Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1837-10-21
From the Phil. Com. Herald.
FRAUD, REGULATION. AND CORFU
TION PROVED.


TION, PROVED.
Those who would see specimen Of the man.
ner in which the people cheated out of their
money by the honest office-holders of the Govern
mcnt. are referred to the proceedings OF Congress
After reading the affidavit of Mr. Smith. they
will scarcely be at loss to know what has become
of a large amount of those surplus funds under
which the public treasury was, but short time
since, grooming, but which have now become SO
unavailable that the Treasury, according to MIR.
Chambrelengs statement, is unable TO pay. IN spc-
Gle little draft of hundred dollars. We have,
over and over again, said that the government
office-holders were corrupt, and that they were
filing their pockets at the expense of the people
We have now a case upon which we can put our
finger to prove the assertion tact-a damning
fact-proved by the aflidav of respectable wit
ness. This fact may astonish some. who, having
eyes, have seen not, and cars, have heard not;
but it does not astonsh us,-we doubt not the eX-
istence of ten thousand cases of worse complex
ION than this; but they unknown to the people,
and are likely be ''kcpt dark long the
"spoils' party have the power to prevent the APP
pointment of an honest committee to tho inyeS
tigation. such as Mr. Wisc's resolution calls for.
What to think of party which, when
such monstrous frauds and populations gross as
this are brought to light shown that there must
have been others of similar kind perhaps
! refuses to appoint committee of Invcstig2-
ton when demanded BY 4 representative of
ton, in the name of 'sVirtuc, Liberty, and Indie
pendence," have we at length reached, when the
Government party dare not appoint an honest
committee when demanded by the people, to nves
tigate their affairs! Is Denmark rotten? Are
they afraid to let the people where and how
millions and millions Of their own money have
gone! They once had the audacitv to declare
that ''TO THE VICTORS BELONG TIE
SPOiI.S" and that they, being the victors, had a
right to divide these among themselves; let then
now MAINTAIN their consistency. and show tina
they want not the effrontery to avow any act o
; robbery they had the courage to commit. We re
spcct those reckless robbers who come forth be
: fore the world in open day and defy the consti,u
ted authorities, while despise the sneaking val
lain who, wof-like prowls in the dark, and stink:
u away to his hidden den the moment he hears thu
'swatch-dog's homes, bark avoiding alike the hu
man eye, and the light of heaven.
The government party hold the key of the den
in which ''the spos'' of the people have been dc
d posted; they asked TO let the people look in
:; 70 these dcns, to which so MANY tracks lead bu
u from which none arc seen; but they refuse Ar,
these the men who pretended much love AM
9 regard for the people, and who came into powe
+ with the battle-cry of ''RETRENCHMENT &
,. REFORM'!-Menw who have grown rich upo
= ''the spoIls," and who now refuse to appoint al
honest and impartial committee TO ferret out an
: expose corruption! Aye, these the very mer
. Farmers and Mechanics, what think you of sue
IL friends? such patriotsi Will YOU take them I
: your bosom and give them your confidence? Wi
you allow them TO hug you with loving embrace
If so, beware of your pockets and look well t.
c your money! lest it disappear, and YOU get M
it committee to investigate your loss-no scarcl
, warrant to enable yoG to open the chest int
l. which you know your property has convey
ed.
We will only remark, that if the people sus la
an administration, guilty this is, of shieldin
public robbers and preventing their viIlany fror
y being exposed to the world, they will deserve tn
= contempt and of the friends of lbert
= drought the universe, and will most assured
a bring 1t upon themselves. Let all those VIII
ID would live under the rapaious, spos-shareng go,
eminent, 60 to the polls and sustain it by the
= votes, and then come home and tell their childre
~ what blessing they have conferred upon them
the act
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