The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-05-21
TO TIE EDITOR or TIE NATIONAL IHHIG
"THE NEW HOOKS. ..UNION. MAY 10,


= AHAS We !" noOASsD ''ONAON" MA ~,
II thank you for the word, most ancient Theban."
New Books yes, let the spoils men look to
it. The fiscal operations Of the publicans and
sinners who have for more than twenty years
converted our holy temple Of liberty into a
den of thieves, close up with the end Of the
coming fiscal year. "New Books" will be
opened, wherein the receipts and expendi-
lures Of this Government shall be faithfully
entered, separate and distinct from the tan
gled web Of Locofoco budgets and accounts.
The receipts, as far as they can be detected,
Of the last administration, and their liabili-
ties, shufled off upon their successors, win
be set apart and a black line drawn below
to mark their winding up. The complacent
sincerity with which Mr.. VAN BuREn's
expiring administration gave up the public
chest to the HARRISON administration, with
a thank God, "that it left an OVERLOOKING
treasury" when there was an actual def
cheney Of more than sixteen millions saddled
upon their successors, and which made a
call for an extra session Of Congress to pro-
vide the ways and means to carry on the
Government, within sixty days, necessary,
will not pass current now. "New Books
are opened, and the call upon all the disburs-
ing spoils men to come forward and "settle
with the captain" has been heard in the
land and these Books shall tell story new
to the ears Of our countrymen for some time
past, Ito wit the truth. Mem men, too, will
be required to keep them---the old firm is
broken up, bankrupt, and may not be trust
red with the safe keeping Of the assets.
| When this great people rose in their might
a second time to expel their corrupt rulers
from place and power, which they had mis-
used so grievously, there was one great issue
made which lowered above all the party
differences Of the times. 1t was not Mr..
Folks particular policy Of government, nor
the presumed direction Of affairs Of State,
which Mr.. CLAY or Gen. CAss would i'm
pose upon the country, which impelled the
popular mind 10 change. No; il was to
shake of from their CALLED withers the men
who, combined under the pretence Of party
organization fer high purposes Of public
policy, to use the people in order to usurp
their Government, and pervert its functions
TO their private ends---tle lust of power for
the spols Of office
We have seen this people twice (like o
lion in his lair, reused 10 desperate efforts,
rend the tolls which entangled his noble limbs
rise in their majority, and tread their tyrants
under foot. Let them profit from the lesson
the cause was neither sub-treasury, the
Mexican war, The tariff, nor the caprice Of
the multitude. Nor was il love Of military
glory IN the person of the victor. 1t was
disgust, and hatred Of corrupt and vindictive
raiers--yes, rulers, and iron ones, on the
one hand and unbounded confidence in the
integrity, straight forward honesty Of pur-
pose, and ability Of one who had already
saved them from the horrors of protractsd
foreign war---to free them from the. violence
and rapine Of domestic tyranny and oppres-
sion. Our people walked erect, and again
breathed freely, when the deed was done.
This rds HE issue.
"NeU Books" are opened. B.