Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-02-05
.AT,lEsx a EfDR9As
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY S, 1927.

1t will be remembered by our readers that
Mr.. Blair, of Tennessee, one Of the eat's-paws
of the Opposition managers, was made 10 intro
duce into the House Of Representatives on the
9th of January, resolution calling on the Pre-
siden, Of the United States for information re-
lative to the number, duties, and compensation
of Charges DIES a9aires, appointed since the lst
Jan. 1926, without the advice aud consent the
Senate; and also, from ,chat period the persons
appointed Minister and Secretary of Legation
to Panama, received their commissions, and
from ,uhat period they had been paid :heir saa-
ries. The object the Managers in limiting
the enquiry to the first Of January, 1926, was to
get at the isolated case Of Mr.. John A. King,
who was Secretary Of Legation to Mr. Rufus
King, Minister to England, and who acted as
Charge d'Affaires from the time of his fathers
resignation and departure, to that Of Mr. Gal
latin's assuming the ministerial functions
During this interregnum, Mr. King. Jun. was
recognized as Charge Fa6ares, and received
the salary and proportion of ou,ht,to which ne
was entitled by the usage Of our government.
But the Calhoun Faction wished to make the
people believe that Mr. King had received large
sums Of money from the public treasury, in Vi
olation of law and usage; and accordingly in
struc,ed their vile agent, Duff Green, to pub
lish charge to that effect, which they drew up
for him, and which was accompanied by
statement surrephiiously obtained from the Stale De-
partment, showing the respective sums which
had been paid to Mr.. King, as Secretary Of Le-
CATION, and as Charge d'Afaires. II therefore,
they could authenticate this statement, by call
on The President, they thought that the people
nigh, be duped into belief Of the charge,
or at any rate, that an effec, might BE produced
upon weak and credulous minds, which suhse
quent explanations, however clear, would no, be
competent to eradicate. S eng through the pill
full scheme, the friends of the adminis,rati n
sustained the call for information, but Sc a
mended i, as to embrace all appointments Of
Charges des Affairs since the foundation ofthe
Constitutional Government.
The required information was transmittedto
the House on Saturday last, & so triumphant
ly did it sustain The executive, that Mr.. Blair
s,ammeringly moved without saying worIa
bout printing-lo have ii laid on the table, with
an evident view, as every one understood it, Of
dropping the subject But ever that little STRAIT
agem failed for the friends Of the Administra.
ton, DESTROYS that the people should know ev-
cry ming, that could trnd in the slightest de-
gree to enlighten their judgments, ordered the
communication and accompanying documents
TO be PRINTED. As regards Mr.. Kings
case, the President of the United States, shows
that he has been governed in the settlement of
that gentlemans account, by the Uniform prac-
tice under Mr.. Madison and Mr.. Monroe's Ad.
mlnistrations, which he proves by the records
Of the State Department,-and he informs the
House that Mr.. Sergeant's and Mr. Roches,er's
salaries, did not commence, until they were
which was not until about the middle Of Octo-
Der. The documents are not before US, but our
memory as to dales, cannot be far out Of the
way. Here too, then, The Faction was caught
in there own net, having prepos,erously taken
up the notion, that the salaries commenced
with the appointments, and indus,riously COM
municated their ignorance to the public, ex-
pecting 10 sustain the Glamour, which they
knew they would excite, by official confirmation.
We have often witnessed the evident MORT.
fcation attendant upon the repeated failures of
these bunglers, but we an say, with certainty,
that we never saw this Holy Alliance as much
disconnected on any previous occasion. Their
march from the scene of defeat was rather
like funeral procession than the cheerful bus.
tie of men released from fatiguing duty, and
anxious 10 get at refreshments. Tomorrow
or next day, We shall be able to lay the Pre-.
sdent's Commune alton tn erfenso before our
readers-a labor which, we predict, the Gene.
raj Jackson Prints will as unanimously avoid,
as they did the republication Of the celebrated
dtbale on the erpediency Of co:oskinn,ng ,rou.
bIesome Edi,ots.