The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-01-12

not what The question might be, with that end ia
II was At and invariably met with cry Of corrupt
motives,
Mr.. d. alluded to the care and caution required for
the protection Of the public money, the three readings
Of bills 10 both Houses before dollar could be expend-
ed and yet gentlemen introduceds resolution 70 spend
twenty, thirty or forty thousand dollars, to no purpose
whatever and that resolution 10 be adopted IN five
minutes, and almost without word being said. lie
hoped u would be agreed to- He objected to us
ADOPTION because no good could grow OF il. and be-
(ss had been stately the Characters Of innocent
would be injuredi Tor there were some appealing
as d,fsulteTs who not so. To publish lnforna-
ton Of such character would be TO do an injustice
which lever could be remedied. The very least that
could be done behalf Of those innocent persons who
might be injured woeld to refer the documents TO
committee. 10 see what portions ought, in justice, to be
published.
He would move, however TO lay the whole subject on
the table. But Mr.. d. Withdrew the notion at the
quest Of several gentlemen.
Mr.. BRONSON, after abiding 10 the manner in
which these documents had seversly been published at
the last session Of Congress- by order Of The House,
and to the injustice which OF those documents had
ilacted expressed himself opposed the motion 10 re-
print.
Mr.. MENEFEE said that this simply PROPOSE
ton PRINT for The OF the People, certain official
documents ia relation to the defacation OF pubic ON
GERS In itself this was a small matter and the SEN
sation which il has evidently produced among the
Administration party in the House might, to some, be
quite surprising To me, SIR, (said he'd II Is by no
means surprising. IL is the hutterng pulse whfsh,
though unobseved by others, denotes TO the physician
the awful maady which RACES within Even 10 my
unskul touch il bcspeaks disorder and impending dis
solution The proposition designs to place before the
country authentic. official iadspuiabie acts illustrating
the manner in which the Administration has been for
years past conducted.
The party now in power obtained IT, as the nation
knows, chiefly through mputatops OF Executive corrnp
fon and abHse against the party which preceded H. or
III, tka a I.p.,, nj al
was held responsible 4 change Of Administration
was the remedy proposed upon which the people were
promised efectual rel nm Of existing and total and
unconditional exemption from future evils repeat,
sir, the Administration held responsible for every
evil. and not altogether without cause.
Well, sir, the administration changed; and The
reign Of reform and Of immaculate virtue and purity
has proceeded without obstruction, for ten years
Many persons, both in Congress and out Of il, look
ing TO me principles which the Administration was
acting, have pronounced, and openly and repeatedly
charged that corruption and abuse OF the most atrocous
description have found their way into the Administra-
on and that an nvesiigation--thorough and nnspar-
pg-youd fully establish It, Sir, these charges were
denounced as mere facous defamation they de-
MED unspotted purity was claimed for the Admnis,ra-
tion, and all Investigations denied The People, sir,
seeing one hand denied the other
all proof being excluded-charitably presumed The in
uocence of the accused They probably right in
dongs 1t displayed at least, avirtuous incredibly Of
crime. 's. .%.. ... #..,... =. ....
But sir Of late in spite Of professions Of saintlness,
Of REFORM" and Of all the other engines which the
party could devise, the aet appears that The most c
mendons abuses and eorrupoas eziu which have ever
disfgured and disgrsced the, Administration Facts
appearing, too by The Acknowledgment Of he Admins
tration nselfl Facts calculated strike the public
mind like thunderbolt Facts unveing forever the
hypocrisy and hoowness Of all promises and professions
Of purity and reform and establishing forever the
abuse and corruption Of the practices of the Admins
traton! ...n.:'.
IL is non ACKNOWLEDGED that MILLION upoN MILLION
Of The Peoples money has been s,oao,red up in The bot
tomiess gulf Of ofeiat defacahon! Partisan erontery
and prostitution shrink from a denial
These facts, sir, and these acknowledgements the
object Of the present proposition disclose the
ton II is resisted BY whom! The "retormers"
the political SAINTS Of the Administration
Sir, 1t is amazing that any party should under any
circumstances. resist such proposition. 1t is douby
amazing that this party should But it is unspeakably
the more srnazng that the should be assigned
which has been What, sir, do you suppose that rea-
son to be- Sir, the puts shsmeessness itself
shame 1t is what ECONOMY =! 1t costs
money to furnish the facts to the People, Economy!
Economy! In the mouth of party which has, by its
o6ria acknowledgements, raised The public erpeud
lures from frcoe m1ttions and half 10 Jorty mil
lions Of doitars per dnnum! Do the annals OF inpu
dence furnish parallel to this I Could you-epcn you
sir land when l. designate you, make strong case,)
would you dare TO assign snch reason! .':'
Sir the psr,lsans of the Administration in this House
do violence TO their own characters when thew assign
economy as the cause for resisting this proposition
They know not their own hearts. The demon Of party
has blinded them The hugeness Of the late enorm-
ties have COMPOUNDED them The blows which the fall
Ing tmbers OF the Administration have inflicted, have
stunned them: and they talk incohereny and crszed
When they recover their self possessiop, it will be
found that they have this measure been acting upon
their instincts to stlae and extingush the light which
gushes upon their oppressed VISION through The ociai
tdcts which this proposition proposes TO pronugate
Like one who does deed Of blood, night in the
crowd they strive, by putting out the lights to escape
in the confusion
The Administration is exclusively snswersble for the
enonities, the almost daily disclosure of which is now
appalling the nation. The effort, | know, is made 10
inculpa,e the laws Will The party in. power never
learn The source Of these evils Can they never
be persuaded that no system can be executed without
cGcers, well :uted without faithfu! officers,
and that any parry organisation principle Of appoint
nenf ph,ch inuitcs into ocs HE Preed, mnprincpied
'neree"nry partisan, must unapoidaby btget eouu poa
an the AdminiSt,ai alton
The Official organ Of the Administration has this
morning, proclaimed that Mis debate must be arrested!
The party IN this House, impeed BY the same spirit
simultaneously proclaim in the tangible form Of acts
that these tacts must be suppressed
But sir, every effort TO exclude from the nation the
information necessary to enable them to bring this Ad
ninistratlon 10 justice will be vain, perfectly vain and
may be at once extlngulshed. "Let there be lIuht-
light! will be the exclamation Of vrtuous and in
suited People And there will he light, 1t cannot be
depressed AS subtitle steam, (and mighty, too)
it will escape into freedom. You could well extln-
gulsh the Father of Light Were the atlantic
ed at once into ierven steam, you might well hope
to rcpress it, exclude from the nation adpattied
overwhelming o6iciat proofs Of the most blasting
abuses directly affecting the security Of the public
treasure involving, sgnay, tho purity Of the Admins
ration, and, in the end, nearly concerning public liberty
itself!
The gentleman from New York, (Mr. Cambreleng)
was pleased to say that these corrupons # published,
ipnnlI h. hau tEntI liz