Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-18

Their should fairly confess. went 10 see "s
East Room for the furnishing OF when We na'
voted S25 900 at the last session OF Nonsleo:
Twas anxious 10 see, how that amount Of lurhi-
ture could be slowed away, in single roo"'
and MY curiosity was fully satisfied. X was I
truly gorgeous sight to behold, but mao 100
much the look of regal magniGcence to oe Per
fec,ly agreeable to MY old fashioned Republican
feelings"
Take notice reader! This old fashioned ke-
nub,ican SAYS he went to pay his respects 10 the
Pres;dent-not so either-he went 1t seems 10
Gee the East Room-and his curiosity was Iuty
satisfied. His old fashioned Republican, iee,-
;nrs were shocked at the regal magnihcence ne
beheld.
Now LET us turn to his letter Of explanation,
,,L;oh we insert in full from the Enquirer oil
yesterday. u,.,,e 1907
aJ have been travelling since early IN the
Snrinp. and did not discover until lately no"
much YOU had been assaled for the letter on the
| Fas, Room. Doubtless it has appeared very
strange TO yourselves how II could DC saiu y! a
n.rson on The spot, that room was very h"ei!
furnished. which every body could see was not
furnished at all. Such statement would SAVIOR
more Of insanity than Of intention to deceive
The fact is. there was mistake o. one room Jor
another. not bv me, for was not there, although
the letter is written in the first person, out w
another member who was not much acquaih'eu
with the interior Of the Presidents house, ana
, who naturally concluded that the hnest room
,,h;ch he saw. was the one in which the $4,000
, dollars had been expended. He wished the
nuhI;c attention to be turned to the extrava
rance of the appropriation, and so did 1; ana
from his report the letter was written. resret
the mistake (which YOU perceive was that Oh
f rooms by Strangely for many reasons; and a,
!. monp others, bee ause it has been the means OF
f turning public attention from the real POM,
r the ex,ravagance Of the appropriations TOR iur'
h nishinp This House under the present Admins
g tra,;on, and about which there is no mistake.
r Certain it is that $4,000 dollars was voted IN
d March. 1925. and $4,000 more in May, 1870,
It making 80 600 dollars in little more than one
!. wear The whole of the first sum was expehd'
p cd and 5000 dollars of the latter-and the re-
r. ma,nder would have gone The same way out io'
Of the noise made about this letter. The DEBATES
\, in Congress soon after proved this. Still there
oil was mistake about the room actually lurnish
n. ed. and for all the abuse which has ensqfd, we
~ INNS, comfort ourselves with the reflection, ina
W the public treasury has been the gamer o
re 49, 900 dollars by It,
ne No comment is necessary upon this last let
IS ter The respectable" member acknowledge
e. he lies. and that is enough. No comment
to ours, could sink him deeper in iniamy nor
h. we could, have we the disposition to SINK DIT
to deeper than he has sunk himself. Yet the IN
mt difference and non chaLance, with which ne make
mt this acknowledgment, is quite remarkaoie'-
lat "The fac, is, (says hey there tcds a mistake
ne one room for another, mol by me, for was nc
r. 70 pay MS re-
poets to the President, or rather to see the Eas
.s koom-the sight OF which greatly scandalize
we his old fashioned Republican feelings. VIVA
~ refined and delicate sensibiliiy!
81 The "respectable" member not only ackuow
-. Lodges his inlamy with the utmost sane froa
-, y. but even takes credit to himself for it. "W
;. must CONTEXT ourselves Che and the ENQUIRER
:, that the Public Treasury has been gamer by j
:, the lie) Sl9ooo.-This is another lie-for al
=, thougn the appropriation, was less than it wa:
~ when Mr.. Jefferson and Mr.. Madison. came in
to office, yet the President not only did not use
the appropriation, but expressed his wish tina,
II had not been made, nor had this letter any
. thing to do with its subsequent diminution.-
. However, to correct this "respectable" mem.
e ber's lies, would be as tedious as superAuous.
- we leave the reader TO form his y estimate
:, OF the value to be given the respectable" mem
! bers excuse for his mistake. For our parts we
u DO not believe one word Of tive do not be-
lleVe that any member Of Congress cid or could
E mistake some other room for the East Room, for
the East Room as the East Room, neither the
north, south or west. We believe the letter IN
have been deliberately fabricated for the pur.
pose OF aiding the great purpose of rendering
,heAdministration odious in part, but chiefly to
contribute TO Mr.. Raneolph's reelection to the
T nena!e oil the y: 5. then pending before the
Virginia Assembly. How it answered these
purposes, we need not say. No member from
Virginia wrote il-and we still think that the
Representatives Of other States ought to take
steps to exonerate themselves from suspicion.
Certain it's, tina, falsehood so impudently as.
serted and so unblushingly acknowledged by
member OF Congress, is discreditable to the
dignity and purity of the whole body. The
fountain Of legislation ought to be purified
the stream must needs be polluted when the