The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-03-02
WHOLE NO. 3Os2.
MR.. BURGESS SPEECH.

Sehan from New York. Fer myself, would lei
b him pass. 1t is kind of Domitian amusement.
n this killing flies with bodkin. Gladly would
h say with the COMMUNICATION of Uncle Tobey to
.he niue ouzzng inconvenience (when have him
: IN my ma1o'I 20 poor insect, go; the world 10
n surely wide enough for thee and me-
have some apology for giving some attention
to the speech of the gentleman from New York:
n Inc place, however 1t may be filed. does give 4
KIND ef character to what is said or done in IT,:
no matter how utterly nconsiderable, or even con-
.enPIoie person may De, when ever a constit6.
tOnal portion OF the people has placed him At ona
OF these desks, replying to what he NAV have said.
though It may not be very credtable vet must ba
/ excusable, in any member of this House. The Ro.
mans were wont to place ,rooden imGge in their
garuehs' as the special protector Of the place and
Horace has related 10 US the soliloquy of one Of
these Roman deities, wherein he gives some ac-
count OF his own apotheosis: I" tras said the
rnapus useless log, unta the carpenter took nns
IN hand Dat he has ncsc tgorked me up into O
god" Jhe people of Nav York can surely turn
out as good work as the Roman Carpenter
We are by this learned and Hon. gentleman re.
preached for a want Of magnanimity and ers
told that no objection, for any such cause was
maze by hiG and his party to any appropriation
Inc true difference between his and our efforts
VIII be found IN this; we labor 10 sare money
from Illegal and useless appropriation he labored
to abuse those who had, in pursuance of legal and
useful appropriation, honestly paid it away.
What were the doings of this magnanimous gen.
tleman in committee of which he was remark.
able member. Here is the record-book of that
committee have selected, as an ordinary sam.
pie OF this gentlcman's labors of retrenchment.
TOUR cases; and viii trouble the House with few
! quotations, and few remarks upon them.
| [Mr. Burgess here went into an examination of
the proceedings of Committee of which Mr..
Cambreleng was Chairman in 1925 by whom the
administration of Mr.. Adams was censured for the
expenditure of money for salaries in several cases.
when the committee held that no ADEQUATE service
was performed lie first noticed at much length
the cases of Daniel P. Cook and j. ii. Peasants
who were employed in diplomatic services, and
showed that they were much better entitled to the
compensation paid them than Mr.. Randolph Is
He then proceeded
The case of Mr. Brooks is another on this rec.
ord. He was Clerk in the Office the Treasi-
ry. Grown OLD and becoming enfeebled his fell
low clerks, with generosity Of purpose peculiar
TO themselves, performed his duties in the hours
oil recess, or by extra labor, and permitted this
aged and destitute man to receive one half of the
salary. This instance of redoubled diligence and
charitable provision for superanuated fellow-la-
Dorer IN these generous men, is set down in the
genteman's diary of abuses, and the Executive 10
censured, because this aged man, with his family
was not thrown out TO perish in the streets.
The case of Anthony Morris is another. He is
clerk In the Registers office. Mr.. Morris is an
old man. is one of those few veterans of the revou-
tlon and old Congress now alive, who by their EN-.
poyment and memory connect the present with tho
past Government. He is literary man, the on!J
one, says Mr.. Michael Nourse in the Office
What of that? In consideration of his advanced
age, nhrm health, and that of his daughter, he
NIGH. be absent from the service three months ia
the year-one month more than the ordinary al.
loWance to all the clerks
This case, sir, is by the magnanimity OF the gen.
tIeman, marked down among the instances of gross
Executive abuse. What can the gentleman reply
% these exploits Of his magnanimity?
+ leave it to the nation to compare Rufus King
with John Randolph; and the Mission of one to
England vita that OF the other to Russia let them
also compare the recess of Mr.. Brown, Minister to
France, after years of service, and after sending
hcme his resignation let them say run the paral-
lei between this recess of Mr.. Brown for few
days to the south of France or the Lake of Gene
va and the Hegira Of John Randolph, after a ten
days visit from ST. Petershurgh to some place. no
one can tell where, in England. The people will
do justice in all these cases.
The gentleman from New York has thrown his
ponderoslty into the scale of panegyrc thereby to
render the weight of eulogy the Russian Minis
ter everwhelming-scrap iron increases the weight
not the value Of good. lie does admit some sort Of
himself in eloquence-to Lowndes, to Clay, ard
to Webster. Cicero took his family name from q,
bean on some part Of his face; and doubtless many
4 coxcomb has believed himself ~ be an orator,
Somebody has said that Man, of all the animal
creation, alone is endowed with vanity" Who
ever saw the Cock Sparrow measuring his wing in
fight with the Falcon believe there are gem
tleman in this House who could give us good rea-
sons why the eloquence of the orator of Roanoke
is so well recolected by the gentleman from New
| York. No worker on the Roanoke plantation has
| better reasons to remember the eloquence of the
overseer. Much that eccentric man loved his
! joke and his sarcasm; he loved his fame more
] md he hava Cd la.b tk,t@
| could he have suspected it might bring him into
the poor condition of enduring praise at the hands
| of the gentleman from New York. Such revenge
for such cause, said to he peculiar to that gem
temen, and one species of one other among
! us.
Has the gentleman so long been a mere adiec-
/ tive to the Secretary of State that he thinks il
slanderous to associate the name Of that politician
with any other accident? Children, in these sci.
entifc times who have advanced somewhat into
the mysteries of chemistry do after beating up soap
! and water together in basin, amuse themselves
with clean pipe in blowing up bubbles and send.
ing them off from the bowl inflated and glitterina,
| to sail away moment, and then burst and vanish
| INTO their original nothngness For ought know
J the Secretary may be amusing himself by the same
! innocent experiment. Who would interrupt the
sentimental harmony of Political friendships For
all which he is distinguished, the character Of tho
Secretary is fixed; it cannot be elevated by any
labos of the protege-it cannot be lotuered by the
straw in the way of any mans advancement.-
Their friends are daily carrying and laying at the
gate Of the Treasury, those who have every thing
to recommend them ercspt the pisty and good
tc0rkS of the heggar in the parable and who, all
alike, desire to be fed from the crumbs which fail
from the tables of those feasting within. :" Hope
deferred" we find, does 'tnot make every heart
sick" Gentlemen, doubtless, have assurances that
each political Lazarus shall be served in his turn
: The next basket of broken meat brought out may
be sent to New York, and amply satisfy the spps.
tite, sharpened by two years want Of
The gentleman accuses me OF departure from
the question TO bring into the debate late trsa'
ty with the Sublime Porte. Sir, every thing rem
dering our Russian relations important, comes into
any question concerning them. Do not our new
relations with the great European rival Of Russia,
demonstrate more strongly our need OF an eticent
e mission at the Court Of St PetersburghI The
r Secretary has told us in the Message, that the
Black Sea has been opened to usby our treaty with
the Sublime Porte. The gentleman does know