Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-05-19

be was ever employed, the remarkable clcuracss
and energy. OF his mind, rs method and love oil
order, the Iirmness ofhis character. and inexbaus-
ttbly capacity Cor business and mental labor
turned the thoughts Of General Jackson, Zone Of
the most sagacious judges Of mem upon him a.,
proper person 10 retrieve the affairs Of tho Post
Office Department, plunged into chaotic state
Of disorder from the ellec, Of long established
false principles and methods Of business; "a
which be was appointed on the first Of May,
1895. The county knows how like magic that
department rose, under his assidlous attention
paying Oft It's debts and in a little more than two
years nearly doubling lis field Of useluness.-Il
Is Mr.. KS principle, that "TIME" is monsg 10
The merchant and Intelligence 10 the c0mmunify.
lie is IN favor of sending communications with
the greatest possible npidIty in any shape and BY
any means. by his express mail (which our ar.
ilsi has introduced in his sketch, engaged in a
race with locomotive, for which hyperbolo Of
fancy the reader must make whatever allowance
he pleases) he has reduced TO one half the time
occupied two years ago IN sending business let.
ters aud news from the great commercial centre
to the extremes Of the Union. II is a remarka.
be fact, that Mr.. Kendall is known 10 have long
ago prophecied that electricity would ultimately
be used, by means Of wires confined in non CON
Quoting tubes, 10 communicate intelligence pub
lie and private, Inslananeously lf0m the centre
10 the extremes of our country, and that il would
supersede all tho other means Of telegraphing-
prediction which now appears on the cyG Of ac-
complishmcnt- he is now strongly Of tho opn-
ion that The project ought 10 be adopted and los-
tered by the Government. The exact effect on
the progress Of civilization, which will be produ-
ced by the establishment Of system Of telegraph.
&c communication over the whole extent Of our
country by which time and space will be almost
annIhllated, for private as we'll as public use, it
seems not easy to calculate.
AT every period Of his Iilc, under all circum-
stances, Mr.. X. has been decided and open
Democrat While m college, his politics, de-
rived from the sound and healthy instincts Of his
early life, were always boldly ayowcd although
near throe.lourihs Of his fellow students and the
officers ofthe College who had tho bestowa of
all its honors were bitter Fcdcralists, who could
not always restrain their political nnmosities.
While studying law his course was alike open,
although to be Democrat in Massachusetts At
the time oil iho declaration of war; was considered
has since arisen in this country in which there
has been an effort to diminish the power Of the
people over their own Government, he has been
on the popular side. Since bis first entry upon
political life he has been uniformly opposed, on
principle ton National Bank hot more on the
ground Of unconstuiionaliy than on that of the
Of moneyed power, aud its inepres.
sible tendency TO abuse. With respect to the
,ankmg system Of The States, The tone of his po-
itical opinions could not but incline him 10 look
With strong dissatisfaction upon those features of
/ which involve the essentially vicious principles
It monopoly and irrcsponsibiy. lie may be
laid to have been among the foremost of those
master minds who have led the way in the great
popular movement Of IDEAS on this subject which
Ho now see in progress. He is in favor Of a "a.
heal reform IN the general banking system of this
country which, beng founded upon falsehood
md immortality, renders the supcrsiIuciurc of nc.
cessiiy unsafe aud mschievous. lie is not in
ayor of destroying the banks, nor. of dispensing
altogether with paper currency, though his |
aamo ~ sought 10 he identified with all that is Vi |
1lent and ultra ia doctrine tl,is oubtu,t, h. 20
conscious of the important commercial convc-
lIonce OF tho former, as also OF the latter when
eally tho true representative Of moncy--and not
Is mere counterfeit substitute, susceptible Of in.
ctinite multiplication, without any other than |
disturbing aud most perncious influence upon the |
cal prosperity and happiness Of the community.
io holds, as he has always held, to the plain JEFF |
Msonlan principle, the foundation Of the true sci. |
'nco OF democracy that the protection Of natural
ishis IS the only legitimate object of Govern.
nent-tho rights OF person, property, and rcputa.
ion, and that legislation for the creation of arti.
lc'al rights to confer special privileges and adyan
ages, Is but indirect usurpatlon and oppression
Mr.. Kendall IS particularly remarkable for
and energy Of character. The man.
ner IN which these qualities were illustrated on
recent occasion, on the suspension Of specie
payments, Is known to all the results have pro-
we'd themselves, in spite Of the opposition with
which his arrangements were assaed, in the fact
that the Post office Department, has preserved its
credit and efficiency unimpaiIed amidst the wreck
Of all the banks in tho country, anordnn signal
illustration Of the ability Of the Government 10
carry on all IFS fiscal operations with certainty,
safety and convenience, in the constitutional cur
rcncy alone, exempt from all danger Of iuciua.
ton not only without the aid thanks, but even
IN defiance Of that power.
Probably no public man in tho country has
been the object Of more untlrlng and malignant
abuse than the Postmaster General, arising chief.
ly out Of the fact Of its having been from an early
age engaged in the bitterost struggles and tur-
mos Of party politics, as editor OF leading par
~ organ in the west. Yet no man can be either
less injured by it, or more indifferent to il one
Of his striking characteristics, formed by the ex.
periencc Of hts whole life being IN impcrturbable
tirlnncss in adhcring 10 his plain and strongly
marked principles. and acting upon them with
unAnchlus courage and endurance, with an un-
wavenng certainty OF receiving Ultimate justice
at the hands of the people to whose cause no has
ever devoted himself. Direct attacks, of tan.
gibe character, he has always shown himself rea.
dy to meet, however unworthy their source, nevel