Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1838-06-27
VOLUME MINK, NO. Is.

ol the prophet, you had asked /; "Why
weepeth my lord 7" how would yo,
have been astonished in being told
what the people Of this country have
since realized
imagine, sir, the inspired one locking
through the vista of few brief years
and saying, You will be placed in
power, bo, will greatly increase the
amount Of public expenditures. You
VIII use the offices and patronage of
the country for private and not for
public good. You will create Offices
for iayorites. You will enlarge the
Executive power. You will deny the
right TO call for reasons on a removal
from office, and IN few years will re-
move more than 1000 persons from Of
fice for opinions sake You will de-
range and CORRUPT the Post Office De.
partment, which you now admit TO be
sound, and you will not reform any Of
your designated abuses in the other de.
partments. You will appoint moro
members OF Congress to Office in four
years than has been done in all the
past history of the government. Your
bull for the abolition Of the power and
patronage over the Press, viii sleep
the sleep Of death. You will /" retain
the post office, the armed force, and
the appointing power in the hands Of
the President, md will not suffer them
to change position and take post with
the People," You now censure small
appropriation to purchase some addi-
tlonal furniture for the Presidents
house, but you will furnish that house
IN luxurious style for Gen. jackson,
who will be succeeded by Mr.. Var
buren,; and he, not content with the
secondhand furniture Of his predeces.
sor, will cast II off and make his entry
INTO that edifice, with one appropria-
ton OF 81, 800 lor alterations of the
house and superintendent Of tho
grounds, and another appropriation OF
$50 900 for new furniture and this.
too, IN the very year when your pub.
lie treasury will be bankrupt. You
VIII increase the expenses Of foreign
missions and suffer your Ministers to
return home on such brief service M
will show their appointments 10 have
been made for individual gain, rather
than public good. You will increase
the contingent expenses Of this House
from $4,000, the present annual a.
mount, to 100000. You wifi add IN
the like expenses OF the Senate, and to
all other public expenditures in the Same
ratio; and the same total Tor the whole
civil list, and ordinary appropriations
OF the Government, which is now $12,-
l63,d3s, will be increased from time
TO time under your boasted reform, un-
I'll it shall exceed thirty millions per
year
You now question the right OF De-
partment to purchase print or ike
ness of the immortal Washington. bur
viii decorate every room in all the
departments with portraits Of Martin
Van Buren,. You will, by means Of
the "the Office. holders" the "enlis.
ted soldiers" ms you have Just called
them, bring the patronage Of the Gem
eral Government into conflict with tho
freedom Of elections, and you will re-.
slst the bill that shall be brought in 10
secure the freedom Of those elections.
You, Mr.. Randolph, will 90 upon what
you now call a sleeveless errand.u
ami, after saluting tho Emperor Of
Russia, will make pleasant soiourn
in "old England" and return to your
estate in Virginia. You, Mr.. Buch-
auan, will become Gan Office. holder
and enlisted soldier, go on the very
mission 10 Russia which you are now
censuring, and will pocket the els, 900
for ga twelve-month and days"
service. You, TO the gentleman from
New York; Mr.. CAMBRELEro, will
oppose vote against the very mea-
sure which you now report and recon-
mend, for reducing the pay OF men,
bers, as n means Of shortening the ses-
sion Of Congress. You, Mr.. Steven
son, will be made Speaker OF this
House, and appoint its committees,
and dispense its rules, with the promise
of foreign mission in your pocket
You, MIR. Benton, will vote to lay on
the table the bill which you now re-
port to take the patronage ofthe press
from the government, and your report
on executive patronage, with its six
accompanying bills so lmpressingly in
troduced, will prove to have been but
as sounding brass and tinkling SYM
bols ~ You, Mr.. Van Buren,, who
now, as member Of the committee on
executive patronage, report bill 70.
curing reasons to be assigned for re-
moving an incumbent from Office, will
be made Secretary Of Estate, and IN due
time President, but, from tho moment
you obtain power, you will forget your
principles. You, Mr.. Dickerson, also