Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-04-18

im1S Mort o. aDoofuto treason 70 tne oosern
lmsas.
But-those few things that We have published
are bat ~ sands upon the ssashore. They exhi
bit small portion only Of the fraud in but sin
gle Department Of the Govcrnment-thc Navy
Er mao disco ommes. If ell tho affairs Of the Ma
w were overhauled, we doubt not the same vein
Of corruption would be found running through
Everything and scenting the air with an ''insufe-
rable stencil" Of rottenness. If we were to go
into the other Dspartments-the War, the Post
Office. the Treasury, the Interior-we should find
no improvement. Tho Government seems to be
regarded by the political vampires who flock
around Washington City, as thing to be plum
dercd and pillaged. not covertly and by indrec-
ton, but 10 the broad, open sunlight Of day. and
without even an afectation Of disguise. No fraud
is too glaring-no villainy too conspicuous-for
the rapacous appetite of these political harpics.
And yet when We see the expenditures Of tho
Government increase thirty or forty millions an
nually. within very fcw years, there arc persons
who affect to believe that it is fairly done! There
are those who deny prohgacy and corruption in
the Government, notwithstanding the palpable
fact that the enormous expenditures Of the Treas
ton
No nation can long exist-much less prosper
and Hoursh--whcn the high plnces of the Gov
eminent are filed with men who are personally
dishonest and corrupt. This is question which
far transcends and oycrrdes in Importance every
other issue before the American people, or all of
them combined. Perish the Slavery question:
perish the Tnriif-pcrish Cuba-persh everything
else, until this colossal evil is corrected 1t has
been little two years only, since the present
Administration went into power--andyet in that
time. it has contrvcd to bring more disgrace upon
the fair fame OF the American people for honesty
and integrity, than had been before accumulated
in the sixty-iour years of our Constitutional his.
tory which preceded it. When both public aud
private virtue sappcd and undermined-w
u system Of political morals is nculcated. in COM
parison with which the code Of den of thieves
is the perfection of honor and usticc--it requires
no prophet to foretell tho result. When " from
the hghnays and byeays Of the Government tie
roftenness Of corruption IS daHy sendi"g forth an
insuberaJie STENCIL" we may well write ".iac'iis
descensus Arc,m" upon the charter Of our Const
tutional liberties But for every wrong, there is
American people in this instance is easy Of en-
ployment. As our Savior expelled, with disgrace
and ignominy, the moncy-chnngcrs who dcscera
ted tho temple, SO lot the people of the country
rise in their majesty, and consign tho whole pirat
ica crew who now punderng the ship of
State, to an untahomablc abyss Of nfamy.
That able and emnently conservative Journal
the Philadelphia North .imcricm. dcprecatcs II
sectional contcs, for the next Prcsidcncy, aud de-
clares it would feel b", ..,tc pleasure in mere
~ sectional tru.,",,.' 1t says
Natural causes, the laws OF political economy
are working out tho problem OF slavery. Why
then should it continue to m,nge in tho pollhcsot
the country? Why should this question and
disturb the public rcpose. and divide this Union
into hostile camps, as IT were. and build mp what
wins much feared and deprecated by the fnn-
dcrs Of the republic, geographical parties. Mustall
other questions he postponed to thsi
Is the foreign and domestic policy Of the govern
Iment to DO ignored, and our Presidential elections
to he decided with sole reference to tho popular
sentiment respecting slavery
| We trust not. We desire to behold the OPP
position contonding for the supremacy If such
principles of administration. and such News of
public policy as will make their banner welcome
in every State, from New England to the Rio
Grande. We drprecate sectional contest. and
should have but l,ulc pleasure in merely sec
tional triumph.
Such, we believe to be the views of a largo ma
jority of the intelligent thinking portion Of the
people of the free States. But these views find
as little favor with the Republican aspirants at
the North rs they do with the Democratic leaders
of the South whose vocation would be gone were
slavery agitation to cease. They do no; intend
that it ever shall cease if they by any means
keep it going
The Washington correspondent Of New York
paper says.-"The inct is notorious in Washington
that various members of both Houses who came
here few years ago in needy circumstances have
suddenly acquired large fortunes. just it is the
subject of remark that not n few maintain cxtrav.
agant establishments during the sessions, which
cannot be supported by any visible means ofthose
owning them 1t is constantly asked whore does
the money come FROM
Hon. WILLIAM BALLARD Preston has taken the
field. lie delivered speech at Christiansburg
last Monday, said to be of the greatest speech
es of his life. FLoURNoY has also entered into the
contest and, with STUART, and SUMMERS, and
BORIS, will strike many a telling blow in the fight.
The distinguished champions of our cause all over
the State IRE bucklns on their armor Stall not
we-the rank and flc--be "np and doing?" We
call upon our friends everywhere to organize and
prepare for the conflict.
l.. L. D.-The New York Evening Post in an
iarticle ON the fondness Of Americans for titles,
translates the above familiar abbreviation thus ::
doctor OF Learning and Laws" This is u mis-
take. It mems simnly "lerum nnctnrn-ihat Is