Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-03-16

in thsii conntUs cause, during the late war--,he
your Telegraph, Cockburn, inquired and sought,
while the Capitol was blazing o the clouds-the pit
tance we would have paid for their work, at fair
price, would sure enough have been much
wholesome blood infused into the veins of the ema-
ciated community. 1t would have been expended
among u.s. 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 pride, and swell the pomp of pampered Kings and
Emperors.
But to-day the Senator from Tennessee, himself
swallows the camel with becoming cumplaceucY.
Yes, your Administration expected the yelling act
OF subsequent appropriation to cover your camel;
and SO did the minority, and the administration au-
thor OF the document printing measure, expect one
TO cover our gnat: for it was administration
sure, until your gorged and sureited monster of par
ty with hrs morbid Appetite craved even the tit Bit
the beaver tail, which the Senator from Louisiana,
Mr. ivingson,) was gallantly presenting to the la
dies, in return for the equivalent public services of
their husbands.
Your monster of party, twhose political pedigree
IN his double capacity, and the means by which you
nave fed him on treasury-pap, will give before
DOWN. snatched at it, and got it, although now alb
solutely gorged with more public printing than he
can perform that, we have had to wait for DAYS,
almost week. for documents not larger than this
| little one now take from my desk and exhibit to
your view! (raisng one of two pages, and holding it
up;
mention this, not Us censure but as proof
that he has already got the dyspepsia by over-eeding
and cannot digest the food you have already thrown
into his den.
| The best mill in Tennessee cannot grind oil the
corn that one single summer will produce in the poor
county Of Jefferson no animal can digest every
thing.
| should be pleased to hear the Senator from Tc~
neSsee defend the economy retreLchment and reform
| OF the Board of rewards and punslrnents
we know ms abllity-to rise in his place, catch
lean beggariy idea dress it out in tolcrable Engsl1
repeat It nnty times without trinr DOWN AM,
then, leaving off within hairs breadth of his point
OF departure, sit down and look compacen,ly around
All the shots OF this piece of palace artillery have
circular range, aud take effect i'll self!
| This Senator on yesterday-not detailed to be
sure for the special duty of making studied rcpu
lar and systematic attaci-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
III the document printing business.
ltierc the President stated that he ad not under
STOOD the Senator from Tennessee as iupurnino the
motives of the Minority, he have called him
to order; and consequently, it would be in order
| to reply to him upon the superstition of his having
attacked the motives of the minority.1
Mr.. BARTON continued. l acguiesce in the cor
rectness of the decision of tine Chair; but I under
stand the facts of the differently. The notes nj
motives; but shall conform to the rules ofthe bodv
l(a)
Suffice it then, that motives have been assail
| ed by tempest of caumny intended to overvheIr
minority who possess the talent and firmness to
come up TO the powers that be. detect their abuses
and expose theg and to say tiis gnat You strained
at, and this herd OF caue!s you swalIowed!"
Aud our calumaiator, be he in doors or outdoors
Is base palace slave IA bri5ed and corrupt tool of
power, who, having sold himself for future promo
tion Is even now looking forward to his reward in
the Judiciary, or the Executive Departments of the
Government.
| will examine the speech of the Senator from
Tennessee; and, should find any thing in it beyond
his commentators of HIMSELF will endeavor to an
swer it.
! But before take him up. let me 90 back and
KaxE) '''' -'-'''os '1"''
! The minority hoped for respite from assaolt-an
interval IN the tempestat least until that resolution
proposing to undo all that has been done in the mat
ter of Gales g. Seaton, should be taken up for con
sideration
| But our hopes were delusive Upon the provso
to this bill the Senator from Illinois revived the
storm.
We do not now complain Of him. We know not
his rank m the park of palace artillery; but we re-
cognise him as merciful gun, which does not com
NIT the assault and battery of breaking the SKIN or
grazing the hair of his adversary.
But he ddworse He took up the report of the
Sovereign Pontiif of New England Democracy.
(Mr WooDBURY,) and brandished it on high, like
baleful comet portendng war, pestilence and fam
ine' to the devoted minority.
Enjoy your own opinion of that report. We have
ours. We consider it psriy-rcport-a truth-sup-
pressing report-(no doubt by some mstake)-.a false
report, suppresSlng every prominent consideration in
favor of Gales & Seaton and the measure Of the
Senator from Louisiana; and presenting in bold re-
lief those things tending to ads this morsel also to
the overstock of your monster Of party.
The speech of the Senator from Tennessee will be
attended to now.
Here is the wholesub5tauce of it on this scrap of
paper.
Il love to see things simplfed and made plain The
whole speech may be rendered in one single line.
~ am an honest man; ye are rogues ALL"
Alter batterlnO steel tbo A;ptI
behold the spark! That is, the translation He
asks: "Does any man wish, without the concurrence
"of the other House, to apply the contingent fund to
purposes other than those stipulated in the proviso
"to the bills"
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-
poyncnt to mon of known fidelity and capacity as
public printers, for fair equivalent, and who are
left by the petty party prescriptions of the day, at