Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-16

1 ional enppcIps 81 Mir. " i-r thai Inc tHits''
harrn-sment which wc feel ia editing his yoiam-
nous papers is in making selections. We eau
not Law inside his brilliant eff RI the ruhleet oi
| the defalcaiious. from which we quoted largely
/ last week, without presenting n few more OK,
i tracts ..of the same SORT" His denuncnion OF
the Secretary Of the Treasury. afterwards Judge
/ Woodbury. of the Supreme Court, appointed Dy
! Mr. Polk, and always n burning aud shining
| light in the Democratic party. pcrYades the en-
! tire document before Us Referring Ia the de-
| fauIier Boyd. who the Secretary ''permltted to
resign" aud ''to stru, off with h- hands tall
| the fearless Tribune of the People thus
| spoke:
"Snch is his fate compared with that Of Tobias
Watkins. TO whom | would beseo ch you again
! to 20 and buy soap TO clean yourselves! lhr.'
are the crying abuses, sir, the fragrant enornl-
ties the damnable outrages upon the Puhllc lhte-
rests and morals. upon my patience, when h"Ve
so reused my spirit oftimes as to afford yoa ana
your party grounds for representing me 10 be mad
Yes, sir, and appeal TO every honest inn II such
monstrous abuses are not enough To MAKE lie
blood bol-to frenzy! Would pure Secretary
ever have allowed Garesche to address him as he
did Woodbury. Did not Garesche know that
Woodbury. was himself corrupt, would he
subordinate, have dared to address 10 him such
reasons for retaining in public trust such tath-
less yilainl Would II Crawford, or even a Rush,
have been thus Addressed Would pure Pres
idcnt retain such Secretary, who could unbiush-
ngy report such appeals to has dishonesty III an
official communication
"Whv should not such Secretary he inn
peached! lmpeach him, and | will z" before
thut humble and disarned Senate aud convict
him out of his owl mouth and th" mouths al III.
own minions. | will call no other witnesses.
will dare the Constitutional judges to aequt
hm-overawcd as they are by an arrogant Exec.
utive, they might acqut him in the face OF these
facts, and in the face of the People, II they 'hre
To he would
Woodbury. was astonshed, astounded by It az
falcation; yet there fifty cases ot like char
actcr with these of Linn, Harris, and Boyd"
Now would enquire en- pdSsant, II Lew
Woodbury. was the corrupt scoundrel Mr.. Wise
pronounced him to be- whether he was the right
sort of a man to occupy seat on the bench OF
the Supreme Court Where was Henry \.
Wise when Mr. Polk appointed Woodbury. 10
that exalted station! VIII il be believed that he
was sustaining the Administration OF james Il.
Polk, and endorsed, de tdcto, the appointment OF
Woodbury.. At any rate, we never heard OF his
threatening an impeachment Of the 'corrnpi Sc
cretary" after he clothed in the iudclai
! robes.
Another thng worthy Of remark in this para
! graph is, that Mr.. Polk and his party had once
good grounds for representing Mr.. Wise "to be
mad fierce aud bitter were his assaults upon
Mr.. Polk and his party. And yet he afterwards
supported Mr.. Polk, undi even HOW at the head
/
against his former friends. \ beautiful specimen
of consistency truly
But Mr.. Wise is not yet through with Secretn-
ny Woodbury.. Sir" said he to Mr.. Polk
IF party spirit like iend, did not befrirnd
and sustain this Secretary-pal do" and whiie-
wash his hidcOus drioImities and delmqucncles
blight all moral sensibity here in his Hall and
at the White house, he would be removed from
office instantly, or be impeached. Go where YOU
will-trace HIM any where, and you will find hIm
dull, stupid. incompetent, neglc cttnl, talthfeSs,
and corrupt. mince 40 termS-fcar no rcspoll.
sibilitits. If he had the scnsibilities of man.
he would demand trial. Give me an honest
jury and will upon these papers, convict him
If the concluding portion OF this long and in
teresting speech Mr.. Wise speaks IN the follow
ing complimentary terms of the Admin stlRtlon
This Is but an cpitomc of the history Of yoor
outrnges upon the morals, the law, and liberty OF
II still glorious country, which you ARE degrading
to the bondage OF "A money polctr, which YOU pro-
fess To abhor-a country which you are running
ny absolute Erecutire, which you do profess
to worship fthc Fathers of the country could
now rise from their tomb+ and enter this their
Tenn which should he called of all nations
of the house of Liberty-what would they say
What snid to the money changers in the
Temple of Jerusaem-'But ne hare made IL Il
den Of hieresn And. sill what think You would
your chief priests and scr bes say, even to them!
What they have said to me by what authority
doest thou these thingsl' But, sir, cannot say
of your priests and scrbes rs is said in Holy
Writ of the Jewish They feared The peoPte .
Ne, sir, your arrogance has surpassed all iear,
all bounds of caution If the People do not soon
make you fear them, you will be past the remedy
of reform by their power
But this speech from which we have hitherto
been selecting WAS not the only speech delivered
by Mr.. Wise i'll regard to the detalcutions. On
Friday, December the 2Sth, he offered motion
in the House of Representatives.. 10 print 10000
copies of certain documents in relation to the de
taulters. which gave rise to spicy debate. In
that debate MIR. Wise participated, Of course; let
Us see what he had to say We gather, thcn,
from the following paragraph that the present
leader of the Democratic purty in Virginia, at
one time considered the Wig party, Tar more
honest than the Democracy:
| The gentleman from Mary land says that Ia
party in particular is to blame for these dethlea-
tons, because defalcations have happened under
all parties Will the gentleman be - good n To
tell us what party was 10 blame in the case of tie
receiver, Linnl That man was guilty of mai
vcrsation; the Secretary knew it, and threatened
him. then renominatcd him for a new appoint
ment. He confirmed; and again proving
in default was warned again, and agan, and
| gam, and, after all, continued in office till he
finally fell into the slough Of dedication. Was
no party 10 blame for this Or is il the villain
Gus Wings that to blame for thus rewardng
public drpredator! The gentleman, however,
says that some defuulter- have been Wings and
| some Iocofocos they have been men of all par
ties. | answer, not under this admin stratiun.-
! | ask the gentleman to point out ONE. 1t has
been said that Swarwout was IA Conservative
! lie that as 1t may, he one of the very great
! est of all General Jacksons favortes--hc was
| his open. active, camorous advocatc-and did
! more to effect his election to thu Presidency than