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who has pocketed above thirty thousand dollars, only
because they are the last instances that have occur
red, and o BECAUSE THEY ARE THE
MOST ATROCIOUS. In q report Of Mr.. Du,al,
the Comptroller of the Treasury, we find Mr.Jefer-
sons officers delinquent to the amount Of half q mill
ION, although the defalcations in the last three years
are yet concealed from the public eye"
What next? The charges so multiply up
on me, that | fear to fatigue attention, and
know not where to choose. Let US, howev-
er, take up the accusation, that Mr.. Van Bu-
rem found us in the full tide Of prosperity,
and has reduced us to bankruptcy and ruin.
The parallel charge against Jefferson appears
on page 1907
at ought not to be omitted that there is a most
material change as to public confidence in post-ofices.
There are complaints, that when political information
is to be communicated, that which proceeds from
one party is sure to find its destination, while that
of the adverse is aimsst equally sure to fail short Of
iEn
Then the general charge Of profligate ex-
find room but for one; which | recommend
to the notice Of Mr.. Ogle Of Pennsylvania,
of gold spoon and tab6y-cat notoriety. Iii
from page ia:
"We all recollect, that Mr.. Jefferson assumed the
direction of our national affairs, when he acknowl-
edged us to be sin The full tide Of suceesyui erperi-
ment:' - and that while he permitted the unaided OPP
epration of the system of its predecessors our COM
merce hourshei with its usual e~xampled success, and
yielded n revenue which not only discharged our
current expenses, but left Us annually q surplus of
millions to meet emergency.
"Let US suppose Mr.. Jefferson, instead of using
commerce as an engine of war intrigue, had consul
ted its interests in honest negotiation with England,
- -
OF France; that, instead Of ANNIHILATING
TRADE and REFRESHING ENTERPRISE, under
p~retence Of exercising our restrictive energies, he had
left US free to exercise our own pursuit Of interests
and improvement! that instead Of wasting millions
in the purchase, survey and de fence of a wilderness,
in absurd a~rmaments, AMI on corrupt and peculating
agents in every department of government, our ma
tonal revenue had been honestly applied to the build
ing of an efficient navy and erecting Notifications
equal to our protection, and due to the importance of
our sea- ports; what a contrast should we have pre-
.cnted to OUR PRESENT STATE OF DISGRACE
AND BEGGARYm
Then the charge of bringing US into debt,
by misconduct and lack of economy. At
page Ill:
"We would, however, state a single fact, which
We learn from q comparison Of the appropriations OF
the civil list, since the establishment Of the govern
ment, that il Mr.. Jefferson had only been IS econo-
mical rs his predecessors, and limited his annual eI-
penses tothe sum prescribed by them, he would have
left US a surplus revenue Of FoUR millions, which
we are now compelled to borrop for the support Of
government"
cannot discover that the Ogles Of that
day stopped to count the number of towels
furnished for the Presidents kitchen, or the
That "very small business indeed; as Gov
ernor Lincoln, an honest Wing, well called
it, was reserved for the present enlightened
age. 1t was destined to spring from the cul-
%tiva,ion and refinement and enlarged views
of men and measures entertained by the
Wing Legislators of 1910!
But the same contempt Of promises of
economy and the same crime Of falling into
the very sins which, in previous administra-
lions, they condemned in their opponents,
are charged on the Democrats Of forty years
ago as on those Of our own day. The very
language and expressions are hardly chang.
ed. AT pages 1867. we read:
"Tbe account Of General Wilkinson could have
been allowed by Mr.. Jefferson only from the fear
ofhis disclosing conduct more ~pronigate than his own.
The impudent items Of this account are the evidence
of most ABoMINABLE PROBABILITY; and its
allowance a daring violation CT the laws which limi-
ted his pay FOR the same time at Sl6,5OO.
"By the aid of his Attorney General C.. Rodney,
Mr.. Jefferson found the means to evade the statute,
by assigning to his favoritc n variety Of Offices. civil
as well as military. or his sum Of Sc, 900, General w.
was allowed sir thousand sir hundred and nineteen
dollar, for the erpense IF his table from Dember 1902,
to April, 1904. SUCH PROPULSION HAS HARD
LY ANY PARALLEL IN HISTORY"
The charge of opposition to the monied
interest and to a National Bank, from inter-
ested motives, is made at page 80. But it
will not do for the Wings Of our day to copy
it literally, as a charge against Van Buren,;
for the Federalists were honest enough to
call the Bank 'this favorite plan of Hamil-
ton" And that unlucky fact must be hush
ed up now. The passage reads thus:
"No one can forget the incessant clamor OF these
friends of the people during the administrations Of
Washington and his immediate successor, against the
extravaganza Of the government; that the officers OF
State and their dependents were fattening on high
salaries, and instead of working like the servants Of
the people would become their tyrants; that the pat
patronage Of the President was too extensive for free
dom, and the appropriation of the civil list only n
mode Of making the public pursue the means Of pri-
vate corruption. Promises reformation were made
as the counterpart Of accusation. A change Of men
lyoa to ipfroJura , rh,oye nj aepsurea 0u, n,bl;,