Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-08-15
TO THE
PEOPLE o. DELAWARE.
Conclude IL

1900
We, perhaps, ought not to close this address with
out noticing the attempt which is making, with so
much industry, to persuade the people that the Adj
minstraon has lost the colonial trade and that this
has occasloned the fall in the price Of grain. We
will not occupy your time by detailed history off
the facts in relation to this subject-they are con-
tanned in the able and luminous reports and Docu-
ments which have been from time to time laid be-
fore Congress by the Executive. They are now
before the people and prove TO the satisfaction of
every intelligent citizen and sensible merchant, that
the Administration have saved the country from an
arrangement. by which the most substantial COM
mercial and agricultural interests would have been
jeopardlsed. If there be truth in the custom house
returns, colonial trade has been increased since
these gentlemen say it was sost.'
We should trcspass too much on your time, fell
citizens, If we were to attempt detailed ex-
animation of the measures OF the present Admins
tration You have seen combination entered
into at the commencement Of the Administration, TO
oppose its measures-and, we may say truly, to OPP
pose those measures, whether they were right or
wrong. Would such combination have passed I'M
noticed a single false step in the Executive? And
what has this sharp-sghted and vindictive inquest
determined to be satisfied with nothing-yet laid
before the public as the great sins of this Admins
tration Corruption The charge has recocd
upon themselves. For men to talk of corruption,
who so far gone in it themselves, as to declare
they would keep up and persstn their opposition to
the Government, if it was as pure the Angels
that stand at the right hand Of the throne ofGod o
Extravaganza in the expenditure of public money
Let their own waste and extrayagance--thei owr
improper conduct at the last session of Congress- ir
making the legislative halls great electioneerins
arena, where every public object lost sight o
but one-that Of securing the election of their mill
tary chieiot this be taken into view, and it would
greatly exceed any thing which they might call thu
mis-expendture of this and every preceding AID
: ministraon. But what single msex pendlture have
!. they found out against the present government
7 They have, when called upon TO make good tbei
charges against it, and when forced, against thei
will into the examination, after ransacking every de
partment, failed to establish the slightest instanc
4 Of disregard TO strict economy in the public expen
+ diture. Have they proved any thing to be wron
i in the appointments to office, in the diplomacy
the Executive? They have set in council themseve
G upon all Of the nominations, and have consented
5 and advised the greater part of the appointments
h As to the mission to the southern republics, whic
l. has been the theme Of such heated controversy
n some of the leading members in the opposition dc
n clared at the time, in the course Of good nature
at conversation with the friends of the Administration
ID had you taken the opposite course, and refuse
to respond to the call Of your sister republicks,
& would have put you with ease TO the WALL Ha
Of the arm of public defence been withered, or in an
e respect been enfeebled during this Administration
IS 1t is not pretended that it has Have measures 70
is future security, by sea or by land, been relaxed
J. Nobody charges it. Where then are the great sin
j. of this Administration Its greatest fault is that
;, is falltless-that il wears these gentle
o men cannot pierce. Their great reliance is upo
n their arts ofdecepon, by which they hope to hin
d and mislead the people--and the Elusive hopes )
q better prices with which they endeavour to anus
d Them. There is more intelligence in the countr
! than these gentlemen calculate upon. A war in Eu
: rope the rest of the civilized world in strife
e. while we are at peace--is known to the least en-
ghtened citizen among u.s. to give wider spread t.
the wings of our commerce. and to afford fresh life
and spirit to our agriculture. When, however, an
gry nations have exhausted their fury towards each
| other--when the blessings of peace come 10 make
!, up to themfor the ravages of war; when the sword
is exchanged for the sickle and the ploughshare,
. does it become US as christian people, to ggieve