Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-10-20

- Before the late e3ecttou 10 fennsJishhias WIZ
ter In The Philadelphia Press made the following
disclosures: ~ -
.The presidsekin ~ Duqsssns Letter, dsplorej
aud denounced. IL bsfttinH terms. the ''ase OF
money In slecsisns, a aording vns Of the strong
est evidences Of the 'sdegeneracy Of the times. :"
| No doubt he was sincere, and he has only to be
| informed Of what IL now doing In our community
~ Immediately apply The corrective. HE eaaee-
| holders In phiadelphia are now collecting large
sum of money, at least $40 600 from the laborers,
| clerks, and others In the employ OF the Govern
mcn, to be spent, IL is openly avowed, for election
| purposes. The amount 10 assessed indirectly. If
not directly by the heads Of the different depart
mcnts--the Collector, Postmaster Director OF the
Mint. &c. know humble men, getting 1913 per
snpume who are taxed 81, and who are threaten
cd with dismissal IL they do not pay up. VIII Mr..
Buchanan permit this oppression r
We call that last question n very impairment
query. The writer !. e,thcr incontinently green
or excessively impudcnt. "Will Mr.. buchanan
permit" indeed Permit" whom the truth is,
the whole thing is d,ne by tho order. direction,
and advice of the President himself!
We recollcct that Fort Duquosne letter very
we'll A. Old Buck knew that the Administration
about to b. detected in giving fraudulent conl
contracts and lve-oak contracts and contracts for
naval stores, in paymentof money which bad been
advanced in 1856, to carry Pennsylvania for HIM
he thought TO break tho force Of the development
and ward of the blow to some extent. by affecting
u vast amount Of indignation at tho idea Of EN-
ploying money in elections. lie became very sud
denly sensitive about such things. His guilty
conscience made him fearful that the storm would
burst upon him at any moment, without giving
him time to take a single reef in his sail. or NIL
occasions in the world, the celebration ut Fort
Duqucsnc was the most inappropriate and main
propos for letter about employing money in cleo
tions, Tho fact that he wrote such letter, on
such an occasion, is of itself strong prcsumptve
evidence of his own guilt.
The crcumst ,nce reminds us Of another letter
that Old Buck wrote when Mr. Fillmore was Pre-
sident. In that letter he deplored the terrible ex
travagancc of the Wings and predicted that they
would sonn run the expenses of the Government
up to fifty millions year. "unloss checked by the
stoong arm OF the Democracy" But when Buck
himself came to be President, the expenses, in.
stead Of being fifty milonsn year were very near
one hundred. The ".trang arm If the Democracy
wicli"l by Oh Bufk. developed most curious
ard original way d checking. extravagnncc. 1t
illustrated its faith by liz practice with perfect
vengeance. Its promises and performances. we
are bound h, say, did not exactly tally.
AS for the assessments upon office holders, tho
writer nbp,e quoted makes II great ado about it, ny
il he wore entitled to the merit of being an origi-
nal discoscrer! Why, bless his innocent soul =
He il not vet in tho horn-book Of party rascality.
Forncy himself who published his mtlc, we
s,roagly suspect, could enlighteu his torrospon-
dent upon that point to degree TIM, would aston
,>h him more than, perhaps, would havc lcen the
effect # the tale which tho ghost cf the pa,er-
ma, pn,eui ot my l.prd Hamlet said that it couli
untold Does not that innocent lamb Of n cor
respondent know that the rent of their respective
houses is not collected liom the oicc-holdcrs with
grcnt,r ranrtuality thaa the assessment for polit
zeal l0rroscs2 If ho don't lot Lin try tie expo
r!mcu, Of holding an olli,c immediately preceding
nm election.
The f!mgns Baltimore platform, which the De-
mocrncy are accustomed to swear by, and in the
saving efficacy Of which they have so much CON
Iidcucc that we doubt whether one of them would
expcc, to attain happucs, in tho next world
without having IL copy of it in his pockct-that
famous platform opened with phlosuphic nnl
captivating declaration that the Democracy placed
their trust III the intelligence, honesty nnd iis
eliminating justice Of Ike American people Oao
would suppose that party that Ind such iaith IN
tho people would BIO willing to trust them tn d.
right, without stimulating their dormant patriot.
ism with lnot to put too fine u point upon it,)
money. But that declaration WIS like Old Buck y
/ mcnt. Il meant exactly the reverse Of what it
said. Democratic professions may be always
safely interpreted us dreams are--hy contrar.es.
| When they profess to he immensely vrtuous and
immaculate. be sure Tint they are contemplating
some gigat tic fraud lftho Democracy were To
come out aud confess themselves n corrupt and DO.
gus aud humbug pariy w would accept tho de.
claration with unaloyed satisfaction first because
q! its truth ia rare quality in Democratic ,!e,lara-
uon~l aud secondly, because interpreting all their
professions by contraries, We sho Id then have
some hope OF IN honest administration of the Coy
ernment Joseph Surface was never fruitful ot
fine sentiment and exalted mlximS of morality, as
when he was about to d. some conspicuous act ol
! Villany OF treachery
Toombs on the Wune.
The Albany (Ga.) Patriot, saanch organ o!
the Georgia democracy, has II long article ON Sen
ator Tombs, the opening paragraph Of which