The national whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1847, 1847-07-14
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL
ft t NJ WING,

1fE &. +. *
Sin: send you for publication the accom-
panying extract Of letter from an inventor,
recently in this city, to his friend in Pittsburg,
originally published in the Pittsburg Gazette.
1t tells the people in plain terms, what kind Of
service the Heads Of Departments render for
their salaries, and how little the interests Of
The people are cared for BY the purely Demo
cratic (s) administration Of Mr.. Polk. But so
long as the vandal doctrine of 'eto the uctors
belong the spoils" is maintained in the White
House, inventors, in common with all other
of the industrious classes Of the community,
will be subjected 70 spoliaton, and honesty and
capablity, (Jefferson's tesL will be no recon-
m endaiion for Office. admire the honest
and fearless manner in which, regardless Of
emolument, an opposite course would bring,
you expose the iniqaity Of the highest officer,
and the magnanimity with which you defend
the character Of the humblest citizen.
| BUCKEYE. .
Correspondence Of the Pittsburg Gazettc.]
| "WAsHrNGToN, June %, l847.
6 The Commissioner Of Patents, to the shameful
faithful discharge Of which you and contributed
to pay him a salary Of three thousand dollars a
year, has gone TO the north upon tour of months
DURATION for the purpose II is said, of intriguing
to secure the nomination of Mr.. Polk for re-elec-
tion and in case Of failure to get Levi Woodbury.,
| Of New Hampshire, nominated Either of these
gentlemen, If elected, would give Mr.. Burke the
Office of Secretary Of State, or any other he might
want. a .4{5 81 Jsa5 si3f hS4sp
"When Mr.. Burke is in this city, his time is
so much occupied by writing editorials for the
6 Urio,,,' in defence Of the Mexican war, and in
denunciation Of the Wings, Chose rabidly violent
articles those subjects being the productions Of
his pen that he has but little time left to attend
to the legitimate duties Of his Office, but being in
favorwith the President yea, indispensable to that
high officer, who, being himself weak, requires all
| the " aid and comfort he can command; and Mr..
Burke is the strongest writer in the {" Union" He
haughtily and in tone Of defiance and contempt,
intimates to those who presume to complain Of his
conduct that he is beyond their reach y and con-
sequently, their complaints are unavailing.
/ "Such is at this time the condition in which the
Head Of the Patent Office is found and, as one Of
the unavoidable results Of such state Of things,
the business of his Office is grossly and shamefully
neglected, to the almost entire ruin of many poor
inventors, who come hundreds Of miles to apply
for patents, generally without an overstock Of mo-
ney, having spent most Of their means in perfect
ing their inventions. They frequently have to wait
FIVE or six months before they can get their appl-
cations examined; after which, from the loose and
incompetent manner in which these examinations
are frequently made, they are subject to farther
delays, annoyance, and vexations, before they can
obtain rights which ought to be granted promptly
in the first instance, within at most ten days after
the application is made, and which would be, if
the business of the Office was in capable hands,"