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him. that each branch of the Government should act
independently OF the other; that u.s. that the Executive
should not interfere with, or attempt to control the
action of the House of Representatives or the Senate,
the Judiciary. Another principle was hat the public
money was the money OF the people, and ought to DC
kept under the control ofhe peoples Representatives,;
as the Secretary Of the Treasury was made subordn-
ate to the peoples Representatives, and not to the
President. These were the doctrines and practices of
Jefferson. Contrast them with the jackson and Van
Buren, Democracy. Reform in public Offices was
promised to the peoples the practice has been to turn
out honest capable faithful men, and put IN brawllng
paraans. Their number has been greatly ncroased
and their salaries advanced about fifteen per cent ten
per cent of which has been deducted as fund for
| electoncering purposes.
Retrenchmcnt of public expenditure was promised |
but instead of rercnchmcnt the public expenditures
have increased from thirteen to thirty-scven millions
| and quarter. Mr.. Van Ness and his party try to
get rid of this by Jesuitcal distinction between cor
binary and extraordinary expenses" lsay the whole
| expenditure off, q. Adams administration, both ordi |
nary and extraordinary for the four years that he was
President was less than thirteen millions year, the
National debt excepted. further say that from the
first year of Jackson's administration, the proigatc
waste of the pub money gradually Increased, until
| 1887 it amounted to thirty seven millions and our
ter and in 1888 to hiryiour millions, also exclusive
of the National debt; and the people will hold this
| administration accountable for this prolsc eypcndi-
turc. They had large maIores in both Houses of
Congress in their favor, and had not those cxpend-
lures accorded with the party object of those nnlo
ties they could and they would have prevented them
| But had they reduced those expenditures within the
stict standard Of economy which marked the admin
istation of Mr. Jefferson, within the expenses
of the ertrdrdgant administration, as they loudly as
| serted 1t to be, of John Il. Adams they would not
have had millions to sqnander away upon foreign
basscs, leg bail sub reasurers, runaway and fran
ducnt land agents, Florida war and other contractors
and the hundred other ways in which the peoples
money has been squandcred, to pay for partisan ser
vices. The people, too, were told by Jackson, that
was dangerous to their liberties to have members of
Congress appointed to any office in the gift Of the
fhpv,, -,
and for two years thereafter; and yet within the two
first years of Jackson's administration, he appointed
more members of Congress to Office than all his pre-
dccessors put together, had done! Jackson, in his
inaugural declared to be his mberatvc duty TO pre-
vent the Executive patronage coming in conflict with
the freedom of elections; and yet we see Post masters
Marshals, Collectors, and their suborllnutes Land
Agents, Mail contractors, and whole host of other
recipients of the publ, money, interfering in town,
county state, and federal elections. Instead of each
department ofthc Government moving in its const-
tutional sphere il notorious that Jackson and Van
Buren, have entirely controlled the decisions of both
branches of Congress- upon all political and party
e questions, and that Jackson attempted TO interfere
with and control the decisions Of the Federal Judiciary
! The Federal Constitution declares, that this compact
. formed by the people to promote their welfare,
and thus was the doctrine and practice Of the Jefferson
j ton OF the people for relief that 'the people expec,
too much from the Government" We read that in
y ancient days when the people asked their rulers for
: bread they gave them stones.
: honest practices of Mr.. Je!erson's administration
- with the hollow profess ons and corrupt and dcspotic
practices OF the pns and present administrations. II
fair profession and foul practices are an evidence o,
Democracy there can be doubt that the adninistra.
i tons of Jackson and Van Buren, the most Demo
cratic that this or any other country ever saw As
member of the old Republican party, spurn thc i'm;
putaton with scorn, that the practices Of the past and
present Administrations are applicable to those OF
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They were
J. honest men, and Their measures guided by what
,t
OF the people and the good of their country; and not
j. outstanding the emharrassmcnts which our com.
a merce experienced by an European of an uncon.
