Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-08-26


the ior6cations--lDn new sloops Of war have been
builtseyeral frgacs-a number Of irgates, ships OF
the line and Notifications. are bnding--3UO,o 600
dollars have been paid TO the Chesapeake and Del
aware Canal 100000 OF dollars are appropriate
ed to the Ohio and Chesapeake Canal-25o, 600 dol
lars appropriated to the Delaware Breakw'ter--tle
Revolutionary officers have been paid at last Tor
their services--and all this has been done by the
Administration Of Mr.. Adams, Uithout borrowing
one cent All the Administrations that have gone
before Mr.. Adams, borrowed millions of dollars.
Mr.. Jefferson, Mr.. Madison and Mr. Monroe, were
each obliged to resort to immense loans during their
Administrations. Mr.. Adams has paid oil more OF
the public debt, by several millions, than either OF
them, in the same space of time, and he has done
SO, and supported all the other immense expendl-
lures upon great public objects, zoithout borrowing
single dollar! In this respect ms Adnna'lastfa-
tio, stands alone And yet his administration Is cal
led exravagant You are told that the pubt'c trea-
sury open TO every peculator, zUho has only to put
his hand IN and help elf-Feow Citizens this
is an age of falsehood and slander-all the insru
ments OF mischief are at workambltous, and disap-
pointed statesmen and politicians are using the foul-
est means to excite your passions and TO break
down as pure administration as ever existed in
any country, O-thatM they mag get into their places
1t your part to dsappoint them and when they at
tempt 10 mislead your judgements by their whole
sale SANDERS look at the figures in the preceding
statement, drawn from official documents, they
cannot deceive you--tor figures never lie, though
politicians WILL as you all know.
| Fellow Citizens few words more. You are all
aware that at the last session of Congress, COM
mttee of retrenchment appointed, consisting
| of five Jackson and two Administration members
They had full powers to search and inquire into all
the expenditures Of all the departments in Washing
ton. They went about their work with all the eag-
erness and aylity of men who have factous ard
malignant feelings to crafty, and an opportunity at.
forled to crafty them. They ransacked every de-
partment, they brought up all the Jackson clerks
they could fnd they listened to every eayes-drop-
per that choose to invent a lie against public Of
ficer, no arttice or meanness was too low tor tins
jackson Committee to stoop to, to crlmnate the
government of their country, and at last after three
months labour at an immense expense to the Conn-
! try, they produced long report containing mel
ancholy and querulous list of false statements and
lame and impotent conclusions 1t was an abortion
after acknowledged so by all the knowing ones
oftheir own party-lt proved the purity OF the adj
ministraton through all its deparments-these pure
handed patriots could not find loop to hang sing lie
feasible charge upon--They did pretend to say,
that according to their opinion, there had been a
waste of some or 1000 dollars, out of the 60 mil
lions and more which had passed through the hands
of the adninistration-that certain sums amounting
10 this has been paid to certain agents. OF the gov
ernment abroad--who were not Jacksonmen and
therefore had right to the public money-and
tney did also make direct charge against Messra
Gales & Seaton, printers ofthe House of Represen-
atves Of unnecessarily g. extrayagantly attaching
= title page to the documents printed for the house
an extravaganza which may cost the government
some or 10 dollars per annum. They spent about
10000, dollars in making these important dlscove
RES In fact, Fellow citizens the Jackson party while
they are raising the outcry Of extravaganza against
3 as pure an administration existed, are them
8 selves wantonly wasting your money and making
use OF it an engine to tear down the administra
tiou itself. The payment nude to duff Green las
= zntater as printer of the Senate, of $4,000 NOR
than aoas paid 10 any former printer Of that DO
o dy for one sessions acork. is an example ofprVgat
n expenditure public money achich has parallel II
oar history. 1t has been asserted, that of tn
G Jackson Senators are themselves partners Of Dui
IS Green in the Telegraph newspaper and his printing
Is establishment; and if SO, they voted for money Il
y be paid into their own pockets In the session o
s. 1867 the Jackson majority in the Senate, defeat
W ed the bill for the exchange of stocks, by which al
of annual saving Of o00o-would have been ei
Mt fected. This wanton waste this wholesale squan
derng OF the peoples money upon proflgate prn
ter this unheard of contempt for your rights and in
terests in refusing to permit the administration
diminish your burdens by hundreds Of thousands q
dollars, all these are practsed by the very men VIII
now fill the countryside valies and the mountai
tops--the taverns and the hishways-with deafer
ing uproar about Sl5o0--pad to an agent TO Cub
aud the prices Of FERTILE pages, to the printers
the House Of Representatives Thus are they Ell
deavoring to accomplish their threat TO destroy th
Administration p" though it were as pure as the al
gels that sit at the right hand of the throne of God
he May Just and wise Providence defend us from hes
,m reiormers and spare and our posterty the mise
ne ries they would inhict upon our country.
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lat Messrs, King, Cook and Peasants.
Jus PUBLIC GOOD.
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