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

20 which replied, is omitted in the Telegraph of the
9th--or so altered Us to be quite another thing
Mr.. Kane says the part Of his speech to which /
replied was omitted by him from forgetfuness at the
moment Of correcting the Reporters notes. This is
satisfactory. The other case is of more Importance,
it produced debate Of unusual character be-
tween Mr. White and myself.
We ought either to have no reports, or this prac-
tice OF moral forgery must be chopped.
IN SENATE UNITED STATEs-NIAuca6 G. 1890.
JNR. BARTO.N>S SPEECH,
In REPLY TO Ma. Wars TENNESSEE, UPON THE
APPROPRIATION BILL.
Mr. President: My object in rising is to take notice
Of the reform of this Administration, as exemplifed
in the diplomatic branch OF this appropriation bill;
and to follow the Senator from Tennessee, Judge
Whte through his speech of yesterday, against the
much abused minority III relation to printing the old
Legislative Documents.
attempted to get the floor on yesterday, when he
closed but did not succeed.
An exchange of situations often produces great
changes in the feelings and opinions of men.
In the lapse Of twelve hours the Senator &on
Tennessee finds himself and his administration, upon
the diplomatic branch of this BILL i'll predicament
very similar to that in which he was pleased, on yes
icrday, TO represent the minority upon the SUBJECT of
priattng the old Legislative documents by Gales s..
Seaton-very much in need of legazing act. Very
much IN need OF the appropriating power 20 animate
an illegal and liteless thing into lawful existence and
action; with this difference, that he strained and made
wfy faces ct our gnat on yesterday, but to-day he
marches up TO the Camel, and swallows il down vii
complaccncy.
We are told now that the Administration relied
upon subsequent appropriation to the greatly
increased-the almost doubled expenses of cur plo-
matte corps, into which they have brought the coun-
try within few weeks after they got into poyyer
In what public service-for what patriotic object,
was this illegal expenditure made.
1t was in departing from the examples OF all our
former Administrations; and not only introducing
petty prescription into all domestic Offices at home
but in going on crusade of prescription beyond the
and unnecessarily, and unpatrioticaiy RECALLING
1lH host frioI h1icc
wants Of our day. and sending out their interiors in
their places, not for the public good but as reward
TOR partisan services in the late Presidential contest
In recalling such men Barbour, and, virtually,
Brown, Everett and harriSon!
am no sycophantlc euiogist of Harrison; but our
Cabinet, when inocuating the Federal Government,
read and remembered something of Tippecance and
OF the North Vest frontier; where, first an army was
to be created then disciplined, then marched throurb
the black swamp; and what the soldiers call military
basis to be established and all these under every dis
that can attend the unprepared beginnings
OF Republican wars; and then, no broken savage
band, but an European enemy, combined with Te-
cumseh to be fought in sight of his resources and
his cosntry. The Cabinet ought to have remembered
Camp Mesgs and Dudey's victory-afierwards turn
cd, 1t is true, INTO Dndleys defeat and fall; not from
any defect IN the arrangements Of the commanding
General. but by the rash ardor of the Kentuckians
The disaster was retrieved, however in a few
hours by the capture of the British Batteries on the
right bank of the Mrami.
O
Upper Canada, where Tecumseh himself ceased from
troubling us!
They ought to have avoided this extraya rant and
useless expense, and followed the examples of our
former Presidents and their Cabinets. Our fDreion
Ministers cannot influence their elections at home
The changes must have been made to make room to
rewnrd partisans
Yes, sir, the Administration needs leralizinp act
and will vote them one; not in opposition Of the
petty tyrannies and corruptions of the day; not in
appreciation OF this kind of reform. exemplifed in
rms doubled expense for no good useful obect but
Vernment may go on; and to show them, and the pub
tic, that our opposition goes further than the secu
rty Of the great principles Of public liberty and the
Constitution requires.
What has been wasted in prescribing some OF the
most faithful and best tried public servants cannot be
recovered The public service must 20 on
MY rule Shall be tins; will vote for measure
whose prime object is merely to distribute public
money IN the West, the East, the North or the South
but when there IS National object or other object
OF the public service and the increased expenditure
of public money shall follow as a consequences am
not the man to halt, regret it.
In such case view the increased expenditure as
would the waters turned by farmer upon his fields
TO 1rrlsate fertiize, and render them more produc
tive. In due season the proper portion of those
waters viii be restored, either by the process of evo
poraon IN dews and rains, by some other natural
process to the reservoir or foun whence they were
originally drawn.
So the increased expenditure in a pond cau,o q, |
ivens the business of society, and 80 much whole
some blood infused into the veins of an emancipated
pauper "a our country s in the present great dspro
portion between the property and business and the
circulating currency of the United States.
Aud, In due time as much Of such expenditures
us the public interest requires will find its way back
by our system of voluntary revenue or other lawful
process, into the Treasury of the Union
Even my remote constituents know that thew nav
no direct taxes for the support Of the General Gov
ernmeDt; but only TO support their State Govern
nents, at home.
l will go further yet. If the President visbev
Home Department to divide the greatly accumula.
ted business of the State Department will vote for
1t; or for voyage by sea, tour by land for pur
poses OF exploration aud discovery; for National
observatory, to place us on footing with the Gov.
ernments ofthe other hemisphere hoping he NAV NOT
indulge hirsefin figure by calling il slight house
IN the sky" for that would be federal, and ,nirbt
damn the whole establishment