The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-04-03

even IN executing the pNpi'c pruning nave never ye'
stopped 10 tho degrading position of asking any Wing
relative who was director OF the United States
Bank to ebtsin my discharge on az debt Of twenty
thousand dollars by paying two hundred and 6f,y
The speculations in " some poor lands, to be en-
riched by some railroad associations'-the squared
with political friend for the purpose Of seeking
to meet the new obligations to Federal mono
polies"--the :. extrayagan, and unsupported de-
mandsn charged as made BY me upon " those who
we're struggling 10 maintain the press had aban-
doned"-,hc injustice done 10 Governor Hubbard,
political friend called in TO arbitrate the case,
g by making the discomfort pretext for acquiring
favor of party aud for an abandonment OF
principles are all SANDERS and more less aisre-
presentations and iasehoods worthy of the heart Of
mercenary politician who, after roting ON the
spos and spending illgotten gains by thousands to
entertain and the support Of members OF Con-
gress-after receiving even more than extravagance
could throw away in money taken directly from the
pockets Of the people, and waxing fat upon the spols,
could have the heart to thrust claim upon sick
and dispired public officer the last day Of the ex-
istence Of the late Administration, which you knew
you could extort with impunity where no other man
could succeed Ii the necessity Of any poor printer
should lead him to ask from the Government hope
less private claim upon deceased public ofhcer,
whose estate was without assets, common honesty
would have prompted him not to magnify that claim
to double, and perhaps treble, its original amount on
all common rules of computation, of service, and ex-
pense. The last act in the eventfu history Of the
late Administration, of the who had been thrown
by accidental circumstances into tho position Of s
official organ, Of taking by " Illicit dealings" more
than sixteen hundred dollars for the publication OF
small pamphlet issued in personal defence, afforded
demonstration that, however pure might be that Ad-
ministration the man who its herald to the peo-
pie was ready and did his part at the last gasp to
prove so far as he was concerned, that is enemies
we're not the false prophets which the same organ
had alleged.
Having travelled SO far into the field Of mere ru-
NOR and surmise to furnish causes for Ease accuse
tons OF corruption, you find il necessary At length to
fall upon an event which nearer to your obser-
walton, out of which you could make upa story
You promise in your Globe of March 26th that
:" OF Mr.. HIPS bargains with the Tyler and Webster
junto of apostates at Washington we snail hereafter
speak" To fulfil this promise, in the zane paper of
March SOth, you alege the " Illicit dealings of Mr.
Hill with the Post Master General" sin the simple
story as told by Mr.. Rves," furnishing the proof
of collision with the Administration 10 secure pa
trouage, IN VIOLATION OF LAW"
Of all the proposals for contracts, ssued by any
department where contracts have been advertised for
at the seat of Government, say, without hesitation,
none were treated with greater imparti,y and fair
ness than the late contracts for furnishing the blanks
Of the Post Office Department, as required by law
of the Congress which has just expired say this,
in the hope, if the subject is Of sufficient magnitude
to deserve the consideration that thee may be full
next Congress, calling for persons ana papers. The
charges you have made upon the head of the De-
partment, of unfairness and injustice, with the
" fixed purpose" of putting law an, justice, and
even fair dealing, at Defiance" and the" sinister
tive Of feeding the man who was fighting the battle
Of the Administration in New Hamlshire"-with
having accomplished his purposes in 9" fraudulent
and Illicit manner" arc alike groundles and mali
cious.
To preserve even the appearance OF sustaining
these charges you have, together with your simple
storyteller, faIsfed and misrepresented from begin
ming to end.
You treat this subject, before the public, as you
seemed TO treat it in the few words Of conversation
when met you in the Pennsylvania Avenue in Janu.
airy last after the contracts had been decided, as If
il objectionable offence for any man to come
from any part Of the country and presume to bid up
on the privileged printers Of the District of Column
bia. for any work Of the Government advertised as
for open competition. You were surprised that /
came here on that business; you spoke as If was
trenching upon your ground-pursuing and taking
game upon your manor. II | had realized that l
could have met in the masculine bodies of the Gov
eminent Printers who, in virtue of their Offices, were
men of privilege on the floor Of either branch Of
Congress, men who had the souls of the two daugh-
tiers of the horse-lecch, described by the wise man
of scripture as crying Give, give" ] nigh, have
followed the advice Of the wise man, and not done
fooishly by setting up myself bidder and thought
no evil-laying the hand upon the mouth in token Of
submission But others might not have been frghten-
ed off the ground in the same wayE and should not
after all, have thrown the pap into the mouths Of
those who are now crying after it.
Your man, Mr.. Rives, complains that the adver-
,ised proposals confined TO the Madisonian
and as Mr. Rves had little appetite for
reading the Madisonian, he never saw, and thus did
not bid on former advertisement, as be intended TO
do. The departments, other than the Post Office,
sometime. advertise in the Intelligencer, and that be-
ing great favorte from the fact that this lnegen-
cc the organ Of the ultra Wing party at the seat Of
Government, has actually given Gas | have been in
formed) jobs Of printing to the Globe office, Mr..
Rves is able to obtain through that paper all the re-
quisitc information TO enable him to eher bids for
that printing The Administration also has been
kind to the Globe itself, that paper contains adj
vcrtisemcnts from the Treasury, the Navy, and the
War Departments, the heads Of each and all Of
which are abused in no stin ed terms often in the