Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-01-25


upon Colonization, will appear next week, by
request
PUBLIC DErAuLTERs.-That enormous defal-
cations have occurred on the part of the collec-
tors and receivers Of the public revenue, under
the present administration, no one has the har-
dihood to deny-not even the honest Globe,
so often quoted by the other Loco Foco papers.
The result has been just what the Wing press
and the Wing statesmen long ago foretold.-
This fact which cannot be denied outright
must nevertheless be covered in some way or
the administration are aware that il will be
fatal 10 them and that the people will no Ion
ger continue to sustain them. Accordingly
we find various modes resorted to by the lea
and by the Loco Foco press generally, to blind
the eyes Of the people and turn off their atten.
lion from the true issue.
First the Globe, in articles which are ca
gerly copied by the other papers of the party,
denounces Wise, Preniiss, Bell and other
Wing members of Congress, who have taken
up the subject of the defalcations and examin-
ed the course Of the Secretary the Treasury,
and excaims against them for consuming the
time of Congress, about matters Of such small
impo, tance, 10 the hindrance of what that pa
per is pleased TO call the Legitimate business of
that body-which is, we suppose, the making of
appropriations and authorising the issue of
Treasury notes, the sacrifice of public land, TO
raise money 10 sustain the administration in
their Unprecedented course of extravaganza
AS if il was small matter, that millions of
the public treasure should be embezzeled by
officers Of government, and lost through the
official neglect of the administration, and
matter with the investigation of which Con
gress has nothing to do!
The second means resorted 10, TO deceive
the people is, for Messrs. Cambreleng and
other administration orators, seconded by the
Globe and the little 'globules," like the Demo
Graf, to cry out in reply TO the Developments
made through the efforts of the wings, that all
the deiauters are Wings and Conservatives,
alias fecierdtisfs, and therefore the admins
tration are not responsible for their acts as if
the political creed of the agents employed by
them, relieved them from the duty of watch
fulness over their conduct. But the statement
is not true, and if it were, we are not wise
enough to see in what degree this can excuse
the official neglect of duty on the part Of the
President and Secretary. According TO the
report of the Secretary himself (see Prentiss'
and Nienefeesi Speeehes), some of the principal
defaullers were continued in office after they
were known TO be defaulters, and others were
permitted through sheer carelessness in the
Treasury Department, to carry on a course of
peculation for long series of years undscoy-
ered
The third means resorted to, 10 avert from
the devoted heads Of the administration The
Indignation of the people g. TO neutralse
the statements of the Wbigs,is to accuse them
ympathisng with the delaullers, and 10 ex-
claim against them for not denouncing them
instead of the administration. Now for one.
we have not seen the speech in Congress or
the Wing paper which has sympathised with
the defaulters since they were known to be
such. But what would be the use ofspending
our energies and time in crying out against the
delaulters who have escaped and when it can