Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-06-30
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OReAS-.sa = I hat plain spoken journal, th
South Side Democrat, fa.ors lis readers wit
a treatise ION the improptiefy and inutiiity Q
an administrator organ" expressing man
sentiments which We heartily commend. an,
making an application to the drowsy old con
Germ at Washington known a. the Union, .hcI
may or may not be just. These organs ll'
Democrat informs Us. it ''corJislly de,esfs. -
Its an Importation from the corrupt court
of European despots." and the name is "sug
gesiive of naught but blind scryity, sickenins
sdulaiion and fawning sycophancy." If thu
Democrat had told us. in this connection. iha
we are indebted 10 Andrew Jackson for This
importation. IT'S history as well as its opinion oil
organism would have been Correct
The special duties of an organ the Democrat
thus describes:
The organs province is to defend the ad
minisiralion III every and all lis acts whether
right or wrong--io announce lis appointments
and sedulously puff them. whether they de
serve il or MOTTO Trim the boards aud ply
freely with pomatum the heads of office mold
ers. The organ must never recommend any
thing to he done or suggest the taking a step
that would he a boldncss punishable, for
first offence, with reprimand, for second, with
dismissal. All the comp iments paid Ivy the
press throughout the country In persons whom
the administration have seen fit 10 invest with
robes of office, The organ studionsly clips, col
lects and presents, with their various credits
to It's readers in organic typography. II ne
eessary. the organ is prepared 10 give hearty
70 1a mill pa Ittu
it knows nothing OF The appointec, or what i
does know Is derogatory, being small mat
fer. Sometimes the organ imagines that tn
administration has acted some hat lmprndent
~. and makes hastc To defend that which nobo
dy has attacked or thought of attacking. Fo
this act of indiscretlon. it receives from The pro-
per source a severe curtain lecture, hich il
takes meekly and promises not to do so in iu
ture It's grinders are never presumed tohave
much conscience. nor often troubled " ilh its
ousms As the pockets of the organ expand
lis conscience contracts; and, at the cnd of its
term of service it Is regarded as hardened
Criminal. past reclamation. Our readers may
remember 10 have heard the fable Of the con.
tracts which the celebrated Faust Ia said Ia
have made with the devil. by which the latter
engaged 10 give him wealth. power and TO
no~n, on condition that at the end q. fixed
term of years he should surrender himself up.
body and soul To his satanic majesty. Thus
is II. we much fear, with organs
The Demovofsopiniono Of the Union is com
municated in the following courteous terms
las for The Union newspaper, We have no
idea tha, II Is the organ Of he administration
The hare thought is nauseating. Though for
SIX months past II has been most assiiuous in
performing the varied functions of an organ
has busted itself in defending where there
was no need Of defence, creased and perfum
ed official wigs-in a word has been officiating
as barber in.chief TO all in authorty-yel, we
have good reasons to believe that its whole
work has been and is gratutous and that it is
utterly devoid OF the essential element oil an
organ, viz: the confidence Of those for whom
1t affects to speak"
The former editor Of the Democrat was late
ly an assistant editor of the Union-but los
his place in consequence ola very sensible az,
candid article he wrote upon the Russian
Government-hinc iHoe lochrymo! Will
the organ is thus fired into from gun on tn
Southern wing-a piece of larger cabre open
on it at the other end. The New York Even
ing Post. democratic and free soil paper @
the first class, discharges killing shot Bot
sides ofthe country. and the party are lurnin,
their backs on the Union. VIVA. is to com
oft The Post says:
I'VE remember once 10 have heard famou
wae of this city say, turing The closing yea
ofTyler's Administration, that he felt that hi
country was safe, for, said he. "a Governmeu
that can stand such a President as John Tyle,
can stand any thing We might say with {
quail propriety, that an Administration that ca
stand the kind of support that President Pierre
has been receiving of late from the Union,
equally beyond the reach Of danger"
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