Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-04-24

:, to give you my opini The particular measures
winch may be present. the consideration OF Con-
gress IN regard to this Jet, it is unnecessary to an
ucipate. Whatever tlsay be, they Will receive my
most serious deliberate The confidence you may re-
pose IN me- which maynpt you to give me your sup
port, Will assure me tsou willing to trust the
matter, under the forhg ayowals, to my sense OF
auty, acting under thSred charter OF our Liberties
YOU dient,
Bain6ridge, Nor 3f3S.''
People of Virginia! Sthis, and then say, what you
think of cabal and ofluse, with which J. Y. Clark
Is assocated-for the bose of giving you fres-
dent, and among othe fans, deceivng you ny one
sided handbills and ga,d statements.
Extract Of a letter frd pirgi"tan' -, o.
Enclosed, Won h, the Expose which the Secret
Wing Committee b,have struck off, and are widely
circulating against tRepublican party. One OF tins
Committee starts fcsichmond to day. and IS charged
with the circulation vast number OF tins precious
handful. 1t will put in the hands OF every voter,
whom they may b to influence by its garbled state
ments.
RENDER THESE FACTS!
81. Satonsta, e the Committee, when mas put
forth this decept.Exposc, was the man, who IN the
Massachusetts Ambly moved the famous Resolu-
tons, in favor off Hartford C0nrention.' (Another
April Goth, "Salsstas colleague (Parmenter) is at
this moment shing, that as member OF the Legs
lature he recomrnded the Hartford Convention
'2 That everything member of the Hartford Con-
vention is dectd and active Wing.
go. That Dwht, the Secretary OF that convention,
published for my years scurf'ious paper asa',st .ne
Republican Administration of orr country; and after
wards wrote samefu and libellous Biography OF our
own great Jeffean.
"a These fact.nre all true. They lately stated
in public debate q the floor ofthe Senate, by Bedford
Brown of ~ C., end were never contradicted by the
Opposition members
90 That j. c. Clark is rank Abotonist-and
would liberate tn Slaves at early period in the Dis
trict of Columb, Nc, &c.
FRO, the Globe of Monday last.)
EXPENSES OF HE GovERNMENT-FEDERALT TRICKS
Peoplef Virginia, be your Guard
"Eight Fedeal members of Congress have put ont a
handful containing statement of the public accounts
which, withouexplanation is calculated to make most
false and foulmpresson on the public mind. 1t has
been posted oil into Virginia several days since, and II
is only now bynccident that we laid our hand on tins
handful u hundred thousand of which have been struck
for circulation impose on the voters OF Virginia II
is signed by prisons who add to their signatures the
words Executive Committee, to give to the whole
the impress ofan official document, emanatng iron
a committee 81 the House, when it is, IN fact, tho
production of secret club appointed by Fedora
caucus for eectioneerlng purposes. The paper sen
out is in the !uise and form Of document PRINTED
bv the House. and contains statement of the pub
lie expenditures designed n comparison OF the eX
pendtures between the Administrations OF MIR. adams
and Gen jackson and MIR. Vas BuREN; but the items
of which the aggregates composed are, IN fact no
made in sucha way to present true state OF th
public expenses
"For instance among the charges laid to the last an'
present Administrations are included the indemnltle
from nations and paid out to the 'ndi
vidua citizens 10 whom they belonged. In tins way
the millions recovered from France, Span Denmark
Naples, and other nations, and passing through lh
Government to the merchants and others, Tor whoi
they were recovered, are set down as an expenditure
out Of the Treasury, of the money OF this country
when in fact, this money paid by foreign countrie
out of their treasury to American citizens
ain the samt way all the money paid out OF the Urea
sury for the expenses incurred IN the Creek war, IN
Florida war; and the Black Hawk war, are contained u
the swollen account of the expenditures ofthe late an
present Administrations while all the money paid out
the Treasury during Adamss administration Tor III
previous war, is very properly excluded as not
charge apperaning to the regular expenses OF the &c
vernment
"The whole Of the expenses of the Post Office De
partment being pad out of the hostages, were not,
in Mr. Adams time, carried through the Treasury DC
partment and did not therefore, appear to swell tn
fifteen millions of the annual expense of admnistr5
ton TO eighteen or twenty. They now by the LAT
law, made to pass through the Treasury books and ar
in this new FORM although paid as before out OF I'll
postages used by the Opposition to make an apparer
excess III the expenditures of this administration Owe
Adams s. and thelr natural CROWN WIN the CROWN
the country. .
ain this false contrast is also heaped up by the ~
ecutve Committee, the extraordinary expenses bcyon
the estimates Of the Administration which was vote
by the Bank malorities in every successive Congress
which were gradually formed in that body by the CO
rupt practices of the great corporation These expeI
ses were wastefuly and avishly made by the enemie
of the Administration, for their sordid ends, loo
and personal, and voted by those OF them not
rectlv interested in the Objects for the political purpo
of bringing the Administration under the public Gel
sure for extravaganza
awe have not time TO 90 further into thus SUI
iect 1t is enough to guard Virginia against this ham
bill to be informed that it is put out by club OF eg
MEMBERSHIP Of whom voted against the rule to pr
tect their property against the prenzy OF The Abo
tonists; and one of whom (Alr. SaltonstalD was tn
day shown to have voted in the Massachusetts, Leg
lature for the Hartford Convention. Men who ha'
shown that they would sacrifice the Union itself
party designs can be guilty Of any lille trick that mi
subserve its ends
SOW FOR TIE FACTS.
Expenses Of the Government.
The Wings have most grossly msrepresented the c
penses, under guise of Document, which they pr
mulgate under the flaming head of ''offcial, viz
stateme Mt submitted to the H. of R. on the 23th Jun
1885, signed by ct. l.. Smith, Register" But the pr
ceding remarks show how that document, If left une
planned may be used to deceive the people And II
Committee do not explain it, and of course instead T.
public The following table of last years aPproprl
tons is pronounced by Hugh A. Garland, Clerk OF I
House Of Representatives, to be correct:
] + ] ! ! Z :
The aggregate appropriations in round ,oo :
numbers, are S'0'ooo'o
| From this amount, deduct those for occa-
sional, contingent, and extraordinary OBJ
| iects, and we shall see the real amount
of the expenditures Of the Government:
lst For the contingent service
of fifty thousand men to re-
sist British aggression, if ne
cessary, in Maine, SlO,O0O,OOo
3D. For the Post Office Depart
ment, which is not a drain
bv the Office itself, 100000
Sd. For expenses of the Flo
I'D, war over the regular