Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-05-15

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of the Government? Because the head of the
present Administration is not Julius Caesar or a
Cromwell, with nerve and strength enough, battle
axe in hand, to attack the Capitol and hew down
the pillars of the Constitution, we, in conse-
quence of his weakness and imbecility, to suffer
him to proceed in whiting them away with
jack-knife .
| What are to be the issues of the next canvass |?
| Is it not high time they we're settled The Wings
say they have abandoned their ancient ally, the
National Bank. That it has got to be poor, don't
wear good Clothes and is out of the elbows, out Of
capital out of cash, and out of credit. That is the
rway. When the Bank was in full tide of prosper
ity, then the Wing party its particular friend.
But without cash, credit or good clothes, nobody
has right to be Whig-they may own him on
election day-not after TLaug liter. True, true"
The repeal of the present tariff, or the alteration
of its principles, cannot be made an ISSUE For, on
the motion of the gentleman from Ohio, to suspend
the rules to permit him to introduce his resolution
to modify it, the whole Wing delegation from
North Carolina, with but one exception, voted in
the negative. A majority even of the Wing del
egation from New York did not vote in its favor :;
while some Democrats voted for it as it was, and
many others, including myself would have voted
for proper resolution on that subject. There are
Democrats in favor of modification in the present
tariff on iron and other articles. There are Wings
for it and against it. The Wing party have nine
ty-two members in this House, and they mustered
just torty-sir Votes-exactly one-half-in favor of
their test resolution" of their newspapers
in the Northern States CALI it. They will undoubt-
edly seek to make it an issue in some localities,
and have on this, as other subjects, movable
platform. But it cannot become a national issue.
Most of the great measures of the Democratic par
ty have been established by former Administra-
tons, and are generally acquiesced in. On these,
| therefore, they will not meet us. There must be
some ISSUE for it is folly to have contest to put
out set of men for the mere purpose of putting
in others like them in their places.
The Wings tell us here every day, that there is
no issue between the parties that the Democratic
party has established the Independent Treasury
and its other great questions of policy, and they
feel no disposition to disturb them. Well really,
gentlemen of the opposition, why do you run a
Presidential candidate And why are you here,
if our principles and policy are right? Is it not a
little too bad for to fight these things through,
and then for you to administer them {? Is not that
trading on borrowed capital? Is not it grand lar
ceny for you to steal Democratic thunder with
which to hurl your bolts! Laughter. And then
you have now changed the place of holding your
conventions Philadelphia to Baltimore
chosen our place. hope it is not to steal our
platform, too. Great laughter. But, Mr. Chair
man. there is an issue, and one which we must take
with them on which the battle must be fought,
and the victory Won and that issue is between an
economical constitutional government, and lavish,
profigate and grasping administration of the pub
| lie affairs. Between, on the one hand, Demo
cratic Administration, doing only what the Con
stitution and the laws authorize, combining the Ex
ecutive to what strict construction of the national
compact enjoins, leaving the rest where it belongs
with the several States; and an Administration
that is by its extravagant expenditures, enrichng
its members, campfollowers, and parasites, from
Treasury supplied by the toll of the people, and
stretching its Briarean to their utmost extent
to bring every thing within its corruptng embrace.
Sir, we were told in this Hall within the last few
weeks, by an honorable member from Tennessee,
who stands high in the confidence of the Admin
istration-its chosen champion this fioor-that
he could not be Democrat they acre too pen
urious" am glad to record such confession,
coming as it does, from so high a source-that the
Democratic party is the party of economy, and that
the wing party is the party of lavish expenditure.
But, MIR. Chairman, let us pause moment and ask
ourselves, and repeat to the country the question,
what is to be done? Is this not an exigency which
is really alarming? If the national expenditures
increase at such an enormous ratio, from whence,
in 1862 is the revenue to be derived to pay out to
the palaced paupers who hang about the Govern
ment the $l0O,oOO,O0O requisite to support their
Iextravagances Not from our imports, because it
is impossible to collect that amount from any sys
tenn of duties; and the very men who are guilty of
these enormous expenditures, are the ones whocry
loudest against foreign importations Il direct tar
and a national debt, THEN, are staring as IN the
face, unless system of retrenchment thorough and
immediate, is at once adopted.
That the people may know little of the use
that is made ofthe $51 100000 extracted from
the public purse-that they may understand one
or two of the new drains that this Administration
is using with which to empty the Treasury, will
call their attention to the Department of the In
terror" commenced March 4, 1e47, by General
Taylor, and continued now:
Secretary's salary, $4,000 90 per annnm.
Chief clerk, 1900 90 Sc
Three commissioners to settle
land titles in California, $4,000 90
Three clerks to same, 4,50O 90
There are also in this Department clerks almost
innumerable-some with salaries and some with
per diem compensation-some of them necessary
if this Department had not been created but others
the exclusive production of the Department of the
Interior" Then we have the Census Bureau under
the same Department.
Salary of the Superintendent, $4,000 90 per annum.
Eighty-nine clerks, 81 ,0O0e'h, $4,000 90 IS
Messengers, 1890 90
Besides men at So 90 per day.
There has been appropriated for this Census
Bureau already thesum of 81, 267,o5o. The Super
intendent now asks for $4,000 more. And Mr..
Rves tell that the printing of hundred thou
sand copies of it, of the size proposed-of eleven