Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1837-08-03

mem, visited New York, about m. cInse
o, 'as' month, on bebslf Of some of NV fellow
clerks, to make arrangements for ,ba, nur.
pose. The result was that they realized n.
pout IL per cent. in District paper still,
receiving loss than was due To- them by about
= per cent.
Your "ciiizen of the purest character has
m'stated one fact, probably considered the
'h"s' important IN his communication. The
PoS' master general receiUedh,s months sd
ia'y as usual, an a check Of 8 1900 on the Bank
the Ietropohs. He approved the effort
oil the clerks 10 obtain as near their legal
dues as they could, but he waived his own
rlSht IN that respect altogether. He doubt
less knew too well how prone many "citi.
zens oil the purest character" are to misun-
deTs'and and misrepresent all his actions.
however Just, To put IL in their power 10 do
SO IN this instance. He IL content to receive
every month some $50 less thaa his Just dues
TO place himself above impuiation of sordij
motive in any public transaction.
ihave to request that, in justice to the post
master general as well as the clerks in the
pubic Offices, who desire nothing which the
law does not grant them, you will give a
place 10 this communication in to-moIrow's
lntelligencer.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
SAML KENDALL, Junior,
Pay Hgenf, Sc
AS The writer off above admits the main
TACT alleged by our correspondent, his article
might he permitted 10 pass without any
continent. We will merely say, however.
That no one has denied the right 9th clerk s
la get all they can for their claims ON the
Treasury. The material question presented
oy the article in our last paper, and that
"nich we would ask the public TO consider,
Is The Character Of those measures Of the ad.
ministrstion, by which the debtors and cred
itors OF The Government have been placed on
icoiing OF such gross injustice. Let us eX>
empliiy it.
We find by the official list that the w ritter
OF the above is a clerk in the post office de.
partmeni, at salary OF 400 dollars. II
appears, by his own showing, that for his
claim OF 400 he can get 500 dollars, in
current bank notes, which answer all the
purposes of money in the ordinary iransac-
tons OF business. Now, if a private citizen
owes s 400 10 the Government-say tn the
Custom -housc-and possesses that sum in
such bank notes as the clerk has coverted his
draft into, and with which he can make all
his purchases Ia market or elsewhere of par
the s 400 will he insufficient 10 enable
the private citizen 10 pay his debt 10 The GUS
tom house he must add s 100 TO it, 10 pur-
chase : 400 OF that kind of currency which
The clerk has been paid in, and which only
the government will receive. In other words.
the oifice,holder gains s 100 in current bank
notes more than his salary, and the debtor
has TO pay 500 more than his deb, in the
common currency.-Il is this practical in
justice, growing out of the ruinous policy of
The administration, and constituting one of
the evils under which the community is suf.
lering, 10 which our correspondent and our
In call Ill. m
the sophistry of MIR. Kendall, Junior or SEN
ior, cannot reconcile such gross iniauily TO
any just rotions OF equity and good govern
ment.