Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-20

! and with corn: he departs perfect confidence.
,bat all will be in saf,.. keeping enioYs himself nj
the ,netronoIis. drinks WING with the maghals-
of the land and. after he has spent a gpodly
| sum for a sober country gentleman. returns 10
his family little better satisfied, II his heart ns
right, with the ease, quietne>s, and eonteniihf'''
J of n retired private life. When he gets home
/ instead of finding every thing in order aud III
Mace. he finds the meat-house empty, and the
/ corn crib more than half out the cellar robbed al
/ all It's wine and brandy, the negroes all dfnhh'
the hogs in The field. the horse starving IN thtlr
| stalls and not IA stroke of work done. Q whom
does he lock- To the oyerseer o. whom ne
enooires Does he not hold him accountable!
Certainly When he asks him for the aceonnt
of so much loss and 50 much disorder, suppose
he answers, Il didn't do ii; il was the negroes
90 and ask themi' He Restraints his anger anu
replies calmly. why, sir, did | not employ and
pny YOU To approximations could the negroes
DO all this without yoar knowledge ny
did IL, sir, and you must net sir warn you, ae-
cuse me of stealing your property ~ hefe
are the keys. Mr.. Ovcrseer did you not Keep
them in YOUR possession" "ldont know where
the keys are, sir; go and look for them yonfseh.
Come with me, sir, and will look Tor thfln,
He goes to the corn crib and finds the door WIDE
Open aud after some search finds the lock win
the key init. lying on the ground or huddied III
to the manure heap near by, as fit had been
there for DAYS or weeks Now admitting TINT
iaithless steward was not partakerot the PUN
der;.hat he had himself been drunk, you choose,
YET, what would you do with him. Would You
thrust him further; would You kick hun on
the plantation But, again suppose Jour wlie
and neighbors tell you that he not drunk, but
knew all the time what going on; that they
heard him repeatedly warn Tom and Dick and
Hurry, of your servants, that they were steal
ing; that he knew it; that they must return what
they had taken, or that he would tell their mus
ter aud yet had again and again permitted them
all to take and carry away corn, meat, or wine
much rs they pleased; had gwen them the
KEYS and that when he would threaten them.
they would very Significantly threaten him in
turn and he still would continue, us If under
necessity, to trust and to license them to piliage
and plumber, what would you do IN that ease!-
Would YOU not take him to the nearest magistrate
ona charge of felony, and would not twelve men
ON their oaths be likely to convict him OF grand
larceny Could you hardly punish the poor ne
groes who had followed the example OF the over
seerl
WE'LL sir, are not this President and these Sc
cretaries our oyersecrsl Was not the Treasury
full and fat when they took it in charge Don't
we pay them richly for their care and labour,
work and diligence! All these officers have
named, received about SS0,0OO IN salaries, per
annum Are not the bonds, the books of the of
fees, the checks of the Department., the keys
and locks of our Treasury Were they not
found all lying in the manure, or filth of corrnp-
tom Were the doors not left wide open! Did
not Mr.. Woodbury., in numbers of instances.
particularly in those of Harris " Boyd, the Land
Receivers in Mississippi, write 10 them repeat
cdly, no less than Is times to one Of them in two
ycars that he was 'dcfaulting" that he knew
i--that he would tell ON him. but did not tell
til he was in default some hundreds of thousands,
and resigned recommcndng u successor who
did likewise precise who, when called ON tor
his assets, returned more than 10000 acres Of
the Governments own lands to pay its own debt
with-did he not threaten Spencer of Fort
Wayne, that he would remove him, and did not
senator Hendricks threaten back-"Better let 1t
be land did he not "let it br!' Has be not
permitted the bases considerations 10 be address
sed to him fol- keeping in Government pay and
office, notorious deiaulters--such aS that they
were '.pillars Of dcmocracy!" Has he ever re
moved one of them! Has Mr. Van Buren, re-
moved HIM Ought these oycrscers 10 be prose
cuted for felony! Is the presumption violent that
they are partccps crmns! Ought they to be
longer trusted in place, though they be- not pros
ecued and convicted of grand larceny! Judge,
gentlemen. rs you would if it was your own mi
yate purse, and your own private case Iopfo-
coed
Did Mr. Clay vote for the Tariff System
Yes, gentemon, he always went for that policy,
which ever opposed by the Northern States,
|
l5;}2 aud which was ever sustained by the great
middle aud Western States. y policy which or
iginatrd among the Democrats who sustained the
War against Great Britain and which had, what
ever may be said to the contrary, Tor Its tounda-
ton an habiua opposition to British influence
| however mistaken in it, effects ii may haye hreI
upon American prosperity. He and Mr. Cal
houn were ut first the great competitors with tho
! War Party for the honor and the interest al
founding the great American system, as II ha'
been called. \ Democrat, then, WAS for every
thing American, and these two were the leading
Democrats. But the system was inimical to tn
section of the South, and at time and in form
whenit was most pcrncous in its effects to Il,
and our interests. the present Democratic Cine
Magistrate, Martin Van Buren, voted for that hi
which has above all others been styled ''9hc 81
Of Termination" woolcns bill in lS27, io
which Mr.. Clay did not vote; he being then Sc
crctary of State Besides, if he is 10 be held re
sponsible too that bill, being part of Mr.. Adam,
administration so for the like reason is Mr.. Im
Buren,, WHO was "Iua rna pars of General Jack
sons administration, to be held responsible ion
the Proc amation and that Bloody Force Bill
which proposed to execute the Tariff Laws hN
executing the CaihounS and Haynes and llam
tons of the South, as traitors and malefae.ers
upon the gallows And, il Mr. Clay is 10 b.
condemned by rs the Father Of the American
System, he is entitled at least TO the merit OF Il
tonement in his character of THE GREAT pAcIF
IcAToR, and in the patriotism with which he cf
focted the signal Compromise of 1872. With thai
Compromise all onr strife was appeased, and II i,
an act Of which Mr. Clay is prouder than Of any
other act of his public life. lie clings 10 that
act with the fondness of father for his child
and he has often declared that i'll every eharac
ter of Citizen. Senator. or President, before IT.
limitation expires and after, he shall adhere to the