Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-05-02

We hardly dare 10 trust ourselves TO speak
OF Amos Kendall as he deserves, for we have
been iaush. to reverence grey hairs but This
hoary wretch has forfeited all claims to respect
by his lying spirit and his desperate and fiend-
lsh attacks on esimable private citizens TO SUBJ
serve political ends. He has published 10 the
world several recent tracts, in which "omens"
are recoun:ed as evidence tina, the vengeance
Of omnipo,ence has fallen on our nation in re-
,ribullen for the election of Gen. Harrison and
that the crime which the people Of this Union
committed in 1910, by refusing 10 elevate Mar
tin Van Buren again to the Presidency has
called down providential visitalions on The land.
The blasphemous wretch quotes scripture, as
the devil can, for his purpose and irreverenl-
ly minslss pariizan falsehoods and sacred texts
in the same black page of his Infamous wri-
lings. Were We inclined to believe his asser-
tions, that our country has for its sins been vis-
tied with plaques as was Egypt of old for lis
hardness of heart, i, would be difficult to give
an expression of loa,hng 10 the plaques of lice.
locusts and vermin which bese, the Court Of
Pharaoh, moro complete than is felt towards
the pesiilen, influences produced by Kendall,
Blair, Isaac Hill. Medary, and others, self-sn-
gendered from the corruption and roi,enness of
Van Burenism
AS Kendall has taken upon himselflhe Office
Of lay preacher for locofocoism, 10 conver, the
hea.henish Wings. i, may be worth while TO
inquire in what college he received his diploma,
and by wha. imposition Of hands he received
orders. He is true graduate of the Van Bu-
rem school, bold, unscrupulous and never stick
ling at lie. except when the truth will equally
serve his turn; public punderer who has
lived for years on the federal treasury, and
when his hand was Withdrawn by the voice of
popular indignation, becoming an eleenosynary
psnsoner on his party, and cringing a. ihe feel
of those whose principles he has slandered and
Intentions perverted-showing himself as ready
could he have obtained the public printing at the
presen, session, to beray his latest friend, Van
Buren, as he was once before 10 prove treach-
erous to his early friend, Mr. Clay. To show
how totally unfit he is 10 be The censor Of poil-
ical morals, we avail ourselves OF some facts in
his official career, which we find IN the Wash
ing,on Standard.
Amos Kendall, all the world knows, (many
contractor 10 his utter run) was Postmaster
General under both Presidents Jackson and
Van Buren,. During his incumbsncy the " in
cdenral expenses" of the Post Office Depart
men, rose from Is or $4,000 per annum. 10
the enormous sum of $437 900 in one or two
years. In his Annual Repor, of 1886, he said.
"Il is expected ,ha. the Department will
have surplus Of cash in Bank before the first
Of Angus, next, exceeding $700,000"
In his previous Annual Report of ls35, which
was, we think, his frs. one, he had said iha,
the condition Of the department, when he en-
tered it, was almost hopeless. Hopeless one
year, and promised surplus of near three quar-
iers of a million the next! Now, it will be re-
collected, that 1886 was year for Presiden-
iial election; Van Buren, was in the field and
strong prejudice against him. Ii was there
fore necessary TO lie the people into The belief
that he had ex,rica,ed the Department. from its
/" hopeless condition. 10 position Of unexam-
pied solvency In 1887 he reported that the
anicipaliois of surplus were more than real
ized and that the Department was ahead $780,
600. Blu, in the same report, he shows US that
the Treasury was not TO receive any benefit
from the surplus, but he told US what dsposi-
tion he intended to make Of il, in this language:
III consequence Vi tuc idIluic VI OOhSiVSs
to reduce the postages al the lasi session, ar
rangemenls have been made TO improve ;he
mail service beyond the extent Of the accruins
revenue, so as to absorb the surplus. The ca
reer of improvement has been arrested by ap-
prehensions Of reduction Of revenue, growing
GU. of the general commercial embarrassmenis !;
but no reduction of iha service contracted for Is
at present contemplated"
This was strange time, TO extend the SER
vice, when a d" reduction OF revenue" was appre-
hended, and commercial embarrassment" ex
listed Any one might have forseen the event
lit will appear by reference TO his next annu-
al repor, of 1893, that not only was the whole
surplus of SeOO,O00 wasted, but he was unable
10 pay demands to the amount Of s349,64l, on
the department. In 1887 he said that no re-
duc,ion of the service contracted for" was con-
tsmplared in 1888 he says "io avoid danger
of embarrassment from he recent check upon
the revenue Of she Department. retrenchments
and suspensions of service have been made 10
the amount of S349,64I" Was there ever
such gross contradiction There was def
cheney acknowledged in 1888 when from
the same report j, appears that the revenue of
the year had increased $l6o, 900, from the pre-.
.;o,. 80. ,vh;,h ,dIoJ IN tho eurnI,,e of Q00 :