The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-12
COMMUNICATIONS
BEHOLD VAN BUREN's ExTRAVA-
GANCEIm


In reading the speech of Mr.. OGLE, of Penn
sylvania, on the Civil and Diplomatic Appropria-
| ton bill, my notions of Democratic econonlu
were shocked at the wanton extravaganza of Mr.
| Fan Ba1en, well as at his aping after the
splendor Of European Courts. To my mind, an
American President should live like a gentle
man: his house should be provided with every
convenience and comfort: If you please, should
be furnished handsomely. But, with every dis
position to see it the home of generous hospita-
lily, | cannot recognise the propriety of seeing
the peoples money wasted in foreign gew-gaws
and trifles, in order that it may present more the
appearance of toy shop, than the substantial
residence of plain republican.
II an honest, Woodworking farmer, was to he
taken to the residence of our Democratic Presi
dent, and conducted through the apartments
without being told that it was the residence az
the Chief Magistrate of Republican America.
the regal splender with which it is fitted nm
would make him believe that it was the paEaee
of the representative of some crowned head.
sent here expressly to corrupt our psople by the
display of those trappings, which in Europe.
operate to awe the minds of plebians and aatter
the vanity of the rich.
Among the items of expense, find set
Of French china for dinner service,
which cost. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Al 900
A Fdesert" set of do, which cost. ... 500
Making in all, Observation-Disclosures. $500
For two sets of china, for the dinner table;
and this money is paid out of the peoples poch-
cts; sum sufficient to buy and stock good
farm. How many honest farmers, mechanics, and
laborers, would think themselves rich, could
they only realise this sum; and yet our Presi-
dent, who boasts of his democracy, taxes the
poor people, to sustain him in such extravaganza.
Another item is 500 for French artificial
fotcerS, to decorate our democratic PRESIDENTS
dinner table. Why, there is many a man as
we'll born Mr. Van Buren,, who would, with
this sum, furnish his house, and think that he
and his bride were comfortably fixed. 1t would
take laboring man, in the very best of times,
four months to earn this amount, and vet Mr..
Fan Buren, lavishes it away upon worthless
bunch of flowers, to beautify his dinner table!
For suits of Curtains for the
EAST Room, .S3,S75 35 cents!
Is 1t any wonder that our country is so poor
that thousands of people are suffering
when their money is thus spent2
Again Among the other items of his wanton
and wicked extravaganza, Mr.. Yam Buren, has
expended S13, 4O5 for looking glasses, lamps, and
caI,dleSticks!!-a $4,000 for gold leaf, gliding
materials, Sell!
Do these extravagant expenditures become the
President of plain democratic pcople' Do
they look like the man who made them has a
particle of republican feeling about him3 No,
they do not and ask you, farmers, mechanics,
and laborers, will you labor and toll from the
rising to the setting sun, to support Mr.. Ya, Blu
rem in such splendor?
Let us, one and all, honestly determine to put
him out, and elect the plain old Democratic
Farmer of North Bend. He'll send artificial
flowers where they ought to be, up the Salt
RtceT, and restore to the Peoples House repub-
lican simplicity of living.
A MARYLAND FARMER.