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

ouiiTe Deparimsui, for The contingent
fund thereof, and lhe general appro-
prialion bills lor the year 1910, Is41,
and 1912 being lie three last years Of
Governor MeNun's administration ex-
tracts Of whish are collected and fully
set forth 10 table (A)
This table shows that a, g. Me-
Nuts aggregate expenses 10 the Exc
eutive Department, Tor three years,
was no less a sum than S23,S25 &c
nearly $4,000 rer year. Olthis sum
.S1I,s25 Go was layisbed on the edi-
tors oal propficiors Of public aeirspa-
peg. How lie balance Of $4,000
was expended, l do not pretend % be
informed, IS 1 have not taken the ,rou.
BILE end lime 70 examine bis vouchers
showing the objects Of his expendi
lures ofIhat sum. The latter amount
comprises the whole contingent fund
FOR three years, to-wil: $4,000, per
annum, and was intended by ilfe
Legislature 10 cover all possible CON
tigentexpeases Of the Executive De-
parmenb =as well Tor tie public print
Ing Of the Executive Department. as
FOR al other contingent expenses .and
is enough in all good conscience for
all useful oljecis.--lt IS fair 10 pre-.
sumo ,hai a large portion Of the con
tingenl fund'was also appropriated by
A. q. McNult, TO the payment Of ed
ilors FOR printing. Ia addition to this
unparalleled patronage fof he press,
with the public money, which was ex-
lracied from The. labor Of The people by
taxation, the editors Of the Vicksburg
Sentinel and Free Trader, which A.
6. McNuits standing Bank Commits
sioaers, at SIS per day and common
fame says ihu the editor Of tho Free
Trader availed himself Of that office,
conferred on him by a. G. McNuu, to
Joriow from the very Banks he exam.
inej, enormous sums OF money, per-
haps amounting to one bundled lhous-
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 By h. g. McNuR,
| am unable TO state. This same edi-
tor of the Free Trader, besides being
Bank Commissioner, was also the
Assistant Quarter Master General.
One OF the editors Of the Misassip-
plan was his adjutant General. One
Of the editors ofthe Columbus Demo-
crat, was a member Of his staff. A for
mer editor Of tie Mississippian was
appointed by a. @. McNut TO the
Office Of State Director in the Printers
Bank. This editor, as II is said, dis.
charged the duties Of the Office faith
fully, BY visiting the bank oace when
he embraced the advantages Of d.
rector 10 that bank--ihe standing ac-
Communication OF $4,000. and then re-
turned home, and maguanimously re-
signed his Office, perhaps to give
place to onother.---A. @. McNuit also
appointed the editor Of the Southern
Reporter, to The Office Of State Treas
urer. It's lot impossible that these
appointments appear on Gov McNntts
Executive Journal, and il IS not impro'
bable some other editors were the re-
cipieuls Of bis patronage +; but have
not space at present 10 continue this
exposition.
Such were the Sylraa chords with
which Gov. McNuu officially strung
the political halps ofthe country. /
do not pretend that either The private
funds Of A. G. McNuu, the public
funds Of lhe State, or the confering Of
public Office upon those political
harps, had any etTec, on their Acolian
srains-but were | to say that never
were miasrcls more faithful TO a master
| aauer myself that should be sus-
tanned in the assertion, BY The whole
population ofihe State.
The following eloquent and just remarks on
the subject ofREsUOI4TIoS We copy from the
New York tribune.
REPUTATION.
Senator DAYTON, a few 9aYs since.
made a very able speech npoh the sub
iect ofour National credit, in which be
iaborcd to stem that current, or rather
torrent, ofpublic opinion which both
at home and abroad stamps Us as a
nation Of cheats and swindlers-which
hollis up TO our view the bonds Of So
vereien States broken and condemned
u;lh the bold iontofhardened robbers,
and refuses Us a loln upon the express
ground that our promise 10 pay is deem
I'd worthless. lie succeeded very
well, N clearly showing that England
is not Ike notion that should reproach