& monty vindlcvc character; by orders of Council
e and Berlin and Milan DEGREES, in addition to drec
= war on our part with one of those bclgerents grow
z ing out of lmprcssmens of our scamen and unlawful
is seizures of our vessels yet the prosperity Of
try was essentially advanced under both of those nd
rs mnistlatons. Contrast situation then, notwith
y standing those numerous drawbacks to our prosperity
re with o,r situation nom when we have had no foreign
1t aggrcssons, no embargo no non-intorcourse wa
4. with foreign nation to retard our advancement il
ID wealth; and-wlat do we witness A deranged cur
e roncy: trade suspended that which is the mos
important Of all to the country the trade between on
section Of the Union and the other put stop to; ow
ing 10 the want of currency Of uniform value through
out the country; one half of enterprsing activ
lc merchants in state of banlruptcy manuac ore
suspended; agricultural productions fallen nearly on
&c half and IN very limited demand at any price; OH
H. mechanics without profitable employment, and tn
lie wages Of labor greatly reduced All these effect
ne Then, the question arises what the cause of thi
s disastrous state OF things! Every political cconomis
re knows that sound currency essential to
W tive and healthy state OF business asls the natural cir
a, cuaon OF the blood to healthy state of the body
III dcrangc the former, and general embarrassment fol
lows; impede the latter, and general disease ensues
NJ Until Gen JACKSON assumed the responsibility, in d
rect violation Of law, to seize upon the public trcasur
OF and to destroy currency of uniform value, which
he was the oCst that any nation in the world had arranged
s for people and which was particularly suited to tn
r habits, wants and condition of our contry,--on
march to prosperity was onward and forward Jack
us son and his Administration, however, promised us
better currency and the people deceived into ac
qucsccn:e by this promise. In order that the effect
~ Of his arbitrary act shoud be concealed from the pub
es lie eye the Administration encouraged partisan State
IS TO increase Their Banking capital suplosng that al
is increase the local circulation would prove a remed
p for the evils likely result from the want of an uni
of form currency. 1Nis the Banking capital of on
Id country, from 1888 to 1884, increased about scv
he enty per cent. The people, when left to mnnag
he Their own ailars in their own way had petoncd til
he Legislatures of their respective States for as man
rs Banks were required for the business concerns
the community; and as this additional capital wa
ss beyond our business wants, II must have lam unen
ed poyed, unless il had been lent to Spectators r
: Spectators then it WAS lent. This false of tn
I'M Administration engcndcred the specuations of lS3+
IN '35 and 36. The Administration became alarmed Il
A. the probable consequences and corrective issue
m the Specie Circular But this new experiment, inter
IT, ded As a remedy increased the embarrassment b
nd drawing the gold and silver from scapors wher
ed II was required toenahlG the Banks to redeem the
of bills with specie, TO send ii to the Western States
is be locked up by Land Agents aud other Sub trea SUI
cd crs: and was thus Withdrawn from circulation. Thi
TX move ofom snGacous President; and that profoun
ms inancicr Levi Woodbury., aided by the advice of til
ale Ienyenborn Amos and Martin Van Buren,, hastcne
he the catastrophe, and compelled the Banks, niue
his against their ncllnaon 10 suspend specie payment
elf in the spring of 1881 The walls of wrath from tn
m White House were Immediately poured ont upon III
Ct devoted heads of the Banks and the Globe and a
his the other organs Immediately that the Presidcr
for and the Cabinet free from the ,in and that III
as Banks had deliberately cut their throas with il
FIJI tent to nurc the Administration. Their parsans c,
at cry where caught up the cry, and in all the notes
ed gamut echoed it from ear to ear.
ha Dir. Van Ness, like cunning lawyer who ca
no turn black INTO white, attempts to evnde the true qle
no ton, by quoting sundfy paragraps from Niles Regis
p. ter Mr.. C!aya and Mr. Mr.. Websters speeches
order prove that the present dcep-seatcd distress
cy our country has been experienced before aud there
tbs fore that this Administration il responsible for IL
ere present. Had Mr.. Van Ness been acquainted wit
his trade, currency finances practical political econ
md my as well as he knows how by artful sophistry
Re- make wrong appear right & with ahad hcbcen hone
TO in his Intentions, he would have drawn a very dlerc