Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-10-26
RIG HI MON ID, VA.
Thursday Morning, October rs. ls49.
PRESCRIPTION.

What VIII the people think oil Inc ioioWlng
account OF poor widow being turned out Of
petty post office, worth the sum oil t'otnty a0I
las yeai? Suppose during the Presidential
canvass, whilst the electoneering letters Of
General Taylor we're circulating throughout
the nation some Democratic eleclor, or speaker
or edit r, had asserted before any crowd any
where met together in America, that Gen Taylor
il elected, would turn out thousands of officers
from their places; what would have been the
answer of the Wing champions, wha. the opn
ions of The peopef That the charge was will
fully and malisnantly false but suppose II had
ben asserted by some heated parIizan thai
General Taylor would actually turn out Of .
small Office poor widow-to make room for a
Wing par,izau' Could the man making such
au assertion, have escaped without broken
heads We think no.-and yet we SEQ that Gen
Taylor has, now that be is 10 power, actually
done this hing
When in The heat of party strife a man so far
forge,s himself as 10 violate solemn pledge
some little palliation is 10 be found for him, in
the tacl that there stands before him his fierce
and tiiler foe, he who in the conflic, has done
him iDj Jury, and who, in a succeeding Struggle
may do him more-his wrongs, real or suppos-
Ell rise up and plead iorthe sacrifice of his enc
my. II requires much courage and high sense
OF honorable integrity 10 sick 10 The pledge and
suffer the sacrifice 10 escape. This is hefosn
which General Taylor does not possess-iI is a
sentiment which his Cabinet can neither appIe-
cia,e nor understand. But there is depth in
he degradation these people have reached, which
absolutely amaz-s whilst il disgus's. The lur-
pitude oil Ibis Administration grows even blacker
from The recital OF il. To spurn from little office
a poor ,cidOw, a helpless woman, ore who per
formed the duties oil il faithfully tor the liule sum
of twenty dollars year, which she Ie.ded 10
feed her orphan children, is an act Of nearlless
cIuel,y which makes US lose sigh, OF tn. viola
ted pledges and the systematic hypocrisy by
which they attained the power they so shockingly
disgrace. How can General Taylor bear the
thought Of the tears running down her womans
face, as her liue ones cluster abou. her knee
either 10 weep with her or TO console her Tor The
piltance which has been snalched away from
,hem7 We cease 10 admire The arm which
turned back The fierce tide Of baue upon The
Mexican legions, when we see il raised 10 strike
The bread from the hands of The poor widow and
the helpless orphan. The Union says:
We have other cases 81 prescription before u.s.
which have Justly called forth indignant denun-
Citations from the press Of The yicinage. What,
for example, can be viler than the virtual reno.
val OF Mrs. Bovard, a most eslimable lady, who
was appointed by Mr.. Polk TO The post office Of
Vienna. Rush county, Indiana When in l547
Mr.. Milcnell, rabid Wing, resigned The office,
,hs ciiz.ns Of the village asked and obtained The
appointment Tor Mr.. Crawford, with the UNDER
standing that The proceeds were to go TO TIE sup.
Dor, OF the widow Bovard. She faithfully "dis-
charged It's duties and reaped the beneils"-(S20
a yearly Everything (says the Jack>ouian)
went on smoothly, until lew days ago the good
people OF that village and vicinity were aston
ished and surprized by the removal of Mrs Be-
ward, and the appointment Of Samuel Duibin.-
No petition, we hear, had been carried round,
no notice was given, until the bloody.axe OF Filz
Warren descended upon the head Of this poor
woman. The men who could be guilty OF su h
tisofaceful conduct deserve the reproach and
scoin cf free and just PEOPLE. A remons!rance
demanding the restoration OF Mrs. Bovard was
Immediately gotten up by the Wings and signed
by about ~ or SO OF their party, the most 81
them leading men. Her grandfather
had fought under Washington throughout the
whole revolutionary war-at Brandywne, Ger
mantown. and all the principal baule,; and her
father voted the Democratic ticket. This vas
enough Tor Fi,Z Warren to know"
The public Indignation b!sz.d out SO isrcely,
we are informed in a postscript 10 the jack
sonian, that mir. DuIbn was finally compelled
TO offer 10 restore the Office tc Mrs. Boyard." We
are vet TO know whether il has been given back
10 the widow.
But this proscriplive administration, in The ex.
excise Ut its patronage, dissalishes its own
friends. The following i. case in point:
From the Detroit Free Press.
TO MY FRIENDS IN THE WIG RANKS
wish 10 give you brief statement of my life. was
born l79 and was 81 years Of age In the spring oil
1874 in the time Of the last war with Great Britain
Men were wanted ut that time, and volunteered ior
a six months campaign, which l served through
thick and thin, In defence Of my countfy-which !
deemed it my duty to do, for my father and grand
Wings then, and always remained Whies up 10 the
Tins of their deaths. was born Whie' ana nave
been Wing up 10 this time-haye always laborea IN
the Wing ranks and never asked Tor Anything as long
who thought stood more in need than myself. But
at this time being advanced In years and bound down
b. inbrmitiss and my wife also, thought my duty
10 apply for situation as keeper OF light.house 10
help me in my old age. But no, could not have II,
for there was young man. stronger, and able to blow
the trumpet louder than myself.
Therefore my fellow Wings who have been laborng
hand In hand with In the Wing ranks-and In good
faith believing to be tho right side oil the question:
wsh YOU 10 pause and examine the injustice and Inc
quality OF this appointment The young man appoint
ed 10 captain OF boat, and able to make more n ,lree
months than can make 10 year, VI he would leave
off his vicious habits.
lf moor honest md needy men can get nothing, what
need have we to spend what little mu and money We
have for the success of the Wing cause
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