The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-06-02

Who are nor acquainted with them. Oh
that nature would gfahsmc for Ilft ten mi
nutes, the genius OF ISurran, o! Henry that l
might delcribe, IN It's proper and immortal
characters of detchatou,that biackch OF feder4
al Chimes, the deiertion of American ieauienl 4
Compared with this horrid connivance> the
robbery of the old army was hut aea bite,
return to the Aleerine tribute,
/ he consequence of there montrouS blum
dcrs BY Donaldton was that the ewenty-four
thoufand dollars per annuIn would not put
chafe the maritime flores OF courie, con-
greis found themfeves reduced to the ridicu-
lous necefity Of 'paihng ieceae stf OF ap-
preparation, Ii was dated March ID, 1897,
and the fecond clauie is IN thete words; +" And
&c be it further enacted, that further fun,
g not exceeding hinety-ix thoufand two
&c hundred and forty-Gx dollars, and f.;ry
& three cents, be, and the fame is hereby ap-
propriated for diicharging the mr. years
&c annuity to the DeY and Regency of Algiers,
&c puftuant 70 treaty, in addition to the FUN
< appropriated for that purPoie, by the aa of
9s the 9th of May, 1870"
Thus forty-eight thouiand dollars are paid
with IN bpadrsd and f5rty.}6uf tbonfand
Can any man deny shis fatementi does
there exa man who dares to defend fuch an
exorbrant waite of money Anadditional
tribute Of fifty thouiand dollars year has thus
been fadjled upon this country for ever by
the incapacity of Donaldion, and the fcaIida-
lous negligence OF the iepate.
The WORT part of the hory is vet 10 come.
The firit claufe Of the law juh quoted autho-
RITES the preider,t {" TO appiya fun not exceed
6 ing t5uo hundred ard efgby tbou(and, tspo
&c bundreE and ffly-hihe doildrs, and three
! {, ceht5, TO the expences which may have,
* been incurred in any negotiations with The
&c Dry and Rsgsnly Of l7fgier5, beyond the
IS iums heretofore appropriated" The
vague phTaie any aegoefafi8as bath a tufpicious
found, The law contains not one other word
of explanation, 10 that, for any thing which
appears uHon record, the money ght have
been voted for the ranlom Of the PreGdcnt's
dog Il icems unaccomntable that, after
having paid the tribute for the FRI two years,
exactly three times over, we ihoiid, lnanother
ihape, have to pay the fame tribute Of forty
eight thouiand dollars about fix times over
Iee fuch WAS the safe
The matter was f,ortly thie, Various
delays occurred on the part OF America re-
fpeGting the remittance ofmoney 70 the Dey.
he began 10 grunahle, and in order to appeafe
him, the PRECEDENT, OF his own proper
motion, built frigate for the leryicc of our
Mahometan mater. Thus was America
reduced to the Gtuation OF rcipired convict,
vino f,ins ropes for the execution Of
his afociates. We are permitted to traffic in
the Mediterranean, upon condition that we
hall 6rnfi thcfe barbariRns with the ma
fcrials for murder. Thus, the United States
are placed upon ar exact level, with thofe ban
dtti. The one dances; the othcr holds the
candle. Such work is the very confumma-
ton and dcfinition of political diigrace.
The Cretcent friga.e had been fnifhed,
or thcreabouts, before it was thought worth
while to coniult congrefs. In the American
annual Regiiter fer 1896, | took notice. that
it was then upon the itockS, and the law
which aligned the money 10 pay for it, was
rot caacd for fix weeks after the publications
of &c BOOK. 1t is inlpoflbie TO invent a more
palpab's or dangerous breach of the conititu-
zion than thar here f,Jecifed. By 5bat ;nitru-
nlcnf. Of which the PRECEDENT fwore TO the OBJ
IerY2fian, he is eXprsilIY prohibited from
toucliing one farthng of public money, unlefs
for pnIPoies pointed out beforehand by con-
g.efs. To demonffrate the fault both of him
and them, it is only requiiits to read the
cIauie iait quoted The very fra9ions in the
fun OF the appropriations for the treble tri-
bate, and foT the Creicent, fhcw that the mo-
ney had been expended before Congress had
been conGulted; bccaufe the Legislature would
nof have ltopt at THREE cenfs, unlelsit had been
to meet forne particular accompt. Ibu5 a6zs
Sf CoAgreG bavs teen redueea ~ an 0rrant
pHtptt y6eG0: And while that virtuous a1sm-
bly, are thus tramPlng into annihilation the
very heart of the federal contribution, while
their own ftatutes, With voice louder than
the lalt clap Of a thunder form, prove their
rnifmanagelnent, they come forward, in the
Alle Of Nero to tell US that we ihall not bying
them int1 e5atsmbti