The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-06
From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.
THE RESPONSIBILITY ADMINS
TRATTON

THE IRRESPONSIBLE ADMINS
TRATION.
Whenever the power was to be usurped
bv the Executive, General JACKSON was al
ways ready to stake the responsibility. p
When any of the Departments wefe to be
shielded from investigation, the General
uniformly took the responsibility. When
the Treasury was to be plundered, the Cen
eral was still ready to assume the entire
responsibility. This was all very we'll for
the time being, but, when the period arrived
of fring the responsibility, there was nobo-
dy responsible in the premises!
| The Administration is not responsible Cor
the defalcations of PRICE and SwARTwoUT
not bit of it-for PRICE and Swartwout
were-WHrGs!
The Administration is not responsible for
filling the land offices with public robbers,
because these public robbers were all
WHIGs!
The Administration is not responsible for
the running away of postmasters, because
the mere act of running away turned them
all into--WH1Gs
The Administration is not responsible for
raising the expenditures of the country
from ST., 100000 to $4,000, 900, because
the appropriations have all been passed
through the house and Senate by the
WHIGs.
the arrangement Of the currency, because
the currency is deranged by the--WHIGs!
The Administration is not responsible for
any of the evils and disasters that press up
on the country, because they are all brought
about by the--WHIGs!
Now, if it be really true, what these men
pretend, how utterly imbecile aud insignif-
cant they must be to see themselves
thus oulwitted by the Wires! What per-
feet case they present of disqualification!
They protest that they are not knaves, and
prove it by claiming to be fools--as if kna-
very were something inconsistent with folly
and not usually found in its company!
All the Executive Offices are in the hands
of the TORIES. The last House of Repre-
sentatives began the extra session with a
large Tory majority, elected a Tory Spea-
ker, appointed Tory committees, and re-
named Tory to the close. The Senate
still counts large Tory majority. And yet
foorsooth! ToRYIsM is responsible for no.
thing but enjoying the emoluments ofofice,
and all legislation is left to the WHIGs. Who
believes this? Who will do Toryism the in-
justice to believe ito
When the People believe that SWARTwoUT
and PRICE were appointed by Gen JACKSON
because they were Wings, then, and not till
then, will they hold the Wings responsible
for their defalcations. Meanwhile they fix
the responsibility on the Administration.
When the People believe that. Sterling,
Pollock, Linn, Harris, Boyd, Hawkins, Nit
cheI, Childrens, Allen, Spencer, Owen,
Stephenson, Dickinson, and the whole host
of Land Office defaulters were selected by
Mr.. WOODBURY. because they were wings,
and were continued in Office, in spite of
negligence and irregularity, because they
were Wings, then they will believe that the
Wings are responsible for the plumber of the
Treasury by these men. Meanwhile they
will fix the responsibility on the Admins
tration.
When the People believe that Amos KEN
DALI has selected his underlings from the
Wing ranks, then they will hold the Wings
responsible for their elopements and robber-
les. Meanwhile they will fix the response
billty on the Administration.
When the People believe that minority
in the House, aid minority in the Senate,
pass the appropriation bills, and that To-I
RY Executive cannot keep these minorities
in check, then they will hold the Wings res
ponsible for the disgraceful waste which we
have witnessed for the lastten years of the
public money. Meanwhile they will fix the
responsibility on the Administration.
When the People believe that the crude
experiments upon the ceTency with which
the country has been cursed, under the pre-
tenee of providing ssbetter currency and
which have resulted in explosion and mo-
neved chaos; when they believe that these
are the fruits Of Vine policy, then they will
hold the Wings responsible for all the evil
which have flowed from them. Meanwhile
they will fix the responsibility on the Adj
When the People believe that weakness is
strength, and that legislative minority
controls majority, and that Tory PFesi-
dent lends himself to the designs Of the
then they will believe that the
Waves have been The authors Of al the mis-
thief which has resulted from unWise and