From the Lynchburg Virginan.
The Difference-Facts for the People.
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One ofthe most serious causes of complaint
agains, the present Administration is the corrup,
abuse oithe Appointing powcri incompetent and
dishonest men having been entrusted with the
collection, sale-keeping and disbursement of the
public money, and the treasury having been
thereby subjected to heavy losses. On this
point we beg to be clearly understood: We do
not censure the Administration because some
of its officers have proved TO be dishonest; for
any Administration, however careful in its Sc
lection OF public agents, may be imposed upon
and deceived. We censure it, not because Cor.
don ID. Boyd, w. P. Harris, Samuel Swartwout
Price, &c. have appropriated the peoples mon
ey 10 their private use, but because 1t retained
in office Boyd and Harris and others, after MeI
iOere knOwn TO be detauLterS, in the mean time
winking at their frequent failures to deposte
in Bank the public money in their hands;as the
law required; and because, as Mr.. Van Burcn'>
presses now confess, Swartwout and Price were
knoacn by gentlemen 10 be destitute Of characte,
achen they aOere appointed. We censure the Ad
ministraton, for its failure TO select honest men
in some cases, and id others for its refusal, af-
ter the discovery of their dishonesty, to remove
them from office. In order to illustrate our
meaning, and at the same time to show the man
ner in which these abuses we're guarded against
in the first and purer days Of the Republic, we
subjoin the following letters from Alexander
Hamilton and Oliver Wolcott, the heads of the
Treasury Department at the periods al which
their letters respectfully bear date:


Treasury DEPARTMENT, Feb 10, 1898.


SIR: The enclosed letter of the eth of last
month, from the collector Of Tappahannock, is
relative to subject equally delicate aud dsa-
greeable. 1t is my duty to add, that bills have
returned protested TO the amount Of $4,000.


This conduct, though | trust, proceeding from
no ill motive in the collector, is Of a nature so
fatal to the punctual collection Of the revenue,
and the same time so vitality injurious that the
public good requires the supercedng of the off,
GER