Liberty advocate., 1839-03-14

/ conscentiously believe; no more than shall
attempt TO prove before this House and the
country. These deiacatons | shall trace to
their origin, and not stopto inquire so much in
10 their amounts as into the causes which have
led TO them. 1t is not the question, Where is
the money? but where is the guita that wish
to investigate. The recent deveopements to
which our attention is invited are but some of
OF the bubbles that are every day breaking up
on the surface Of the still and mantng pool.
shall not stop 10 measure their relative size or
color, but will, unpleasant as the task may be.
Idredgo for the corrupt cause which lies at the
bottom. These casesare but the windlalls from
the tree of Solom--Execulive patronage
Heretofore, the Representatives ofthe People
havcfn vain urged an examination into the
character Its fruit; but it has been guarded
with more vigilance than were the golden ap-
Iples of the llesperides. Now, our attention is
solicited to it by the President. Is he IN earn
est3 Let him but give US chance to shake
this tree,Rnd hc will find his rotten pippins fall
! ling from every limb and branch.
But our attention is called, particularly TO
the case of Swartwout. The Administration
| has delivered him over to our tender mercies
they have dropped him, as the bear, when hot
Ily pursued, drops one of her cubs, for the pur-
pose of dlstracting the attention the hunter,
and so escaping with the rest Of her young
for one, shall not be thus diverted from my
purpose, but will follow the dam to her den, and
there, possible, crush at once the whole brood.
Swartwout has been found out. This is the
objectionable sin with the present party in pow
er. Their morality is the Spartan morality:
not the theft, bu. the discovery, constitutes the
crime. Sir, if every office holders mantle
were thrown aside, how many, think you,
would be found without stolen fox fastened to
the girdle?
Mr. Chairman, have no confidence that the
President has recommended this investigation
in good faith, or that his partizans here intend
to permit it. They dare not do it. They are
not yet sufficiently maddened, scorpion like, to
dart the sting into their own desperate BRAIN
No, sir, it is mere ruse. Regardless Of the
maxim that ''there is honor among thieves"
the rest Of the ofice-holders are very willing
to turn States evidence against Swartwout, to
gain immunity for themselves, and favor with
the commonwealth. Let the Administration
give US fair committee, favorable to investi-
cation, not packed by the Speakers throw open
to US the doors Of your OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
whited Sepulchres, within whose secret vaults
corruption has so long rioted and revelled; let
your insolent subalterns be taught that they
owe some allegiance tothe laws compel them
to submit their official conduct to rigid exam
ination by this House: then, and not till then,
will believe them i'll earnest; then, and mol
till then, shall expect any good to come of in
vestigation. But, sir, though little is to be eX-
Ipecled from the action of this House, antici-
pate much good from the discussion. This
| Hall is the ear ofthe nation; what is said here
touches the auditory nerve Of the whole coun-
try. Before this mighty audience do impeach
both the President and the Secretary-not be-
fore the Senate--no, sir; but before the People
before fifteen millions Of freemen.
charge them with knowingly appointing
and continuing in Office public deiauters-mcn
who had appropriated the public moneys to pri-
vate use; who had committed in office acts OF
as great moral turptude, and deserving OF as
much odium as attaches to the case OF Swort-
wout; acts which the President now processes
to think are deserving Of the penilentiary l
charge the Secretary, directly, with having eau
sed, by negligence, and knOactag, wigM connl-
rance, some one of the most important detail
cations which have occurred. | charge hlm
specifically with having, in one case, literally
watched a delalcation through period gilmore
than two years, and seen it gradually swell,
during that time, to upwards Of 100000! /
charge him with having permitted, in number
less instances, the repeated and continued neg
lect and violation of what he himself asserts to
t be he paramount duty, without removing IRON
office, or even reprimanding the delnquents
, II charge him with having, IN his oifcal capa
/, city. received and favorably considered, cores
pondenee degrading to his high office, insulting
10 him as an honest man, and of corrupt and
prohigate character
Sir, the Secretary can only escape by the
plea of ''non compoS mentiS" Out OF ms OWL
: mouth will convict him; will but let loose
. upon him the documents he himself has iurnish
led. and, like the haploss Acteon, ne VIII De torf
3 to pieces by his own hounds!
MIR. Chairman, the cases which am aoou
: to examine, in support Of my POSITIONS nave
been selected at random from the reports OF the
= Secretary himself, and present them merely
/ ne snecimcns. scores of the same sort-'he
!, Iphosphorescent glmmerings of corruption,
break through the darkness, and illuminate inc
/ path of the Secretary, from the very momen' u
q he came into office. Should treat OF thcn an
the 4th Of March would find me here, ana the
3 chronicles of the defaulters still unhnisheu'
!. The first case to which | will call atIenl'oi
Ills that Of Colonel John Spencer, receiver OF pup
= lie moneys at Fort Wayne, Indiana, ana whici
lcommenced in 1886. The report OF the whoiC
9 case is found in document l4Z OIL inc sooplI LII
j. session ofthe twenty-iourth Congress '""
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