Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1838-06-21
Facts for the People.

TRENcHMENr AND RrroRM.!
o. We continue our extracts from Mr..
BosD's excellent Speech in the House of
Representatives. speech, We repeat, full
ofinstrwcsioa.
wish now 10 make a few comments on |
the professions and practice OF Mr.. Amos
Kendall, late Fourth Auditor, and now
Postmaster Generai.-This gentleman, you
know, sir, was an eleventh hour Jackson
man. lie, however, was among the first
who got office; and Immediately after HE
appointment, q letter Of his 10 published, in
which. after holding himself aud a few friends
up ss having been prosecuted, he exclai,ns,
"what has Heaven dene? So disposed of e.
vents, as to make WIN. r. Barry Posimas-
ter General, AID myself mere humble Au.
ditor." AZ TO MIR. Barry, no matter "wha,
events" made him Postmaster General, W.
know that under his man agement that de-
partment was deranged and rendered insol-
vent!
But now for this "humble Auditor, ;" or as
from his own question, he is sometimes call:
cd, "this Hsavsn-born' Amos. II history
does him justice, II will be found that be de-
sired Office under Mr.. Clay (; i, mol being in
the power ofihe latter TO provide. Mr.. Ken
dali espoused tho cause OF Gen. Jackson.
In this letter Of Mr.. Kendall, he says:
81 feel bound by my obligations to my
country, and by the pledges so offer repeated
by all the principal men Of cur party, 10 pro.
mste, with all my talents and industry, the
reforms which the People demand. I will
prove that our declarations have not been
hollow pretences. Besides, hold the inter>
ference of Federal officers with State polls
tics to be improper in principle"
For the reform under this last paragraph,
refer you TO Mr.. Kendall letters and toasts
sent to various political meetings and din>
ners throughout the country for a few years
past, on tho eve Of State elections.
When Mr.. Kendall entered upon the du.
ties OF his Auditors Office, he caused TO be
published in the United States Telegraph,
the then official organ, letter, IN which he
says, The interests Of the country demand
that this Office shall be filled with men Of
business, aud not with babbling politicians. -
Sir, the whole letter was the work Of a
bnbbling politician, expressly designed Tor
political and demagogue ends, which the
writer, IN the same breath, said no had quit
and LEI, Tor others! will read few pass
sages f:Om il. ''In five days l have return
cd 10 the pest office twenty letters aud three
pamphlets, enclosed 10 the Fourth Auditor
and directed to Other persons!" How long
after this letter was il before MIR. Kendall
for the purpose of building up the Globe
Newspaper, and the fortune OF his friend
FrancisP. Blair, (anoiher eleventh hour ack-
son man, whom he bad brought from his TOR
mer residence at Frankfort, Kentucky }
sent under his frank to Kentucky, and per
hsps sewhere, the prospectus of this news.
paper
In that same letter Kendall also says:
"Upon entering this office, oa Monday
bic. Among them, counted sixteen differ
ent papers, ell Of which ] was told were sub
scribsd for by the Fourth Auditor, and psie
tor out Of tbs Treasury"
He sent them back, as he then sisted, with
note TO each; OF which the following is .
copy:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, }
Fourth Auditors Office, Mar. "a, 1899 {
SIR: Not believing that 1 am author ,zed
by The Government to pay for subscriptions 10
newspapers and other publications, which,
are not useful TO me in The discharge of my
ofhcial duties; and not perceiving that can
derive any assistance from your journal in
se:lling the accounts of the United States
Navy, have TO request that you will dis,
continue sending il 10 this Office Very res.
pectIully, your obedient servant,
AMOS KENDALL.
Here, MIR. Speaker, 10 grand display oil
the "pride, pomp, and circums,ance'' OF Of
flee, il not Of official insolence. But res
terday he was himself the editor and rub
Usher OF newspaper: he next appears, in
bis own language, an ''humbis Auditor. "
But, sir, does not the letter just read show
that he had forgotten his humility, and be-
come pulled up with official consequence
why did be no, simply tell his brother ed
Iors, 10 brief and respectful language, that
he had discontinued the subscription for their
paper?
But further thought is suggested by this
letter Of MIR. Kendall, and bis reason for dis
continuing newspaper subscriptions. He is
now, sir, Postmaster General Suppose we
fook at the statement of the contingent ex.
penses Of bis Office for the last year DO you
think we shall find any subscriptions OF news
papers there "psId for out of The Treasury 90
Listen to a few items:
Southern Literary Messenger $40 90
New York Journal Of Commerce 10 90
Allegheny Democrat 1881
pennsylvania 8 90
incian Biography 6 90
metropolitan Magazine 8 90
Three copies of the Daily Globe!!! 80 90
Richmond Enquirer 8 90
Suodry others which will not stop TO name:
the whole number being twenty or upwards,
and the total Of subscription within a email
fraction Of 5000! He was frightened al q
pile OF Is newspapers, but he can now take
20 at dose! Can il be possible that man
who came into Office declaring, like the
Pharisee Of old, that he "was no; like other
men, and would even 'tihe mint, and cum
min" begins already to reject The weigh |
Tier matters Of the law! What becomes
OF hrs inflated prorniee rto proyeD fbat L;. |