The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-04-14

VI Tue rres'ueht, was expended. the charge hav-
ing been distinctly made by Mr.. Ingersoll, tina,
during Mr.. Websier's service as Secretary of
'otate, 1t was expended by his order" through
p'te agents part IF that fund in corrupting The
press. IN corrupttag The party press, and cor
ruptng The party press for the purpose Of &c
complishing the treaty ofthe northeastern Loun
dairy On this subject the Baltimore Sun thus
remarks -
CONGRESSIONAL Wharf.-The war which broke
out In the Senate Il few days since. has been
transferred thence to the House of Representa-
uves, where. 1t seems, the issue made up in the
iormer body is To be tried. AS we Judged when
Iemarking upon it an occurrence TO be regret
ted, the outbreak in The Senate was but the be-
ginning O! hoStitles and we now apprehend that
seiore their termination, the affair will cost the
nation no small amount of money to defray the
eXpenses--a matter for serious considerations 10
say nothing of The delay and interruption of the
course OF public business. and of prubable injury
to important national interests. And what will
The nation get In return2 Nothing, we opine
unless additional evidence of the fact, that Con
gressmen are of like passions with other men,
and not whit better or more honest, if as much
So But as it would probably be useless to try
to stay the hands of the belligeren,s, we must
cen he content 10 look on and let them firht il
out"
The discussion on Thursday occupied the
whole day, and in it some sixteen members of
the House engaged. We were astunished, as we
have no doubt our readers will be to find that all
this expenditure of wind has been just about
nothing at all. The whole sum expended, to
corrupt the party press" (,ohich party2) and
this grave insult to the press is uttered by Mr..
=. j. lngersoll was only ".four thousand sic
hundred dollars" in THREE YEARS.
we stated in Saturdays paper, that we had
no fear for the Administration of JOHN Tyler
II every secret act was exposed and given to the
world. we hope that the veil SO wildly rent
by mad and vlndictive personal passion will be
removed. We would demand, as a personal and
political friend of JOHN TYLER, that the inves
tIgation be thorough, searching, and open. We
desire that nothing shall be hid ; and if, after he
has saved the Constitution, after he has given
lie, power and victory to the democratic party,
after he has added glorious star to our consteI-
Iation, which will in time, burst into a constella.
lion itself, still our own-we will give him up,
If corruption, fraud and dishonesty has marked his
administration we, ourself would cast him off,
and join in the denunciation-but that cannot be
as it has not been.
. 1t is poor bid, that fouls its own nest'' is
vulgar but true saying, and yet we find one of
Vlrginla's children, seeking an opportunity, in OBJ
perfume, indeed, to blurt out his venom. aoains,
one of Virginla's noblest sons, who has pivep a
nObler tint to her fame. We cannot account for
this assault, except that the individual was labor.
ing under his usual infrmity. which has robbed
him of every thing that was noble, manly. and
to be respected that has rendered him a bv-
word and reproach ia the streets of WASHINGTON
The poisoned shaft was ineffective, however. FIR
there stood the ever watchfu Bayly, of Acco-
mack, and arrested its course and laid it harmless
at the feet of the hurler. The charge made and
reiterated was, that ." the most corrupt admins
Iation that ever cursed the country, was the
administration of John Tyler" Mr. Ingersol,
whose quarrel this is, and he does not need nor
ask the assistance of others in waging it, is thus
distinctly reported in the Union:
&" Mr. C.. j. IngersolI | am anxious 10 saw
that in all this business, so far as | know. Mr.
Tyler's conduct has been irreproachable, and that
my object is to get at guilty Secretary who
abused that power"
We have pursued this subject far enough :
there is not soul, whose opinion is worth pos
sessing, in either party, that believes that single
act of JOHN TYLER's was not performed with
an eye single to the honor, the glory, and per-
petuity of the nation. At the request of our
esteemed correspondent, however, we give so
much of the debate as relates to this subiect:-
Mr.. Dromgooe, proceeded TO remark that he
had bot few words to say, and the few remarks
he meant to say, would be in exoneration of The
wing party of the United States, (and he seldom
said anything compli ntary to them.) The
resolution offered by his honorable friend from Penn
sylvania, related to point of history when the
then Secretary of State had been separated from
the Wing party, when he was acting with. (Mr.
ID. believed the most corrupt administration that
ever existed in this country At that time, the
wing parry denounced the then Secretary of State
how far they can since justify the selves in now
again applying to him, the epthet of the God
like" he should not attempt to examine. Thew
had got together again; bot at c time when he
was SecTe 1ry of state, the party alluded TO by
the honorable gentleman, the wing party of The
United States were as wide from him az are no
poles asunder. Mr.. d. believed perfectly. abso.
lutely in the charge made or implied in this reso.
luton, that there was corruption in that admin.