Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-03-23

ed. JOSEPH DRAPER, Chairman.
\ JAMES r. MILLER, Secretary
i We understand that the Senate bas conf,moi
i the nominations of james A. Hamilton, of New York
| to be United States Attorney in the State of New
York, in the place of John Duer; of David Porter
TO be Consul General at Algiers; Of William b. Eewis
to be Second Auditor; and of several Collectors.
&C. Nat. Journal.
| The Importance attached 10 the splendid sneech
of Mr.. WEBSTER is well known but it was scarcely
suspected that the apprehensons felt by the Jackson
party lest it should be universally read by the people
were so great that it would be deemed expedient to
put such constructions construction heretofore
unheard of-on the Post Office law, as would check
its transmission by the mail in the manner in which
oil the speeches of members have uniformly been
ana still are circulated hroughout tire country
Such, however, is the fact. The Postmaster Gene
raj, probably under higher direction, has put new
construction on the law, by which the speech of Mr..
webster is prevented from passing to the public in
Its separate form under the frnnking privilege of
members of Congress In order to restore the old
and beneficial construction of the law which prevail
ed before the rage of reform had fvered the veins of
SO large portion OF the Commonwealth, the Post
ofhce COMMITTEE of the House reported yesterday,
by Mr. r. NJ. johnson the Chairman, bill, the effect
OF which was to restore that construction. There
appeared to be considerable majority in favor of this
Dill, until some oil the friends of Mr. Hayne rendered
themselves conspicuous among the opposition when
the opinions of the House seemed to wheel round as
on pivot, and the bill finally negatived by a
paid to the. speech of any human being than TINT
which was thus given, by the rejection of this bill, 10
the speech of Mr. Webster. There is 60 deep, 80
pervadng an awe, of the effect of this speech the
public mind, that both the executive and Legislative
influence are combined suppress it. But, although
tins influence may prove successful, to partial ex-
tent can never succeed in any considerable degree
The speech of Mr.. w. will be read by millions, and
De referred to- ages hence, when postcrity will only
be reminded of the existence of the present Admins
tration, oy the awful monuments of evil which they
VIII have left behind them This, however, the Ad-
mnistration care little about But this speech will
also be read by the present age, and they who reck
little of the judgment of posterty ms to the truths it
expounds, will be doomed yet to feel its effects up
on their living tamei and the fair prospects which
their ambition may have skeiched in it's moments of
intoxication.-rNat. jour-
"What do you mean, Mr. Editor, by this reto hear
SO much talk about said Kentuckisn to US the 9TH
er day-"i don't understand Latin, and have only q
little common sense" Why, it means this: If South
Carolina takes it into her head to think differently
from all the rest of the United States about any ac
OF Congress; she may rise up, and say ueto,
1T; and all the other States must give up their opn-
ions and adopt that of Carolina or there is an end
the Union. els that what it means? Why, if tina
Is what they are aftar, fig for the uninni- Th.
when we first start them from Kentucky, and woult
come to about the same end."-Georgia Courier.
/ Rerenchment-A beautiful specimen of CONGRESS
slonal consistency appears in this paper. Our read
ers have all just been informed, that after prodi
gous effort, the Committee on Retrenchments sue
ceeded IN abollshng the office of craftsmen of the
DEMONSTRATING talked away thirty thousand dollars
to save fifteen hundred. Already, however, does
the Committee upon the Public Lands demand q
craftsman, and resolution passed the House Of Rep
resentatIves on Wednesday, directing this Re-
trenchment Committee TO inquire into the expedi-
ency of creating the Office Of craftsman! Surely
wisdom will die with the present Congress.-sE: Y
Com. .3dc.
Retrenchmsnt.-We have shown that if the Report
of the Secretary of the Treasury is to be believed
the expenditures of the last year exceed those of the
year 1925 by more than TWELVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS; the payments account of the public debt
and under the Client Treaty, being deducted i'll both
years The only mode by which the Reformers can
escape from this ightfu result, TO say as the Te-
legraph said some time ago, that the Secretary was
wrong in stating his estimate for the 9TH uuarter;-
that is to say that i'll the estimates of this his first
reports of which Congress has ordered ten thousand
copies to be sent over the country, he had made
mistake of upwards of MILLION OF DOLLARS, II
they are right IN fastening egregious blunder on
f the Secretary of the Treasury-(he may well say
''save me from my friends 1.-the result will be- that
instead Of spending twelve hundred thousand dollars
!, more than the last Administration, they have eX-
, ceeGed it by about TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL
LARS. This is quite enough, a beginning. to fix
the charge OF extravaganza upon them while it also
fixes an enormous blunder on Mr.. lnghan. But car
, it be possible that Mr. Ingham has made such ar
over estimate? His report was made on the 15th
December, only sixteen days before tho end Of the
year. The three first quarters all ascertaincd
and he ought to have known enough Of the remaining
= quarter 10 make him tolerably accurate. But yet
in asceraining the expenses for these sixteen das
his friends driven to the exigency of saying
that he missed figures TO the amount of MILLION
OF DOLLARS We curious to see how Dir. Ing
ham will extricate himself from this dilemma But
, until ne makes communication, we must be-
lieve his Official Report, however much the friends o.
"I1etreuct1Tent and "Rgf0rRp" vince under it.
II G.Ndt. jour,
The following is an extract from the speech Of
Mr. Sprague, of Maine, in the Senate of the United
States on Mr.. Foote's land resolution:
4 Notwithstanding all that has been said of the late
war as derogating from the character of New En-.
gland, boldly ask from what portion of the coun-
try was 1t sustained with more efficient aid, The
} gentleman tells us that money was withheld by a