Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-08-31

men the scare ming SpetCn VI mE DOuu
first appeared, the Albany Argus undertook
to despatch !, with a numerous paragraph
Of halfa.dozen Understanding its readers
that il was a long story about a few extra
scissors" that had been purchased for the
departmeni-and altogether a matter 1of
great cry and little wool" But people wete
curious 10 know how a retrenching admins
%tration could expend S~l0,000,000 a year
over and above the e~xtravagant annual out
lay of Mr. Adams, in the purchase Of extra
scissors. II seemed TO be an a.
mount Of extra scissors that this money
would buy, and people began TO look into
| Mr. Bonds speech. The Argus found that
its extra scissors would not answer and
some weeks afterwards il felt the necessity
Of explaining the vast increase Of expendi.
lures in some other way. 1t issued accor-
dinghy, four columns and a half OF explana-
llion-lour columns and a half Of apology.
telling how it happens that The General
and Mr. Van Buren, have expended so
much more than they promIsed-but still
failing TO make out an essential point IN
their argument that 500, 100000 per annum
is a smaller sum than $4,000 600.
Mr. Sibley in the New York delegation in
| Congress, and a man ofwhom New York
may justly be proud, has explained this mat
ter much more satisfactorily than the Ar
gus. The story OF the Argus in truth, re.
minds MS for all the world, Of Joe Surfaces
explanation TO Sir Peter Teazle. when the
screen fell and betrayed to the astonished
husband the inirigues OF his sentimental
friend. Joe gives on the occasion what be
calls a true account Of the whole matter"
and of precisely the same character is the
true account Of the Argus, touching Gov
eminent expenditures stammering, slut
tering. blind and Numbering apology, with
out a grain Of truth TO an indefinite quantity
of misrepresentation and mistake.
"Oflhe more Than $50, 900, 900. said Mr.
Sibley. in a debate in the House Of Repre-
sentatiycs on the Harbor Bill-"expended
by this Government during the last year,
how much has come TO the dwellings Of the
People2 Where are the foot prints Of this
mighty exprnditure2 Whdi has become OF
The money! Sir, | will tell you what has
become Of the most OF it. Buried in the
swamps Of Florida gone into the pockets Of
llvotite contractors, al the rate OF forty dol
lars a cord for frewood sown, broad cast
in driving from their homes a few miserable
Indians, al the point Of the b%ayonet, upon
your Western frontier, there to re-appear
like dragons teeth. in n harvest OF armed
men gone TO outfit, Unfit. reft, and mishr
foreign ambassadors who will not stay. anc
exploring expeditions that do not sail; tC
raze to ruins splendid ediices, and make ex
periments in architecture that eannot s,anC
alone 10 add 10 your countless acres OF pub
lie domain more Indian lands. for the bene
fit Of spectators and land companies undeI
pre-empiion laws much Of i, has gone int
the pockets Of Office holders ; much hu,
been sponged OPP By the s,ipendaries anc
mercenaries Of power scattered through al
the highways and by. paths where booty ma,
be secured and no small portion might b,
found, il i, could be oveItaken. in the "safe
l%y.vaults" Of your 'rwo-legged subireasu
ries."
Every syllable Of this is emphatic truth
>. There has been no great work OF permanen
interest and value encouraged, or s%uslaine,
By the present or late administrations Thei
whole career has been a course of lavish
, squandering, profigate and useles disburse
meuis. More than $4,000, 900 have beef
sunk in those most dIsgraceful and abomin
able expeditions, the Indian death hunts il
Florida where our arms have me, W ith ey
cry disaster; where the flower OF our regu
lar army, aud hundreds of citizen soldier
have been prematuIely cut of by the pesti
lence and lomabawk aud where The Amer
lean name has been sullied with disgrace il
the Infamous treachery Of Jesup, that no tim
can ever wash away. The miserable jobbln!
tina, has been carried on in Florida, the far
ming out OF valuable contracts at enornou
rates to ~favorite partizans the p%rodigal an,
wasteiul expenditures that have grown on
Of their various exploded experimental
based upon Legislation approved, recommen
ded and urged by the Execulive-accoun
sufficiently for the SS9, 900, 900. wi,hou, re
ference TO The why's, wherefores and becaus
es of the Argus and the Globe.