Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-06-15


house in luxurious style for Gen. Jackson, who
will be succeeded by Mr. Van Buren, and
he, not content with the secondhand furni
ture Of bis predecessor, will cast il off and
make his entry into that edifce, with one ap
preparation of 300 dollars for alterations
of the house and superintendent of the
grounds and another appropriation of20,00C
dollars Tor new furniture; and this, too, in
the very year when your public treasury
will be bankrupt You will increase the
expenses Of foreign missions and suffer your
Ministers to return home on such brief ser.
vice as will show their appointments to have
been made for individual gain, rather than
public good You will increase the contin-
gent expenses OF this House from $4,000,
the present annual amount to 100000. You
will add to the like expenses of the Senate,
andto all other public expenditures 10 the
same ratio and the sum total for the whole
civil list, and ordinary appropriations of the
Government, which is now Sl2, l63,436,
will be increased from time 10 time under
your boosted reform. until it shall ex.
coed thirty millions per year
You now question the right of a Depart.
menl to purchase print or likeness Of the
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 zen
listed soldiers rs you have just called them,
bring 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 freedom Of those
elections You, Mr. Randolph, will 60
upon what you now call sleeveless err.
rand" and after salutng the Emperor oil
Russia. will make a pleasant sojurn in "old
England" and return to your estate in
Virginia. You, Mr. Buchanan, will be.
come ian office holder and enlisted soldier
go on the very mission to Russia which
you are now censuring and will pocket the
5000 for "a tweyemonth and DAYS"
service. You, 10 the gentleman from New
York; MIR. CAMBRELENG. will oppose
vote against the very measure which you
now report and recommend. for reducing
the pay OF members, as means of shorte
ming the session Of Congress You. Mr.
Stevenson. will be made Speaker of this
House, & appoint its committees, & dis
penso lis rules, with The promise of 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 repor,
on executive patronage, with its six accom-
panying bills so imposingly introduced,
will prove to have been but rs sounding
brass and linkling symbols !" You. Mr. Van
Bnren, who now. as a member of the com
mlliee on executive patronage, report a bill
requiring reasons TO be assigned for re-
moving an incumbent 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 10 be governed BY
It's principles You Mr. Dickerson, also a
member OF that committee, will be made
Secretary ofthe Navy but the department
will be so mismanaged under your direction
that il 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 Navy. and then the 1rea-
sury Department, and, under your super
vision. an attempt To humbug the People
with the promise of an exclusive hard mon
ey currency will result in the banishment OF
all specie, a bankrupt Treasury and cir
culation distinguishes and Treasury notes.
Imagine, then, Mr.. Speaker. such a res
ponse TO have been made al the period oftime
which have suggested. What would have
been your reply, and what would Mr. Buch.
anan, who made the scriptural alusion. have
said Melhinks | almost see and hear him
eSclam, Is thy servant dog, tina, he should
do this ,hingl
We are told that, notwithstanding the in.
dignalion OF flazael, he reached the throne
OF Syria by numbering the King bis master,
and soon committed all the enormiics fore
told by the prophet
Sir, fear that in despite Of the protesta.
tons Of Amos KendalI,the promised reform
was an empty sound" "iniended to apply
merely 10 change OF men" But leave il
Tor this House and Tor the People of this
roun,ryto Judge whether their confidence
has not been betrayed and their hopes disap.
pointed
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