Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-10-02

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$4,000
Yes Sir, 500, nOO spent during that AdmInis'ra'
ton procure The discharge OF the diplomatic du'es
OF one single individual. / think this will offset the
Russia diplomatic story. My colleague had better have
kept that story the dark, as his reform is KIND OF
one sided ferm. My colleague says the State Depart
ment sent Mr. Early 10 B"gola with despaiches' anu
that he never delivered them, but received his pay
Well Sir this was u hard case, and taken IN The alb
srac sn,acks Of fraud aud improvdence. put What Is
the whole story' Mr. Early sent 10 B"gola with
dispatches: when on the way, and within Two DAYS OF
ST, Thomas. the vessel in which he had taken passage
caught FIRE here cargo Of powder on board -
The and passengers, amounting to mn cen IN all
were instantly, their lives, compelled to take TO
the boats two number They had lett The vessel but
half hour when she blew up; and with her went The
dispatches After the lapse OF seventy hours WIN
food, the famsed crew reached the island
sf layti from whence they got home as well Us ihey
could believe MIR Early paid the same as ihoash
he had delivered the dispatches Perhaps this was
wrong; but tell you something worse under The
coalition Administration.
Mr. Cioy (S-cretary of Sta,e) sent Mr. Peasants to
Buenos Ayres with dispatches il is said that he found
the crew rather unpleasant. (Ie being pleasant man
being principally mechanics and workics and not the
wh.y fingered gentry. lie put the dispatches IN the
possession OF the Captain, and he wheeled about and
Put for England where he amused himself IN high lie
a time aud returned for which, Mr.. Clay paid HIM
nineteen hundred and forty dollars. So think this will
Offset the charge Of paying Nj. Early
SO lar, think my colleague mas pten unto!tuhde
his charges lnasnuch they have the effect to call TO
recollection charges against the dynasty he wishes to re-
insate much more aggraya,lng and pcrn'c'ons ms,
30 far, seems be b!uude his pari hut The
worst have To come yet think his speech NJ" be IN
fortunate inr his party aud his purposes Another most
important bunder has been committed BY my colleague
in his "irw comments the professions and practice
OF Mr.. Amos Kendall, late Fourth Auditor, now Post
master General lie quotes from certain letters oil That
gentleman, published SION after he came into Office,
sh"a ing Of the abuses he found IN office, commit
ted by my colleagues political friends, and showing al
So that he had would reform them, and affects 10
show that he had dune One Of these extracts IS
Ms follows viz: "The ncres, Of the country demands
tina, this Office shall be filed with Fl business
and not with baJJing politicians Can any man say
with Truth that this principle not carried oui: as
ssr, Sir and challenge contra dicion that the Fourth
Auditor Office, while Mr. Kendall was in il, ill
ed with Ui business, and not "with 5ab1lng po
Ii,icians" Mr. Kendall himself was :" a man of bust
ness and neither he has clerks neglected Their
public duties to babble politics with any one. When he
into that Office, what did he find to be It's condition
under the dynasty which my colleague aborng TO re-
sto'e: Mas II nil purity. all honesty. al industry: No,
Sir il all roIlenness, al! idenrss His predecessor
was Of the favorlles Of the Clay party and Mr..
Kendall soon discovered that he had been guilty OF the
gro.sest apd most direct frauds The Treasury Of which
he fo,nd g@lty b. unwilling court, and more
unwilling jury, after Tremendous party struggle TO So
him from punishment. What thanks did MIR X.
get from my colleague and his party for exposing thfse
frauds and bringing them 10 merlted punishment, -
why, abused through The presses as
conspiraor and prosecutor aud while the ulIon oil
the culprt in progress night after night insuhtd
and ho0d at under his riad07. Yes, Sir, This the
mode Tie genlemans party undertook 10 prevent The
exposure and punishment Of their curruptions his
was the reward they then bestowed integrity and
fearessness 10 Office ard the game has been kept
up since down 10 The speech Of my colleague. Now,
usk was it n" reform 10 remove pecuator upon the
Treasury; My colleague does not seem to think so
Why? Is it hecarse he belonged TO his party?
Well, Mr. Kendall filled the Fourth Auditors Office
/" with Of business" and what was the conse
queDce: Much OF lis business one, Two. and three
years in arrears, and in about twelvtmonlh it was
brought completely up. Did lie obtain ask any add
iinn,l force' No, Sir, after the business brought
up, he suffered two clerkships remain vacant for
long time and until lie left the Office, because, hav
ing linen of business" about him. he did not need tie
whole force which the law allowed Moreover under
the Clay administration, which my colleague would
restore the contingent up Jropra,Ion Tor the Fourth Au
di,ors Office 81 800 year; but Mr. Kendall re
duced i, TO 81 COO, and year asked for appr"prl
alton ali-having enough surplus Of former appropri
a'i"ns hand meet his Thus the expenditures
of the Office were largely reduced by him, while It's bu
snrss was greatly improved. What credit do my col.
league and his friends give him f"ri They nave poured
;m, ffivu ;-=,nning 10 end torrent Of unceasng
abuse On every exposure of dcau!ler rogue,
through his inslrumen,al,y their abuse has been re
doubled, clearly showing that an honest and fearless
public officer is their highest anipahy.
(Id be continued