Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-07-20

year when vonr public treasury will he
bankrupt. You will increase The expenses
OF foreign MISSIONS and suffer yonr Minis
ters 10 return home on srch brief service
as WIZ show their appointments to have
ocen made Tor individual gain rather than
pubic good. You will increase the con-
'ngent expenses OF this House from sec .
600, the present annual amount, to $40.
600. You will add to the like EXPENSES of
the Senate, and to all other public expcnd.
lures IN the same ratio and their sum 10.
tai for the whole civil list and ordinary an.
proprin' ions of the Government. which is
now Sl2 63,433. will be increased from
I ''me TO time under your boosted reform,
nn''l 1t shall exceed thirty millions per
year!
You now question the right Of Depart.
ment TO purchase print or likeness of the i'm.
mortal 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 enlisted soldiers. as
You have just called them, bring the patron
age OF the General Government into conflict
with the freedom of elections, and YOU will
resist the bill that shall be brought in to Sc
cure the freedom reflections. YOU Mr. Ran
dolPh, VIII go upon what you now call
sleeveless errand,' and, after sauting the
Emperor OF Russia will make a pleasant So
journ in 'old England and return to vour
estate in Virginia. You, Mr. Buchanan. will
become IAN office holder and enlisted soldier
90 on the very mission to Russia which Won
are now censurlng, and will pocket .slS 900
Tor "a twelve month and day S service You.
Ito the gentleman from New York; Mr. Cam
Drcieng, will oppose vote against the very
measure which you now report and recon-.
mend, for reducing the pay of members as a
means of shortening the session of Congress.
You, MIR Stevenson, will be made Speaker of
TINS House. and appoint its committees, and
dispense It's rules with the promise ola FOREIGN
mission in your pocket. You, Mr. Benton,
will vote to lay on the table the bill which
you now report to take the patronage of the
press from the Government, and your report
on Executive patronage, with its six accom-
panylng bills so imposngly introduced, will
prove to have been but as sounding brass and
| tinkling cymbals" You, MIR Van Buren,. who
now, as member of the committee on Ex-
! ecutlvc patronage, report a bill requiring rea.
sons to be assigned for removing an incum.
bent from office, will be made Secretary of
State, and in due time President, but, from the
moment you obtain power you will forget
your bill, and not only violate but refuse to be
governed by its principles. You, Mr. Dick
erson, also member of the committee, will
be made Secretary Of the Navy; but the De-
partment will be so mismanaged under your
direction, that it will be truly said of him on
the floor of Congress, there is none so poor
rs to do him reverence You, Mr. Woodbu-
ry, will take first the Navy and then the Trea
sury Department, and, under your supervis.
ion, an attempt to humbug the People with
the promise of an exclusive hard money cur
rency will result in the Punishment of all
specie, bankrupt Treasury, and circulation
OF shinpastors and Treasury notes.
Imagine, then, Mr. Speaker, such a response
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 scriptural allusion, have said
Methinks almost see and hear him exclam.
Is thy servant Il dog that he should do this
thing?
! Ne are told that, Notwithstanding the in
dlgnation of Hazael, he reached the throne of
Syria by numbering the King his master. and
soon committed all the enormities foretold by
the prophet
Sir, fear that, in despite of the protesta-
tons of Amos Kendall, the promised reform
was IAN empty sound intended to apply
merely to a 'change of men, But leave it
for this House and for the People of this
country to judge whether their confidence
has not been betrayed and their hopes disap-
pOinted