Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-02-12
THE ADVOCATE,
CHARLOTTESVILLE. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ~, 1870
PRINTING THE PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

CHARLOTTESVILLE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY -. 1890
PRINTING THE PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.
The public is aware that Gales g. Sea.
ton of the National Intelligencer have I'M
dertaken the publication Of the public doc.
nments OF Congress by subscription. In
order to ensure patronage and profit be-
yond what they could expect to find in the
private subscri ption Of individuals. and al
80 to compensate them for the loss of the
public printing, though this last motive is
not avowed, a resolution has been intro
duced into the Senate authorsing sub
scrip,ion for 657 copies at SIS % cents per
copy. This resolution introduced by Mr..
Chambers Of Maryland, has heen urged
through the Senate with the most unre-
ientimg perseverance, and the most indie
cent hurry. lis in trnth nothing more nor
less than proposition to transfer $685.
2o2 30 cents of the money of the people
from the public treasury into the pocke cts
OF the Editors Of the National InteIisen-
Ger. The Coalition members of the Sem
ATE, true to the principles in which, the
party originated and which has hitherto
held them together in indissoIuble pha-
2anx, availed themselves of an accidental
majority which the absence Of III of their
body from sickness or other causes, gave
them, to rob the treasury-this charge is
made to their teeth Ivy one of their men,
bers, Mr.. Woodbury. of New-Hampshire-
oflargly upwards of 500 900, to reward
tile devotion Of Messrs. Gales s. Seaton to
their party.-Onr experience of the Goa
lition for the four years of MI. Clay's adj
ministration authorises the suspicion, nay,
confirms suspicion into certainty, that this
preference Of the Editors Of the National
inteliigencer is nothing less than reward
for services, and compensation for the loss
of their station as public printers Of which
the vote of both houses Of Congress had
pronounced them unworthy. With this
experience OF the principles and practices
Of the Coalition, the facts Of this particular
case are in no wise at variance.-We pray
our readers to attend carefully to them, as
they were developed during the discussion
Of this resolution, MIR. Greer made pro-
posals do this very work, for which
Gales & Seaton are to be allowed So %
cents per volume, at S3 % cents being a
sum an the whole number subscribed for,
Of S35, OF so cents less than that which
the resolution allows to Gales g. Seaton.
Messrs. Davis s. De Kraft made propo-
sails to do the same work at So per volume,
which world be s4O,7o2 so cents less
than it is proposed to give the neN merit.
sng Editors ofshe National Intelligercer !;
and Mr.. Green at go so cents per volume.
which would be ISL ,952 SO cents less than
this resolution proposes in wanton and
profuse largess to lavish on the mercepary
Swiss Of the departed power of the Coal
ision- What will the people think of this
Proceeding-shis appropriate comment on
Mr. Clay's celebrated remark, "Give us
patronage and we wiii make ourselves
friends. Cesar said, With money
will raise men. and with men will raise
money."-But the people Of this county,
we thank Heaven, had not sunk TO those
depths of corruption which the success Of
Mr.. Clay's aphorism would imply, and IN
which the Roman Dictator found the mas
tiers ofthe world.
The experience Of the principles Of the
faction which the people lately hurled
fiom power, gives daily cause Of congrat-
nlaiion that we have escaped the precipice
40 which their administration Of the Gov
eminent was fast huuying the Country.
But the wanton and unprincipled ex-
penditnre which this resolution proposes.
is not more deserving Of reprobation than
the indcccn: hurry in which it was carried