Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-09-30
Correspondence Of he BoHiaiore Patriot.
WASH NgTON Sent. -. 1878.

The administration is alarmed the uov-
eminent office holders are In the field. in spite
OF the adm0uitiOns and warnings OF ieiiersou,
and ot Jackson. aud are neg.cCtiug their DIN
uial duties 20 interfere in the election which
are going on.
Look at the Central Locoioco Committee
on E~lectiaucerng. Who are its members 2
General Funnsn Bustaments Foote. Senator
from Mississippi. stands at It's head. Next
is William J. Brown. Second Assistant POST
master General. Aud the next and last is
Edmund Burke, Commissioner OF Patents.
Brown directs aud franks eieCtoneering
documents hy the cart-load-makes bets on
Cass's electiou-aud perambulates the cuun-
try to make porlizan speeches. In doing all
this, he cannot be much OF the time in his Of
fee. Does the Government. which pays him
a salary Of 81. 800. justify him in leaving his
( Office to eleciioneer Tor Lewis CaSsi
Burke, who cannot make speeches or min
gle with the people. like Brown, can write all
SORTS OF INSCRIPTIONS Lucotoco editorials for
the official organ. lie does work Of this ma
turc with a zest and zeal. for which he is
notorious. Does The Government pay him a
salary OF $1,000 TO neglect the duties oil his
office to interfere in eleciions2
Do brown aud Burke remember and heed
the declarations OF Jefferson and Jackson on
this subject
The other day, this Mr.. Second Assistant
Postmaster General Brown made a Cass
speech at Locotoco gathering in Biadens.
burg. lie was announced as Mr.. Brown, OF
Indiana
More recently. a Locofoco meeting was
held in another part OF Maryland, at Marlbor-
ougl, and two OF the speakers, as editorially
announced in the Washington IInion, were
General McCaIla, of Kentucky, and Mr.. b.
f.. Brewn, OF Ohio.
Now. this General McCalla is an office
holder, in this citv-the Second Auditor OF
the Treasury, at d salary OF $1,000 And The
Mt. Brown, in question, is also an ofiice-hol-
der al the seat OF Govefnment-a clerk in
General McCalia's w office
a delightful brace OF FORMULATING cleo
t~iOneers, leaving The duties Of their stations
10 90 abroad aud make ~demagogue speeches
Why, almost oil last winter and spring this
same Auditor MeCaila was boring Congress TO
grant him more clerical help, more clerks, or
else, he declared, he could not make out and
settle the numerous and pressing accounts OF
the soldiers who had served in Mexico? Does
the Government pay him and his clerk Brown
to attend to the duties OF their stations. or
to waste their time III interfering in elac-
tionsl
In addition TO these gentry, and the work
OF sundry saiaried clerks and messengers in
the Executive Departments, in the way OF
toting aud directing and distributing Locofo-
co documents. the services of MIR. Folks sup
erintendeut Of The Pententiary, Mr.. C. p.
Sengstack, are required into requisition =
TransparIencies and transparent lanterns Tor
tbs use OF Locofoco professions, are manufac.
tured there, it is understood, by wholesale,
but whether by c~onvicts or not, is a matter
yet unknown TO The public. Carts loads oil
Locoioco phamphlets in part signed by Seng-
stack himself, are said to be taken there L
be directed aud made ready TO cumber the
mails. Does the Government pay Sengstack
twenty-five hundred dollars a year to set the
labourers in the Peaitentiary to making cleo
uoneerlng lanterns and other transpareucies,
and directing electioneering documents, in.
stead OF working at their respective tasks up.
on articles that would sell!
Have these oflice-hoidiog gentry any claims
10 be called the followers OF Jefferson and
jackson? What said Jefferson? Here are his
words
Extract from Mr. LGerson's Circular ad-
dressed 10 o1ice-hoiders.
The President Of the United States has
seen. with dissatisfaction, officers of the Gen
efal Government taking, ON various occasions
active parts III the elections OF public func-
tionarles, whether Of the State or General
Government. Freedom OF election being es
sental 10 the independence OF Government,
aud OF the different branches OF the same
Government, so vitality cherished by most OF
our constitutions, 10 is deemed improper for
9t1cers depending on The Erecutiuo Of The
Union 10 attempt TO control or inRa6ace the
/ ytef greccfSr nj fEs .Iecs-,e ,,rJy L.
peCted that no officer viii attempt to innu-
ence the votes OF other men, nor take any
partin the business of electioneerng-that
0aing deemed inconsistent with the spirit of
the Constitution and his duties
And what sail Jackson? Here also are
his words; also the words OF his old demo-
cratic friend and neighblr, Judge Grundy
Gen. Jacks0H's iadgarGl ADDRESS.
"Ihe recent demonstrations OF public sen
liment inscribes on the list OF Executive du-
ties, IN characters 200 leginle TO be overlook
ed, the task OF reform, which will require
particularly The correction OF those abuses
that hare brought Tx patronage Of the Feder-
a. G51srAm>ht INTO conflict lglth the freedom
Of eicctions.''
Ertract from speech Of Felir Grnndy, far
mcrty Il Democratic Senator from IeAneSeG,
and Attorney General under Mr.. Van
Duran.
"Wheu | see an office holder interfering in
election, it occurs that he is thinking OF his
salary and his bread, and is therefore an I'M
tit adviser OF The people"
Now let these electioneering oflice-holders
give up their pretended regard for the coun-
sells Of Jefferson and Jackson, and remember
that Old ZACH IS coming, who will moi forget
them! POTOMAC.