';:, ':i!' j^: ;:;;'ii!^';i'' ; is : E376 mMmmimmmsimimvmmimlimtf. fitrafflfflrafflftTRln^lPiMM I ™^^ Copy 2 ■/^ ^^•n^ ^ • • . e ^^. *'.^- aO' V ►.To' ,^^ <-- Tft o > • • * • A," ^^ * • . ' • • • aN o. « . , •' f/ W: -ov^ .V '^■^^ o^ • • • t • p .0^ '^A MIRROR Foil THE PRETENDED DEMOCRACY." FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER OF OCTOBF.n 1, 1840: To which is addeil, A REPORT ON EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE, Made to the Senate of the Uiiitea States, May !, I8'l<;, BY A SELECT COMMITTEE, CONSISTING OF MESSRS. BENTON, MACON, VAK BUREN, WHITE, DICKERSON. HOLMES, HAYNE, AND JOHNSON OF KENTUCKY. Among the objecti»ns to the present Atlniinistration, t'olKnvinp: in the footsteps of the last, which deserve a more parlicuhir consideration than they have heretofore received Irom us, is the great extent to which Executive PxTnoNACi; has been employed, according to the maxim of the dominant party, for the rewarding its friends and the }iunishnieiit of its ene- mies, and with a view to the perpetuation of its own power. Perhaps our readers, lor the interest of the sul ject, will keep company with us wllil^t we hastily pass in review the po- litical history of (he few past years in reference to the extension, perversion, and abuse of Executive patronage. It is within the recollection of every reader how great a clamor was raised, during the Presidency of .Mr. J. Q. Adams, against his Administration, for itsiinjUJlcd (li^p(lsition to extend and augment the Executive patronage with a view to political power, &c. Unfound- ed and unju.-t as the imputation was, it was the chief of the ostensible grounds of opposition to the re-< lection of Mr. Atams. To give it more consequence in the public eye, it was made the subject of labored inquiries and solemn reports by party committees in both Hou.ses of Congress, and of prolonaed and vehement debates in those bodies, as well as of the most in- sidious appeals to ()0pnlar prejudice; in whiih service all the arts by which demagogues so well know how to dupe the jieople whin ihey want to make use of them, were put in re- quisition. We recur to the records of that d.ay as well f>r the purpose of showing what doctrines were then maintained by those who an- now at the head of the pr. tended deniocratic party, as also for authentic oflicial evidence of the .actual extent of Executive patronage, direct and indirect, which these pure and disinterested patriots, to answer the purpose they had then in hand, represented as a crying grievance. From the printed documents of Congress now before us we extract the following particulars: In the Senate of the United ^Stales on the 8th day of February, 1826, the following resolution, moved by .Mr. .Macov, (at the instance, probably, of Mr. Benton,) was adopted without a division, viz : '' Resolved, That the conimiliee lo whnin have been referred the several resolutions to amend the Consli- tulion of ilie United Slates, be instnicied lo inquire inlo ihe expediency of diminishing or regulaiine the patronage of iho Executive of the United States, and that ihe commiliee have leave lo report by bill or otherwise." [This committee consisted of Mr. Benton, Mr. Macon, Mr. Van Buken, and six other Senators] On the 4th day of May, 182f5, Mr. Benton, the chairman of this committee, produced to the Senate, as the result of their deliberations, a report, beginning as follows : " After mature deliberation, the committee