Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-06-08
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The Opposition are amazingly troubled 10 find faul,
with the Administration; and in their eagernes to do
exhibit an inconsistency and contradiction little
amusing.
They complain that the present Administrator is
wastng the public revenues, and that This year il will
appropriate some ten, twenty thirty millions beyond
the ordinary expenditures! THESE expenditures he
ing almost exclusively for schemes of local improve.
ment
In the same breath, they complain that the grea bo
dy OF the friends of the Administration oppose the APP.
Propa,ions for certain projects for spending the public
money! that they therefore opposed To internal inn
pTocementS; and therefore deserve the execration of
the people!
When the coalition members. especially the riead.
OF Mr. Clay, vote to man in favor &C unconstitutional
appropriations and visionary expenditures and by the
aid OF few Of the friends OF the Administration carry
measures OF this escption-th2 the Administration
is charged with wasting the revenues And when
any one OF these appropriation bills, which propose
thus to infringe the constitution and expend the
money Of the people, il refused the assent Of tie Pres
drnt,-then he is the enemy of internal improvements
is base and bad
When appropriations are made, by the votes of the
coalition, the Coalition pronounce it the extravaganza
ana pFoinsiol ot the administration When they are
withheld the Coalition proclaim it as the evidence Of
The hostility OF the Administration to all Improvement
III the tax on salt s reduced, they am attitude
oil passion and declare TO be vital attack upon the ia
ri, the American System, and al that If the reduc
non - defeated II ia an oppressive bur,heu upon the
peopie, and an unjust tax upon necessarV!
~ me ordinary expenditures OF the departments, I'M
utr the late administrations much exceeded those under
The present. it is economy II those OF the present are
altogether less than those OF the late aminstrat on it il
rulnous and shameful extravagancei
III the expenditures under the last wear of the ate
Postmaster General exceeded the revenue by $780,
ooo was the careful, pruden, and popular manage.
inent oil the department Ii the present Postmaster
Heheral economies in every respect reduces the
transportation and at the time increase an expe
dons conveyance of the mail, and improve. the IA
ctes OF the department in every instance where his
own arrangements have not been rouled by evio
contracts 1t Is absolute inaention and imbecy, and
waste oil the public money parsmonous screwiDg
oil me contractors to the public Disadvantage
II the Postmaster General suggests new routes for
the pubic accommodation, and adds the fac that they
are authorised by congress, appropriation for that
purpose VIII be necessary, ii is unhe ard o-monstrou
the hrs appropriation for the post office department
since the organization the government" II the ronte
are not established, il is natienon and total dsre gard
OF The wants and interests OF the people
II Is thus the worthy Coalition editors ard stipendia.
ry letter-wii!ers at the capol-the " honest lagos of
the party-endeavor TO impose upon the agiDed Gre
uuty OF the peoples on the hand by representing
themselves az rigid economists and as hostile TO doubt.
iuI or lavish expenditures, which the wicked Jackson
men but Tor them would plunge into-and on the other
by attempting to work upon the sympathies Of appli-
Giants and upon the interests OF particular sections
cause such expenditures, owing to the oppo.ition of
The wicked JacSson-men, were defeatedl-Such Is the
consistency and fairness of the Opposition.
Albany Argus.