Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-12-08

SOth ult. III Mr.. Mason Is as successhui
in Keeping his son-in-law Marshal, as~he
was in making him Marshal. we shall be
very much mistaken. The article below
shows the thing in its true light. and we
commend it to the attention of our rea-
=ders.
Is s ~ = For the, Enquirer.
John Amber, Esq, of the county of
FAueuIERs has received the appointment
of q. S. Marshal, for the WESTERN Dis
trict of Virginia. The. compliment paid
the citizens of the Western District, by
this extraordinary and unprecedented Elk
eeutive act, was unexpected and unasked
for by them, and one which they would
respectfully have declined, had their re-
concentrations been considered, or their
wishes consulted. The political sands of
the Secretary of the Interior, under whose
advisement this Executive outrage was
committed on the Western section of the
State, indicate that his end approaches;
and why, on the eve of his retirement
from the department over which he now
presides, Mr.. Stuart should think proper
to administer to the people OF Western
Virginia deliberate and gratuitous insult,
is almost as incomprehensible as the mo-
tives which induced Mr.. Fillmore to place
him in his cabinet
OF MIR. Amber, the gentleman from
Fauquier, on whom this Western Office
has been conferred, the writer of this ar
ticle, in common with the most of his fell
low citizens of the Western District, had
never heard, until his appointment was
announced in the public papers. 1t is
not, therefore, of the man we complain
He may possess intellectual attainments
and native talent, business habits and
moral worth, which would do honor to
and adorn much higher station. But
we complain that Mr.. Amber or any 9th
er gentleman qualified to discharge the
duties of the office of United States Mar
shall, should be transferred from his Qaiet
home in the East, to the ''woods and
wilds'' of Western Virginia If, how
ever, this gentleman actually possesses
such transcendental merit as to justify the
Hon. Secretary of the Interior in inviting
him across the Blue Ridge of mountains,
to accept lucrative and responsible of
fee, the duties of which, in the opinion
of the Honorable Secretary, no one could
be found in the West sufficiently honest,
capable and faithful to discharge. why
did not the good people of Fauquier ap-
preciate his worth and make i: some fit
reward? This, his fellow citizens Of Fau-
quier never did; for had they done so, he
would never have accepted an office
which will compel him to leave the home
of his youth, and locate in the county of
Frederick. Why, then, did the Honora-
II,
in making this appointment, to verify the
scriptural saying, that a prophet is not
1rithom honor, SaVe IN his owa country
Was it that he was following in the foot
prints of the model President, when he
invited the Honorable Secretary to take a
seatin his Cabinet? This may be the solu-
ton, in part, of the problem; forif tradition
speaks the truth, the Honorable Secreta-
ny, at the time Mr.. Fillmore found. him,
and stretched forth a saving hand, was
sinking in the midst of his own people,
beneath the angry waves of an incensed
: GpDulace, where there was no eye to pi-
ty and no arm to save. And when it is
recollected, that opposition to Western
interests and Western rights was the
rock on which the fragile bark of the Ho-
norable Secretary was split, and dashed
to pieces, and that the honorable gentle
man may have had "enemies to punish"
as we'll as friends to reward, we, per:
haps, will have advanced another step in
the solution of our problem. But the
West is unwilling to believe that an am
bition to initiate the example of the Pre-
sident, id rewarding merit unappreciated,
where it was best known, together with a
tN,,,., Il. s0l
wrongs, suffered in his canvass for seat
in the State Convention, was the only
moving cause which operated on the feel
ings of the Secretary, when he inflicted
this wanton and inexcusable indignity on
the honor and pride of Western Virginia,
1t is thought by some, that the honorable
Secretary of the Interior is a violent par
tizan and an ambitious man and that
while his political bias and partizan pre-
JUDGES withheld him from the appoint
ment of Democrat, and, indeed, would
cause him to shrink with instructive hor-
ror from the repulsive idea of such an APP
pointment, his ambition would not be fiat
tered by the rejection of his Wing APP
pointee on the part of Democratic Sc
nate-an event not out of the range of a
plausible probability, when it was consi-
dered that the nomination on his part. OF
Wing partizan to an honorable and lu-
cratiye office, so shortly before, in aecor-
nance with the almost unanimous voice
and omnipotent fat of the people of this
Government, the Executive department
and all its dependencies and out=posts,
was to be handed over to the triumphant
Democray, to be regenerated and Olsen
thralled from the dark era of Galphanism
t And if it be true that the Secretary of the
Interior is ambitious, he may have looked
beyond the confirmation of his office lowing
protege on the part of the Senate, and
I IL. H. L.