Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-07-18

tegrty of the country. The checks andAl
lances and keysones Of the institutions Nthe
Republic are laid aside in dsuse, because dis
charge Of duty would perhaps injure their par
ty.
We say then, of Van Buren, and the most o
MS principal officers, that were their proresseC
principles as pure in republicanism as the driv
en- snow is in whteness, they ought indignant
y to be thrust from oib4e, because they neg
Iect to attend to the d(G administration of the
government but use tfeir places and power fol
the benefit of their own political and pecunia
ry fortunes. These it may be said are denun
lclatons: so Ware. But we do not general
| y deal in de- Citations without accompanying
them with dence or reference to notorious
Gndeniighef acts, which lie open upon the sur.
lace of Yeurrent history.
Inc yam Buren, party, or rather their official
leaders, are very appropriately denominated o
I"CN pany OF Treasures" from the extraordi.
| " fact that they have usurped personal pos
" sion ofthe public treasury Now, ifthey use
4e public money for any selfish purposes, ell
Their tor Pecuniary or political advantage, then
they are cuIPable, they disgrace the places
they occupy and cannot be sustained by the
people. And If they have not and do not so
use the public money, then these remarks are
mere denuncation and facts, ascertained, estab,
llshed and undenied, are not to be relied upon
las helps to correct conclusions.
1t is notorious and undenied that the Presi-
dent permits the Secretary of the Treasury TO
ac4uleSce IN defalcation-repeated and contn-
ued deialcaion. 1t is notorious and undenied
that the common practice Of the Government is
to suffer public money TO accumulate in the
hands OF Sub-Treasurers, after repeated refu-
sails to pay over and meet call after call for
money placed in their hands for the public
uses. 1t is notorious and undenied that the
common practice Of the Sub-Ireasurers is to-
tax the Treasury, through and under the name
OF SALARY to Officers" for the support of cleo
tons. And when specific facts of the kind
were officially reported to Congress, the whole
party in the Senate of the U. States refused, by
their repeatedly recorded votes, against differ
ent forms OF bill for that purpose, to provide
Tor the punishment, by removal of convicted
offenders for this respect. And as these cor
fuptons and denquences have no assignabe
object or cause, with the party leaders, except
The purchase of men for the strengthening off
heir party, and the unwlingness to oppose or
llSpleaSe strong party men, in order to keep
Zach other in office: and particularly as the
secretary himself has reported to Congress his
cquescence in delaIcations, upon the express
ID and submitted "erplanati0nS," and the de-
lnquent took 'an active interest in the success
# the administration was "inhuental in his
eghborhood, and is thought by distinguish
d Senator-ln reference to calling him to
he had Shelter lei it be-" the
oncluson is irresistible, and must be resorted
o, that they use the public money for the ben
mt OF their party men.
The investigating committee Of the last Con-
ress report only one humlred and eighteen let
ers from the Secretary of the Treasury to va .
lous deiaulting Sub.Treasurers, and who are :
ow resigned detauIters, all virtually acquies-
ing in deaIcation; and amount merely to re-
uests that the deiauting officers would try =.
nd raise the money and pay up, or to giving :,
ne delinquent time oftwo, four or five months
which, IT arrangements are not made, he will "
eport to the Presdent-or in few instances /.
threat Of removal. But no removal Of any =
these men was ever made. They have all
uletIy resigned, and their united de(alcation ,
amounts TO the clever sum of one
ltHton fUe hundred and ttirty-nine thousand fue
andred and hirtyone dollars and eighty-Sir
entS. They leaving only seven in number
he correspondence with the multitude OF 9TH
r delaulters has not yet seen day light
Now we ask what do the people think Of these
hlngs? Ought such men TO be sustained, be |
heir principles what they may? lfany are
Iesirous Of knowing how these practices will
compare with the former usages of the gov
rnment we can inform them; for defaIcalion
II our government did not commence under
Van Buren's reign. There was in Mr.. Adams
ime, and several before. But such Delinquent
lies in the early and better days Of the Repub-
ic were treated on this wise.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
June l6, 1894.
Sr--It is with regret that inform YOU that
another collector has suffered Treasury drafts
10 return unpaid, which were drawn upon mo.
1eys reported by him to be in his hands--Abra-
nam Archer, Esq. of Yorktown. Enclosed are
etters Of apology on the subject. All the |
traits Which ocere al first declined acere after
cards paid.
| perceive nothing substantially to distin-
gush this case from that Of the collector of
Tappahannock, who was lately suspended on
similar account Nor can forbear, however
painful the task, to submit it az ray opinion in
his as in that case, that the good Of the public
service requires displacement of the oGcer--
PHnctadLiy in this respect is too Indispensable mol
o be made the TNvARABLE CONDITION oY coNrIN-
JANICE IN OFFICE.
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