The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-06-12

racket In Mobile. "The Register" took us stoully
to task for firing such voIley ofpop guns" which,
not having observed, VIC presume is sufficiently an
swered by the Mobile Mercantile Advertiser, as fol-
lows
"Pop Guss"-The Madisonian has exhibited
state OF things among the TTeasnrers fully snf
cient to make honest men blush for the utter disho
nes,y OF some OF those who have enjoyed the conf
dence of The Government. The Register calls this
whitening array OF facts, ga voley OF pop guns
Time was, when rascaity did not SO readily find
apologists. The Register says, the Madisonian
"iabors TO convince the world that al men are not
honest" The Madisopian "labors" TO do no such
thing The Madisonian gives collection Of facts
from The public records, and this collection of facts
concusively shows that same men are rogaes II does
more. II shows that the loss Of some half million OF
dollars to the Government Is not much the fault of
the Sub-Treasury system as the system OF the Admi-
nstralion, in making It's appointments. Men have
been chosen TO ill posts of The highest responsibility
and trust under the Government, without any sort Of
regard being paid TO their moral fitness for them
The appointments Of the late and present Admins
tratons have been made rewards for partizan SER
vices What wonder, then, that the people have been
cheated out Of half million dollars by few Re
ecipeYs alone7 But the Madisonian's whitening ar
ray Of Government "defaulters, is nothing more
than volley ofPop guns! !"
The Madisonian demonstrates that mann of the
Sub Treasurers of the Government are men wholly
destitute of principle and that they have robbed The
lis characteristic candor, insists that all the Madiso-
nan contends for is, that our countTymen are SO
dishonest as mass, that faithful and trustworthy
agents to collect and disburse the money Of The Co
vernment cannot be selected out of population of
fifteen millions of souls" II is scarcely necessary
to say that the Madisonian did not contend for this
or any thing like it. Bullet US see what the Govern
nent agent, Mr.. Garesche, says of certain portion
Of "our countrymen" in the neghborhood of Co
lumbus, Miss, MIR. Garesche, be il remembered was
the agent of the Department TO Investigate the affairs
of Mr.. Boyd, the Sub. Treasury Receiver at Tint
place. MIR. Garesche writes thus of the Sub Trea-
surer Boyd and Of some OF "our conntrymen" in
THE man seems really pepitent and am inclined
TO think, in common with his friends, tina, he is honest
aud has been led array from his duty by the EXAMPLE
HIS PREDECESSOR. AND A CERTAIN LOOSE
NESS in THE CODE OF MORALITY, which here
does not move in so limited circle it does with
at home ANOTHER RECEIVER WOULD PRO
BADLY FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF
The TWO. You will not therefore, be surprised,
II recommend his being retained, in preference TO
another appointment"
We think Mr.. Garesche shows very satisfactorily
that "our counrymen, in section ofthe country
at least, "are SO dishonest mass" that faithful
and trustworthy agents to collect and disburse the
money Of the Government cannot be found. II is
due TO truth 10 say, however, that Mr. Garescbe must
have had an eye 10 that portion of the population in
the neighborhood alluded TO which constituted the
Democratic Party" MIR. Garesche was moi the
man to think Of Wing in connection with an APP
pointment TO Office. He knew that the "Govern-
ment' would sooner be robbed by thorough-going
Democrat" twenty times over than experiment
upon the honesty of Wing.
The Register also says and II Is one OF its charac-
terstics, that II the Madisonian does not know he
might know from sources Of information his very
elbow, that the Government most rigid in the en-
forcement Of the rules Of settling and adjusting ac
counts with its agents" Most rigid, indeed as the
Madisonian shows 'tfrom sources of information at
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merated BY tae adisoaian hapiag been Kept in eee,
contrary 10 tar long after their defdtcationS arcre
knopn 10 the Department! "Most rigid" indeed =
We only wonder that men, protesting to be guided
by candor, can put such nonsense forth.
The Register gives some isolated cases 10 show
that there have been such things public officers
being declared defaulters who owed the Govern
ment nothing We have no doubt that in manycases
this has been the fact But how is this to affect the
testimony of the public records and the admissians
at hs safiagsTs pa lied s eyyp 1he ,na
neys in their possession for purposes of private Spe
culaton, contrary to law and The on repeated in
sructions Of the Department. How is IL to excuse,
for example, such worthy as Sub=Treasurer Boyd,
Of Columbus, Mississippi, or his equally worthy pre-
decessor, whom Mr. Garesche modesy informs us
were the victims OF certain looseness in the code
OF morals" in that neighborhood
But little the toughest story ever read and we
have read allsors Of politcalsories, is the following
piece OF absurdiy which the Register contrived TO
smuggle into the article we have been commenting
upon. We suppose that il was intended as consola-
ton IN advance, 10 those Loco Foco oliicc-hoders
who, for nine years past have been attending to the
business OF the Government, against tn ir own pr-
vae interests, and who il is expected, will be shorty
cashered and made martyrs Of, for their disnerest-
edness Look upon this all you seekers after the
"loaves and fishes" Of Office
Every who has had any agency in paying and
receiving money for the United States knows that there
much, much more danger Of being swndled by force
OF iron rules which are necessary in themselves than
of swindng the Government. The idea of The Go
rernmcnss losing 0ney By us agents is as prepoae-
rons, as THE VALUE OF PUBLIC OFFICES"-
We sincerely believe that, in nine OF ten,
the individual agent suffers, and the Government
gains"
II is said there is democrat in the whole State Of