The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-02-24


that whenever this bargain is mad,
that propositions should be lcc. ivcd
from any and all practical printers to
do the mechanical work, and the Gov
ernmcnt furnish the paper. / ask, and
| hope some gentleman will tell me.
why Donelson & Armstrong are to
have this PRINTING! | ask again, and
receive no answer, why are they
selected from all others to do this
work? What peculiar claim have
they?
4 Voice. Why Should they not
have it!
Mr.. Vcnablc. Why should they
have itl They have no claims upon
inc that know Of They have held
me up in common with those with
those with whom ! have acted rs
Southern fanatics cooperating with
Northern Abolitionists They have
denounced US in the strongest terms
which they were capable of using.
They have no claims upon me, and !
wish to let them know it. A course
such as this journal has pursued can
never create claim upon the con
iidcncc Of those who received their
dcnunriations. What claims have
they more than any other printers?
What more than Blair Il Rivrs-morc
than Boyd Hamilton, already cx-
ccuting Il r,linOus contract, struggling
with the clnbarrassmcnts arising out OF
that contract, and claiming this printing
at our hands? 1t is il job of practical
printing, and practical printing alone;
but Boyd Hamilton is no editor, mere
" an humber laborcr at the press.
Then | should like to know-and the
question has not been answered
from whence and how did this
claim Of Dollclson u Armstrong
originate!
Mr.. Speaker, have spoken plainly,
because think plainncss and candor
becoming and proper. ] have, with
out resentment, given expression to
the convictions OF my understanding,
and the feelings Of my heart. mean
to act Independently and without any
conceallncnt of my views. The
time when had feelings of resentment
has passed away. The assault upon
the old lille Republican State Rig ghts
Democracy was, SO far as was con-
rcrncd, fierce, but impotent. But the
memory of events is not so easily
obIitcratcd. | believe that We are
deeply responsible for the disscm-
ination of mso,md opinions--morc so,
indeed, than for criminal acts. The
one is general and extensive evil; the
other limited it its effect, and disarmcd
by tho dciorn,ity of the vice.
confess that my spirit clmtcd when
| saw i'll apaper purportng to be the
organ OF the party to which, from my
youth up, had belonged, de-
nunciations Oh those, the yruuumen of
whose offence was, that they concurrcd
with Jefferson and the Republican
fathers that they adhered to the
ancient Republican landmarks, and
vcncratcd almost to idolatry the Con
stitution. The selection 81 he ed
voritcs of this body is ;hc exclusion
of all others-thc extinction of any
chance of competition; selection
which, to be just. must be founded
upon acknowledged public service
and extraordinary individual capa-
bilities. No evidence of either has
been furnished, and insist that SO cx-
tensIvc and costly an operation be sub
mittcu to the ordinary cOmprti,iou
which the custom OF the country has
made law; that the law requiring the
printing to be let by contract TO
bidders be complied with, for it is I'M
repealed, and that our present printer
at least have Il chance TO rcc,!pcratc
from the effects of bad contract, by
chance for better one.