Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-04-16

umendit, us to establish Home Department; but DC
fore any question was taken, it was ON motion OF
Mr.. Mckinley, laid the table, in order TO take u,
the Indian question.
~ The National Journal clearly exposes a mise
iable trick in the following articles
Retrenctment ana Combination Tactics The nh
sufd and gratuitou5 iusnuations against Mr.. C.JIr
TON, cont'.ined in labored Cabinet article which,
appeared IN the Telegraph of Saturday last, it is
no business OF ours tn notice. that gentleman be-
ing fn!y competent TO defend himself That the
CoMpINArioN would resort to every form of abuse
oi MIR. C. for daring to tell the TRUTH is only what
was to be expected. We shall expose the fallacies
OF so Euch of tho article referred to as cncavors TO
make 1t appear that the jackson Administration has
diminished the public expenditures; an effort, one
would think, too preposterous even for the reckless
print in which it is made. The process is curous
The Cabinet selects the first nine months of the
last year, as best calculated to answer the trick
1t then goes on to show that during the two first
months, January and February, of that year. while
MR.. ADAMS was in Office, the expenses were S2493
9o3. which IS at the rate of 81 $40, t5I per month;
whereas in the seven following months after Gen.
Jackson took the keys, the expenses were but
SI,104f53 or at the rate of Sl,i00,G79 per month.
Then comes flourish about what has been saved
by the change Never was more wrctcLed trick
devised than that attempted by this calculation.
Let us oppose the jugglc. The two months put to
Mr.. ADAMss account, test Of his expenditures,
are January and February, 1929, ,eAiie Congress
which body (therc being Jackson mnjorites in both
llouses,) amounted according to- Mr.. Secretary
lnghams Report, TO S3G9,l52 for the two months.
But as the session closed under tho Constitution
when the last Adnnis ration wen. out of office on
the Sd of March, the months put TO Gen. Jackson's
account, were of course free from any such charges
This plain statement of the case manifests the un
harness of such comparison the Telegraph
makes comparison which supposcs that Gen.
Jackson has made saving by not keeping Con
gress here all the summer! To compare like with
i,n sI,1
the criterion and principles, it is obvious that
the aforesaid of S369,l52 for Congress cx-
penses, should be taken out of tho two months
charged to Dir. Adams. let this deduction be
made SO as to ascertain the legitimate expenses to
be compared in the series of months, and the account
Tor MIR. Adams's two months, January and February,
Will then be S2,129,75, or at the rate of 81 ,064,875
month. Now, the Organ admits that III the seven
succeeding months, when Congress not in ses-
sion Che Jackson Administration expended 81 ,504 1853
or 81 lO0679 month; that is to say, they went on
from the start at the rate OF TiIRTYFIyE THOUSAND,
FIGHT HUNDRED AND FOUR DOLLARS u month more
than the Adams Administration lad required for the
like expenses. This is plain figures make
1t Profligacy and extravaganza have in this way
followed in the footsteps of the in power,
and if any thing could render oous the guilt of
himself and his "Board of Rewards and Punish
ments, it is such miserable attempts as that in the
Organ on which wc have been remarking, TO deceive
the public.
~ The National Journal states that Mr.. Barton's
Speech in secret session, the appointing power is
IN press, and will appear in day or two.
a. The Washington Telegraph of Wednesday,
states that it was Mr. j. S. land not Mr.. Philip Pr
Barbour, who recommended Maj. Lee to the Presi-
dent for Office.
While on this subject, it may be well to state, that
the friends of Gen. Marshall in this city, with whom
we have conversed, deny that he recommended Lee
According to them Maj. Lee Gen. Marshall,
perhaps asking letter ofrccommendar In reply,
the Chief Justice, wrote him letter, in which was
recognition of his talents the possession of which all
men accord iim) and some general, and matter of
course, expression of good will and desire for his
cess. This letter, which, if that to which it
reply be considered in truth, polite evasion of
the application, Maj. Lee used to forward his views
and the President still dsngenuousy, to skrecn
himself from responsibility.
Could the President have been cquaintcd with
Maj. Lees history? The idea is incredible. IF he
not, how shabby his conduct, first, in doing
what he knew to be wrong, and 3D. after the act was
drawn into criticism in attempting shift the blame
and the responsibility from his to other mems
shoulders?
u The Washington papers of "Wednesday, say
not a word of the festival of Tuesday, ruRPoRrING
to bc in celebration of the birthday of Jefferson
but in reality, continuation of the contemplate
trick, attempting to identify the characters and ad-
lninstraiions of Jefferson and Jacks, much alike
Hercules and IIylas-and asubterfugc to hide the
distractions Of the party, under the formal and
Inonious harmony of dinner party.
FoR THE RICHMOND WIG.
THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
Those who the habit Of reading the Enquife and
who have been IN tins habit for the last dozen yeats cannot
entertaining that sympathy for human Dfrmity, which
belongs natural character.
Comfortably search Unpopular sentiment and occasionally
taking leap he dark the Editor of this paper has made