Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-06-23

than has been done III all Inc past history
ofthe Government. Your bill for the alb
clifton of the power and patronage ofthe
Press, will sleep the sleep Of death. You
will retain the press, the post office, the
armed force, and the appointing power in
the hands Of the President, and will not
suffer them TO change position and take
post on the side ofthe People" You now
censure small appropriation to purchase
some additional furniture for the Presl-
dents house, but you will furnish that
house in luxriods style for Gen. Jackson,
who will be succeeded by Mr.. Van Buren,;
and he not content with the secondhand
furniture of his predecessor, will cast it
off and make his entry into that edifice,
with one appropriation Of 1880 dollars,
for alterations Of the house and superin-
tendence of the grounds, and another ap.
preparation Of $4,000 for new furniture,
and this, too, in the very year when your
public treasury will be bankrupt. You
will increase the expenses Of foreign mis-
sions, and suffer your Ministers to return
home on such brief service as will show
their appointments TO have been made for
individual gain, rather than public good.
You will increase the contingent expenses
Of the House from $4,000 dollars, the pre-
sent annual amount, to $4,000 dollars
You will add to the like expenses Of the
Senate, and to all other expenditure in the
same ratio; and sum total for the whole
total civil list, and ordinary appropriations
of the Government, which is now l2, 1885,
438 dollars, will be increased from time to
time under your boosted reform, until it
shall exceed thirty millions per year!
You now question the right ola Depart
ment to purchase print or likeness ofthe
immortal Washington, but will decorate
every room in all the Departments with
portraits of Martin Van Buren,. You will,
by means of the "office holders," the Gen
listed soldiers" as you have just called
them, bring the patronage of the General
Government into conflict with the freedom
Of elections, and you will resist the bill
that shall be brought in to secure the free
dom of those elections. You, Mr.. Ran.
dolph, will 60 upon what you now call a
'sleeveless errand," and after saluting the
Emperor of Russia, will make pleasant
solourn in "od England" and return TO
your estute in Virginia. You, Mr.. Buch-
anan, will become an "oliice holder and
enlisted soldier" 60 On the very mission
to Russia which you are now censuring,
and will pocket the $4,000 dollars for a
"twelye-month and days" service. You,
|. Ito the gentleman from New York; Mr..
Cambreleng, will oppose vote against the
, very measure which you now report and
recommend, for reducing the pay of mem
bers, as a means for shortening the ses-
sions of Congress- You, Mr.. Stevenson,
will be made Speaker of this House, and
appoint its committees, and dispense its
rules, with the promise Of foreign mis-
sion in your pocket. You, Mr.. Benton,
will vote to lay on the table the bill which
you now report to take the patronage ofthe
press from the Government, " your report
on Executive patronage, with its six accom-
panyng bills, so imPoslngly introduced,
! will prove to have been but as sounding
brass and tinkling cymbals" You, Mr..
Van Buren,, who now, as member Of the
committee on Executive patronage, report
a bill requiring reasons to be assigned for
removing an incumbent from office will be
made Secretary Of State, and in due time
President, but, from the moment you OBJ
tain power, you will forget your bill, and
not only violate bu: refuse to be governed
by its principles. You, Mr.. Dickerson,
also member of that committee, will be
made Secretary of the Navy; but the De-
partment will be so mis-managed under
your direction, that it will be truly said OF
: you on the floor Of Congress, "there is
none SO poor as to do him reverence."--
You, Mr.. Woodbury., will take first the Ma
w, and then in the Treasury Department,
and, under your supervision, an attempt
to humbug the People with the promise
Of an exclusive hard money currency, will
resu in the Punishment of all specie, a
bankrupt Treasury, and circulation OF
Shinplasters and Treasury Notes.
Imagine, then, Mr.. Speaker, such re-
Spouse TO have been made at the period OF
time which | have suggested. What
would have been your reply, and what
would Mr.. Buchanan, who made the scrip
tural allusion, have said? Methinks al
most see and hear him exclaim, us thy
servant dog that he should dothis thingW
We are told that, Notwithstanding the
indignation Of Hazel, he reached the
throne ofSyria, by numbering the King
and soon committed all the enormltles
, foretold by the prophet!
Sir, fear that in despite Of the protes-
tations OF Amos Kendall, the promised
sxeform'' was an "empty sound," "inten-
dcd to apply merely to change Of men,"
But leave il for the People Of this coun-
! try to Judge whether their confidence has
not been betrayed and their hopes disap-