Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-03-02

lHulUOTllY TOT u bldltfutiI-HhG Nv touEAC
CATION of ofice-hunters now at Washington
Tho democratic correspondent of the Balti-
more Sun says
Crowds of office seekers are now at every
hotel in Washington. General Pierce wisely
refuses TO see any of them. | hardly know
whom TO pity most-thos in Office who may
he made aware ofthe uncertainty of tenure, or
those expecting Office, about to realize the un
certainty of political pursuits"
The New York Herald says
a. Washington is reported To be Overlooking
with office seekers aud politicians. Our cor
respondents report that nothing was ever be-
fore known to equal the multitndes of anxious
faces that confront the pedestrian at every turn.
Even the Oldest inhaliiant has been startled
from his propriety, and the office holders, of
every grade, are already packed up and pre-
pairing to emigrate.'
A correspondent of the Richmond Enqui-
FER says: 'the streets are thronged with them,
in such a manner as 10 form a perfect block
ade."
And a correspondent OF the Southside Dem
ocrat, all of the same party, says:
They are still pouring in upon us. Hun
dreds arrive daily 10 participate in the division
of The spolls. Ii makes me sick at heart to wit
ness the eagerness with which men, apps
rently in every way qualified to earn much
more than a livelihood IN the pursuit of indie.
pendent business. rush to clutch place under
the government. as though under the impress
sion that il they fail TO fasten themselves on the
treasury of the United States, they and theirs
are doomed 10 starvation. Among them per-
celve the faces of all the veteran politicians of
the party; the political wire workers by trade.
who, Tor many years past, have undertaken TO
shuttle and cut the cards at home, In every
State in the Union. and in Washington on such
an occasion. They are we'll nigh all known
to me personally-many of them having been
III Congress within the last twenty or twenty
five years. | suppose that at this moment there
are quite 100 ex democratic members Of Con
gress in Washington, all of whom have come
hither eiI her to beg offices for themselves or 9TH
ers. Toey are a band of harpies, who ire
drawn together only by the smell Of the prey
which they have scented from afar off"
Gould any thing be more disgusting and
sickening than such a spectacle Could any
thing more clearly demonstrate the selfish and
sordid motives that actnated The leaders Of the
~locofoco party, in their unptincipled effort to
displace the wing party from power, than the
scenes now transporting at Washington Ev-
cry years experience vindicates more conclu-
siyely The truth of Mr.. Calhoun's judgment on
the party, when he declared that they were
'bound together by the cohesive power of
public plumber" To them We owe the inven-
lion ofthe proscriptive system! To them the
rohber maxim "to the victor belong the spoils!'
To them the Illuminating sight Of thousands of
gaunt and whining shapes, DIGGING the heels
of the President elect-and proving around
the official shambles at Washington, like jack
ais gathered arounda carcassl Is there no re.
lief from a condition of things SO disgraceful
and dangerous to the country Not only is
the American name IN peril of being dishonor
ed-but our institutions will become the laugh.
ing. stock of the world-and our elective sys.
tenn degenerate, from a high contest of princi
pies, into a contemplate scramble for plumber
and spoils. All incentive to patriotic excrtions
will he palsied by an insane greed for office.
and public virtue will cease to exist. The peo.
pie, while yet the power of correction is in
their hands, should apply the remedy, by with
dra awning their Confidence from a party, the on
ly object of whose leaders is to live on the
plumber of the country.
Mr.. Underwood of Kentucky lately made a
common.sense and conclusive reply to the
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