Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-04-30

CAMFDELL e.
At the close of the Polls, on SATURDAY.. the vote |
in Lynchburg stood as follows
CONGRESS.
Thomas S. Bocock D.) ............ 2OS
Irving's majority ............... 169
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
John Wills (W.) ..... $50
Bowling Clark (W.) ............... 273
James Irvine (W.) -..... 273
APPOMATTON.
We learn that Bococks majority on the I'd
day 235-in 1S47 it was AT.
MIR. Flood (D.) is elected 10 the House Of Del
egates.
PRESCRIPTION.
The Democratic journals and their correspon-
dents do such violence to all the recoections of
the past twenty years in their statements about
proscr pon, that one is lost in astonShment at
the cool effrontery with which they falsfy hiso
ry They really seem to labor under the i'm
preston that, not only does there not exist a file
of newspaper in the country, but that the actors
in the busy scenes of the last twenty years had,
by some mysterious and affective dspenSation,
been deprived their memory. Locofoism has
never yet attempted more impudent denial of
paipable, recorded facts, striven harder to de-
ceive and mystify the public.
There are assertions monstrousv falSe-So
Impudent-So repugnant to all preconceived no.
tons and popular beIief-that one knows not how
to combat them. Thus, a correspondent of the
| Union asserts:
General Jackson made but very few removals in
Washington. Mr.. Van Buren, made fewer still and
was denounced by deleg ZION after Delegation from the
States Of The Union FIR his ant-proscrpive ley And
then Cen Harrison, who elected to .'proscribe pro-
Scrpon" came in and. in less than month, turned
out more democrats for opinion sake than had been re-
moved by Mr.. Van Buren, in four years Gen Harrison
died and Mr. Tyler The Vice President who succeed
ed him. was crushed by the party which elected him
the anti pruscnptive whg paryfor his ti-proscript-
i've policy. Mr.. Polk then succeeded the chief mag
isacy and while he made some removals. he was fire.
querty censured by democrats for his generosity to p
| zeal opponents"
paragraph, beginning with the assertion that
''Gen. Jackson made but very few removals in
Washington, might we'll induce the suspicion
that it was intended as a pleasantly. In the
reign of terror there were many in Paris who
thought the guillotine worked too slowly and
that the ''aristocrats' could not be exterminated
fast enough by such machine. We do not
know what the writer means by ''few' is a
relative term-but we well recollect that the
number of removals, many Of them made at the
dlctatlon of jacobin club organised In Washing
ton, excited disgust and astonishment throughout
the land. The facts could not be denied then.-
The extent Of the prescription was not only con-
feSsed, but gloried in, by the Telegraph and 9TH
er Democratic papers; the system Of rewarding
Partzans and Furnishing opponents, zealously de-
Tended: and the opinion expressed, that the gull
lotlne did not work fast enough. The extracts
we gave, in our last from successive organs Of
Democratic Administrations, abundantly prove
/ t,of 4alI a.
an article Of faith by the party If it was not
carried out to the fullest eXtent-if every Wing
was not turned out of oiiice-it was owing to no
doubt Of the right, but TO the questionable expe-
dlency Of its indiscriminate exercise. Democrats,
in some few cases, interceded-in others. long
training had induced familiarity with the duties
of the office, which could not be dispensed with
by those in charge of bureaux and departments.
themselves raw and ignorant Of the routine Of
public business-in other cases, the mere num-
Der of applicants and the difficulty of selection
retained the incumbent We may safely leave
the assertion to the memory Of every one-no
matter of what party-who has a contemporary
knowledge Of the advent Of Jacksonism, or who
has glanced at the Journals of that period.
Bat the writer, to whom we have reference,
saves us all trouble in proving what we have as
serted, that prescription was an article Of Dem
delegation demonstrated with Messrs. Van Bu-
rem and Polk, for their 'anti-proscriptve policy"
and censured the latter for his generosity to
political opponents''-thus admitting what we
have charged. Mr.. Van Buren,, succeeding Gen.
Jacksons eight years of ''reform, did not find
much Wing material left to work upon-but even
he removed good many subordinate clerks
If Mr.. Polk was charged by the Democracy with
aught that Savored of generosity to political op-
ponents," the accusation, to do him Justice, we
must say was utterly without foundation No
man was ever less obnoxious to such an aspersion
lie stands acquitted of it by every one who
knows his nature or his practice. The vindic-
tiveness Of narrow, cold and selfish spirit found
qualification in the discharge of what he fancied
his stern duty as the President Of a party. Mr..
Folks generosity TO political opponents !-
Who can accuse him of such weakness Who
can, with truth say that he ever appointed any
but Democrats to office Let us bring this to
the test-Virglnia is supposed to be less tolerant
of prescription than any other State and it might
be supposed that the Government would respect,
in degree, this infrmity, and that here there
might be found, occasionally, Wing in Office
Is such the fact Is there United States Judge,
Marshall Attorney, Collector or Naval Officer,
in Virginia, who is Wing Is there Wing
Postmaster Of an office worth having We are
told the Postmaster Of Alexandria is Wing
but Alexandria has been but two years part of
Virginia, and there were certain potent influences
which shielded Mr. Bryant, if, indeed he be
now a Wing We know Wing Postmasters at
country CROSSROADS and in retired villages, where