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

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provocative 20 the perusal Of the now published
The reader will not understand some of its illusions
without explanation. Some months ago, Gales g.
Sea,on proposed to publish q collection of old and
valuable Documents connected with the history of
the Government, at stated and usual prices At the
motion OF Mr. Livingston of Louisiana, the resolution
was passed by the Senate, amer an arjuous struggle
authorizing subscription to the woHi for the usual
number of copies. This no sooner done, than the
Editor of the Telegraph and as echoes Throughout.
the country represented the resolution as comforting
party gratuty to We publishers, at the expense Of
the Trhnsury that the work was one hundred per
cent too highland that the opposition had awaited
themselves of an opportunity when nine Jackson Sc
were absent, to smugge the resolution through
that body. To prove that it was too high Duff and
several others, offered to Go it for less In reply to
this, it answered, that the resolution was intro
duced by MIR. Livingston, Jacksonian-that taking
into the estimate the labor of selection and Digestion
the work was not too high, proved by the cs-
timony of Wells g. Lilly and other eminent printers.
and that the opposition to it, was nothing more than
DuHs desire to get ready money Job and his friends
that he should have In order to defeat the reso-
luton thus passed, the Committee of Finance report
ed the appropriation bill with proriso, directing no
preparation. [This by the way was as unnecessary
as spitefu the contingent fund of the Senate not
being charged with the payment for the Documents.
special law was requisite of course.
This will be n clue to The reader for understanding
some passages of Mr.. Bartons speech. He lushes
rs they Deserve those miserable ''paace slaves, :,
who clothed with the reflected majesty of the people,
prostitute it at the shrine of the idol-whose gno-
rance and erocous mbecility, they dcspse in their
hearts.
| In very few days, shall present the Debate in
chief, on the subject Of printing the Documents. Al
together we have been more disguised than at
the course which that affair took-a disgust which
the reader will participate when he understands the
particulars.
o. 1t appears by the following letter to the Editor
of the Baltimore Patriot, that Lees appointment to
Algers, was unanimously rejected by the Scnate-a
tremendous rebuke" indeed, TO the greatest, and
best" who, with an equal contempt for morals, and
for public opinion, appointed that abandoned profit
gate to the station.
The fraudulent cunning of Withholding the nomi-
nations from the Senate last March, when they were
already determined upon, and most of them indeed,
were announced in n few days after the Senate ad-
jOurned-s visible. Lee will have pocketed
the outfit Intermediate salary, and inft-hayn said
just so long at Algiers, us to make more money by
the Job than if he had staid longer Another Con-
sui General must now be sent out to Algers, and q
new outfit be provided for him. Lees appointment,
however, was "onc of the duties inscribed on the Ex-
ecutve banner" and his recall, under the circum-
stances, is "Retrenchment." Mr.. Chton's homey
;, figure is made matter of rcproach to him. but for
our part, we like it much Much cry and little
WOOL" as the Devil said when he shcared the hog.
! Who that remembers the discussions under the re-
trenchmcnt resolutions two years ago-the invec-
tvcs, the exuggcrations Of abuses the insults to the
their Executive, the coaXng Of the People, the pro-
misses OF Reform and Retrenchment, to be executed
when they got the power-and sees the fruits of that
mighty tempest of humbuggery, in the abolition of
one single Office of $500, (lhe Craftsman but must
decst the actors in that ssonc of uncqualcd cant,
fraud, and imposition! Where is the difference
between political and moral liar, at last?
Lee will then come home in time to finish the life
of the Hero, under his ocular inspection. Deem
cd unworthy of companionshp with the Dey of Al
gicrs, by the unanimous voice Of the American Sc
nate the bographcr has, however, the consolation of
being able to find retreat in the domic and solace
for his Disgrace in the inlmacyond sympathy of the
President of the u. States.
But though the Senate have thus set their seal
upon Maj. Lee, he is better man than some whom
they may approve. lie has committed that which
tho happiness Of society requires to be deemed an
objectionable offoncc--but who would not trust
his treasure, his life his honor sooner TO him
than to tho ungratcful Kentucky viper, or, his not
moro abandoned, but less sentimental associate from
New IIampshre-that deep stouod sundcrcr, from
whose cprous contact, the leaders of his own party
shrunk, with undisguiscd adherence? For Lees
crimes, some extcnuation is to be found in strong
temptation and circumstHnccs--bu what can excuse
the Judas who bcrays his Saviour for silver, the
calculating calumnator who deliberately builds his
hopes ofPrefcrmcnt upon tho ruin of female rcputu-
/ ton?