The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-03-25


ofthat Augwt tribunal, the Supreme Court
Of the UniteI Safes, acting in the double
capacity Of pdge in the court room and
party editorof Pennsylvania Avenue, as to
sec your Confidential officer acting in this
double, anirepublican, incompatible and
dangerous character.
And how was this double amalgamated
monster ofparty founded?
presume It Is Of that genus OF monsters
Of party ofwhlch President Jackson wrote
to President Monroe, at the commence
meDt ofhis administration, as a thing fit to
be crushed by some modern Hercules.
confess that letter raised General Jackson
an hundred per cent in my estimation.
was pleased with his libcrality towards
Federalists as former party;and who hap.
pened to have founded our Government, g.
all our public institutions that are worth
preserving.
Fo. | was sick Of the prescription Of a
partyto whose ultimate line Of general pol
icy we have come; and even transcribed
it, in many Instances, as the Senator from
South Carolina, Judge Smith,) so fully
demonstrated, not many days since on this
floor.
| wish the President were free from
bonds Ct that party discipline so unfavora-
bic to the elevated duties ola President Of
the M tion.
But how was this monster OF party rear.
ed?-
Were Tsent to find out its founders
would oob around Inc as some unfortunate
children this city, look out TO find their
fathers. would look into the Cabinet,
and into tbo Legislative halls Of the nation;
and there should find them.
Should ny constituents ask me how the
monster has been fed? | will so far play
the Yankee as TO answer their question by
asking them anothcr-if they ever saw a
farmer in cold morning stand and pull
down whole bundles Of fodder from the
stack, and thrust them into the rack of the
stall fed OK? When they answer yes so,
| will tell them, stand Secretaries and Sen.
ators and Representatives at Washington
city, and pull down the treaures ofthe pub.
ilc with both hands,& ram them into the in.
satiable nav Of that voracious monster Of
party-t their Telegraph.
Again | ask, is all the money a Joint
stock to swell the dividends Of the Minis
tcrial and Congressional firm
Reform! Oh ye crusaders If proscrip-
ton Ye apostles ofreform Ye hypocriles
who make long faces and longer prayers,
provided yc can get upon exchange or at
some public cross roads, where the world
can behold your dcvotion,-First cast the
beam out of your own eye, then shall ye see
more Clearly to pluck the mote out of our
eye. Ye whitcd sepulchres, yo look fair,
nay even White upon your exterior; but
your inside is full Of corruption and dead
mems bones
Yc strain at gnat, and yo swallow
camel
Ye only wished to get possession of the
Government and Treasury, and to subsi.
dive the press
Here the President reminded mr.. Bar.
ton, that the question before the Senate
was upon the amendment offered by the
Senator from Connecticut, mr.. Foot.
Mr.. Barton sid, ocquescc in the sug
gestion that tbs topic is not strictly in or.
der upon the amendment, unless this re.
form be considered as embracing every
thing, an consequently the amendment;
but will be frank with the Chair. Ii he
stops me at this point, he will spoil cap-
tai part of my speech.
THE President observed it was usually
a matter very much with the Senate how
free tie doOate should be; and Mr. B, con
timed
Reform you remind me Of the fable Of
hn oYH Z lo
lie cried wolf! WOLF until he put the good
shepherd oThis guard, when 10! the wolves
came in good earnest, and deyoured the
hock
So ION cried reform reform until you
deceived the public, and put them off their
guard, when you rushed in yourselves, in
combined array, and seized on the Gov
ernmeDt and Treasury, the emoluments
and Press, so far as you could bny it; and
reformed us with vengeance, by turning
out from the high Offices, and most Of the
low ones, almost all but your own raveuous
gang OF eXpectants, and bestowing with q
prodlga and unpatriotic hand, the trcasu.
rics of the Republic upon your own mer.
ccuary corps.
You wanted the places and the cmolu
ments of Office above all other things: your
conduct, the loud tones of your actions
speaking even louder than your deatenug
tongues, proclaim them to have been your
object; and not your country's good!
Your combination still utter the faint cry
Of coalition" The shrill cry of " coali-
ton" riscsrn the tempest Of combination
that now desolatcs the laws and liberties
af the country, like the shrieks of ghost
in the intervals of midnight storm:
He Apostles of Reform | likcn you to
an American Jove, seated on high, above
the reich of very little mortals, and hur-
ling your ,hundcrbolts- at what /? Not at
the colossal or gigantic peculators Of the
day--and at the mountain tops, or the tall
pine, or the sturdy oak of the American