Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-02-21

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crease about nii On and half; for the FIVE
years there was mo increase of any moment and twice
there dinnution. The years 1882 and 1888 had
run to large amounts and that by the which he
had shown; that If the author of the Report had taken
Tor he basis OF ms comparison the OF regular
expenditure, he would have found increyse = .5out
two millions only instead of duplication of eleven mil
lions; result which, while it would have presented
something for reformation would have presented nothing
tor revolution for turning out the party in power,
and putting m their opponents who the real authors
o. every thing which requires reform.
Having shown the falacy of the Report in its exhibit
oil the extravaganza OF the Government, having shown
IFS enormous in stating that this great increase had
taken place during period of profound peace, when in
fact there was Indian the Upper Mississippi!
and when not occurred TO unusual
pendituye when in fact millions of the cxpen-
dures were for objects not only unusual but never ex-
is.ing before since Mr. b. would say word and
but word, upon It's cOrreative part the increase of
persons paid by the Government or fed by lis bounty
In ie21 the whole number 55777, in 1888, I00,O73
This saii Mr.. b., is almost double but how did it
happen why, from carrying the pensioners up from
about $1,000, to- about 10000 adding multtudes for
Internal Improvement, and the custom houses in
sequence of the two tariffs of 1924 and 1923 re-
curing many persons TO superintend the removal of In
dans many to survey and sell the newly acquired lands
and whole regiment of Dragons for the defence of the
Western frontier In these items and Others the
OF the Increased numbers will be found; some few of
them necessary and Indispensable that the dragoons
some necessary and temporary, those for removal
OF INDIANS ana lncrna! improvements some lawful,
though the expedency of the law questionable those
for carrying into effect the complex provisions of the
new tarH laws; some amazing, and almost incredible
the lncrease otpesoners the bare statement of whose
numbers, fraud Of stupendous magnitude,
and implies Generalization of public morals, of fright
full enormity.
The disnissions from office next engaged Mr. b. IS at
tention The affected moderation az ionguage ,n,lr
which this topic brought forward in the Report
the violence with which il concluded particularly
pointed ont Remarks of party character were dis
claimed and the disclaimer Instantly followed by
series OF the most violent and offensive remarks party
character. The present Administration was charged
with having reduced to system the practice of
ing from Office for opinion sake The assertion though
veied and slightly made TO the form of hypothesis
was nevertheless clear and explicit in the Report that
the honest and capable were dismissed to make for
the base and corrrp that Offices the spoils of vic
toy INC rewards oil parzan service and the means OF
substituting lavsorslp FOR patriotism, encourag ing vice
and dscouragng virtue preparing for the subversion o
berty and the establishment of despotsm and converting
the entire body OF oce-holders into corrupt and supple
instruments power Such he said the language of
Report which set out with formal disclaimer of par
" spirit and partisan remarks. In defending the Adj
mnlsration from such fragrant charges, MIR b. would
first discriminate between which had been much
conounded and abused and then show that the removals
made by President Jackson like those made by President
Jefferson, the legitimate results of the previous sys
appointments and were necessary not only to the
safety and success Of Democratic Administrations but
due act OF justice the great Democratic party of
the Union Terms, lie said, were coniounded When
man had been hve ten twenty, forty years in office,
and failed TO bc reapponed at the end of his second
third fourth or fifth term of four years. it called
dsmssion and the cry OF persecution set up. This
Nlr B SAID might be correct phraseoogy with those
who thought offices ought to be for life, and eventually
hereditary, but il was pbrasroIogy repudatcd in the
democratic school, where the doctrine Of right Office
rcpudatcd and the right of rotation was nculcatcd
with respect to the fact OF resulted
general from appointments. The elder MIR Adams APP
pointed none but edcrasts; and Mr. jefferson had 10
tErn portion Of them out in order get in portior
/ the repuolicansj and Mr. Jefferson had told him,
b. that he had never carried changes far enough III
| he had not done justice to his party So of Pres
dent jackson. the Younger MIR Adams followed Che Mai
of his father and President jackson had to follow the
course of ME Jefferson Mr.. b. said that his recon-
mcndation for any Office in his own State was worth no.
thing during the whole Administration OF Mr. Adams and
the latter part Of the administration of Mr. MOnroe and
the Stale TO this day contained persons in Office
former Administrations Doubtless, he said, President
Jackson had made unfortunate appointments; he
himself had made some unfortunate rccomne ndations
though he had made but few; but it was ncontcstiby
true that many of those who had been dismissed, not
reapPonted were themselves prcscribers of those who
were I thelr power dsHssing not only clerks and un-
der officers for political opinions, but mechanics, work
men, ard laborcrs Yes, the day aborer, when he
would not prostitute his vote TO the National Republic
cans and the Bank, has been dismissed from his labor
The unregulacd state of the dcposite banks was an
other Of Executive patronage which the report
had strongly and emphatcally dwell upon. OF all
b.. except ono thing which he would mention in tie
proper place, had astonshed him so much as this -
Not that there not increase Of Executive patron
age from this source, but tha the President should be
repoached with in this Senate by the author of this
report, and the majority of the Committee from which
| II came. What is hc fact? exclaimed MIR b Did not
this Senate twice refuse at their last session. pass any
law 10 regulate the Opposite Banks? Did the naio-
rity of this committee twice refuse to pass bill for that
purpose Did not the author of the Report twice refuse
TO attempt to regulate these Banks Are not the
of these GeiusaS recorded in journals preserved
| our memories, and known TO the whole body Of the
American People And after that, is the Senate the
place from which a rcproach come, and fearful
trembling, awful apprehensons for the safety of the Re
public, can be Putiorh, account of the Unreguated
condition Of these Opposite Banks without exciting
in the first place, feeling of the utmost possible
constituent; and, in the place a feeling very diff
ferent from astonishment, and of which the Senate
should never aspire itself the object? Mr. b.
would dismiss this topic uplv exciting the remi-
niscenccs, the novel writers -, it, which belonged
to this occasion, and leave il to those who Tefused-
twice refused, only nine months ago, comply with
tho Executive recommendation Go regulate these Banks
and shiver with terror sucha ohinqs and would
leave it to them, and pretty little task they might find
it, to reconcile their conduct then with their conduct
now
The transfer drafts said Mr. 3d. have claimed the at
tention Of the Report They proposed to DC proh
bicd in future except for the bona fde purpose Of trans
erring public moneys from place another, for the
benefit Of the public service To dis Mr.. u had no OBJ
lection. lie in favor Of using the power or the
money Of the Federal Government to sustain banks in
future Time when The Government was under
virtual duresse do It, Fifteen or twenty years ago.
for example, when the Government was itself depend
en tie paper system, and obliged TO support that
system to preserve Its revenues. Time was, also,
when IL was only light, but laudahlc i'm the Govern
mcnt TO sustain the local banks and that the
mcnccmcnt Ofthc panic operations Of the last year. when
the explosion Of the State banks the criminal policy
Of the Bank Of the United States aud the Of that
policy frustrated by the ntcrposton Of the Sccrc
ary Of the Treasury, through the fundamentally Of
transfer drafts But llcsc times have gone by. They
have passed away; and return until the
/ Federal Government shall commit the consumpatc
folly Of creating another mammoth bank, cntang
linz itself the fate of local banks bv continuing to