Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-15

same 'd-ned rascals' for whom the prototype of
your Telegraph, Cockburn, inquired and sought,
while the Capitol was blazing 20 the clouds-the pit
tancc we would have paid for their work, at a fair
price, would sure enough have been as, so much
wholesome blood infused into the veins Of the ema-
ciated community. 1t would have been expended
among us, to revive dropping business. or in deeds OF
charity; while the doubled expenses of foreign affairs
must be mostly expended at foreign courts. to humor
the p,idc, aud swell the pomp of p~ampercd Kings and
Empcrors.
But today the Senator from Tennessee, himself
swallows the camel with becoming complaccncY.
Yes, your Administration expected the yelling act
of a subsequent appropriation to cover your camel;
and SO did the minority, and the administration au-
thor Of the document printing measure, expect ono
to cover our gnat: for it was an administration mea
sure, until your gorged and surfeited monster of par
ty. with his morbid appetite, craved even the tit bit,
the beaver tail, which the Senator from Louisiana
Mr.. Livingstone was gallantly presenting to the la
dies, in return for the equivalent public services o
their husbands.
Your monster of party, twhose political pedigree
in his double capacity. and the means by which you
have fed him on treasury-pap, | will give before l set
down. snatched at 1t, and got 1t; although now alb.
eolutely gorged with moic public printing than he
can perform, SO that, we have had to wait for days
almost a week, for documents not larger than this
little one l now take from my desk and exhibit to
your view! (raisins one of two pages, and holding il
up,
mention this, not asa censure; but as n proof
that he has already got the dyspepsia by over-feeding;
and cannot digest the food you have already thrown
into his den.
The best mill in Tennessee cannot grind all the
corn that one single summer will produce in the poor
county Of Jefferson. No animal can digest every
thing.
should be please d to hear the Senator from Ten
ncssee defend the economy, rctrenchment and reform
Of the Board of rewards and p~unishments.
We know his abiity-to rise in his place, catch a
lean beggarly idea, dress it out in tolerab,e English,
repeat 1t ninty-seven times without firing down, and
then, leaving off within a hairs-brcad;h of his point
OF departure, sit down and look coniplacently around.
All the shots of this piece of palace artillery have a
circular range, and take effect in SELF
This Senator on yestcrday-not detailed, to he
sure, for the special duty of making n studied, rcgu-
lar and systematic attack-but it only so happened,
IN the course of events, that he did make such an
attack upon the motives and conduct of the minority
IN the document printing business.
tHere the President stated that he had not under
STOOD the Senator from Tennessee as impupnino the
notices of the Minority, or he must have called him
to order; and, consequently, it would not be in order
TO reply to him upon the superstition of his having
attacked the motives Of the minority.
Mr.. Barton continued. l acquiescc in the cor
rectness of the decision of the Chair; but | under
stand the facts Of the case differently. The notes of
his speech before me read like an attack upon orr
motives; but l shall conform TO the rules Of the body.
(al
ell by a tempest of calumny, intended to ~overwhelm
a minority who possess the talent and firmness to
como up TO the powers that be. detect their abuses
and expose them; aud to say ''this gnat you strained
at, and this herd of camels you swallowed"
And our calumniator, be he indoors or outdoors
is q base palace slave "a bribed and corrupt tool of
power, who, having sold himself for future promo
ton, is even now looking forward to his reward in
the Judiciary, or the Executive Departments of the
Government.
I will examine the speech of the Senator from
Tennessee; and, should / find any thing in it beyond
his commentators of himself: I will endeavor TO an
swer it..
But before I take him up, let me 90 back and
pay my respects to the Senator from Illlnos (Mr.
KANE)
The minority hoped for a respite from assault-an
in the tenpest-at least until that resolution.
proposing 10 undo all that has been done in the mat
ter of Gales & Seaton, should be taken up for CON
sideration.
But our hopes were decisive. Upon the proviso
to this bill the Senator from Illinois revived the
storm.
We do not now complain of him. We know not
rank in the park of palace artillery; but we re-
cognise rim as a merciful gun, which does no, CON-
NIT the assault and battery Of breaking the skin, or
grazing the hair of his adversary.
But he did worse. He took up the report Of the
POntiff of New England Democracy,
IMr. WooDBURY,) and brandished it OH high, like a
baleful comet, portending 'war, pestilence and fam
to the devoted minority.
Enjoy your own opinion Of that report. We have
ours. We consider it a party-roport-a truth-sup-
pressing report-(no doubt by somo mistake)--a false
report, suppressing every prominent consideration in
of Gales & Seaton, and the measure of the
Senator from louisiana; and presenting in bold re-
those things tending to add this morsel also TO
the livestock Of your monster OF party
The speech Of the Senator from Tennessee will be
attended to now.
Here is the whole substance of it on this scrap of
love to see things ~simplfed and made plain. The
whole speech may be rendered in one single line.
81 am an honest man; yc are rogues all"
After all the %battcring Of the steel upon the flint,
behold the spark! That is, the translation. He
asks: docs any man wish, without the concurrence
"of the other House, to apply the contingent fund to
other than those stipulated in the proviso
ito the biH?"
We stated, when we joined the Administration
standard Of the Senator from Louisiana, what we de.
sired, and what he desired.
1t was simply to give this morsel of public EN-
ploymcnt to men of known fidelity and capacity as
public printers, for q fair equivalent, and who are
left by the petty party prescriptions Of the day, at
perfect leisure TO perform their engagements; instead
of adding it to the common stock of the owners of.
the over fed Telegraph, TO swell their dividends.