The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-06-02

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profit in current paper. The great Missoul
humbugger himself, has furnished his hard mo
ney fame by such transactions, and howeverre
entless he is in his purpose, TO force an exclu
sive metallic currency system upon the people
he is ready enough TO sell his own gold for ban
notes, when he can make dollar by the opera
ton When the system is legalzed by Con
gress, and is organized and enforced, upon tn
general principles Of the tactics of this spolia
ting administration, specie will be worth al leas
ten per cent advance of current paper Thi
difference will fall upon the laborer and con
sumner, whilst il will be so much added TO III,
compensation of the oiice-hoders. If the ag
gregate amount Of their pay be two millions o
dollars, and il is more, twill be sweled to tive
millions two hundred thousand dollars in bank pa
per: and this enormous addition to the hurrher
Of the people, will be caused by this dabolica
measure, which its hypocritcal authors persist il
saying is TO give relief to the country and secu
rity to the public revenue, when its effect will be
TO plumber the treasury, TO derange the currency
and business, and TO pamper and enrich all Co
vernment agents. Mr.. Van Buren, will receive
his salary Of twenty five thousand dollars in gold
whilst all the transactions of society are, and
will continue TO be in bank paper. He brings
his hard money into market aid il brings him
twenty-s seven thousand FIVE hundred dollars in
current paper! His five Heads of Departments,
offer their salaries Of SIX thousand dollars each,
and by the alchymy Of the Sub Treasury law,
they convert them into six thousand six hundred
dollars !! Mr. Senator Benton, its great advocate,
boards his family, and purchases his other sup
plies in this city with paper currency. He re-
ceives his per diem and mileage Of three thou
sand dollars in gold, carries il to broker and
sells ii for three thousand three hundred dollars
in bank paper, with which he is enabled to dis
charge such Of his debts, as he chooses to pay.
The members Of Congress, and every person in
the employment Of Government, will have their
pay increased in the same ratio by this great and
distinctive measure of Mr.. Van Buren's admi-
nistration. Are not its authors and supporters a
most disinterested and patriotic corps? Verify,
the Government is about TO take good care Of IL
self, while the interests Of the People are quite
an unimportant concern Whilst the value of
the labor and property Of every private man,
will be greatly reduced, even in the medium OF
bank paper, the pay Of the Office holder will re-
main nominally the same, but will be, in truth,
increased in a two fold form:--lst by being paid
in gold and silver, which will be worth ten per
cent more than the currency, which pays for
all the property and discharges all the private
debts of the country :-2d. by great contraction
OF the general circulation, and the consequent
reduction Of the prices of all products, and
Of every persons labor, but that of the Of
fice-holder We see the interest that they,
including the spoilsmen in Congress had
in the rejection of MIR. Davis amendment
They obstinately persist in fastening upon the
country measure, that will add to every mans
debts in proportion as greater amount Of labor
or property, will be required TO raise the amount
that will discharge them; that will abstract
largely from the means and comforts Of the
working man, by reducing his wages that will
be equivalent to the plundering Of every person
who has property for sale, Of portion Of it, by
forcing upon him state Of things which will
greatly reduce its price-and this without any
proportion or regard TO what it may have cos,
him. And yet these federal loco focos in demo
cratic disguise and with false professions Of love
for the people, take good care, not only 10 ex-
empt themselves from the burthens and reduc-
tons, which their favorite measure will impose
upon every person else, but avail themselves Of
it, to add to their share Of the '.spoils Of victory
in disngenuous and stealthy increase of their
salaries
These principles and ends are systematically
acted upon by the whole host of official myrmi
dons and spos men. The Globe publishes .
proclamation, that il cannot sustain itself, with
out the spoils Of the public printing; and forth
with the party reject the economical plan O
letting it out to the lowest bidder, elect it.
editors public printers, and give them ten pei
cent more for the work, than the sum for which
an experienced and responsible printer Of thei
own politics had offered to perform it. Thi,
was nothing less than donation Of fifteen thou
sand dollars Of the peoples money, TO the loves
and basest Of all slanderers, to enable him t
keep in operation his foul laboratory Of falsehoot
and calumny -Four or five district attorney.
and marshals receive each from ten to thirty
thousand dollars per annum in salaries, fees ant
commissions: the democratic wings introduced
measure 10 reduce these enormous emolu
ments TO thirty-fve hundred dollars, and TO com
pei the officers TO pay the excess as revenue int
the public Treasury. Yet, Notwithstanding tn,
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received last year, upwards Of twenty -eigh
thousand dollars and the marshal Of Mississippi
more than eighty-seven thousand dollars, few
leading federal loco focos in the House, good
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