The Recorder

Mr. WOODING of Pittsylvania is requested to observe that we cannot help the incessant robberies of the post-office. We begin to wish that this corrupted institution could be cast aside. The business would be better managed by a state post-office. We shall do what we can to repair the loss of his Recorders. This is your pretty republican government! Your Jefferson millennium! With regard to Mr. Wooding's remarks on the public printing, we published a defence of Mr. Nicolson, which implies a complete defence of Mr. Wooding. No answer is, or ever can be given to that defence.

Brockenborough did not go to judge Roan, as we had stated. M Rae and Hay only went. Brockenborough even affects to disapprove of Hay's conduct.
He has quite as much reason to condemn his own. He had the audacity to interrupt the reading of a memorial; a thing before unheard of in the assembly. He was an associate in that act of theft, by which the majority stole fifteen hundred dollars from their constituents, to be made a present of to the public printer. For what other or better than the blackest and most downright theft can you term it, to pay twenty-seven hundred dollars for a piece of work, when two responsible and reputable printers in Richmond had separately offered to do the same thing for twelve hundred? The assembly did this because they were playing with the money of the people.

To that people, we submit whether it is a crime to cheat them, and whether they think that such fellows should be sent back to cheat them a second time?

It is very true that fifteen hundred dollars are not a great sum for a state like this to lose. But mind that your treasury is often quite empty. When you are going to entrust a man with ten thousand pounds, it is very interesting to learn that he has been detected in stealing five shillings. This shews you what he is, and puts you on your guard.

In the same manner, the robbery of the fifteen hundred dollars shews how the assembly were likely to behave in the armory business, and how the executive council came to give citizen Loo a fee of seven hundred dollars, when the whole inside furniture of his skull was not worth half that sum!