Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-08-18

led letter, i Will refer you TO extracts from
two distinguished public Journals, one Of I
them the Official organ Of General lack Y
sons Administrator; and the other at 4
that period in full communion with sthe i
party z z
SIT is well known that, through Mr.. a
adams aristOcratic pride, this elegant (
room q. e.ihe East Room in the Presi- i
denis House was left UNFuRNIsHED. -
United STATES Telegraph, Aug. !, 1929.
The New York Courier and Enquirer
Of November, 1899, states as follows
"The coalition papers tell Us that the
East Room is going to be furnished.
This, at the best, is bad authority but,
lifit be true, we are happy to hear it.
The manner in which Mr.. Clay's Presi.
dent kept the East Room was disrespect-
ful to the Office Of President of the United |
| States. Instead of its looking neat, and |
clean, and tidy, and being decently furnish
| ed, as The mansion Of the President of
| great republic ought TO be, it was full Of
cobwebs, few old chairs, Numbering
benches, broken glass, and looked exact
Ily like one of the apartments in Windsor
Castle, Holyrood Palace, or the Tower of
London those APPENDICES to kings and
monarchs. The head of a republic ought
to give an example Of the thriftiness and
virtuous habits of the people who put him
, there. EVERY PLAIN REPUBLICAN, when
, visiting Washington, will now find chair
to sit down upon in the "East Room. "
), They won't be kept standing upon their
! legs, as they do before kings and empe.
rors, and as practiced by Mr.. Clay's Pres
! ident, TIL they are so tired as scarcely to
) know whether they have any legs to stand
!. upon. Unless Gen. Jackson put GOOD,
:, SOUND, SUBSTANTIAL FURNITURE into the
!, East Room he REFORM is NOT complete il
! that quarter, and the people won't for
! give him for neglecting it."
= What a strange commentary to the gor
geous and dazzling gasnishments of th'
@East Room afforded in regard TO tn
90 remarks of the '.Coufier ana Enquirer,
: which have Just been read by the Clerk
:. Every PLAIN REPUBLICAN" forsootl
awhen visiting Washington win nowin
- a CHAIR to sit down upon in the 'Eas
- Room Ay. sir, EVERY PLAIN REPUBL
: CAN viii now find a set of chairs in tn
splendid and royal saloon, which TOO
the round sum of SIX HUNDRED DoLLAF
90 Of the PEOPLES CASH to pay for.
~ ~ not that esitting down. with vengeance
u'u sMr. Claws President, (Mr Adam
- through aristocratic pride" kept the Ea
90 80, Room ..fuH Of co1.eeJs fec old ehof'
~; l.mbering benches and broken glass
VIC On the other hand, Martin Van Buren,
49, plain, republican-hard-handed- democr'
c.locofoco Martin Van Burcn--has
now garnished with gold framed miro
"as big as barn door," to behold
! plain republican self IN. What need
10 @ care if those mirrors have taken TWEEN
- four hundred dollars of the PEOPLE
" CASH to pay for thema Is not 81
: u democracy burlesque on common SCI
and common decency? But Mr.. Chi
4 man. am not done with the "celebra
East Room Letter" That letter was
only false, but was, Immediately after
. .e' publication, known throughout the wi
w. country TO have been sheer fabrcat
:" sfrom beginning to end. For the
0"00' Of the authors reputation, it therefore
came necessary that his name shout
'''''' withheld from the People. The edito
''Po, the Richmond Enquirer, instead OF e.
i'seu sing the base conner of falsehood MANI
9s9'' ed the deep silence of the grave IN re-
: iu'- 10 the writer Of the letter during a p
ehsle- of almost four months; and 1t was
= ,,, ~ until. after repeated goadings that 4
''ieo came restive and sore, and began to
mon fest a proper disposition TO clear MS
ns''O' skirts of the forgery. He accord
sun announced in the Rich mold Enqun
lan'sn of the 9Th April, 1927, in reply
ficn' article in some other newspaper o
; '0S'' subject of the letter, that "the accot
lem which the writer refers respectln
But w :, p - 49, e,rua,ded to rs.
prom a, purports, by one Of the most distingi
"a'u members of Congress. This INT
} nave telligent and distinguished memt
l-'s' Congress" turned out 10 be II
= Oee" Hart BENTON, who subsequently b
mere more distinguished as the author
aGold Hunlbug." said that his
Ols ns Room letter" twas false throughol
? Lust thatit was made up Of the whole P
le'y =. cloth for it appears, at the yer.
= isen' list January 1927 that letter was
MASSIVE z,,s describing the furniture Of the East
7 A''' as gorgeous to the degreeof .regal
cOnuucs nificence, the room had no tu
: e s''s excepting few old chairs, lun
lafssse0 benches, broken glass; : and divers
f'''4As.' mites Of cobwebs. Sir, I 60 for Il
nuaty = "reminiscences, and I hold that, VIII
Of the most intelligent and dsstln
The Pres ~ - I'LL daIfl