The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-03-30


fund theseof and the general sappro,
!, priation bills FOR the year 1910, 1841
and 1912 being Tie three last years o
/ Governor McNutl's administration ex-
! tracts Of which are collected and fully
SCI forth il table Ca. - :
J This table shows that A. 9. Nc.
1 Nuts aggregate expenses in the Exc
cutive Department, for three years,
was no less . sum than $23,S25 sc
|nearly 5000 per year. Orthis sum
81, sass was layished on the edi-
tors oad l,ropfictors Of public neirspa-
ipers. How tie balance Of $4,000
was expended, / do not pretend 10 be
informed, as | have not taken the trou-
bic and iimete examine his vouchers
showing, the objects of his expendi
lures of that sum. The latter amount
comprises the whole contingent fun
for three years, to-wit $4,000, per
annum, and was intended by tie
Legislature TO cover all possible con-
tigent expenses of the Executive De-
partnsen'.@as we'll for the public print
ing of the Executive Departmen. as
for all other contingent expenses, sand
is enough in all good conscience for
all useful oljects.--It is fair to pre-.
sumo that large portion of the con-
tngent fund'was also appropriated by
A. 6. McNutt, TO the payment Of ed
itors for printing. In addition TO this
unparalleled patronage Eof he press,
with the public money, which was ex
tracted from The labor ofihe people by
taxation, the editors Of the Vicksburg
Sentinel and Free Trader, which A.
G. McNuit's standing Bank Commits
sioners, at IS per day-.and common
fame says that the editor Of the Free
Trader avaiied himself Of that office,
conferred on him by A. G. McNutt, 10
Tor, o,0 from the very Banks he exam
ined, enormous sums Of money, per-
haps amounting to one bundled thous-
and dollars, aud that not one dollar of
this enormous sum has ever been re-
paid. The exact amount Of This edi-
tors notes endorsed 6y Il. G. 1McNuit,
| am unable TO state. This same edi-
tor Of the Free Trader, besides being
Bank Commissioned. was also the
Assistant Quarter Master General.
One Of the editors of the Mississippi
plan was his adjutant General. One
Of the editors of the Columbus Demo-
crat. was member of his staff. A for
-. H.. 1c H. Nf;..;n.:.-..n .,oc
appointed by A. G. McNult 10 the
office Of State Director in the Planters
Bank. This editor, as ii is said, dis
Charged the duties Of the Office faith
fully, by visiting The bank once when
he embraced the advantages of di-
rector In that bank-the standing ac-
Communication OF $4,000, and then re-
turned home, and magnanimously re-
signed his ofice,-perhaps to give
place to another.---A. G. McNutt also
appointed the editor Of the Southern
Reporter, to the Office of State Treas
urer. It's ,.ot impossible that these
appointments appear on Gov McNntt's
Executive Journal, and ii is not impro'
bable some other editors were the re-
cipients Of his patronage bat have
not space at present 10 continue this
exposition.
Such were the Sylrun chords with
which Gov. McNuti officially strung
the political ha!ps ofthe country. |
dc. not pretend that either The private
funds OF A. G. McNutt, the public
funds Of the State, or the confering of
public Office upon those political
harps, had any effect on their Acolian
srains-but were to say that never
were Ministries more faithful to master
| flatter myself that should be sus-
tanned in the assertion, by the whole
population Of the State.
The following eloquent and just remarks on
the subject ofREIuDrATIoS We copy from the
New York tribune.
REPUTATION.
Senator DAYTON, few days since,
made very able speech upon the sub
iect of aur National credit, in which he
Iabored 10 stem tina, current, or rather
torrent, of public opinion which both
at home and abroad stamps Us as a
nation of cheats and swindlers-Which
holds up to our view the bonds Of So
vereign States broken and condemned
With the bold fIont-ofllardened robbers,
and refuses US loan upon tie express
around that our promise 10 pay is deem
ed worthless. He succeeded very
well, m clearly showing thai England
/ Is not The nation that should repKoacil
Is. therefor. for he pointed @ periods
IN her history at which she has been
gully Of reputation more wholesale
and sweeping thar tIlss with which she
now charges us--fo lile stoppsge in
The. reign of CHARLES II. 10 The pay ment
Of nearly million and q hall sterling
for The space ~ twenty Eve years, and
! in 1s 10 the caaceling Of inllsense
sums and leans due 70 domestic cred
TORS. But ihe same British historian
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