Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-03-26
SPEECH OF Mr.. KING, OF ALABAMA.


The Speech Of this Senator in defence
of tho famous THREE MILLIONS, which
his accommodating friends would have
placed at the disposition Of Gen. Jack
son, having been circulated last week
through the columns Of the Jackson pa
pers in this State, we intended to have
met its statements by the reply of MIR.
LEIGH, Of Virginia, who, without an OPP
portunity Of recurring to documents, ov-
erthrcw, at the moment, all its deceptive
arguments. Since then. however, we
have met with the following communica-
ton in the National lntelligenccr Of
March l4th, which by opposing plain
matters Of fact to the Senator's ignorance
or wilful misstatement Of legislative his
tory, will answer our purpose better even
than the reply Of Mr.. Leigh. 1t is
scarcely conceivable by us, that a gen.
tlcman who has served so long in public
life us Mr.. King, and who, though a
man Of very ordinary talents and ac-
quirements, is supposed by many to have
familiar acquaintance with the details
Of business, should have been willing in
Lis place in the Senate, to have risked
his reputation on such palpable mis-
statements. II deceived by his memo
ry or the procipitanco Of his zeal in de-
fence of the administration, it only fur
nishes another example Of the strange
errors into which men may be led by the
inlatuation and rccklessness of the spirit
Of party:
TIE LAST NICuT-AND THE s., 900, 900 BILL.
Gentlemen Your country paper Of
y esterday, contains tho debate in the Sc
nate on the Bill placing three millions Of
dollars in the hands of the President, TO
be used at his discretion. To justify
this most extraordinary measure, and to
liken it to others in the early part Of our
Government, Mr.. King, Of Alabama, is
reported to have said--"During the
whole period of Gen. Washington's Ad-
ministration, and the elder Adams, all
appropriations were general-applying a
gross sum for the expenditure Of the DIFF
ierent departments OF the Government,
under The direction of The President; and
it was not until after MIR. Jefferson came
into Office, that, at his recommc ndation
specific appropriations were adopted. -
Now n more gross and palpable error
than this was never made by any man in
Congress, or out Of it. And am amaz-
ed, gentlemen, that you, who know bet
ter, should have permitted this poison to
have gone forth to the People-w without
sending with it the antidote. 1t is no
wonder that Republican government
makes such slow progress in the world !!
"During the whole Of General Wash
ington's Administration" the appropria-
tions Of money made by Congress for the
public service, were specific, and not as
the Senator has stated, "general," and
"under the direction of the President. -
Even the old SIR hundred thousand dollar
fund, TO defruy the expenses of the whole
Civil & Diplomatic Departments, Those
Departments now requiring between two
and three millions, was Gu, up into forty
or filty parcels, and specific sppropria-
tion made Of each. Turn to the laws.
gentlemen, and the printed statemen nts,
and to the books, and show the People
in what "gross" manner they are at
tempted to be imposed upon in this mat
ter. The only law passed during MIR.
Jeflerson's Administration, for the more