The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-02-22
LETTERS FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. February 9

WASHINGTON, February Q.
TIE speech of Mr.. Holmes in the Senate
brought up great mass of facts in support of tie
American System. 4 statistical discussion a
best is dry, but MIR. Holmes contrived to enliver
1T by occasional episodes, that commanded all al
tention. will report of his episodes as vel
as my memory will permit, prefacing the remark
that it was delivered with SO much good humo
that even Jackson men enjoyed the loke.s
Mr.. Holmes, after stating the increased and in
creasing wealth Of the south, cotton CROWN.
States, remarked, Here, sir, you little more
than one sixth Of the whole population, doubled in
twenty years, nearly doubling the value of its pro.
duets in ten, and furnishing in a single article
more than half of your domestic exports with
all these indications Of prosperity, you witness
discomfort complaint and lsnentation The Ia
riff must be abolished altogether and then Ju5i.
lee The gentleman from South Carolina wants
a Jubilee What, another, and so soon too Sir,
the one which you have will not expire az soonest
until the 18th of March 1888, and now YOU would
have another the back of this The tribes of
Israel land they were discontinued peoplel were
satisfied with one year in fifty. Then all debts
were annulled all prisoners released, and those
who had in any way been deprived of their lands.
bad them restored. The poor Indian, | think
would be satisfied with one such jubilee as this
But the 4th. of March 1929, you blew the trum-
pet and the jubilee was announced for four wears
al least; and | am sure more and greater bles-
sings we're anticipated than the :sraelites ever en-
:sed, and very much too realized. Editors
Postmasters and Contractors were to have Office =
and it tcaS So Friends were to be rewarded and
enemies punshed-aDd it tcds so, with a ven
geance-.and even friends there looking to Mr.
Calhoun) were massacred, who were stumbling
block in the road to ambition Reform was to be
thorough and it is thorough, that the President
is engaged most Of his time in reforming his own
reformation. The Bank was TO be abolished, and
a new one established based upon the public re-
sources and there is so large surplus of these,
all were to come and have what money they want
ed mean all the friends of the administr ation
and ii is sO-that is, if the question can be post
poned, until after the nert election. And in sddi-
ton to these you have enjoyed, and are enjoying
many things which were not promised. The Pres
ident has done what no other man ever did or can
do. He has, il were, annhilated space. An
American Minister is near to the Court to
which he is appointed SO long rs he can get no
further off, lie has moreover invented a suit of
politics fit for every size and form. Are you de.
mocrat? See my first Cabinet. Poor fellows
Are you federalist? See my last, four 70 one.
The iederalists have been so long neglected, that
am determined to make up lost time. Are you
against appointing members of Congress to Office
See my precepts. Are you fit for il ? See my
practice. Are you against Internal improvements?
see my Maysville ueto Are you for them ? See
an act oiihe same day, embraaing the same prin-
e'p'es, and approved, Andrew Jackson Are
you Tor nuilihcatonl ! had no power lido you
see y oexecute law or even treaty, against
the WIN OF sovereign State Are you against
u keadEly letter to the Charleston dinner eaters
are you against the Bank 7 Read my first mes
sage. Are YOU for it7 Read INV lac, Ara
10 come TO the subject directly before us, are
you ior OF against a protective tariff On this
snpJecl, am this, that, ot nothing-precisely as
you please, gentlemen. Now, with al these bles.
slngs pourl"s ~ upon you, looking 10 Mr.. Haynel
lee. What delightful variety Are Won soD DJV Of
VARIETY lfyou are. you can ever e.nect ~
greater than under this non-descript adaoi, a
Remember that the South ia ver, ,,,,a, a.
coniented with the Jackson Jubilee snd AZ, "o uls
enjoy this sarcastic parade OF contrarie,es VII
contains an abridgement Of the sins Of the .d,,;a
istration. Portland Advertiser wv 'u'"'h-
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.
have some odd news to tell you. The lion
Toafs the palace - shaking Read This and zee