Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1837-08-31
From The Lynch5urg Tirginian.


AN OFFICIAL APHORISM. The
Washington Globe has recently put forth
the following aphursm:
III man is a knave in politics, he will
turnout TO he knavc ia every thing"
True, Oh King! And the reverse of the
proposition is no less So. What, then, mus,
the country think Of +. p. Blair, Amos Ken>
dali, II. NJ Whitney, and host of others,
whose names are "linked with thousand
crimes" and with scarcely ono rcdecming
virtue? D;es the Eii,Ur of the Globe hope
10 obtain character among the iguaran, hy
making loud professions OF honesty? Does
he h"pe {" impose upon the creduliiy OF the
public, like an",her Jue Surfatc, hy ''talking
sentiment" while he is plotting all manner
oil ,illa!ny?
Contemporary with the arrival uf the Globe
Containing the foregoing exquisite specimen
Of official morality, we met with The follow
ing article, which our readers will dosbiless
agree with u in regnrdiH, as a most s;rik
ing e~"mp!iica,ior Of It's truth:
TO the Editors IF the Louisville Journal.
GENrLEM EN--A public documen, (No.
lS5 House Of Representatives. has just made
lis appearance. showing balances due from
Late postma,ieis { he whule Number II de
faul,eis Is about SOC. = Mare than 1000 Of
these were dcalcatiuus since Geu. jack sun
came into power.
IN look ing over the list, | find that Sam
tiel Il. Crockett former Postmaster at Frank-
lori, Is a deiaulier for 81 ,395 81, and that
Francis P Blair was his surety. In the
column for remarks opposite To the names al
.Crnckett aud EIa. is the follow ing: "Suit
ordered, end Judgment obtained, May, 1923,
fnr & 1927 OF credit by 49, AZ penalty re.
united ny Post Master General leaving bal
ante AS stated app's tion for relief, refused
hy the departmeni, December 30, 1925;
scite iacas issued aud returned March, 1896;
no estate JOund information uas sought bs
the Department, relative TO parties, Novem
Ter 80 1885, referred To the District Auor-
ney Dee. 81, lS35-aiso wrote 10 him Feb
ruary l3, 1885,
AIR. Blair, the surety against hom there
i Judgment in the Federal Court at Frank
fnrt, has been living in Washington City
since 1881 and has drawn iron the public
treasury within the last six years more than
three h..".(rr,@ ta-',s-,s,d dollars for printing
f0r The Executive departments and Congress
The Post Office Department alone has paid
bin iuore than forty thousand doiiars tor
s'rsn'sug-aud yet on The lOh November,
1887, "infornidtioh tcds sought by the De
IGitRseRt RELAllvETo TIE PARTIES"
Can you inform your readers how il has
happened that tie amount Of this Judgment
was moi retained 10y the Post Office Depart
meut? l'our friend.
IKE louisville Journal makes the follow
ing coinR,eni ct, the letter:
'Fi'he above is from distinguished mem.
Der oi Congress living in distant part ii
Sae Stale. The exposition ough, to cover
abe administration " iih iniany. The single
TACT, that among the late Pustmasters, there
have been $500 defdlcalions aud, that more
ahan i 600 of these have taken place since
General jackson came into power, shows
that the cOrruptions which have pervaded
this country during the last eigh, years, have
no parallel in ia" History of the world Ibe
ACT ofibe Posi- Oil;,e Department in paying
over Hundreds of thousands Of dollars to the
Editor ofihe Glube, when, at the same time
abai editor is snrety for bad debt o! s i ,395,
which has been due from IA bankrupt detaul-
Ter 10 the depai tmeni for more than thirteen
years, deserves TO be branded by the whole
S;ountry as an act OF peculation upon The pubs
1ic-a piece OF gross and palpahie ewindling
practised upon the entire nation 10 Save the
purse OF partisan. Are there To- he no linn
ats 10 the shameful mi deeds OF The Govern
lDeHi;; :"