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

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that whenever this bargain is mad,
that propositions should be received
from any and all practical printers tc
do the mechanical work, and the Gov.
ernment furnish tho paper. / ask, and
| hope some gentleman will tell me
why Donelson & Armstrong are tc
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?
y Voice. Why Should they no,
have it!
Mr.. Vcnablc. Why should they
have it! They have no claims upon
inc that know Of They have held
me up i'll common with those with
those with whom have acted as
Southern fanatics cooperating Will
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 eau
never create claim upon the con.
tidcncc OF those WHO received their
dcnunrations. What claims have
they more than any other printers!
What more than Blair & Rivcs-murc
than Boyd Hamilton, already cx-
ccuting IL rliinous contract, struggling
with the cinharrassmcnts arising out OF
that contract, and claiming this printing
at our hands! 1t Isl y job of practical
printing, and practical printing alone;
but Boyd Han,iltonis 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 Doilclson Il Armstrong
originate.
Mr.. Speaker, have spoken plainly,
because think plainness 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 linc Republican State Rights
Democracy was, 50 far as | was con
rcIncd, fierce, but impotcnt. But the
memory of events is not SO easily
oblitcratcd. believe that VIC are
deeply responsible for the disscm-
ination of unsoumd 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 dctorn,ity of the vice. |
confess that my spirit clnttd when
| saw i'll apaper purporting to lie the
organ of the party to which, from my
youth up, had belonged, de-
mlnciations on those, the gruuancn of
whose offence was, that they concurrcd
with Jefferson and the Republican
tathcrs-that they adhered to the
ancient Republican landmarks, and
vcncratcd almost to idolatrv the Con.
stitution. The selection tt' tl!c ed
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vorites of this body is iiiiic iiii exclusion
OF all others-tllc extinction of any
chance Of competitions; selection
which, to he 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.
mlttcd to the ordinary competition
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 m-
repealed, and that our present printer
at least have Il chance to rccupcratc
from the effects Ola bad contract, by
a chance for a better one.