Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-05-26
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THE PunIc BUsINgss--The Washington
correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commerce, whose sympalhies are all with The
administration says in late letter to that pa
per:
The Cabinet arc every day in long and
solemn conclavo abont some two penny APP
pointmenf. 10 the exclusion of much aud ell
other urgent business. No one here WhO mar
hore inp0rfanf business 7rHh Tie G0relRment
can gel q moments attention 10 IL; and Nc
reason gicea for Me di6muHy IS that tie appR
Giants for office % daag rounds 10 cdch memlbcr
ofHe Cabinet Co0ac2; anil in lie Council ne
otbet sat5eet baf these appointments cant be con
sidered. How long this state ofthings il to
continue 10 the great derincnt OF the public
business aud the public interest wecunnot tell. ="
What tale is lhis, lor one of its friends to
tell of the administration anl the party which
placed il in poWer We have long believed
that possession OF the sppiIs was the paramount
object with the locofoco leaders in their strug
ges lor power-bu We had not expected to
hear it coniesse by one Of the party, that the
government, e@psen to preside over and direct
the affairs of this great Republic, was occupy
ing itself with the pallry aad disgusting Office OF
mere partt.oner ofpel.to the neglect and in
jury Of the public interest. WniIe the cam
paign was in progress we were told by loco
faco presses aud speakers that we were in lh
midst OF a national criss-lha; the political SIX,
was thick with portents that our foreign rela
tions We're in the most delicate and threatening
condilon-and that the administration of Mr.
Fillmore and the wing party was unequal tc
the momentous oxigencies into which we hac
fallen. All this we were told,an many were
doubtless led to believe it. What is the prac
iical commentary Of this party. upon the de
clarations and pretensions then made w,
have il in the words of the writer whose Ian
gusge we have quoted. While they were il
thepursuil Of power nothing bat the most enlurg
ed az anxious spirit of patriotism prompted thei
action--so soon as power is obta ned what W
had taken TO be coacern for the public goo,
exhibits itself as only miserable morbid crav
ing for government pap
So far as this gives an insight into the iru
character Of locolocoism, we care nothing 70
it, because we needed n, new light there.
concerns US the least Of ell things to know
that sycophants, parasites and spoismen arr
congres ated in hungry -rds around the sea
of government, begging the crumbs that lal
from the public tables, or fighting over the gar
bage thrown out from the treasury shambles
but as American citizens having some share o
interest IN the common veal we have rgh
TO demand that the officers Of the government
shall not neglect their Legitimate and impor
fant duties, to become Observation-Disclosures
aud aims gvers 10 these political lazaroni
They are placed there Tor other and bette
purposes, and should be made to feel the di Z
nifty and responsibility of their station.
President Pierce had inherited the governmer
as his individual property,in true kingly styl
he might, if he chose, make the rewarding {
fayorltes and the pensioning of paupers III
chief objects and ends Of his administration