arc of opinion that it is expedient lo di- ' ininish, or to regulate, by law, the Executive patronage of the Federal (iovernment, ' whenever the same can be done consistently with the provisions of the ("onstitiiticm, and ' without impairing the proper eHiciency of the tiovernnicnt. .Acting under this conviction ' they have reviewed, as carefully as time and other engagements would permit them to ' do, the degree and amount of patronage now exercised by the President, and have ar- ' rived at the conclusion that the same may, and ought to, be diminished by law." «• In coming to the conclusion (says the report, further) that Executive patronacre ought • to be diminished and regulated, on the plan proposed, [by six several bills reported by ' the committee, hut never passed upon,] the commiitoe rest their opinion on the ground « that the exercise of ^reut patronage in the hands of one man has a constant tendency to ' sul/y the purity of uur imtitutions and endanger the liLerties of the country." Inserting (or understanding) the word " unnecessarily," or any word of similar import, before the word " s^fat," where it occurs in the above sentence, the doctrine which it in- cludes is sound Whig doctrine, such a? all real Democrats profess when out of [jower, and try to act upon when the power is in their hands. It is the doctrine upon %vhich all branches of the Government acted during the tirst years of Mr. Jeffekson's .Administra- tion ; which the accident of war for several years put aside durina a part of .Mr. .Matisos's ; which was revived in practice after the exigencies of war ceased, was observed, with a good deal of consistencv, during Mr. Moxroe's, but was most rigidly practised upon during the Administration of Mr. J. Q. Adams, when .Messrs. Bk>ton, Van Bl res & Co. affected to take fright at the alarming extent of Executive patronage. In order to show upon what grounds these gentlemen had arrived at the conclusion that the degree and amount of the patronage then exercised by the President might and ought to be diminished, the Senate's committee begins very properly by showing the extent to which that patronage then existed. We quote the report: " The commiticp ihink il rishl lo aueinpl In give an idea of ihe preaines.s of ihis p-ower of patronage bv re- lerrinp lo an example in a single city. Thev will lake the cily of Ne>v York, and a sinele branch of the federal patronaec in thai ciivTand, to avoid'mistake or error, will limit their reference lo a work of unques- tionable aulhoriiv upon this' subject— the' B/i/e BooA-' of the Republic, which corresponds with ihe ' Rerf Book' of ni'marchies, and will read from pages 41, 4-2, 4.3, 44, 45, 4b, of that erowine little volume. Names and Compensation of the Officers of the Customs at ^ew York. Jonathan Thompson, Collector, .Abraham R. Lawrence, Appraiser, Frederick Jenkins, William Seisnurei, John Condit, John T. Vernon, John Kearney, Samupl S. Gardiner, David Thomi»on, Nathaniel Shuliz, Cornelius Duryec Ebenezer Plait Jacob Duryee - Zeophar Plan - .Josepii Leonard T. McCready, Jr. \Vm. Wier Wni G. Haycock John H. Ball - Georee W. Thomiison Wm.'Tiilhill - Joshua Philips • James .\nder9on Janus D Biss'H Josepli Biard - Abraham Boker John R. B»wno (}«>. G. Burras - John Byers (."harlPii Cliipp StephiMt Crane • i\log( B Cunninglmm Jos. Culler Thomas Darling John Dp Camp Bf-rtrand Dupoy Jac-ot) Frank t.'iilvin C>«y J.ihn Gi'lsion • /.I link lleddon i;. ru'' Iloward Her.ileel Howe Nathaniel Muni Robert Hunii.T Geurge Junis do. - - Clerk, - Assist. Col eclor, Jer.