Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-04-04

General Land OGce.--Leland of Saline or Cooper,
TO be Judge Of the End Judicial Circuit, in place Of
Thomas Reynolds, resigned"
The foregoing was forwarded to US by a cores
pendent some ten or twelve days ago, and although
our contemporaries and the public generally seemed
to be satisfied that Mr.. Leland had received the APP
pointment, we were unwilling TO believe it, until
its official nnnunciation in the Jefiersonian con-
frmed the degrading fact. We thus strongly char
acterize this appointment without intending to re-
fleet upon the legal the private character Of the
,appOntee. OF these, our contemporaries, who are
ter informed, can speak on their proper response
, bliIy. On ours we charge it degrading to an
executive who removed Judge Todd the sob
ground that, a. the circuit then constituted,
majority of the people were opposed to him in poll
itics, that he now swallows even that poor excuse
and appoints not only man whose politics are OPP
posed to those Of a large majority of the people Of
Howard, Randolph, Boon and Galloway, but hunts
riin up and imports him from Copper where he is
| so little known that even the lpcofoco paper all
| B,onyille does not give his christian name
! We charge it to be degrading to the Chief Mag
israte Of great state, that he should fill its high
est CUuIlS VI llHpIEllbl JNdtCuIUTe, Oil
aus other principle than the one laid down by Mr.!
Jtferson in reference to the relative honesy and ca
pacity Of those who are willing to take the office.
! We charge it as degrading to the Chief IIagis-
trate of Sovereign State, that this appointments
was made, as his friends here alleged it would be
to propitiate the tyrants at Washington, at whose
hands Governor Boggs is seeking ga place"-a
Land Office.
We charge it as degrading to Chief Magistrate
protesting " democracy" and who reached his ele
walton by that song a'One, to set at contemptuous
disregard The known and expressed will of Tie peo-
pie Of thus Circuit, in Difference to the recommend
ton of few o6fce-tolderS and leaders.
Rumour assigns another political necessity and
locates it here as one of the considerations which
moved 10 this appointment. Of this we know
nothing and care lesS--except that, if the universal
opinion Of the bar be worth any thing, all his
spare time will not enable him to supply By re-
search what he lacks in the previous Legal d:quire-
ments necessary for Judge But this is foreign
TO our purpose.
In the degrading considerations which even he
political friends of Governor Boggs have admitted
were the rule of his government in this extroori-
nary appointment, rejecting citizens Of every na-v
viii perceive the indirect qualifications Of POSI-
Dental ToVer--the necessity Of changing i Iu'o
hands less corrupt and corrnptible, and, most o.
all, of cutting IL dorm to Single Term.
We shall recur to the subject again, in connexion
with the central Despotism'' which the true de-
moor acy Of the country are combating, and in the
mean time refer our readers 10 one OF the closing
paragraph from the admirable preamble and addrc>
| Of the TDDecanoe Club of this countv--an asSocia.
ton combining the names Of gentlemen of all ,ho
recent poi .ical divisions of the people. 1t cut =
, though it were designed for this case SpecI ~.
although we understand it had more immediate re-
Inference to Gov DuDklin, who actually got the
s"place' Of Surveyor General during his State ad
nimistrgtOn.
! at u currently rumored in Nashville that the an
buren electoral ticket in Tennessee is to be headed
! AHpEEw JACKSON. The lucofocos in that state il
IS evident, are terribly alarmed. They know that
| Flr. Van Buren, is pnwerlesS in Tennessee. but
| think that zen. Jackson may possibly secure the
state for hun, as he secured the Presidency in 1895
| To VIVA itch of desperation must the ocofueo>
have arrived, when they can thus contemD,.t4
| dragging the dying veteran from ais retirement.
and using him once moreaS Mr.. Van BIren's stalk
! ing horse' We do not require more satisfactory
deinonS'ration OF the prospects Of General Harm
son in Tennessee. than this reported movement Of
the administration party in that state We should
like TO see the experiment tred.-N O Bee
They tried it, but old Hickory wouldn't 90 it.
They can no longer use the magic name of the
veteran Of New Orleans, except by printing it
and Ponting it on such dirty sheets as the Office
holders here have ordered from Illinois In refus.
ing to allow the Van Bunentes the use of his
name, as an eector, in their contest, General
Jackson has done much to repair the wrong of
having given them his influence in the first one,
HIS earliest and best friends, having had "much
to admire and much to forgive recognise in this
asst great act of their old Chieltain, that manly
and magnanimous spirit which prompts the con.
duct Of soldier towards soldier General
Jackson doubtless has his reecenccs-preciseIy
as other private citizens. Ga which side thew
pr oonderate it is unnecessary to enquire. 1t is
sufficient for his old supporters that the crecd oil
General Hanson is in accordance with the prin
ciP.as which o., avowed in his day, and that the
practices and lrposes OIL Martin Van Buren, are
IN a respects the reverse.
Extract Of letter from the heart Of Virginia,
dated l4th Gt
The ca. o. Hlrrison is gaining ground in
| Virginia every day, and feel the most pcrrec,
assurance that he will receive the vote of the odd
| Dominion Augusta county is almost mani