Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-10-14
RICHM OND WING.
To CORRESPONDENT.
What They Approve.

The Democrats in Virginia and in all the other States
have declared In their several platforms that they ap
prove and endorse 'he Administration of JAMES Brc-
nsAs" To learn what their sentiments arc therefore
contemporary observes it is only necessary to con
slider what that Administration has been.
They approve then il seems the sale of the Fort Smell
hing Reservation, worth 100000 through unfit agents
TO political parzans without notice secretly and illegal
~. They approve the purchase of wlletts Point by
the same Secretary through political parzans 5000
oo which only few weeks before he had refused at
100000 too extavsgant price under all the strange
circumstances detailed in Haskins Report They ap
prove all the corruption and abuses exposed in the con
duct Of the Superintendent of Public Printing and in
the Navy Department the brokerage of political nhu
10 secure contracts the scandaous partition of
patronage in the Brooklyn Navy Yard among New York
members of Congress, known allowed and enforced bv
She Secretary OF the Navy the live oak contracts the
contracts for machinery the purchase of coa-al made
fund to be distributed by political influence Iirrcspcc
tive Of the public interest the Patterson letter and IL,
endorsement by the President; the commissions ao
Of the pro6tsby Government contractors to agents
influential in getting them; the converting of Nav,
Yards into reservoirs of voters control doubtful dis,
tricts; the swindlng Utah Army contracts and Mule
Sales &C., &c. All these they approve for these have
been part and parcel of Mr.. Buchanans administration
people and it because desire bring the authors
nf them TO punishment that could not and would not
under any circumstances for Democrat for Speak
or OF the House OF Representatives And tbes.
before reced acts of fraud and villainy on the N
Of the present Administration and its agents are SOM,
of those which the last Democratic Congress refused 10
Investigate, and which the Congress If Democrat
Il elected Speaker VIII also refuse order an nvesca
ton into il should be ordered would be sham
affair altogether designed to and hide from
the public the real parcipators in these ouraces We
hope the outrageous acts have designated and the
OF the last Democratic Congress in relation 10
them, will constitute sufficient to the questions
propounded to by neighbor of the IdSr in his
Tuesdays issue.
The Democrats have stolen and are still stealing the
public money, by the million. Let first drive these
thieves from the temple and attend other less impor
FAINT matter afterwards. And enable us to do So the
election Of Opposition Speaker indispensable Ard
therefore, in favor of the election of an Oppo,
uon Speaker, though the Office should have 10 he
ned by 'the very blacklist of the Black Republican,
II there be anything practical in connexon with tie
slavery issue likely before the next House Of
Representatives will the Examiner or IIeT or LYNCH
burg RepU6iiedn tell what it is II there be nothing
OF the kind, why may not Wing or a Republican make
a. good, If not better Speaker than Democrat
bdn BANKS make an excellent Speaker, in more
troubOus and exciting times than the present Did the
south sustain any injury from his occupancy of the
Speakers Ghair' If so, why did nearly all the south,rn
Democratic members for a resolution compliment
~ to his ability and mpartalty in the discharge of
duties of his office
Now, as nothing practical in connexion with the sla
very question, will come before the House why r
prehend any danger Southern rights or interests from
the election of Republican Speaker? We hone
that totally disregarding the hypOoritca waings and
howngs of the Democratic press every Southern mem.
Der viii vote for some Opposition member or other for
Speaker in preference any Democrat whatever