The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-06-23

| do Florists Guide, 37l-2
do Lindley's Outline, 25
Transplanting Trowe s7I-2
Packing II DDS and boxes, with portcrage, lG SO
ssls 25
Received Philadelphia, 18th November, 1888, Of John
I'll Wheeler, Superintendent Of United States Branch
Mint at Charlotte North Carolina the above amount
Of two hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty five
cents. ID. LANDRETH Il CO.
am not sure, Mr. Chairman, have called
these hard names properly Some of them |
certainly seldom, if ever, heard before No
such things grow in my district, either in the
swamp, or turpentine woods although we have
/ flowers in abundance. Fifty dollars for horse
chestnut trees! Why, Mr.. Chairman, there is
not country under the sun where the chestnut
grows more abundanty than in Western North
Carolina. |. is a land Astounding in beautiful
trees. BUT plain North Carolina trees would not
suit the taste of the Superintendent TSome
| gentleman here remarked that the horse-chesnut
was the same tree called the buckeye.1 Mr..
STANLy SAID, well, sir, have no doubt the buck
eye, from present indications, will flourish in
| North Carolina, though do not on this account
justify this expenditure in these hard times. But
| the Superintendent, besides the American tree
the buckeye has also the magnolia grandi-
fora" and the macrophylla, as it is spelt here,
and silver-eaved naples, and, sir the morus null
icca1lils Chufs hi66nfuauIis, fit emblem Of sh;a
humbugging Administration, is transplanted to
North Carolina.
Probably, sir, when the superintendent bought
the multcaulis, he remembered the prediction
of the Globe; in that paper, July 10th, 1884, It
was said, Gin eight or nine months from this
time. every substantial citizen will have long
| silken purse of fine open net work, through the
in, n Of which the yellow gold will shine
and glitterw He may have intended, with his
garden reels" and "scuffle hoe" and "swan
neck hoe to make silk for the purses to hold
| the 'syellow gold" This is really multicaulis
| Administration
| Well, Mr. Chairman, have given this as
! specimen of the administration OF affairs al
| Charlotte Just so the affairs of our nation are
managed every where. This Administration
holds out inducements TO its partisans to disre-
gard the will Of tho People: it rewards negli-
gence in public officers. If they have served
their party, no matter how much their country
has suffered by their misconduct, they are sure
to be remembered. forbear, SIR, from saying
more for the present. do not wish to occupy
the time Of the House unnecessarily.
/ There are other matters relative to this branch
mint, of which may speak hereafter.
After some remarks from Mr.. Conner, Of
North Carolina, Mr.. STANLy said
Mr.. Chairman, did not intend to trespass on
the Committee again; but cannot permit the
remarks of my colleague to pass entirely I'M
noticed.
NV colleague says sir, he did not expect this
attack from North Carolina do not suppose
my colleague did expect this, sir. II is hard to
say what he expects from any quarter. But
does he approve of this expenditure ? No, sir !;
he admits it is wrong, and utterly unjustifable.
No man has said il was proper. Why, there
fore, should il surprise my colleague that | OBJ
ject to it2
Is il because this branch mint is in North Ca
rona that my colleague thinks ought to suffer
these abuses to pass unnoticed Sir, my con-
stituents would be ashamed of me if they
thought could harbor such thought.
/ | object to extravaganza any where. ] cen
sure the improper expenditure of public money,
whether it be in Maine, in North Carolina. or
| in Florida envy not that mans patriotism
who thinks otherwise. Extravaganza may be
economy when the money is spent near home !!
Sir, | made no attack on the State. When
North Carolina shall be assailed my colleague
will not find me behind him in defendinghe But
| fear, SIR, an attack on federal ofiice-holder
with the gentleman is an attack on the State
The oihce-holders may be the State with him.
There is wide difference, in my estimation.
4 The gentleman says we had as well take our
cotton to Philadelphia and manufacture IT, as TO
take our gold there do not see the force OF
this argument. The mint is a national institu-
ton, intended to coin money for the whole
| Union, for the Government. | have never heard
of any intention on the part of Government to
undertake the manufacturing of cotton.
Unless my colleague advocated the establish
ment of the branch mint at Charlotte merely for
the sake of personal advantage to few wealthy
men who owned gold mines, his argument
amounts TO nothing trust, sir, he will not say
this building at this enormous expense has been
constructed merely for the neighborhood did
not expect that, sir, from him. ! thought this
! branch mint was pur there to aid in giving us
circulation Of the yellow boys" expect my
colleague from the EIillsborough district (Mr
Montgomery will want Congress TO establish
/ little branch Of the Treasury Department II
: his district TO issue ten dollar Treasury notes
which we wants, and which not one man OF m
c party voted for with him, for observed it, ant
a called attention TO il.
e NV colleague, If understood him, spoke 0
e my arguments as .slog cabin arguments" Tn
n LOG cabin seems TO haunt the gentleman. Their