Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-08-08
Sass IS
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Amounting to S2,ooo %
4or about three months.
These details were arnesty recommend to the pc
rusal of the Committee on Rctrenchment. They
not only show that Gen. Jacksonss fare was some
ching better than hickory nuts but they also show
that he was not reluctant to demand money from
the Treasury, in gross amounts, without going thro
the fortnaty OF producing vouchers. Hickory nuts.
Here we have Noseau at dollars dozen, London
Porter at dollars box. Caret at 10 dollars box
Madeira at dollars gallon, Brandy (lth proos) at
dollars gallon, Gun4powder tea at dollars a
pound, Lime Juice Syrup, Gid Whiskcy, Segars,
SC. &c. excellent fare for an ab,tlnent! Adm'ra
Bile military diet An item of s271 - Tor nine
DAVIS board for the General and his family Is pretty
good proof that he lived on something better than
hickory nuts. The public pucke was deep, and a
handful, more or, less. would not be missed.
Then we have $50 Is, for which no receipts
were taken, demanded and allowed on Bonaugh )
certificate, that this amount had been expended and
rot included in any other account. II Gen. Jack
son could ask and obtain money from the Treasury.
without specifying and proving items, we shall be
glad to be informed with what justice he could re-
fuse, to allow accounts on the same principle, were
he the President Accounts are not thus allowed
under the present Administration and when we are
told that General Jackson is to reform our present
system it must mean that he will abolish ng,d,
and substitute iar system of settlement.
w e regret that the advocates Oh General Jack-
son. by the course of hostility to the present Ad-
mnistratiun which they have pursued, should have
imposed US the necessity OF exhibiting these proofs
Of General Jackson's readiness to appropriate album
dainty Of the public money to his own purpose,
whenever the opportunity was afforded him and oil
his unwllingness to be iettered in bis demands by
those forms which have been established for the pur.
pose of preventing fraud and establishing a strict
economy But when we have been told with an
audacity seldom parralleled, that the present Ad.
ADMINISTRATION have been VIGOROUSLY exravagant, and
that General jackson is the only man who could be
selected for his attachment to economy, his lniex-
ihie purity, his dsinterested patriotism, etectuay
to reform this system. and introduce Of rigid ac
countability and economical appropriation, what
course was left but show how entirely the practice
of General Jackson bellies the PROFESSIONALISM asser
tions of his adherents.-We may defy those adhe-
rents to produce from the whole history of our coun
try an individual instance where SO few services
have been so LITERALLY rewarded, where republican
simplicity and economy have been SO completely
disregarded, and the public money so recklessly
drawa and distributed, as in the case of General
jackson. We might as reasonably expect to see the
interests of morality promoted by placing worn
out debauchce at the head of our system of educa
ton as that the elevation of General Jackson would
lead to any economical Improvement in the disburs
ing departments Of our government.