Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1843-03-16


to his injury and the injury of his friends,
and thereby promote, as far as they can by
such means, the success Of q hearlless and
reckless enemy of the oppressed! "Oh.
shame where is thy blush ?"-N. II. Pail.
Correspondence Of the ". y. American.
WASHINGTON, March !.
This Wing Congress has sat four hundred
and .y1y days,-has passsd more than four
hundred bills into acts. (neafly twice as ma
ny as an previous ConGreSs,) made more
than tro thousand Reports. occupying more
than twenty-five thousand printed pages.
and circulated several hundred thousand
copies of valuable documents among the
people for their information on public af.
fairs. A few brief statements will give q
general idea of the character of these acts
and works.
The Wings found the annual expendi-
lures OF this Government $S9,0OO,OOO -.
They reduced them last year to $2l 600, OO0,.
and this year to $l7,O0O,OOO!! This will
DC officially shown by the annual statement
Of appropriations soon to be published by
the Clerk of the House. ! take this oppor-
tunity to call attention to the fact, that in
that statement, under new law of this Con-
gress, the expenditures of the Post Once
department are for the first time thrown in.
to the general charges that department
having formerly been made separate ace
count. balancing its own expenditures BY
its own receipts. generally about "a, 800 600
That item must therefore be subtracted for
fair comparison. Iexclude also the ints-
rest on the Van Buren, national debt
In the statements Of appropriations. re-.
Gently furnished by the accounting officers
of the Treasury, the distribution of the land
lfund TO the states Is included among the %.
| propyiations of last year, as 10 al so the two
per cent. fund granted to the land states
and the release of the District of Columbia
from its debts to the Government. Ofcourses
these are not chargeable as the expenditure
Of this Government
The Wings found the Florida War raging,
after drawing $4,000 900 and thousands Of
precious lives from the nation. The Loco
Focos were never able 20 stop this, because
it was to them the goose that laid many
golden eggs for their party and they had
not the heart kill it. The Wings knew it to
b, blood sucker, and they crushed it.
The Wings found accumulated disputes.
and occasions of war with our ancient enc.
my-the most powerful nation in the world.
They adjusted all these, maintained the ho-
nor of the country, established its bounda-
ries, made permanent peace, acquired new
advantages, and secured the rights of our
citizens on land and sea. The previous ad-
ministration having also laid train for
quarrel with feeble and distracted nation
on our south western frontier, the wings
soon checked this conspiracy against our
peace and honor, and, in spite OF corrupt
and mischievious Executive, forbade the
practical extension Of our borders IN tnax
quarter, as they forbade the dImlnu'lon OF
our territory in the north.
The Wings found all our public works
suspended along our rivers and IN every
E,a oc ;ntorp,l ;,nnrover,ent.-Our fOrtifiCN.
tons dilapidated, and dccaying from insult
ficient provision. They have caused these
| to be resumed, and conducted on an econo.
micaI plan for the repair ana security Oh
what has already been done, and Tor gra-
dual extension and completion.
The Wings found the Treasury plumber.
ed by d"faulting officers 10 the amount OF
more than S0000,000 in single term OF
four years. a $ far as the power was given
them, they Displaced all detaulting offlcers
and no Wing otiic holder has ever yet fail.
ed to meet all demands Of this Government
upon him. Where are the Wing Gefaulters
in any department Of the National Govern
mentl
The Wings found every department Of
| Government, ill-organiZed, inefficient. extra
VACANT, corrupt,--a system of party favori-
tisIn and protection, subsidiZing Hundreds OK
presses, and paying electioneering agents
with the public money,-bfioing voters ana
corrup;ing the people They re,organized.
reformed and retrenched every department.
and Office of the Government, beginning
with the contingen, expenses Of Congress
itself, and saving hundreds Of thousands there
u, once! They passed an act recognizing
the Navy Department. abolish'ng the con-
demncd Navy Board. correcting abuses, an
crrasiny etiiciency and reirenihing millions
They passed an net reorganizing the Army.
nboiishing sinecures, aud extra allowances.
repressing abuses and rsirenehing millions
They passed an net correcting the organiza-
ton Of the Civil Departments. prohibiting
the continuation Of illegal appropriations
preventing the pensioninR Of paFsizan news
papers, limiting aud reducing allowances
causing all printing for Government to be
t done BY contract. aud oil stationery AID
INTERVALS to be- bought in like manner. a
the lowest prices-thus correcting intlnlls
abuses aud reiFenching millions! They hun.
ted down, detected and cut of vast psculn-