Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1840-06-01
LyNCssHuEsG, JUNE r,isio.


and eloquent sketch, from the pen Of til accom-
pshed editor of the New York Express, who re-
Gently paid visr To Gen, Harrison at his residence
at North Bend. No rise from its pefusal
without feeling Of admiration for the genuine Re.
publican simplicity of the modern Cincinnatus-
None, il seems IN US, c5n doubt that he IS OF all
others, the very man whom the people of this coun-
~ should select as their Chief Magistrate.
i is impossible for the most superficial observer
of men and events to shut his eyes TO the fact that
within the last few years, the tone of public morals
has wonderfully deteriorated. And how could ii be
otherwise when official dlslincllon,--in this country
the ultimate object Of ambitious men, was to be "a
cheved, not by serriccS 10 The couotry.-not by ex-
allied talent associated with incoruptble integrity.
but by seryile devotion to party, and clamor
Gus obedience It's orIers The government has
fallen into the hands Of political adyenturers--the
Offices Of the country truly filed with "tire-
itngS,' as Amos Kendall once styled them in an Off
/ cld paper-Men oil narrow capacity, Of sordd feel
! ngs of equivoca character, occupy what should be
the "posts d honor" in Republic. the prize Of
noble minds, srngg ling, not for personal advance
menl but for the public goood. Offices are stakes
Cor gan lers and they the most successful play
ers ard secure larger SHIRE of the spoils as do
spnfsmen on different arena, who are least sctu.
pulous aud most unpfncrpled. Hence, the hume
rous frauds aud delaeatlons and fogueres which fill
the columns Of the public prints, and pain the pub
lie car. How can il be otherwise? Wien the
English Court in the reign oil the Charess, was
oste1tatlously dissoue ia It's morals, the violation
OF moral principle lost its odum, and pron gacy
spread throughout the kingdom, Polluting the cot,
tage as well as the palace. When see The Gov
eminent toleraling Notwithstanding them from
Ilnstlee-keepng them in office lille their hands
are stained with the plumber OF the peoples money
and they are ''riotng in excess on tn ell stolen
wealti-when we see an agent ofihe government of
iiclally advising the Secretary of the Treasury to
retain rogue in Office because his pockets are full
and because if he be removed, another greedy plum
lerer would probably "iollow in his footsteps,"-
how can it be expected that the public morals will
remain rncontaminaed, or that men, in private hfe
equally exposed TO temptation, will not be Induced
10 yield, when dishonor seems to be attached to
these wholesale public robberes when the gov
eminent conniyes al-nay, sanctions and rewards its
agents, whose oeia conduct discloses one long and
unbrokcn history of crime?
What is the remedy We must purify the
streams by cleansing the fountain As ques-
h'H VI Hloi as dpdil IfOnl polcS,-ll Iney be not
indeed nscpaable,-we regard The election of Gen
Harrison as an object of The highest moment. A
relic Of the purer and better days of tue Republic
he comes before the country. with a character
which has passed through the fiery ordeal of Temp
tation aud Opportunity, without spot or blemsh or
wrinkle. No man, enyenomed as have been he as
sants upon rhis venerable public servant, has ever
yet dared to suy the lusre of his personal reputa-
ton, by breathing upon it the breath of ca!unny-
Like Washington, Ito whom the Richmond Enqui-
rer compared him in 1913 )his character stands forth
IN colossal simplicity purity and gtandeur-
True, his mental qualifications have been underra-
ted and 'idlcued-so were W Ashington's: yet
Wdshingious writings reveal mind rs massive in S
proportions, lofty its designs as power fu in its
conceptions, and as pure and beautiful in its emana-
tons, as that Of any Of his coiemporares al .houph
many OF them perhaI had more brilliant iepura-
ton in their day-but as eyanescent as ii was bril-
liant Look at llarrsons speeches, and we find
tue same remarkable nervousness Of thought
blned with the same beautiful simplicity Of express
SION when marked the conceptions aud the Style
Of WashIugton-lhe same beueyolence and charity
The same unalioyed love of yntue-the sane de-
tesiaiion oIcmcanery in public and private life
Read the sketch OF his domestic habits as unveiled
by The editor OF the New York Express, and we sec
The same order, the same industry, the same liberal
ifusaity which characterized the sage and patriot
OF Mount Vernon IL the people will call this plain
Old Republican farmer from his rural abode to
guide the lelm oil State, we haz ard nothing in PIE
dieting that glorious change will pass over the
lace OF tile Republic. OId-fashioned simplicity Of
manners, such our fathers were accustomed to-
will superSede that artificial state Of society," the
offspring of luxury and exlrayagance, which indl-
Gates the decline and pottends the downfall Of the
Repnblc-Econony will be rigidly enforced in pub
lie expenditures because it has been the habit of his
lle,n his private Responsibility of public off
ees will be strictly fequred-delnquents will be PAN
Ished instead OF rewarded--lhe morals of the c0un-
try Will be improved, when private men are no lon
ger kept IN countenance by public plundeters-and
the path to Office will be found not in trty seryllly
but IN public service, combined with superior capa-
city and tried fidelity. For these reasons we ear.
nesuy desire Gen. Harrison's election; and thew
seem to us to appeal with irresistible force to every
mind not warped by party madness, nor the victim
OF incufab!e personal prejudice.
IT, The Enquirer, with its usual disingennous-
ness, complains that Gen Harrison "played The
mute on recent occasion described by the editor
OF the n. y. Express, in an article which we co,v
ms mornng) when INTERCEPTED on the subject of
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