The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-01


NAV saw, INSTRUCTED, by the instructions of at
least one Secretary of State, and one President,
as remarkable for fitting as their successors
have since become for succeeding, in all their
foreign negotiations
Does any one ask why the Globe eulogised
MIR. Rives? The secret will be seen in the Sc
quel; but let us first see what the Globe then
said of Mr.. Calhoun.
In the Globe of the 18th February, 1885, we
fiRd the following
MIR. CALHOUN'S PROJECT.
seMr. Calhoun Yesterday brought forward his
Report on Executive Patronage, in which, by
taking the point at which the several systems OF
Expenditure introduced by himself and MIR. Clay,
commenced their career, and imputlng their re-
suits TO the present President, who has resisted
them. has shown an exorbitant increase. He
brought up the multitude of officers Matched in
tse heat of the high tarifi-the multitude of per-
sons employed on public works, and the vast
outlay on the internal Improvement schemes,
which were commenced in all quarters OF the
Union-he brought together the outlay on the
pension system, which has enrolled 5o,OUU OF
standing army, which the acts OF Congress nave
enlisted to prey upon the Treasury. lhese' ana
other immense expenditures, originating with
Congress, the fair and honest Macmavel OF
South Carolina, sets down to Executive patron
age. while every farthing of it was legislative
disbursement, for the most part, originating in
his own schemes.
0Among other things included in his estimate
| of Executive patronage, and intended to swell
the amount of money laid out by the President,
is the extinguishing the title Of the Indians to
lands within the States, and their removal be-
yond the Mississippi The money thus expend-
ed in making vast acquisitions of territory, and
hon, in to the
Treasury, while it gave to the manned States of
the South their full dimensions, was set down by
Mr. Calhoun as mere profusion on the part of
the President-an increase of Executive Patron
agen
After MIR. Calhoun had thus exposed what he
assumed to be the waste of this Administration,
and had laid out his scheme of saving, he under
took to prove that he would be able to find sur
plus of nine millions per annum; and this he
proposes to divide among the States, and thus
take the credit of disposing of this immense i'm
aginary surplus from his own hand. This is Mr.
Calhoun's bribery bill, and is intended to give
him the vantage ground of Mr.. Clay's largess-
his great land bill dottceIu.
eMr Benton took up this report, and handled
BIT in the most mastery manner. Never was
new project so completely exploded in its birth.
Mr. Calhoun, while sitting, as he supposed, on
an enviable eminence, and enjoying beauti-
blasted hopes-was in fact seated on a mine,
which exploded on the instant, and destroyed his
| whole edifce. Poor mamie has had his dream
for the session, but he is now awakened, and his
air-built castle has vanished"
And again, on the 29th January, 1885, the
Globe said of Mr.. Calhoun:
oBut in the new panic piece, which is now
acting in the Senate, there is nothing to produce
a sensation, save the renown of the famous play
ers who have taken parts in it The two South
| Carolina Senators have taken the lead, with
vehemence which shows that they mean to make
it benefit. Mr.. Calhoun, especially, was ira
gical Yesterday beyond Kean or Cooke-nay, al
most as mad as Booth in crook-backed Richard.
sCorruption," reformation, revolution," was
| the outcry of him, who has done more to intro
duce corrupt abuses in the Government while in
office, than any man who ever acted as the head
of Department We shall take occasion to
look at the allowances of''J. C. c." the famous
initials which so frequently occur in the records
of the War Department. We will look into the
Mix contracts, opoH the foundation of which
most honest and disinterested bargain, some
millions have been sunk at Fortress Calhoun.
We shall look to his notable allowances in the
Department of Indian predgality-the waste on
the Missouri expedition-and the monstrous out
lay in preparing ruins, under the name of fortih
cations. His grand scheme TO become universal
contractor in making military highways through
out the Union to lavish millions to secure States
to his interest on the logrolling system, while
he secured the influence of all his military pen
dants, by extraordinary constructive allowances,
will put to shame his affected horrors at the er-
tras granted by Obediah B. Brown for the most
part to opposition contractors, upon the prece-
dents of his predecessors, the Bradleys, under
the sanction Of Mr. Mclean
Now that the Globe should praise Mr.. Rives,
or abuse Mr.. Calhoun is not, of itself, matter
of surprise-because all who read that paper
know that Mr.. Rives was then Tin 1880 friend
ef the Administration, and that Mr.. Calhoun
was opposed to it; and that you may have before
you the very cause of the special outpouring of
the Globes wrath, 1 copy from the Globe itself
the teri on which this abuse was written.
The Globe reports MIR. Calhoun to have made,
in relation to the report on the condition of the
Post Office Department, the following remarks:
ecMr. Calhoun said, he earnestly hoped that
some Senator would present resolution express
ing the sentiments and feelings of the Senate,
on the GROSS CoRRUPTIoNs which had been ex-
posed in the Report. He had listened with the
profoundest attention to the reading of the re-
port and documents, and would solemAly aver,
that his most powerful feelings were those OF the
deepest shame and modification. During the
| TWENTY-FIVE years in which he had, in some form
| or other, been connected with the Government,
he never could have conceived that SUCH ROT
TENEEss, SUCH CORRUPTION, SUCH ACCOUNTABLE
VIOLATIONS OF TRUST, could ever exist in any of
its Departments, as those he had just listened to,
he repeated, with the utmost notification. The
guilt of this Department was open and palpable.
No one on the floor of the Senate could be bold
! enough to rise in his place to extenuate or
palliate it. All saw and lamcnted the RAPID
: STRIDES WHICH DEEP AND DEBAsING CORRUPTION
HAD MADE IN 1T. IT EXCEEDED ANY THING IN
THE HISTORY OF THE ROTTENEsT AGES OF THE
, ROMAN EMPIREn
1t was for assailing the corrupt administration
q of the Post Office Department under Gen. Jack
son, that the Globe assailed Mr.. Calhoun. Has
J MIR. Rives changed? Has he renounced any
: measure which he then supported? Has Mr.