New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-03

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and copqueIiog piovioce from go'ns nj.
death on Tip and Ty to figuring as the r'so'
hover of Pelk and C,ss from rapturous'y
inbibiog the mothers milk Of cour'ly red
eralism to guiding the counse's AMI reap
ing the proudest boDors Of shlrsiess toa'
well toddied) Loco Focoism-this mans
life has been a whirl of dizzying contrasts,
which only lacks the cap-sheaf to render ii
superior as romance to Kaloolah.' That
cap.sheaf is a race for the Presidency,
which evidently cannot be far of. That
he is to run, we set down as certain, but
whether on our side or T. other is the per-
picking puzzle, which we cannot begin to
solve at present so We must be careful to
treat him with our usual diplomatic caution
and gisgerly politeness. Over the way,
they call him Democrat while on the
questions which permanently divide the two
great parties he talks about Is Whiggish as
zoe could. At Union Il. e. devotion to
Slave. hunting) he can't be beat; and II the
Union party should want hybrid candi-
date for President, we dent see where 1t
could do better. How would Stockton and
Cobb do for ticket !-for we don't believe
the gallant Commodore would consent to
run with Foo.e. We make the Union
Safety Committee present of the sug-
gestion.
But the last appearance -positiv ely the
last-of the Jersey Admiral, in the charac-
ter of a devotee of Retfenchment and Re-
form, was the one that took us most by sur
prise; yea, which surcharged our bosom
with establishment and burning curiosity
to discern what this funny fellow will do
next We have published the passage
(from his late Webster Speech at Trenten)
once already, but it is so rare that even the
,cord Economy is elected from Senator
that we are too happy to reprint it, from the
official version of that speech-as follows :;
yellow citizens, among the most important
means Of preserving our Government ia It's strength
and purity, is a rigid economy In our public expen'
ditures. They have increased during the last quar-
ter OF century from thirteen TO nifty mlilions o!
dollars and il the augmentation Of increase should
be the same during the next twenty-five years. tne
cost of this Government will be carried up TO the
| enormous amount Of two hcndred millions OF dol.
lars about three. fouYshs CT the expenses OF tne
British Empire, not including the payment Oh s
interest on her public debt II this prodtga Atty and
wasteful expenditure be not arrested, the country
| 1ill be ruined.
az corruption, with its hydra head and its long
train of evils begin to sap the foundations OF
the Republic, Freedom il clean gone forever"
Did anybody ever hear of any body
that was MT in favor Of "rigid economy in
the Public Expenditures" We can't re-
member one. In the Speeches of Kings
and Queens, in the Budgets of Chancellors
and Secretaries of the Treasury, in the
Messages of Governors, and O most abun-
dant ard odoriferous in the Speeches flor
Buhcombe) of candidates and legislators, is
the necessity of "rigid economy" perpetu-
ally proclaimed and insisted on. Then how
-...-,a. -. yannsnphistiostn1i that N-re~4i
lures perpetually increase, and Rstrench-
ments never get accomplished
The mischief is, o green-horns thai
every body wants to diminish some other
body's suction at the Treasury, but to pre-
serve and even enlarge his own. And OF
these the former is the less, the latter the
more urgent consideration. The Queen
says, have directed that the Annual Es-
Inmates be prepared with an eye to the
strictest economy bat says nothing about
reduction sf her Five Millions Of Dollars
per arDum, with the collateral plunder OF
the Treasury by wagon-loads of silver un-
der pretense of providing for her uncles,
nephews, children and parasites. The
President is in favor Of rigid economy,
but thinks $4,000 year, with as much
more in house.rent, gardens, and sundries,
is very paltry allowance for the Head Of q
Nation of Twenty five Millions, who has to
vie with crowned heads in hospitality. The
Congressman has bawhd himself hoarse on
the stump in behalf Of Retrenchment and
Reform but he reaches Washington and
sees Millions going this way and other Mil.
lions that at a dash of the pen; and his
eight dollars per day, which looked so in.
viting in the prospect, dwindles, in full vie "
Of these dazzling realities, into pistance
which he would be ashamed to keep his
dog or. So he begins by overchasging his
Mileage BY some magnificent eircumbendi'
bus; next votes himself a cartload oil
books, which he often sells at a ruinous
shave, (but he pockets the proceeds and
Uncle Sam the loss } and now he is ready
for jobbing in Contracts, in Claims and
dabbies in all manner of miscellaneous
Corruption whereby the Expenditures are