Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-05-18

HiH-"i'h thS party VII supports MIN,
they might as wellive cried "mad
dogm 1t is certainognostic that he
: is going down. FIR the hour that
J. father Richie made { fatal discovery,
e the mans doom wasaled. But, sir,
the gentleman defaul, Watkins, as |
was saying, met his E; and now that
: he has been purified the fires of the
law, we may be permid to do him JUS
tlce, and to make hime instrument of
retribution. | call hinp; invoke his
wrongs, his sufferingshis injuries, his
exPiation, to rise in iudnent against his
prosecutors to condem them. Where
Is he now! In stain where he is, no
doubt, far happier thaiin his day of pre-
carlous and terror-hpnted show, when
he toiled as a poor save in one of the
stalls of your document-hctories called
apothecary; and here | will say, for the
benefit of all who would e honest, and
who wish to be clean, thathe keeps for
sale the very best of '1paps SOAP and
chloride of lime, and otter chemical
compositions, to take offthe spots OF
loco focoism, and to cleansefrom all cor
ruptlon! | recommend tdcertain sub
Treasury gentlemen to 60 md buy; but
what if they be once waaed white as
snow, they will, like the bg, return to
their wallowing in the mir.
The Administration maypretend that
they wish investigation. / is full time.
But know is the matter pressed? Every
now and then the chairman of Ways
and Means (Mr. CambrelenO comes for
ward, and, in solemn tone,l asks you to
drop the subject for what he S pleased to
term ''business;" as it was lot the bust
ness of this House, and its chief duty
nowadays, to look into buses. Sir
''the party' are in reality, at heart, as
much opposed to inquiry nov as of old
1t serves their turn at this lime to pre-
tend to be diligent and zealois for inqui
ry. They are no more its friends now
than they ever were.
Mr.. Cambreleng here inerposed.
hope the gentleman will not do me IN
Justice. / never voted against any OF
his investigations. Never.
Mr.. w. | said your party.
Mr.. c.. My party; ha! ha! That is
dnOLner dIdIF.
Mr.. w. Yes, sir, believe the gen
tleman is s'another affair" since the New
York election. And now that the iniqui-
ties of your party are daily coming to
lioht. now that concealment is no longer
possible, every man of .'the party" is
prompt to exclaim, ''you can't say | did
itr'-the party itself must be brisk to
make the disclaimer. lest the People SET
all down as rogues together, those who
aro found out and those who are not.
The People are beginning to compare
Watkins with Swartwout-hundreds OF
cases of defalcation with one-thirteen
millions of expenditure with thirty or
forty miIlions-and to see that the Ad-
ministration of Adams, however bad,
was, in comparison with the iniquities OF
this dynasty, about as Watkins TO Swart-
wout-3,05O to S1,225 ,0O0!-thirteen
millions to forty milions-one defalca-
ton severely punished, to one hundred
not only unrebuked, but countenanced
and connived at!
And this, sir, brings me to the Message
of this session. So enormous, appalling
have your iniquities grown, that at one
llulc we WcTc CdlICu W GALLO SOoSiOii
10 cure one system of experiments, and
again another SYSTEMS blotches and blains
are the special subjects of Executive
The President himself,
in selfdefence, and Mr.. Secretary, are
compelled to acknowledge them in order
to account for them This Message of
Mr.. Van Buren, directly contradicts the
letter and certificate of his ''illustrious
He confesses that all the
are not, and were not
and is all in hurrah for investi-
CATION. Let us see:
"a change in the office of Collector.
at one of our principal ports, has
brought to light dedication of the
character, the particulars OF
which will be laid before you in spe-
cial report from the Secretary of Urea
sury. BY his report, and the accom-
panying documents, it will be seen that
the weekly returns of the defaulting Off
GER apparently exhibited, throughout,
faithful administration of the affairs en-
trusted to his management"
Sir, quere de hocl will endeavor to
show you directly that this is an error;
that "the weekly returns" if they had
been properly examined and compared In
the Secretary's office, would have de-
tected and exhibited the very reverse of
IA faithful administration" long ago.
But the President proceeds:
at, however, now appears that he
abstracting the public money
after his appointment, and con-
linued to do SO, progressively increasing
the amount, for the term OF more than
seven years, embracing portion OF the
period during which the public moneys
were deposited in the Bank of the Uni
ted States, the whole of that of the State
Bank deposite system, and concluding
only on his retirement from othce." &c.
Sir, this is confession which tallies
we'll with the illustrious predecessors
certificate of the stability and integrity"
Of the Departments in December. 1886.
"The way in which this defalcation
was so long concealed, and the steps
taken to indemnify the United States, as
far as practicable, against loss, will also
be presented to you. The case is one