«ey, Survfynr, . - Deputy CoUecuir, • do. . - Cashier, - Auditor, CLEIIKS, • 8658 00 Daniel Bennei - 500 00 650 00 Jos. Osiiorn, Jr. .yx) 00 600 00 James B. Thurston 500 00 550 00 Norman Bulh'r ftO Oit 550 00 Samuel H. Eakiu i»o 00 550 00 Chas. .\. Gardiner HO 0« 500 00 Thos. H.PuUiis 500 00 - 50000 Thos. Donnison 500 00 500 0(1 William J. .McMasier - .500 00 m\ 00 Andrew Marline ottlOO 500 00 Isaac Bluxome - .500 00 500 00 Henry Bull IXSPF.CT0ns. 500 00 81 .095 .00 Oliver Jaques - 300 00 - 1,0^6 00 Wm. Keepe 1,095 at . 1,095 00 Peter Kin man - 1,095 00 - 1,095 00 John B. Kissam ."in:! oo - i,ff:ooo John H. Leecatt 1,095 W - 1 ,iNii ai Jacob Luillam • 1,095 on •28-2 00 Donald .Mo Lean 1.0" Oit ■ i,oy5 uo Samuel Marvin 1,095 (X> - I,0't5 00 James Mitchell 1,005 00 •J5I7 00 John Mnriis 1.095 00 l.O't-i (Kl Walter Morion - 1.095 at . I, !>'.-.-. I«l John C. :Mott ;w 00 - I.IC.C. OK Wm. K. Ncxrn 1.1195 00 I,iW1 (Ml Kichanl .Nixon • 1.095 00 l,(«sr, 00 Niiphlali Philips 1.095 00 1,011 00 Elliah Pinkupy 1,095 OO 1 .(m5 at Riihard Plait ■ l,(if*1 00 1,095 00 Jamiii Purler - 1.1 f-C. 00 1,095 00 Grorre Seaman •.'97 00 1.095 (X) Waller Si'omau 1,1 Kl tX) 1,095 l»> Elihu Smiih 300 ai I, on no Peter R .Spraingi r Dennis Strieker 1.077 00 . i,09e on 1.090 00 W^n. B. Byram And. H.HIickle Nathaniel Olcoit David Seabury • Lewis M. Wiss John R. Kean - Aaron Phillips - John Harrison - Iji'rnardiis C. Lake Junius Thompson Georce Waterman ■ 84,ono 00 - 2.O00 PO - 2;000 00 - .500 00 - l.tXXI 00 150 00 - 1,50000 • 130000 - IJVnOOO - 1.000 00 - 300 01 30000 50000 500 00 145 53 241 67 112 -22 79 12 Ti 63 92 03 5S 24 Svlvester Sullivan - 1,095 00 Peter Ta\lor ■ 300 00 Egbert Thompson 1,095 00 Wm. Underhill 300 00 B. M. Van Beuren 1,095 00 Wm Van Beuren 1,0^'5 00 Jaci>b Vaniler|Kvl 1.095 00 John Van Dyck 1,1)95 00 Andrew Van Tuyl 1,095 00 Jacob Van Wiulile 1.09J 00 Thomas Walton 1,0.« ai Th.iiias Waring 1.095 00 Caleb T. Ward ■ 1.095 00 K 11 hard Wan! - 1 .1195 ai J'dediah Wulemmn 1 .095 00 Wm. Willing - 1.095 OO John Whittlesey 1,095 00 Elam Williams 1,095 00 Jos Willouchby 300 ai Benjamin Wixxl 1,096 00 John Woodward 1,095 00 O.VUGEUS. Abraham Baudoine - 1,769 8^ Rinier V. IVIooney - 1,874 S J Ebenezpr Belknsp - 1,7S1 17 Alexander Blucher • 1,619 94 Jeremiah Brower - l.S^O 74 Elihu H. Decamp ■ 2,153 58 Elias Nexen Arch. Somerville WEIGHT. R8. Gerrel Forbes ■ Thomas Hazard Francis McCliire Alexander Nicoll MEASUBERS. Samuel Burling 618 65 John Gould Nicholas G. Carmer - 936 47 James W. Gray Daniel Dudee - ■ 1,174 17 Wm. Philips • Ezekiel Dodge - • 727 33 Bernardus Rider Peter Smith, Deputy Inspector of the Revenue - Ebenezer Cole, do. W.ii. Jessup, do. G. Cunningham, do. Henry Cahoone. Captain Revenue Cutler Wm. Isaac, Isl Lieutenant do. J. A. Bender, 2d do. do. John S. D,iane, Keeper of Light-house John H Gardiner, do. - - ■ Noah .Mason, do. . . . Edward Shoemaker, do. - - ■ Charles H Bernard, Light ship Master, - John Oakes, IMate, .