Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-12-11
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II has been reserved for the Legislature of Viz
pinia to carry into effect on the basement officers
of the Capitol. the petty doctrine that "to the
victors belong the spois,'' and we are accordingly
called upon to note the eiectment ftom Office of
James Brown. second Auditor, and William H.
Richardson, Secretary of State. Zach of these
tried public servants, has for a number of years
past sled creditably 10 themselves and proftably
to the State the respective Offices from which they
have lust been ousted. Year after year the DEM
Ccratic Legislatures of Virginia have reelected
them, without opposition even, TO these offices; and
no onehss, so far as we are informed, intimated
even that they had failed to perform to the letter,
the duties incumbent upon them. Few who have
been 10 Richmond, will fail to remember the gem
tIemanly and pleasant conduct Of Gen. Richard
SON, rs Librarian of the Commonwealth and no
one who has had any transactions with the Second
Auditors department. will fail to recall with
pleasure the prompt and courteous action of Jas.
Brown We had supposed, that if it could be,
that Wing could hold Office in Virginia, that
theyof allOtherS. endorsed and re-endorsed, and
they have been by consecutive Democratic Legs
Iatures, would have been suffered to remain in
the dischaEge of thoSs duties, which have almost
become part OF themselves, so long and so faith
luuy u1NG IICy uloSHutBC2 hHGuA auu AhSAA OuAy"
But the ''noyum oGganum'' has decreed otherwise;
and 1t Is, we presume. necessary to the harmony
and perpetuity of JOseph's reign that he should
have none but the edged in the wool' about him
10 aid him in his "hgher law" councils. Against
their successors we have nothing to say. Colonel
Munford is fayoIabIY known in every portion of
the State, haslong acted clerk of the House of
Delegates Of Virginia, station which he has filed
to the satisfaction OF every one; and we hesitate
not to say that better qualified and more efficient
Democrat could not have been found for the post
10 which hehAI been elected, and we cannot but
express our regrets that Col. Munford should have
lent himself to this miserable work of prescription.
Mr.. Jackson IS young man of good parts, gen.
tlemanly bearing. and may, with time and expert
ence, FILL creditably the position assigned him. He
-,eaLnrt be better officer than Mr.. Brown. We
Learn that both the aged east-ofs are poor. AT
Ter spending the lest years of their life in the ser
vice of the State, at a compensation barely sufh-
cient to enable them to enjoy the common COM
forts Of life they cast forth to make their
living by nther means, TO re-embark as it were on
LIES ocean, and to re6t themselves for encounter
ing its storms and adversities. Verify, we may
say, varying but little the words of WoolSey, chad
they but served themselves with half the zeal they
served the State; they would not now in their old
age have been left naked to their enemies" Ro-
t1tion in office will not serve. an excuse even,
IN this case; unless it be defined as in Colonel
Munford's case, a ''reRlOUdl from Office 70 Office"
If the precedent here set to be taken as index of
the Democratic Federal Administration. truly
there will be clean sweep; as few public Off
Gers can be found more pure, less partisan. and
more efficient than lanes Bhown and VIM H
Richardson. The next step We presume, will be
TO Increase tie.salary of the new Iincumbents, as
was done for Attorney Gen. BOcock.