Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-09-25

is to say, the years 1912, 'l3, IA, is, '16D
amounted to sl26466,5S1
The expenditures of the three last
years of President JAoKsoN's Ad-
ministraton and the two first of
Mr.. VAN buren, $, amounted, ex-
elusive OF payments on account of
the public debt, to j. l45, 46S, 535
Balance against the Democratic rule 19,00l 954
Thus, we find that, during time Of profound
peace, under two Democratic Administrations, the
actual expenditures of the Government amounted
to nineteen millions more than they were in a
like time (including the War with Great Britain
under the Administration of that excellent Wing
President, JAMES MADISON
The acreage annual expenditures of the denounced
and prosecuted Administration of Mr. ADAMS Tex
elusive Of public debit amounted to S12 ,575, ATT
those of President JAoKsoN's Administration to
S,224 ,O92 those for the first three years of the
following Democratic Administration par ercel2eace
that of President VAN BUREN, to s37, 135, 66l.
This sample of the I" reform y promised by the
Democracy which ousted the Wing party from pow
er in the Election of 1928, and held the reins Of
Government for twelve years, abusing their power
during the whole period, and, by their real ex-
travagance, leaving the annual expenditures Of the
Government, which were, exclusive of the public
debt,) on their coming into power thirteen millions
of dollars, at hreefold that amount This is that
system Of ECONOMY in our public expenditures in
the various branches of the Government which is
to be initiated by the Wings, and repeated beyond
all question, should the People be so foolish, after
being so often duped by these Democrats, to be
taken in again by them.
Misrepresentation, of the sort which we have
exposed in the preceding paragraphs, may proceed
from msapprehension, or from an INDECENT neglect,
on the part of those who utter them to make them
selves sure of what they assume to be facts But
even this measure of charity cannot be extended to
reckless and wanton aspersions of the Wing Adj
ministrations, +" of all Wing Administrations" and
of the Wings as party, which are Familiarity
sported, nowadays in Democratic harangues
Repeating our defiance to those who live in
glass houses and cast stones at Others to pro-
duce single instance of Wing Executive, a
Wing Administration, or Wing accounting officers
sanctioning or even coanigiag at speculation y
to refresh the memory of readers as to the man
ner in which democratic Administrations have
acquired title to the distinction" which has
been claimed for them on the score of their honest
system of economy" and of their /" holding every
public officer responsible for the performance Of his
duties according to the letter and spirit Of the lu,c "
We shall resort for examples to the period wher
the democratic Administrations were in The
plenitude of their power. We might instance
many cases which were brought to light by the In
vestigatng Committee of the House of Representa-
lives, fourteen fifteen years ago. as having begun
during the Administration of President JACK.
SON, and run into that of his successor in office
We will select only two, and publish only so much
of them as to show to what strict accountability =
defaulters and peculators were held by the Demo
cratic Administration" which have been offered to
the admiration and imitation of the Wing party and
Administration as models of perfection. We con-
dense from the Official Report of the Congressional
Committee of Investigation two cases only out of a
large number; the one occurring in Southern, the
other in Northern State-the two together show
ing that the same tenderness for peculators was
the North and in the South, and that such pecula-
tors retained IN office, and even re.appointed
after their defalcations were not merely suspected
but known and acknowledged
With the account Of these two cases, therefore,
abridged from the printed Documents of Congress,
we submit to our readers the question, with what
grace or propriety Wing Administrations and the
Wing party are reviled in terms of infamy by the
Democratic organs for acts falsely imputed to them
but which have in all their enormity, been loroved
upon the Democratic party?
CASES REFERRED TO ABOVE.
CASE OF RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEY AT COLUMBUS
MIssIssrPPLBetween the 9th Of March, 1894 and the
3lst of August 1836an interval Of more than two years
and five monthsthe Secretary Of the Treasury sent to
Mr. H. fewer than fifteen communications, some
threatening, somecoaxing and many Of them apologize
complaining Of his official misconduct He neither made
the returns required by law, paid over the public
moneys Nevertheless, leading member Of the Demo-
cratic party afterwards representative in Congress from
Mississippi in letter TO the President Of The United
States protesting against the threatened removal Of Mr. H.