Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-01-12
RICHMOND, JANUARY IL, 1890.
MIR. R.a.NDOLPH'S REM4RKS.

MIR R.4VDOLPHS REMARKS.
| In the Debate in the III. of r. on Friday last, Mr.
| Randolph delivered three speeches on the Mt,ry
Appropriation bill.-The Reporter for the National
in'eiSencer furnished only short sketch OF them
particularly the last assigning treason for the bre
WY oi Tie sketches, that his situation in the House
prevented his hearing the remarks to which Mr. r.
| repheu''-lhc following more extended sketch Of
these speeches was forwarded us for the purpose
OIL o'shS them INTO their proper places in the De-
nate Vat as We have already published this Debate,
we 'hnN u due to Mr.. r. to present his speeches as
we r'vc received them. The circumstance of our
nav I'M !" sketch, of which the speasur COM
plans "ouid only furnish an additional in,lucen,ent
Tor ''h Nag a more correct sta,enien,-We nr-
sumo 'nese speeches were not presented to the n
lniellieencer for publication
| MIR. RANDOLPH moved 10 reconmit the
Dill to the committee Ofthe whole House. with
view TO amend the clause that had been the
| suhJect OF disagreement. Unreasonable, lea
| lousy OF the Executive-as extremes hepot
each other-often led TO Il blind confidence
| IN That branch of government From This
Jealousy he professed to be free, and however
that declaration might be received. flor we
were all liable to self deception,) in one thing
ne was very sure the House and the public
iuiiy agreed with him; that that BODY was
at .edSt as Tree from every faint of suspicion,
or jealousy, towards the executive. as any
legislative assembly eught to be. jealousy in
public men was like the same prccn-cved
passion in private life: carried To excess if de-
| leateu us own Oblect-but there was q Doint
beyond " hlch confidence lost its name and re-
CURED an epithet which he would not mention
in that House
II was remarkable that in a country on the
other side OF the Atlantic, from which we
mad derived the ground work of our laws and
institutions, a suspicion had gone abroad-one
very generally entertained here-that that
Dfanch OF the government, which emphaticalIy
heid tile purse strings the nation, was much
100 Snnscrrient to the will of the ministry,
and this belief had led, and Justly led. to nm
extensive loss ofconidence in that BODY -. not
In the iactious merely, but in men of sobriety
and moderaiion-Now, Sir, if it once be gene
RAINY understood here, that we--the immedi-
ate representatives of the people, entrusted
soieiy with raising supplies,and whose peculiar
duty II Is to guard against improvident expen-
oituTe OF their money-that we too. i'm the
discharge of this most delicate and important
of our iunctions-that which gives us especial
weight and consequence in this government
nave become more remiss and supine in the exc
cutlon OF this high trust than in any other o our
LEGISLATIVE dutIes-that we have abandoned IL
10 a6hnd reliance on the dispensers ofplace and
emolument, we must, sooner or later. lose
the confidence of the community. and sink
INTO that state of insgniiicance. which.
however much TO be depored, all will agree
we shall have most richly deserved. He had
heaid with astonshment yesterday, propo-
| siuon to surrender all inquiry in blind conf
dence IN the integrity and ability of the officer
VINO required the appropriation When this
House should become mere chamber in
winch to register not only Presidential but
even Departmental edcts, il would be- unim-
Portant whether we represented $4,000 free
men,or sat Tor the Borough of old Sarum. The
| present proceeding, he said was to him unnre
cedented He had been himself once person
ally acquainted with the proceedings of the
committee of Ways and Means, and had
brought in many bills to make partial appro-
prfatons-no, he said, not manu- of them. for
| business was so conducted in those DAYS. as
not TO leave much room for them-but he had
brought In such bills and would again support
them when necessary. He would give admi-
nistration his confidence where the public
service required it, but no farther-neitber
would he in private life, except in a bosom
friend, reposc an unlimited confidence. But
there was wide difference between voting
for an advance of money for the service of
'A~ N''AAShI Cei, anu uilueI colour OF SuCh adj
vance covering deficiency for the past wear.
II was deception, and gross one to0-to
hide an excess of expenditure beyond the ap.
preparation for given object in 1921, under
the cloak OF partial appropriation to defray
inc ordinary and indispensable charges of
1879 lie wished the bill to be recommitted
mat tins matter might be placed on its proper
foot Whilst am up, said Mr.. r. will make
one remark. That by the best estimate can
make-and that estimate has been fortified bv
what has fallen from others in this debate
nearer the scene of operation, and no doubt
better Informed than myself-these Indians
cost us, on this system of Cancellation and ci-
VIizatlon, under which they are rapidly dis
i appearing from the face of the earth, more
than II they were black and our own property.
working on our estates for our benefit. So
long as the master reaped the whole fruit of
the labor OF the slave, it was his bounden and
sacred duty to furnish him with sufficient and
substantial food and raiment and to cherish
ana protect him In sickness and old age But
the u. ,. ought not to be expected wholly TO
iced and cothe these people. Surely thew
ought to do some little for themseIves-and
yet an amount was drawn from the Treasury
sufficient to feed and clOthe more Indians.
IMAM perhaps our agents had seen in the course
of the year.
One more remark he would make.-It was
astonishing what fOndness the western peo
pie feel for having their throats cut. A gentle
man tMr. Smith ofM.) had yesterday told the
House that he was surprised at the opposition
from the west to this grant-that it was TO
save theirtbroats from the knife Oft the savagcs.
But what did the representatives of the from
tier people say in reply? why, that they depre-
cate your protection and endeavor 10 stay
your defence of them. He trusted that this
bill would be recOmmittcd.