Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-03-16
MONDAY MORNING, MARCH IS, 1880.

MONDAY MORNING, MARCH Is, 1880.
10 Mr.. Bartons former speech will be sufficient
provocative to the perusal of the now published
The reader will not understand some of its illusions
without explanation. Some months ago, Gales &
Seaten proposed to publish collection of old ant
valuable Documents, connected with the history o
the Government, at stated and usual prices. At the
motion of Mr. Livingston of Louisiana, the resolution
was passed by the Senate, after arduous struggle
uuthorisng subscription to the work for the usua
number of copies. This was no sooner DONE than the
Editor OF the Telegraph and his echoes throughout
the country represented the resouionsas comforting
aparty gratuity on the publishers, at the expense o.
the Treasury-that the work was one hundred ne,
cent too highland that the opposition had awaited
themselves of an opportunity when nine Jackson Sc
nators were ABSENT to smugge the resolution through
the Senate To prove that it too high, Duff and
several others, offered to do for less In reply to
this, 1t was answered, that the resolution was intro
duced by Mr.. Livingston, a Jacksonian-that TAKING
into the estimate the labor of selection and digestion
the work was not too high as was proved by the tes-
tinnony of Wells g. Lilly, and other eminent printers
and that the opposition to it, was nothing more than
Duff desire to get ready money job and his friends
luton thus passed. the Committee of Finance report
ed the appropriation bill with propiso, directing no
money to be paid for printing, without special ap
preparation. [This by the way unnecessary
as sptefu as the contingent fund of the Senate not
being charged with the payment for the Documents
special law requisite of course
Phis will be clue to the reader for understanding
some passages of Mr.. Bartons speech. He Iashes
rs they deserve, those miserable s'palace slaves, ?
who clothed with the reflected majesty of the people
prostitute it at the shrine of the idol-whose igno-
rance md erocous mbecilty, they despise in their
hearts.
In very few days, we shan present the Debate in
chief, on the subject of printing the Documents. AL
together, have been more Disguised than at
the course which that affair took-a disgust which
The reader will Participate when he understands the
particulars.
~ It appears by the following letter to the Editor
of the Baltimore Patriot, that Lees appointment to
Algiers, was unanimously rejected by the Senate-a
tremendous rebuke" indeed, to the "greatest and
best" who, with equal contempt for morals, and
for public opinion, appointed that abandoned profit
gate TO the station.
THE fraudulent cunning of withholding the nomi-
nations from the Senate last March, when they were
already determined upon, and mos, of them indeed
were announced 10 few days after the Senate adj
Journed-is now visible. Lee will have pocketed
the outfit, intermediate salary and Unfit having staid
Just so long at Agiers, as to make more money by
the job than if he had staid longer. Another Con
sui General must now be sent out TO Arers, and a
new outfit be provided for him. Lees appointment
however, one of the duties inscribed on the Elk
ecutive banner and his recall, under the cireum.
stances, is "Retrencbment." MIR. CbtoD's homel,
figure is made matter Of rcproach to him, but fol
our part, VIC like it much. Much cry and little
WOOL" as the Devil said when he shcared the hog
Who that remembers the discussions under the re-
trenchment resolutions two years ogo--the inyec-
ives the exoggeraons of abuses the insults to the
then Executive, the coaxing of the People the pro-
muses. OF Reform and Retrenchment, to be executed
when they got the power-and secs the fruits of that
mighty tempest of humbuggery, in the abolition Q
one single Office of $780, (the Draflsmanl-but mus
detest the actors in that scene of unequaIed cant
fraud, and imposition Where is the deerenc,
between political and moral liar, at last?
Lee will then come home in time to finish the )il
ofthc Hero, under his own ocular inspection. Deem
ed unworthy of companonship with the Dey of 81
glers, by the unanimous voice Of the American Sc
Tate, the biographcr has however, The consolation O