Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-05-15
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The averagepsy Of each. under tha
existing law, falling due on the <th Of
tipied by $4,000. gives S576 900 |
To meet this, there was on the LIST day
OF May, unexpended, OF the appropria-
ton made by Congress in conformity
with the estimates OF the Department, $So5,500
Leaving deficiency on the 4th of Sep
TENDER next, when these pensions fall
due, Of s2z0. 40
And these persons are not embraced by the or
der referred to.
twill be seen that the regulation arrested by the
present Secretary, was made on the 26ih Of
December, whilst Congress was in session. II il
were conceded that it proper for the Secreta-
~, upon the verge OF his administration. to take
upon himself the exercise Of power virtually
legislative. Qor so far it extended the operation
oil law having previously defined meaning,
known to, and acQuicsced in by the representa-
yves oil the people, it was purely legislaive,) il
VIII not DC denied that it became his duty, in
making out his estimate. to ask for sum sufficient
to discharge the increased demands thus created
upon the pension fund. OF what avail was
1t to the-hoary headed veterans, that their
hearts were warmed by the prospect of comfort
aud ease for the remnant of their lives. il nothing
but prospect" WAS provided for tiicrns ~ =
Will prospect" pay their debts. Will "pros-
pect" feed or clo,he them. If "prospect" will do
neither Of these, we would ask of what use was
the prospect opened to them by the late adnnisra-
ton, without so much asking for an appropria-
ton TO give substance to the shadowy dreams that
prospect" had given birth to,
VIII the coalition prints insist, that the late Sec
rotary Of War had the power thus to extend the
pension roll by constructions, and also had power
10 appropriate money by constTuctisn If they
do not, they leave him in the dilemma, where they
are boundto admit that he ende avored TO cast up
on the pension fund an additional demand for about
one bundled thousand dollars, when, as we have
already shown, he mnst have known that his esi-
mate fell short of the sum necessary to meet the
claims due under the former construction of the
law, S2!0,0O0 or more. So far then from provi-
ding for those hoary-headeG veterans embraced by
the regulation of 26th of December, 1928, the
late Secretary failed to provide for those, about
whose right TO be upon the pension roll there is
no dispute. by neglecting to ask for an appropria-
ton sufficient to pay them; and it would appear
that he was unwilling to bring the subject Of his
regulation Of Goth December, before Congress
Why else did he not ask for an appropriation to
meet il,
When this transaction is taken with the effort
made to place the whole militia of the Revolu-
ton on the pension roll, and is viewed in connex.
ion with the desperate warfare waged against the
present administration by the organized corps of
the coalition, no intelligent citizen can hesitate to
believe, that there did exist settled design to en-
barrass all the operations of the government--a
material part OF which was to beget sympathy
Tor the soldiers Of the revolution, and by swell
ing The pension roll TO ten twelve millions psr
annum, absorb the whole OF that portion of the
revenue. relied on for the extinction of the pub
lie debt. One braach of the plan was arrested by
the Senate. the other will be counteracted by the
Executive. TTTGsh. Tel
APPOINTMENT By THE PRESIDENT.
WAsHIN GToN, May l2-The Hon. VIM. c.
Rives. Of Virginia, to be Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Penipotentary to France. 10 the place
oil James Brown, who has requested permission to
return, no
GADsBY's HOTEL.
AorNxY, K. IL Igcs .I11y
H..
of your paper. to inform the friends of Mr.. u. IL.
Norton, late Postmaster at Hartford, Come cticut
that notwithstanding the charges preferred against
him in a late number of the Hartford Times have
been triumphanty refuted. and the motives of the
gentlemen who procured his removal, SATISFACTORY
y exposed, the evidence OF these facts although
in the possession Of certain distinguished indiyid-
uas OF this city,, is not, regret TO say, be sub
mitted to the public. Considerations. which time
may prove to have been the suggestions OF Seer,
induced Mr.. Norton. AFTER committing to the press
his vindication,' to withdraw it.
o. E WILLIAMS.
Messrs. GALES & SEAToN.
City Of Washington.
See che Lateihgencer Of this morning.
Mr.. Williams. who writes the above, was, du-
ring the late Presidential contest, the editor of
paper warmly devoted to the late administration.
MIR. Williams now processes to have seen the err
ror othis ways, and expresses for the President
versed. the highest respect. 1t would seem, me-
verteless, that his hostility to his former political
opponents is the ruling passion" Failing in his
effort TO use Mr. Norton the means of ousting
Judge Niles from the Post Office at Hartford, his
next object was to injure that gentleman and his
political friends. by using the name of Mr.. Norton
in statement ofsprivaie pecuniary transactions,
and the exposure OF private and confidential cor
respondence, which although capable OF explana-
ton TO the satisfaction of disnerested and Impair
tial minds yvOuld furnish food FIR parfv enfoa
and personal hatred to misrepresent and feast
upon,
That these considerations had more weight
with Mr.. Williams aud his associates, than a sim
cere desire TO aid MIR. Norton, fully appears by
the card he has published. So far from satisfying
should not have been suspended in the Office al
Hartford, the communication to which Mr.. Will
ians refers, was such to remove all doubts had
any remained upon that subject.
Our purpose, however, is not 10 injure Mr. Nor
ton. Although we have ever been opposed to
his appointment as Postmaster at Hartford, that
opposition was not produced by feelings OF personal
unkndness TO him. We foresaw that, opposed
as he by his political friends. he would throw
himself upon his and their opponents; that they
would serve him so long as they found him useful
to them, and no longer; and that his appoint ment
woudtherefore, in ali respects, be an appointment
Tor the benefit OF our enemies. Foreseeing that
this would be the result of circumstances we were
mol surprised TO hear that the appointment OF Mr.
Norton had suddenly become popular with his for
mer personal and political opponents; and hence,
when Mr. Norton and MIR. Williams called upon
US with request to insert his communication in |
our paper, We did not tell Mr.. Norton that, in our
opinion, the only effect OF its PIT slicaon would be
to separate him forever from those OF his personal
and political friends who were still DESTROYS 10 |
serve him, and leave him at the mercy of those !
who, their present professions to the contrary not,
Withstandng, had no other object hut 10 serve