Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-05-14
From the Iowa City Reporter.
FITZ HENRY WARREN, sOT IOWA.o

more than justice to Col warren, the new Sc.
cond Assistant Postmaster Genelal, in what he
says OF him in the following paragraph:
Gle is a gentleman Of known abilities; has
sound judgement of men and things is quick and
sure in the execution of business has pleasing
demeanor, and is courteous to all and brings to
his arduous labors mind well stored with useful
information. and thofodghly alive to the interests
of the whole Union"
The people of Iowa need not to be informed
in relation to the notorious character of this man
Warren. The above paragraph, however, has
been going the rounds at the East and it is for
the purpose OF enlightening that darkened por-
ton Of the moral vineyard that we wish to cor.
rect public opinions abroad as to the character of
an individual who has become retainer of the
new administration at Washington, aud pen
sioner upon government.
Fitg Henry Warren came to iowa some two or
three years ago as political missionary under "a
pension from the National Wing Executive Com
mittee at Washington, being poor and having
then and since no visible means Of support, but
always pocket full of rocks, which he freely
used i'll marshalling the whig forces of iowa. He
engaged Immediately and actively in politics and
the wings soon conceded to him the place Of
chairman of the Wing State Central Committee
and at the late presidential election he stumpee
the State as candidate for presidential elector
upon the whig ticlet-he having previously act.
ed behind the scenes as secret travelling ennis
sary, whose scavenger labors were too mean
and cortemptible either to be fathered or reward,
ed openly, even by the Wing PARTY of Iowa.
Even now the more decent portion of them
blush at his appointment and refused to acknow-.
ledge it in Iowa. But to return. The task Ct
sketching the life of political land pirate, having
no settled city Of inhabtation, is about as difcus
as that of describing Paddy's flea. When you
put your finger upon him, he isn't there So
with the subject OF our sketch, although tracea-
bic from the slime which marked his snaky
course, he possessed the skill of always rendering
find him engaged i'll the celebrated t'hog-driv-
ing'' speculation, by which Democrats were de-
prived of their votes by being sent from their
own into other counties day or two prior to
the election, to drive hogs to market. AT another
we hear of him beyond the borders of organized
Iowa, suborning renegade Mormons to march 4.
ct ar,nis to vote the Wing ticket at defenceess
election precincts on our western frontier. Anon
he is in the Mormon camp on the Missouri
armed with the authority of sub-ecclesiastic,
having in his pocket commission from their
then absent high priest, telling the poor, delu-
ded Mormons that in the absence of their spirit.
ual adviser, Che Warren would tell them how
and where to act" in the matter of the election.
No one man in Iowa doubts these things: for
the men who We're sent out to drive the hoca
We're paid for their services, and there were llt
wanting Wings at the time to claim it as ta:..
bona fde business transaction. The armed Nor
mons also, who travelled over hundred mile "a
vote upon our frontier, were paid two dollars I,
day." and although it was generally understood
that the carcasses of one or two of them wer,,
made food for the vult,mes of the air. as rews =.
for their unlawful attempts to extort from tn.
settlers the "soast beef portion of their PER
diem, still that was their look out and that, al
so, was a fair business transaction. The elders
of the Mormon church likewise received TIVE
thousand dollars and printing establishme,
from this deputy high priest, Warren and T.
though their votes We're not counted by the az
thorities of Iowa: they will doubtless be brouel,t
before Wing House ofRepreseatatives, and an
effort will there bemade to use them in depri-
wing a Democrat of his seat in Congress. But
these wereall fair business transactions and tn.
nefarious agent in the whole of them, having
been faithful in few things to the great Whiss..
party, is called as reward for his services to =
place at the capital of the nation to turn ths
main crank Of the Wing guillotine, one of which,
is expected TO cut off more heads than all the
rest combined, to wit: the post of Second Assist
ant Postmaster General
Readers, if you have business with the appoint
ment Office at Washington, yon have only to ell
ltI QUOI3 Cast NUuI eSG dTOullU III III TCStS
upon tall, gaunt figure, with fast-receding
forehead, and an almost total absence of the mo-
raj organs this is the head of the department
If you are an honest man, (asit is presumed you
must be, do not annoy him with steady look
in the eye, but inwardly thank your stars that
he is not in the dead letter; tell him your oppo-
nent, or the incumbent whom YOU wish to super
cede, is an honest man, or Democrat, and our
word for it he will be removed but if you wish
to obtain the office yourself be sure to deny the
first charge which we have directed you to al
lege against your opponent
Such is Henry Fitz Warren, 'tof Iowa !" His
appointment is pretty fair commencement for
a 'no-party administration"
ALL HAIL VIRGINIA THE Democrats of
Virginia have discharged their hole duty to tho
country. AS far as heard FROM the Wings lose
four members of Congress. If the Democrats
GAIN as they have a chance to do, eight moro
members in the Congressional election yet to oc-
cur in Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island Mas
sachusetts, North Carolina, Alabama, MISSISSIPPI
pi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri and
Kentucky and we think they will make an ag-
gragate gain of at least that number the Wings
will be in minority in both branches of Con-
gress, and General Taylor, sef-deprived OF the
veto W i'll be useful only in signing bills passed
by Democratic majorities. We shall not, be at al
surprised, either, if the Democrats gain enough
in he coming elections, to be strong enough in
the House Of Representatives. to carry their mea-
sures against both Whlgs, Free-Soilers, and In
dependents!
These are the conquests, let it not be forgotten,
of the party. that has been declared by the Wings
to be utterly bankrupt and destroyed-tom by
dissensions, and weak, because deprived of pa
tronage. So powerful is this great party at pre-
sent, that if the election for Congress in Pennsyl
vania and other States had vet 10 be held, the
administration Of General TAYLOR would hard
ly have corporals guard to excuse its decep.
tons or tadefendits inconsistencies, in the popu-
lar branch of the National Legislature;
PeansylrGniaa.
A CosrLy WoRx.-A work on the geology
and Natural History o., New, York, authorized BY
the Legislature, has already cost the State foul
hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, and is like
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