into the a
,,nn, of Government patronage 10 the public press
- he District of Columbia, and into the policy
".J .xpediency of separating the Government pat
rnnape from the public press, and to report by bill
or o,herwisc, the means of so doing"
Iii, sinccrcl, to be hoped that this enquiry will
,.,Jto the divorce OF government patronage from
IN. poca press, and thereby purify, to ii
,rcat extent, the sources of public information.
Whom !, is recollcctcd thai the Editors the GioLe
,r. now in the receipt about 100000 per an
,um. one fourth or more of which is nett p,oit,
,,om the different branches the government, and
far all of Which they drpcnden, upon their par
:, ropnc> ons. can ii be reasonably expected that
rho, will la, before their readers facts if per
.h,,,c they BE- calculated to weaken TIE party with
,,,,;,b ,hcir interests closely identified On
she other hand, is it not to be tearcd, that, instead
ofbeino impartial journalists, communicating To
that portion Of the public WHO depend upon them
y,rinormation the facts ncccssaryto the formation
Of correct Judgment the grcat questions which
from time to time agltate the country, they will give
one sided statements, partial narratives, ard ,>cn
a, false aspect to events as they oceGr ! Even men
,I,e mos, s,crul, and ntlexibly honest Give no
.lI
mot. under such circumstances, be obscuicd and
wryertcd, and their judgments in.rn,ibl, innu-
,nccd To c>pon>e the OF error, and 10 sustain
it by means most iouly corrupt But ho" greatly
is this DANGER aggravated, when the press, thus
Noacd by government patronage, is IN the hands
&c ucrccnary adventures, who speculate upon the
,s. and fall of parties, as they would upon the uc
ua,;on, in the value of tobacco and cotton-not,
a. III, welfare of the country may be thereby pro-
NOTED or injured but As their own Golfers may be
drained or filled. Look, for an illustration OF this
,r,,b TO the manner in which the Globe is now
Conducted. POURING forth one continued stream of
,lulation and fattcrv to the person OF the Pr'si-
Notwithstanding ercry act of his administration, rs
;fhc were infnlliblc in Judgment well as i'm
waculae in purposc-hcaping upon crery con
,pcuols member of the opposition party, and m
deed mon every man who dare to dissent from the
oouions of the Presden, in the slightest partcu-
lar tho most malignant cpithets-dcnouncing their
onnions as hcrcscs, and their designs as raltoron,
and, worse than all this, making even their
Congressional Reports which should always be
impartial, (as in the National lntcgencer they
always arc J the medium of minisicrlng to party
PURPOSES, by publishing full reports of the speeches
Of its friends, and mulilaed fragments only, IN lis
own diluted language, OF those OF ITS opponents
What is all this for, but to deceive and mi,ead the
peope-and TO perpctualc the party in power,
which besows ON it such immense largcsscs from
the public treasury This is IA most pregnant
subject, and we'll deserves special inquiry. B"y
purity in the press, at any price, 1t cannot be
too dearly paid for.
Mr. Underwood, of Nv. has offered several
oin, resolutions proposing amendments to the led
eral constitutional. to restrict the influence OF the
absolute reto, by requiring only majority OF Con-
ress, instead of tws-thrds as at present, to enact
law, when nceatiy,d by the President; ?. ma
King the Secretary of the Treasury 4 his chei OF
dcer, elective By Congress, and responsible to that
BODY instead of. as now, to the Executive, and
thereby separating in fact, well as in theory, tie
purse from the sword ;. regulating the tenure OF
Offices and the mode of removal, so as to subject
them to the action of Congress, instead oil, as now
TO Executive will and 1. rendering Senators and
Representatives Ineligible TO Executive offices
during the time for Which they were elected to
serve, and for two years thereafter These IA
amendments are most important in their character
but there is no hopo OF their present adoption