----■ John Ferguson, Naval Officer, ... David S. Lyon, Deputy do. - - • • 1,339 29 Hnr. C Tall man 1,045 49 Wm. R. Thompson .3,386 70 Jacob Stoiitenburg 1,040 41 Jacob Tallman- 2,176 23 Elbert P. Waine 1,1S1 27 1,040 29 Ephraim Snow - 833 66 Harmanus Vedder 1,121 79 Peter Wvnkoop 1,252 29 John J. Clueu - CLERKS. Wm. Bunsell - John Cockle Philip Tabele - Samuel Osgood $300 00 Lewis D. Ozville 7.50 HO JMichael Roth - 600 00 Henry Reed - 600 00 Juseph B. Bleecher - 2.500 00 - 1,500 00 Lewis Webb, Jr. James McFarland 600 00 600 00 60' 00 500 00 E. B. Grayson, Third Clerk, D. Thompson, Collecting do. 1,843 66 2,187 99 1,065 10 2,363 10 2,32 68 885 51 - 1,041 43 - 1,124 09 524 47 - gl,748 87 600 35 ■ 1,235 71 84 60 819 00 566 00 506 00 400 00 a^O 00 300 00 300 00 70r whose purposes this re|)ort was made, with the Master Spirit of this committee at the head of that party, has not only not con- formed in practice to its own preaching, but, instead of diminishing ihe Executive pairo- naae, (the nut doing which was the only charge the Senate committee ventured even to insinuate again.^^t President A n.ois,) has actually, within the ten or eleven years it has had possession of power, trebled and even quadrupled the degree and amount of the Executive patronage! Mr. Ai)am.s had not set himself to work to razee the frame of the Government as it came into his hands, and the morals of the Opposition, organized by Mr. Van- Bcbkx to his Administration, became so shocked at the danger of corruption from this source, that some expression of their delicate sensibilities upon the subject became absolutely necessary to relieve their laboring breasU. Hence the lieport, from which we have made the above extiact, in which they ilisburthened themselves of their patriotic anxieties. IS'ow let us see to what extent Mr. Van Blren and his friends, having iuU possession of power for eleven years, have cut down the expenses of the Government, and thereby reduced the extent of Executive patr.inage. In this examination we follow the example of the Senate committee, in every particular. We take the city of New York, and a single branch of the federal patronage in that city, and, " to avoid mistake or error," we too limit our reference to the work " of unque^'tion- able authority," the " Blue Book" of the Republic : and from that book, the United ytates' Official Register of all Officers and Acents in ilie service of the United States on the 30th of September, 1839, (pages 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, and 49,) we copy the following : Officers of the Cusloms at New York. Jesse Huyi. J. T. Fpr'eusoi), John J. Slumfunl, Geoise Davis, C. P.X'linch, G. A. \Va.ss in, SiJney AVeiinore, Collector Uepuiv Collector do do do do do Tal iiiin J. Waters. Cashier - J. K. Bleeker, Assisiant Cashier John A. Flemin?, Auditor W. P. Hull, " Assisiani Auditor John W. Hunter, do APPUAISEHS. Jeminus Johnson A. B. -M. a.l A. B. Vaiiderpoel R. M. Mitchell J. L. Titfanv ■ S. H.Kakiii - A. N. Philips - Leonard A. Bleecker Elias L). Ogdeii Willia-n A. Spies N;ilh. Alcolt • Will. Lang D. Sullivan C. Uuryee R. C. Overton - Isaac Bluxomo- J. L'^onard W. ). Mc Master T. V. iMuiiif.Td Ch IS. A. Gardiner D. Bonnet D. Stausbury - John K Hin.hnian Leonard Wy Bissei J.ihn K. Br.iwno Win. J. Brown Jttoai Burdeue John Black William Bunj.iinin - 2,0nf> 00 J. Lounsberry • • 1.500 (« - 2,(100 01) B. J. Messerole ■ - 1.500 00 - 2,0iJU 00 CLEURS. J. Prall P. Thomas 1,250 00 „ l..;oO 00 1,05! I 00 1,050 00 1,1150 00 UMi 00 1,1 OJ 00 i,if.o uo l.UVJ U) 1 ,050 00 1,000 00 l,iKX) 00 1,000 00 i.iM) a) i,o;)o 00 l.OtIt I HI 1,0 KJ Oil 1,UX) 00 1,000 00 1.0*H1 00 I .UXI 00 1,00 1 IK) 1 ,(Kio m 1,000 00 1,000 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 9(K1 IX) 900 00 900 oo 900 00 9tV) 00 uoo Oil . tl,09J 00 l,o,t,". 00 1,095 00 1,0'.I5 00 1.095 CO 1 .09.'