Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-07-12


thew had been faithfully fulfilled, what
praise would not have been bestowed upon
the purity, patriotism, and consistency oil
their author But sir, they have not been
fulfilled. Every one of them has been vio-
lated-openly violated. Instead OF striving
10 maintain the Legislative purity, this dynas-
" has, from the moment Of its accession TO
power, sought to assai and corrupt it. In
stead Of laboring to sustain the independent,
constitutional checks, they have been trided
with and trampled on. Instead oil avoiding
connexion between the Executive and
Congress, which it was pretended gave such
strong ground ofapprehension and jealousy,
that connection, in the most odlouS iorins OF
Executive Interference aud influence, has
been carefully cherished and maintained
Instead OF Legislative Independence, there
has been legislative subservicncy 'Calcu-
lations from intrigue and management in
stead of being defeated have been relied
on, and corruption has, indeed, become the
order ofthe da@.'
Does anybody deny this 2 Who is he 2
Can he be an Administration man2 Sure
Nv not sir, surely not, for will he not nd
init, can he refuse TO admit that all this must
necessarily be connected with the practice
OF appointing members of Congress to of
fee Did mol General Jackson say thai il
would and will his friends make him
false prophet Will they now contend,
when the appointment OF members OF Con
gress has been rery greatly increased by
himself and his iavorile successor, that the
consequences that he predicted from the
practice, as il existed before such increase
willnot follow2 II the appointment ofmem-
bers OF Congress at the rate of FIRE in an adj
ministralou of four years (or that was all
that Mr. Adams appoined) was TO make cor
ruption the order ofthe day, and produce all
the evils predicted, what an amount OF cor
ruption and what multiplication OF evils must
not have resulted from the appointment Of
t'ceaiy members Of Congress during the
first four years of Gen. Jacksons admins
tra;ion2 And how feariully must the cor;
rupiion have been augmented and the evils
multiplied by the subsequent addition Of
more than twenty appointments OF like
character What a sum is here for poiti-
cal arithmetic What results would stare
gentlemen in the face if they would apply
the simple rule ofihree 10 this case
But startling as would be these results,
they could cot exceed the reality, as evinced
by every thing we see around u.s. Sir, we
are overwhelmed with the evidence of cor
ruption, intrigue, management, and legisla-
tive subserviency which has been gathering
strength ever since Gen. Jackson came into
power and put down the pure Administra.
ton. What observer of the signs of the
times has not seen il2 Sir, not a single
Congress has been elected since that time
whose members have not been brought with
in the charm Of Executive influence, BY a
liberal distribution at the average late of the
appointment of about ten members of each
Congress And, what is worthy of special
notice there have been several cases Of mem
sssssss % Sep g. SIC w. sofse, 81 consequence OF
their INSCRIPTIONS devotion to the Execu-
tive, were subsequently rewarded for that
devotion, by appointments at his hands,
II would be worth little inquiry 10 as
certain the amount which has been paid
as salaries outfits &c. under such APP
poinlments, since this dynasty came into
power. But have not found lime 10 make
the full examination which intend to here
after 1t was stated by gentleman from
Kentucky, (MR ALLEN) in speech on this
floor, in March, 1916, that the amount at that
time exceeded S53O000 1t will be no ex.
aggeraion TO estimate that it has swollen TO
more then 100000. Seven hundred thou
sand dollars OF the Peoples money thus used
by an Administration that came into power
as the boosted enemy OF corruption, and the
watchlul guardian of Congressional purify
and independence.
To be continued.