Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-04-20
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reducing tneIii anu hiilseI TO the. dilemma OF
pisory acknowledgment Of the greater extravaganza
of Gen Jackson's thaheJr. Adams administration or
conviction of the Secretary Of the Treasury Of the
extraordinary blundcr Of million of dollars in his cs-
timDte laid before Congrcss-not satisfied with the
absurd figure he cuts in his controversy with Mr. Chill
ton, has taken the field sccond time to repair Spos
sibe, the consequences Of his oGicious zeal nisme-
thod of doing this, is worthy of Mmsele-worthv Of
that "Rcirenchmcnt," the clamor about which orgi-
mating in political craft, supported by false rcnre
S,natons' and has ended in increased expenditures
worthy of Jaetsonjsm, which unsupported from the
st Sy reason has resottcd at every stage to imPosi
ton, for the purpose OF swaying ignorance.
We shall not notice the part of the 'Retreachei'sn
article which deals in irurcs-wc leave that to those
who have documents in reach, and who have alrea.
dy displayed competency to use them. Wcp,oposc
II offer few observations upon some other things.
MIR. Wickle strongly re-insists, that this admin.
stration ought TO be churgeable only from the It'll of
March, 1890, whcnit into office, and not f.. the
whole fiscal year commencing on tie first Jannary
lad the gentleman made the discovery in 1898, when
AIr. Rves con;enGed for tic contrary brincip!e his
reputation wonld have gained Us muchon the score of
candor, is likely to do on that Of sagacity
1t suited him and his brethren Of Reform" Mea to
voted under Mr.. Monroe, and it suits him nolO 70 OBJ
ect to the ruIos working both ways. If the gentle
mans claims TO public confidence were measured by
lis candour, the Greatest and Best" would rot incur
The hazard ofunother Senatorial rebuke by cxallinr
him TO the vacant slippers of Isaac HILL as rnor saws
lie meditatcs to do. If the Jackson administration
ought not 10 be made accountable for the expenditures
between January and March, 1899, the Jackson ma
in -F,
one.
Referring TO the deficits Of Watkins and others,
this very candid gentleman says: Most ofthesc plum
derers OF the Treasury find their advocates in the
ranks o. the opposition 20 the present odmiais:ra
ton"
We shall degrade ourselves by app,vipq 70 tfs
foul and ndiscrimuate imputation The style Of con-
tFadciion which it deserves. We are soyrv opr
friends of the National Intelligencor we're so far
swayed by their courteous Disposition as to admit into
their columns, libel gross upon themselves and
their political friends. Courtesy ought TO have is
Limits, and in its comPiances ought to pay some re-
gard to truth and justice. We challenge the exhibit
ton of particle Of evidence, crnanating from
spectacle source in the ranks oopposition TO sustain
the above charge. Ifthe gentleman who made il
would ''retrench" somewhat the supc1fnities of his
Imagination he would, humbly conceive, be nY.,a
as nsefuIly employed in that Jackson ..Retrepcb
mcnt," which has resulted i? increased cv.ravar2nco
and waste ofthc public treasure
To make others appear guilty as themselves has
been the device Of the conscience condemned in all
tmes-and is often partially successful bv diyidirc,
censute This stratagem of conscious wronr. Mr.
Wickhfie has not disdalned to play Off trusting 70
its general success, aud to calling I'D once moro ,
dead and buried public and prejudice which
pursued the late administration from the cradla n
the grave. How worthy this mode OF defence. is or
the statesman, of sense it is needless 70 en-
qure Had the last administration as many sins r.
answer for as there SANDERS against their acts
and intentions-and the most vivid irarino,io,
could not easily conceive the existence Of mora
were the calumnles against them, truths, as thew
were hell concocted fabrcations - still imposs-
bic to satisfy any Of sense that their trapsnres
sions can excuse, or extenuate, the msd eeds the
short commgs and the despotisn Of the exis,inc ,
promise breaking, profession lying, braggart admins
tration. The volunteer champion who emplovs tba
defence, berays the paucity ofthe materials of yind
cation, bat shows his implicit coniidenesjn that ia
noraCce, which greedily swallowed his promise off
"Retrenchment," and which always e5urts self i'm
position Nor need we wonder at bic confidence. I
when We witness how amply its source has ius,Ged
foSnner expectation and survey tho miracles it has
wrought--a man ignorant Of the first rudiments of
Government transformed into a statesman, a street
brawler into second Washington, tho father Of his
country, and one uninstructcd in his mother toDnue.
into another Jefferson, whose cupacious mind was
tho receptacle ofa human learning. Ignorance has
done oil this and why need we wonder if Mr.. Wick.
Life who has seen and enjoyed the extent OF it's cred
uSus virtue should rely upon 10 for the more humble
requh Zion which he demands at its hands.
IS set of then, to the broken promises Of Tho
Administration in regardto "retrenchmsnt," and ifs
punishment Of the freedom Of opinion.
Mr.. Wckhfe has diyod into the "common sewer"
md dragged forth from its filthy rcccsses the follow
ng catalogue CT offences against tho late ndninstra
ion. 4