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

Isl larger sum than they have ever coined in
any other year. II twelve millions should be
coined al Philadelphia annually its cost would
De only lightweight cents in every hundred
dollars and II but two millions are coined there,
.he redundance Of force perpetually maintained,
increases the cost 10 two dollars forty cents for
every hundred dollars So that the abstraction
OF bullion for the branches, makes larger addi-
uon to the expense Of coinage at the principal
mint when, AT the same time, at the branch
mints, Il is enormous, Ranging between twenty
and seventy-fvc dollars for every hundred coined
and during one year, being at the New Orleans
branch, as great as three dollars for the coinage
Of every dollar What secret and potent cause
keeps up such profigate and criminal waste
OF the public money? These branch minis
created large number Of places and fat sala-
RES, and they were located in the doubtful States
OF Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana, to
increase the strength Of the President and his
party IN them, and TO hold their refractory peo-
pie under the iron rule OF the most selfish, cor
rupt and proscriptive party leaders, whose ac-
cursed rule, for the time being, blasted the fair
hopes OF this country. The Wings resisted the
establishment ms they have the different appro-
pnations TO keep up these branches, because of
their utter uselessness; the exceeding enormity
OF their annual expense, and their increase Of
the already overgrown and dangerous power Of
the Executive. But for these reasons were they
created and are they continued, by the Federal
spoismen.
-fraa pahc "a ..nl
the country, and the venal office holders, whose
support is its only strength, are asked TO submit
their pay to similar reduction to that which
they are determined to impose upon the laborer,
the property, and all the interests Of reluctant
people. VIII they share its effects with the
people No. They have one system for the
people, and different one for themselves--one
currency for the people, and another for the
ofiice-holders--the worse for the people, the
better for themselves. In the deaf stupidity of
their sordidness--in the delirium Of power base
ly won and always abused they refuse to sub
init to the natural and general consequences Of
their crack measure. Such process would be
particularly inconvenient now, when they are
generally assessed in proportion to the amount of
their salaries, TO raise a fund TO heap up the
Golfers of Mr.. Kendall already filed by the
plumber OF the country and to aid in scattering
the Infamous Globe over the whole Union,
thick as the clouds Of Egypts presidential locusts
They know, too, that heavier taxation awaits
them, for the more active and expensive opera
tons of the fall elections.
We are conscious that in this great battle be-
tween the people on one side, and the federal
spoilsmen on the other, the latter will fight with
the temcrlty OF avarice and the courage Of des-
pair butithey cannot, must not succeed They
may give up the whole Of their pay for the year,
and no doubt they would willingly do il, to re-
establish and perpetuate the corrupt power that
pays them as mercenary troops: and still they
will be routed and overwhelmed. The eyes of
the people are opened, It is matter Of indif-
ference to them who may ill the offices of GO
vernment, SO that its measures are wise and Just,
and for the general good. They have ceased TO
look to the Icing organ of the white House"
TO learn the nature and consequences of the mea-
sures of the men now in power. They read
them in strong characters in the general venality
Of the officeholders and office-seekers; in plum
dered and bankrupt treasury; in the ruined Gre
dit and commerce Of the country ; in the destruc-
ton Of the best, and the substitution of the worst
Of curencies in the depressed prices Of all pro-
ducts and all property in the wide spread ruin,
and the universal distress of the nation in the
unnatural and ruthless war which the Executive
has been so long waging upon the whole bust
ness and prosperity of the country in the mon
s,rous and malignant aspect Of government
bank scowling from the provisions Of the Sub
treasury bill and in the union Of the purse and
the sword always fatal to liberty, which it
is designed TO effect. They have heard the
power that has produced all this accumulation
Of mischief, with folded arms, coldly insult and
mock the victims that were writing under the
curses Of its misrule, by the heartless rebuke.
''the people look to the government for too
much" and it is the duty Of governmentt to take
care of itself.n Thanks to a benign Providence
the day Of deliverance is at hand. The people
are rising in their power to take care of them
selves, and will hur the insolent and wicked
creatures, who live but by their BREATH from
their high places, and in scorn trample them into
the dust. .'Feix trembles upon his throne" and
well he may, for the people are about to give par
ty names to the Winds and as one man rise up
and in the sovereign majesty Of their power drive
a weak and wicked Executive from the post of
authority he dshonors.
AMENDMENT PROPOSED by MIR. DAVIS, OF KENTUCKY.
And prorided further, That soon as an act emit
tied "An act to provide for the collection keep
ing transfer and dsbursng of the public money" or
ctl1o bl,.l.s L.
dent treasury shall become the law the several sums
herein before appropriated to the salary pay wa