Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-06-15


jackson had expressed After this, MI Speak
: err, we need not be surprised at the absurd opin
! ion of Mr. Butler, given as foundation OF jus
tfcaton for Gen. Jackson to pocket the bill
repeating the Treasury circular, and which hat
passed both Houses Of Congress almost by &C
clamation. Nor, indeed, should we be aston
ished at any opinion of his, unless he should
: have happened to give one different from wha
he supposed the President wanted.
wish, now, to make a few comments OF
the professions and practice of Mr. Amos Ken
dali, late Fourth Auditor, and now Posimaste
General. This gentleman, you know, sir, wat
an eleventh-hour Jackson man. He, however
was among the first who got Office; and imme
diately after his appointment, letter of his Il
published, in which, after holding himself ant
few friends up as having been prosecuted, hi
exclaims, "what has Heaven done! So dspos
ed of events, as to make Barry Postmaster Gen
and myself a more humble Auditor" AS Il
| Mr. Barry, no matter ''what events" made him
Postmaster General, we know that under his
management that department was deranged
and rendered insoventl
But now for this "humble Auditor" or, ms
| from his own question, he is sometimes called,
'this Heaven-born" Amos. If history does
him Justice, il will be found that he desired Of
| flee under Mr. Clay, which, it not being in the
power of the latter to provide, Mr. Kendall es-
pOuSed the cause oil zen. Jackson.
In this letter of Mr. Kendall, he says:
81 feel bound by my obligations to my coun-
try, and by the pledges so often repeated by all
the principal men of our party, to promote,
with all my talents and industry, the reforms
which the People demand. | will prove that
our declarations have not been hollow preten-
fences. Besides, ! hold the interference Of
Federal officers with State politics TO be improp-
er in principle"
For the reform under this last paragraph, |
refer you TO Mr. Kendall's letters and toasts
sent TO various political meetings and dinners
throughout the country, for few years past,
on the eve of State elections.
When Mr. Kendall entered upon the duties
ofhs Auditors Office, he caused to be publish
ed in the United States Telegraph, the then
official organ, letter, in which he says, "The
interest of the country demands that this Of
fee shall be filled with men Of business, and
not with 6abbiing politicians. Sir, the whole
letter was the work of jdbJling politician,
expressly designed for political and demngogue
ends, which the writer, in the the same breath,
said he had quit and left for others | will
read few passages from il. SIN five days |
have returned tn the post Office twenty letters
and three pamphlets, enclosed TO the Fourth
Auditor, ard directed to other personsr' How
long alter this letter was it before Mr. Kendall,
for the purpose of building up the Globe news
paper, and the fortune of his friend Francis p.
Blair, another eleventh-hour Jackson man,
whom he had brought from his former resi-
dence at Frankfort, Kentucky sent under his
frank to Kentucky, and perhaps elsewhere, the
prospectus of this newspaper
In that same letter Mr. Kendall also says:
"Upon entering this Office, on Monday last,
one Of the first objects which struck my eye was
a pile of newspapers on my table. Among
-s..I -. III
which ! was told were subscribed for by the
Fourth Auditor, and paid for out Of the Treas
ury.''
He sent them back, as he then stated with
note to each; Of which the following is a copy:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Fourth Auditors Office,
March "a, 1929.
Sir: Not believing that | am authorized 10
charge the Government with subscriptions TO
newspapers and other publications, which are
not useful 10 me in the discharge of my official
duties; and not perceiving thht can derive
any assistance from your journal in settling the
accounts Of the United States Navy have To
request that you will discontinue sending il to
this office. Very respectfully, your obedient
servant, AMOS KENDALL
Here, Mr.. Speaker, is a fine display of the
pride, pomp, and circumstance of office, if
not Of official insoence.
Why did he not simply tell his brother edi-
tors in brief and respectful language, that he
had discontinued the subscription for their pa
PERI
He is now, sir Postmaster General. Sup
pose we look at The statement Of the contingent
expenses of his Office for the last year. Do you
think we shall find any subscriptions for news
papers there paid for out the Treasury"!-
Listen TO few items:
Southern Literary Messenger, $40 90
New York Journal of Commerce 10 90
Allegheny Democrat II 81
Pennsylvania 8 90
Indian Biography 90
Metropolitan Magazine 8 90
Three copies of the Daily Globe!! so 90
Richmond Enquirer 90
Sundry Others which will not stop to name;
the whole number being twenty or upwards,
and the total of subscription within a small
fraction of $780, He was frightened at pile
OF l6 newspapers, but he can now take twenty
at dose! Can il be possible that man, who
came into office declaring, like the Pharisees of
old, that " he was not like other men," and
would even "tiihe mint, and cnmmn," begins
already to neglect the weighter matters of
the law!" What becomes OF this inflated pro-
mise to prove" that his " declarations had
not been hollow pretencesi" OF what value
was his declaration, made in his letter before
referred To, and in which he SAYS, 4" 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 moi
to apply merely to change of mem"
Among Mr.. Kendall's reforms NAV be inen-
toned his leading agency in the removal of the
public deposites from the Bank of the United
States. To effect this he carried ON n system