Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-14

that place, from Mr.. Smith, Jackson Senate.
from South Carolina, Oh the proceedings in H.,
BODY in relation to the Public Documents. for 4,
publication of which Mcssrs. Gales & SCAT,
have issued proposals. The character Of n,
Smith will cause his account of the business
be received. as it certainly is, as the autbar,;,
history of it. We subjoin, without commen,
few extracts from it. After remarkiny on Il,
importance of the documents, and the comno,.,
cy of the publishers, Mr.. Smith thus proceeds.
Ma. Journal
Mr.. livingston. of Louisiana, devoted v,.l
son man, who was his .Gd-de- Camp at the b,,,i,
of the 9th of January. 1878, at New Orleans ,Dj
now extremely devoted 10 every measure %..
General Jackson proposes. He was a Ren,%
can of '9S. has never deserted tie Jefersnn =.
Jackson standard. He is. moreover. very Il,
rary gentleman, and is now a distinguished man
Der of the United States Senate from the Sat-;
Louisiana. This gentleman it was, with all,lo
high claims to attention, who offered the re.cr
ton for printing the documents. and for ,bor, -,
be printed by Gales & Seaton. He offered n.
resolution. and supported it, The most nnn
gent printers in Philadelphia and New w.,
were consulted, and decided that the price w.,
very reasonable. The calculation was made h.
MIR. Lowrie, the Secretary of the Senate. II.
made the utmost calculation. taking all lie 4,
cumcnts, whether necessary Or unneCcssarr, ,qS
with them all, it would amount only % one I,r
dred and eight thousAnd dollars very moons;
derable sum, when compared TO the imp,rt,r,.
of rescuing these documents from the oblniw,,
which they were doomed shortly to 90. unle.,.
printed. But it was we'll known thai. i,fe,Id
thirty volumes. not more than twelve or ffeqgr,
lumes, at most, would comprise all that wa, He,,..
sary for future use. This would have reduced
it to $4,000 Now this was the utmos, ez,.9.
Whilst this resolution was in prCgreS. byvin
Gales and Seaton were to do this work at S7F
a man who called himself Greer offered to DOTH,
printing for SIS. But nobody, knew fr. Greer.
and nobody believed that he knew alv hin,
about printing. When his propo.asr vas not At
tended to, Duff Green, VINO no doubt hid u.sl
this man to get a job for himself came ont and |
made his own proposal to do this job for one hl
Of what Gales and Seaton had proposed Til
was evidently not with view to benefit the pub
lie but to procure, job for whirh he expected |
to be paid at least as much as Gales and SpaO,
had proposed, if no more. This explain IL
this way He was to set out at Sc 10! perw.
ume, and WI * lone, he had nothing further
DO than to have it certified that he had iostS2t!:
per volume, and it would have brought it up At
least to the price of Gales & SeatOn This rs
hot nnG G,a, asph
most assuredly follow. not as favor to him in
particular, but what Congress does every d,r
for other public undertakes. He was to IN.
dertake it as the public printer to Congress. AID
he was Just as certain of obtaining this relief. Il
he was sure he should do the work.
This was mere party business by those V'n
wished to procure the contract for Duff Grecl
assure you, upon my honor. so far from do.
ing what l did to favor Gales & SeatOn, that
have not been in either of their houses for sc'G
years. We are not on friendly terms. BW
knew they would do thu work far better, and
cheap. if not cheaper, in the end. have ON.
reasons which weighed on this OCCASION. DGi
Green is the printer to Congress. and gets on .
slowly that we can ret no documents to send
our constituents until they are published ABROAD
in every newspaper.
Besides all this. | intended. before the Ol'
ness was begun, to reduce the number OF volume
at least one half, by in'erroslng r''on''1
stop or curtail the books of this sort W'lcn 'i-
hereafter be given to the members Of IoH-Te'''
But. my dear sir, the great offence Of "I''
have been guilty. is, have remained 100 ''O- !.
the Senate. There are two or three other seo's
men who want my place, and who cannot "a' y.
til serve out another term. This bl''ae,'
piece with the attacks made on mrln 10
have offended about to the same degree !" ..
case. have been in the Senate eleven ye"r-s
by opposing the various project, Tor draw" wa
lie moneys. have saved more than 5'V''.
and my efforts during the present SESSION '.I
show how far have been Instrument u s.
ing from sacrifice at least 50o,0.M,V. u VI
public lands For these reasons nave D,-s
fensive here to some of the Western iAeOg ..:,.
well as to Others If it is the wish OF ole I i
of Sonth Carolina that should no' o. r., .rI
| shall go out without reluctance. con'S''I -.
have done some good; if in nothing e''r' :. ~
in conjunction with others OF the PeopS ia
Legislature in 1925 in opening the 9, tr,5
citizens of our State against that mol'e'I ' c,
Lnproremeat. which the fayorites ci roD.a. ~.
ma were cherishing both in and out oil ,oI, =,
The monstrous debate got up ten "', ,J :,
is still going on. could not stop IT, n arS
- Lo,I confirmed civ wppkg | fOunu W.,