Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1838-06-27

graph, | refer you 10 Mr.. kendall's
letters and toasts sent to various politi-
cal meetings and dinners Throughout,
the country, for few years past, on
the eve of State elections.
When Mr.. Kendall entered upon the
duties Of his Auditors office, he eau
sed to be published in the United States
Telegraph, the then official organ, q
letter, in which he says, "The inter-
est of the country demands that this
office shall be filled with men Of bust
ness, and not with 6aJbling politicians. y
SIR, the whole letter was the work Of a
6a6bhng politician, expressly designed
for political and demagogue ends,
which the writer, in the same breath,
said he had quit ard left for others
will read few passages from it. "In
five days | have returned TO the post
office twenty letters and three pamph-
lets, enclosed to the Fourth Auditor,
and directed to other persons !" How
long after this letter was it before Mr..
Kendall, for the purpose of building up
the Globe newspaper, and the fortune
of his friend Francis P. Blair, (another
elevenih-hour Jackson man, whom he
had brought from his former residence
at Frankfort, Kentucky,) sent under
his frank to Kentucky, and perhaps
elsewhere, the prospectus of this news
paper?
In that same letter Mr.. Kendall also
says:
"Upon entering this office, on Mon
day last, one of the first objects which
struck my eye was pile of newspa-
pers on my table. Among them, |
counted sixteen different papers. all of
which | was told were subscribed for
by the Fourth Auditor, and paid for
out of the Treasury"
He sent them back, as he then sta.
ted, with a note to each i; of which the
following is copy:
TREAsARy DEPARTMENT,
FOURTH AuprToR's OFFICE, MARCH "a, 1892.
SIR: Not believing that am au-
thorized to charge the Government
with subscriptions to newspapers and
other publications, which are not use-
full to me in the discharge of my off.
cial duties and not perceiving that |
can derive any assistance from your
journal in settling the accounts of the
United States Navy, | have to request
that you will discontinue sending it to
this office. Very respectfully, your
obedient servant.
AMOS KENDALL.
Here, Mr.. Speaker, is fine display
of the "pride, pomp. and circum-
stance" of Office, if not of official inso-
ience. But yesterday he was himself
the editor and publisher Of newspa-
per: he next appears, in his own Ian
guage, an humble Auditor" But,
sir, does not the letter just read show
that he had forgotten his humility, and
become pulled up with official conse.
quence
Why did he not simply tell his bro
Their editors, in brief and respectful
language, that he had discontinued the
subscription for their paperl
But a further thought is suggested
by this letter of Mr.. Amos Kendall,
and his reason for disseminating news
paper subscriptions. He is now, sir,
Postmaster General. Suppose we look
at the statement of the contingent ex-
penses Of his Office for the last year. Do
you think we shall find any subscrip-
tons for newspapers there "paid for
out of the Treasury" Listen TO
few items:
S. Literary Messenger, SO 90
N. Y. Journal Of Commerce, 10 90
Allegheny Democrat, IA 90
Pennsylvania, 8 90
Indian Biography, 6 90
Metropolitan Magazine, S 90
3 copies of the Daily Globe F! 80 90
Richmond ENQUIRER, 5 90
Sundry others which will not stop to
name; the whole number being twenty
or upwards, and the amount ofsubscrip.
ton within small fraction of $500 !!
He was frightened at pile Of sixteen
newspapers, but he can now take TWEEN
ty at dose Can it be possible that
a man, who came into office declaring,
like the Pharisees OF old, that I" he
was not like other men," and would
even "tithe mint, and cummin," be-
gins already to "neglect the weight
or matters of the law Z" What be-
comes of this inflated promise "to
prove" that his declarations had not
been hollow pretences 7" OF what
value was his declaration, made in his
letter before referred to, and in which
he says, "Vain | may be, proud | am,
that the President has given me an
opportunity to aid him in proving that
reform is not an empty sound, and is
not to apply merely to change Of
men ~ Why, sir, | quote as a reply