Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-07-23

@s. We find the following extraordinary arti-
Gle in the Republican, of Thursday. Really our
neighbors should keep cool. Such excitement,
when the Cholera is impending, is dangerously
predisposing to the disease. 1t is apparent that
they conscentously believe all offices, State and
National. to be the property of the Democrats,
and that for Wing to enjoy one is papable in
vasion of their chartered and prescriptive rights.
We are assured that the Democrats have been
cheated out of nearly every office in the State.
and are now being "roJbed of nearly every one
under the federal government" Cheated and
| robbed are terms which imply lawful title. 1t is
clear therefore, that the Republican believes the
Wings are DISTINGUISHED race-a degraded caste
and that, for one of the party to be in the pub
lie service is an outrage upon. the plainest prin-
cples of right and justice. The Wings in office
in Virgnia-for the most part placed thereby
Democratic Legislatures and Democratic Cover
nors--are insutingly told that they are Giving
upon Democratic bounty
The idea of waiting the result of the next Pres
identIal struggle is secuted at-a speedier ven
geance is invoked. The Republican, in humble
imitation of Gen. Cass, is striving fto prepare the
heart of the Legislature for sublime act of re-
trlbutlve ustce-viz the election from office of
three Or four Wings in the basement story Of the
Capitol, whose retention has, for years. been the
standing boast, and al-suficient answer of the
party to the charge Of prescription. Prescription,
as to federal offices, has always been the watch
word Of the Democracy of Virginia In no State
has the doctrine been more uncompromisinglv
advanced, and yet, by strange inconsistency,
the very same men have been in the habit of
Boosting of their proscriptive spirit at home,
and referring, with exultation, To- the fact that
Mr. Heath land his brethren in the dank rooms of
the Capitol, constituted the monuments of their
magnanlmlty and forbearance. As party move
their election next winter, would be impolitic.
Twenty ST b, offices conferred upon Democrats,
would net tell as etfectuay spon the people for
the interests of the party as the old story of the,
ant-proscrptive feeling ofthe Democracy of Vir-
gna.
'For ourselves and we dare say express the feel
ngs OF the great of the democratic party of the
State sick and tired of this hypocrisy of the
Wing politicians. The democracy have suffered them
selves to be deceived by their professions of party
and anti prescription long enough-so long that they
have been cheated out of nearly every Office in the
State and are now being robbed of nearly every one
under the federal Government. This state of things
should be stopped regardless of whig regrets For.
Deagance has ceased to be virtue and we must now
realate to the death Those of our friends who have
been hurled from Office IN direct violation of the pledges
upon which the present administration came into pow
err and whose char have been ATTEMPTED to be
oi"|hohou viii IhS cutTSeS Vi uSNOUeSfy ana ancyI
pdciy should be akenu by the democracy and placed
in the shoes of these who have for years been living
upon democratic bounty in this democratic State
What principle requires that democrats should provide
fat offices for Heath, Dimmock and host Of other
wing officers in Virginia, while Nelson McRea, Chris
tanand other faithful democratic officers are driven in
attempted disgrace from the places which they have
filled with fidelity Is there any justice in this p Is it
not indeed endorsement of the outrageous conduct
and foul imputatons of the administration
And yet there are some who are in favor of waiting
to redress wrongs until have an opportunity Of
expellihg theGoths and Vandas from the Government
In $50. Wait for what To let the Wings fill everv
Office in the Union, both State and Federal with whig?
To let faithful democratic officers rest for four wears
under the oulmputations of dishonesty and incapoc
ty with which they branded by the cabinet clique
at Washington The Wings never wait and it is ow-
ing to the fact that the democrats have always been
waiting, that they the wlngs) have taken up the idea
that every Office under the government belongs to them
that they alone have honesty and capacity sufficient
to eli them, and that they may expel democratic ncum.
bents with perfectimpunity."
:REWARDINO EDITORS.
mo administration has rewarded, in our opinion
so many Editors as the existing no-party one and
yet have always heretofore been told by that par
ty that the practice is corrupt and outrageous one