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

OIL nlt. W nt0 OF lennCSSCC, on Tie otn instdnt, "
which replied on tho following day, every statement
% which ] replied, is Omitted in the Telegraph OF the
9th-or so altered as to be quite another thing.
Mr.. Kane says the part OF his speech to which L
replied was omitted by him from forgetiulhcss, at tne
moment of correcting the Reporters notes. ihis 10
satisfactory. The other casc is of more Importance,
as il produced a debate of an unusual character be-
tween Mr. White and myself!
We ought either to have no reports, or this prac-
ice of moral forgery must be stopped.
IN SENATE UNITED STATES March 6. 1880.
MR.. BARTOE,S SPEECH,
In REILLY TO Ma. WHITE OF TENNESSEE, UPON THE
APPROPRIATION BILL.
Mr. President: My object in rising is to take notice
Of the reform of this Administration, as exemphisd
in the diplomatic branch Of this appropriation bill;
and to follow the Senator from Tennessee, (Judgc
White through his speech of yesterday, against the
much abused minority, in 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 olcn produces great
changes in the feelings and opinions OF men.
In the lapse Of twelve hours the Senator kon
Tennessee finds himself and his administration, upon
the diplomatic branch of this bill, in a predicament
very similar to that in which he was pleased, on yes
to-day, TO represent the minority upon the subject OF
printing the old Legislative documents by Gales g.
Scaton-vcry much in need of n legalizing act. Very
much in need Of the appropriating power to animate
an illegal and lifeless thing into lawful existence and
TCtlOni WIFI tnt uiuerenCc,t uul nc StTulucu HdOS
wry faces at our guat on yesterday, but to-day he
marches up to the Camel, and swallows it down with
cumplacency.
We arc told now that the Administration relied
upon a subsequent appropriation to cover the greatly
increascd-the almost doubled expenses of our diplo-
matte corps, into which they have brought the coun-
try within a few weeks after they got into power!
In what public servicc-for what patriotic object,
was this illegal expenditure made!
II was in departing from the examples of all our
former Administrations; and, not only introducing
petty prescription into Gfl our domestic Offices at home,
bot in going on a crusade Of prescription beyond the
snas; and unnecessarily, and ALPHABETICALLY, recalling
some Of the purest patriots and best tried public SER
wants of our day, and sending out their interiors in
their places, not for the public good, but as a reward
for partisan services in the late Presidential contest.
In recalling such men as Barbour, and, virtually,
Brown, Everett and Harrison!
am no sycophantic euiogist of Harrscn; but our
Cabinet, when inoculatiDg the Federal Government
with the virus of party prescription. ought to have
read and remembered something of Tippccanoe, and
of the North West frontier; where, first an army was
20 be created, then disciplined, then marched through
the black swamp; and what the soldiers call a military
basis to be established; and all these under every dis
advantage that can attend the unprcpared beginnings
Of Republican wars; and then, no broken savage
band, but an European enemy, combined with Tc-
cumseh, to be fought in sight of his resources and
his cosntry. The Cabinet ought to have remembered
Camp Meigs and Dudeyis victory-aftcrwards turn
ell, it is true, into Dmdley's 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 q few
hours by the capture of the British Batteries on the
right bank of the Miami.
They ought to have remembered the Thames of
Upper Canada, where Pecumseh himself ceased from
Troubling US!
They ought to have avoided this extravagapt and
useless expense, and followed the examples of our
former Presidents and their Cabinets. Our foreign
Ministers cannot influence their elections at home.
The changes must have been made to make room to
reward partisans.
Yea, sir, the Administrator needs a legalizing act,
ind | will vote them ono1 not in opposition of the
petty tyrannies and corruptious of the day; not in
appreciation of this kind Of reform, as exemplifed in
this doubled expense for no good or useful object; but
/ will vote them the money that The machines of Go
vernment may go on; and 10 show them, and tho pub
lie, that our opposition goes no further than the secu-
Iity 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 pubic servants, cannot be
rpesvered. The public service must 90 on.
My rule shall be this: | will vote for no measure
whose prime object is merely to distribute public
money in the West, the East, the North or the South;
but when there is a National object, or other object
Of tho public service, and the increased expenditure
Of public money shall follow as q consequence, l am
not the man to halt, or regret it.
In such a case | view the increased expenditure as
I would the waters turned by a farmer upon his fields
10 ~irrigate, ~fsrtilize, and render them more produc.
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waters will be restored, either by the process of eva
poratioa in dews and rains, or by some other natural
process, to she reservoir or fount whence they were
originally drawn.
So the increased expenditure in a good Cause en-
Ivens the business Of society, and is as 30 much whole.
some blood infused into the veins Of an emancjpated
pauper, as our country is, in the present great dispro.
portion between the property and business, and the
circulating currency Of the United States.
And, in due time as much of such expenditures
as the public interest requires will find its way back
by our system Involuntary revenue, or other lawful
process, into the Troassry Of the Union.
Even my remote constituents know that thew nav
no direct taxes for the support Of the General Gov.
ernnent; but only to support their State Govern
ments, at home.
I will 90 further yet. If the President wishes a
Home Department to divide the greatly accumula-
ted business of the State Department, / will vote for
II; or for a voyage by sea, or tour by land, for pur-
poses Of exploration and discovery; for a National
Observatory, to place us on a footing with the Gov
ernments Of the other hemisphere, hoping he may not
indulge hlmselfin a figure by calling il a lighthouse
m the sky" for that would be federal, and mipht