Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-12-03
charge made to be literally correct Aud twill give

I Sa. anu navigation. For which he received
So1" eHu~ Pay TOT composition. which he could not
nave Claimed by his contract rs public printer, which
consisted OF only 500 pages. lie ordered on the
,a .. to ptn, only seven thousand copies
,or DOM Houses. About the 2olh of May, each mem
Der ut the Senate received copies. uut of IL Gu.
pies to wh each member was entitled. The remain.
copies. are now. in November, just arriving in
bundles by mal-more than nine months after he re.
eeved the order for printing; time cnoush to have
sent u round the world. had he used the same sIes.
Message.
Tn" document was Of immense importance to
the american merchants, well a large portion
OF other cizens. And the only object which Con.
gress nau IN view. in ordering thousand to- be
printed. vas that the members might send them M,
immediately to their constituents that the grea, mass
OF me community might he early informed upon these
Interesting subjects Instead OF answering that pur.
pose, t"ey answer no other purpose but to give a
good money job to the public printer whenever he
the mail "
The Report Of the Commissioners the NAVY r,,d
fund OF charity by the General Government for the
support OF disabled and wounded seamcn was ordered
in. until the Esd of March; more than months il,v
During all that time, those meri,orous invais were
starving.
Tie ordered about the LIST of February N r;,,
ooo0 copies ct Mr.. Cambre.ngs report, which were
not all delivered until the Sth of March. This renor,
was OF more Importance to the Southern States than
any Other report that has been made Congress for
the last ten years 1t proved to a demonstrations tho
ruinous tendency of the Tariff system Alter the 1s
few copies were delivered, it sent to the CITY nj
New York; there went through new edition in
pamphlet form, and returned to Washington about The
time General Green delivering in his last Comics
There were about 10000 copies of the report of the
committee on Indian Affairs, ordered to be printed,
some time III February. Ills first copies were eiv.r
eel on The 3D. ut March, and the last the Sd of Apri
ms report was also one ut great Importance to the
whoe community, and especially to the Southern
states. u was reprinted in newspapers more Than
500 miles from Washington, and returned and rad
there, whilst Gen. Green was yet delivering on, the
originals with as sparing hand he could have de.
Ilvcrel ont the last leaves OF The SSylline verses h
he presided over that relic.
These cases make good my charge in my letter. of
which Ien Green complained SO much. that he pro.
g'esscd so slowly with the public printing th,t ~,
could get no documents To send to our Constituents
And they prove more. They prove that Gen Gree,
bal more public printing 10 perform than he was able
To despatch, consistent with The public in.cres, oil,
out giving hun another large and important ob IN Ia
on his hands until lie coul;l find a more conyen.n,
season to dispose off And fine was e. I'M Febrnarv
ln,', November furnishing the report on Commerce
ind Nave Hion of only thousand copies of three
hundred and four pages each, when would he finish |
weuty- thousand, five hundred volumes of 500 M,
;es eachi and execute all the other public printing in
he mean time! Then ask, who would have en- |
''oyed him at any price, if the work was ever to he
lone? WV ~ oe
The delay in publishing these reports entirely de
cats every object Congress had i'm view BEFORE ,b.y
IRE finished, they published all over the Un;teJ
'ta'es IN every newspaper. Then there is no induce
nent Tor members to send them their
Al" '"cy TIC aOOu' IN pheS stale and useless.
ent TO the post Offices and never taken out unIess
or waste paper The public printer is paid more
han twenty thousand dollars year for printing IF
his character, that nobody reads nor wants We h.v.
al no comments upon this of the public mn.
lies. took occasion, the motion Of Mr. Crun,Iv
rese'nd the Gales & Seaton resolution to read in
ne senate ene complaints of General Green in his let
er to me, OF the delay had imputed tn him in nuh
shing the documents. And I adduced the repor, of
ir Cambreieng, and the report of the committee on
indian affairs, evidence of the correctness of ,be
Udrge. Sant- anI .,k.l
ct speaking. he sent mr. III pencil, the original of
'hch the following is copy:
Mr. Sreen requests as act of Justice that Ny
NTH should say that the Indian reports, and Mr.
report were delayed on account of the
+vs'on OF the proofby the gentlemen who drew them
""esPecully,
Recevm. this peaci in this strange way and unw;nr
DO injustice TO Gen Green. to read il, winch
10 10 the Senate, and said II had done nIs,ice was
ms 70 repair that injury And the delay had been occa
by the neglect Of those who drew those reports hy no,
Soneraied Upon this, Judge White who drew the Ind,ao
ePon and who neglected his duty any thin, rose
w ucnen ue charg and said he had attended examined
re proof at the beginning Of wosk Besides hn,v could
General res have sent them in for month the proofs had
o oeen ad Did he send some without proofs and other,
for month. ~ ~ "'oPP"s
II General Green had n.,,cc,ed HE d,
sponsoy vhy not So instead irving in the face Of
&c 10 sn The responsibility upon Judge White? Gene
~ eeh certainty believed he could cenUre he pleas
M VINE what he pleased, and dare call him To ac
cunt or he could never have put himself into this pchcarcn,
f,rpPn
ut as MS assertions his nnuendos, and his editorial rcm,.
ave Nseea'eh every thing connected Gales
~ esou"n To such monstrous pitch evidently to SET The
more conmniy against every dared to vote for thai
solution have given this fact belonging 10 that reso
'on !" shew with what grains Of allowance
weighed. " a' '"")rc', ateto DE
nave already gwen the Yeas and Nays as published nv
General Green in his Telegraph the 22nd of lamar ny
~ LV'ngstons motion, that the number of volumes sho,d
Wv Nce'd ~ "ponYwhich the Yeas 90 and the NAYS
M my nan'e recorded in the affirmative. Which he had
ff.ay " .n INC senate Journal have by me now the
;o"," s Of the 2ls, of January, Of which his
Gaio OF the 2lnh is literal copy, in which NV name
ccorded also among the 40 Affirmative votes E ~ .6a.
y ms own pubca'ion AMI in defiance the Senate Jornal
anu N defiance of everv moral principle General Green
ss nc,y asserted four different times IL four different
!. ee addressed to by name in the Teleeaph
o"m, s npI' that, iDoed nganst limiting me roork 10 10
RAD ne only have SAID onoe Il mich, bo y. been
10 accdenf mr. mistake, hut IN have been
on upon nSs'h fact has wanonIv ,.ns,,a
o" '"nes Anh what IS still extraordinary mo-, a.
ne makes calculations that the number of cones ,
p'''ne" ny tales a. Seatou would have been 30 ~,
nu ine sun 10 he given would amounted TO one million
eo nnu-h and thirteen thousand dollars All of which h
yS "oud have been given Gales Seacn had NV vote
~ iheir favour succeeded "' "'" wy '"'e
" Pe'iecy aware hat some gentlemen who NAV read
~ may say, ought not To have noticed those
en- nt