. 00 I,0'I5 00 1.095 00 1.095 00 . l,09,i 00 1,095 00 • 1,095 90 G. D. Overton - G. L. Ojihout - K. H. Plume - W. Fream C. Gill - P. A. Yoiins - D.R.Strachan - C.KadclitT C.J. Cannon - E.L. Maiihews H. Doane J. H. Roe S. Parei Thomas Shaukland ■ R. B. Adams - J. C. Deliiiar J. L. S. Grandin E. Hyde E. G. Livingston J. C. Niebulu- - P K Oiden • D. S. Grandin - W. B. Kremain H. Bruce W. W. Freaui - T. H. Dcnnison CM T.iiker ■ C W. BuUir - W. A. Pl•arsJll- H. i:ish..,.tT.'r - Thoiiiu.s J. Gillilan Freilerick Scliwanck F. C. Niil.uhr - R.V. N.wl.y . iNsi'Ki rolls Thoina.s Hrownell DtMini^ r.rnik • Ge.iri:' II Biddle Hnriiiii.iis \i0 William I'airnea 903 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 90'3 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 800 no aXl 00 eoooo 800 00 800 00 SOO 00 SX) 00 800 00 soo on R)0 to 600 00 RX) ai 800 00 6>i0 IXI ifOtI 00 eooeo eno 00 800 00 600 00 6(X) 00 I.O'.C. l.o:>.-, I ,n'.l.-, 1 O'.lo 1.095 1 .095 1.095 1 ,095 00 1 ,095 "0 1,095 00 l.oa5 00 1.095 00 00 (10 00 00 00 00 00 G. D. Cooper • G. W. Blake - W. C L.uinor • W. M. Haff • M. Burniam - Elain Bliss Edward Bleeker J. E. Chadeayne Charles J. Ct'iipp William A. Cox H. M. Graham Munson Gray - James H. Greenfield John D. Heniell John R. S. Hiieeei D. K.ihis;iat Samuel Luplon Daniel Monr>e E. H. Nichols • William T. Prall Kdgur Tripler • Ge..ri:e C. Tyler Alira. Vanderpml Atlrian Van Riper Geo. M. Weiniore James N. Jonf s Francis Vosburg Chas. W. Johnson Charles H. Innes John H Dunn • W H. Hyail, porter J. P. Haii', messenger W. K.lder do C. Niobuhr do Am. IS Coles Barnei Cole Heiirv Cheavans JohirColvill - J"Si'ph Clark - Piier Couuini • J"hn Connor - .\brahani W. Cooper J.ilin Cox Wni Currie Nathan Chamberlain J.-icob J. Cohen - 44.400 13oils>e Edmund Drisgs CharlPs lienilie Tluinias S. Day Durius Darlini A.G. Dixun - J. O. Diss nvay - Natlianiel De'vau Juhii J. Enrlp - Amh.>nv B. Ellison • J'SPph Ellis K. J. Everett - Jol.i Funnan Henry Kauning Rich.ird F nniiii: *- Charles D. KielJ Samuel B. Fleming - PelerFielil David Feeks - F. B Filch Peler Kalrcliild J hn H Frederick J isliua Fleet - David Gardner W. H P Graham • - Pel er Gordon • Th')3. i\I. Gahogan - Charlis Green Kd'iiiiiiit Gr. ss Naihaiiitl H. Green - Frederick Grosh m D Henderson, jr. Edward Hi'chcock Elias Hicks Will. Honay '\\'ard B. Howard I). R. Hil.hrock Andrew Huiion William D. Hughes - Georiie Howard .I-hn'H. Hunt - Edwin A. Hopkins Thomas Hope - Addis n Hill - Charlis Hunter. Thomas H^H . Arcliibald Hays Thomas Howard David Holly - Isaac A. Isaacs William Angevine William Boardman Thomas Bloaa - - 1,095 CO 1,095 00 Leroy IMi-Evers 1.095 00 Poier Taylor - - 1,095 01 1.095 00 Geo.'S. Messerve . 1,095 00 James T. Thompson - 1,095 00 1,095 00 Joseph Y. Miller - 1,095 00 Andrew Tombs - 1,095 00 1,095 00 Ale.xander Mins 1,095 00 Thomas Trenon ■ 1,095 00 1,095 00 AlTaham Messerole 1,095 00 Grillin Tompkins - 1,095 00 1.095 00 John iMorris, Jr. 1,(195 00 William Thome - 1,095 00 1.095 00 John r>IcGloin - ■ 1,095 00 James Thome - - 1,095 00 1,095 00 Hf [iry MrCaddin 1,095 00 0. H.Tompkins - 1,095 00 1,095 00 John McKiblin 1,095 00 John Townsend - 1,095 00 1,095 00 William B. Moll - 1,095 00 Thomas W. Titus - 1,095 CO 1,095 00 Jose[ih Marsh - 1.095 00 Join J. Tracey - 1,095 00 1,095 00 Georire i\IcCready 1 .095 00 Richard Tyson - 1.095 00 1,095 00 Will. ;McLiu2liliu 1,095 00 John Townsend, Jr. - 1,095 00 1,095 00 Georu'e W. iMaisell - 1.095 00 Samuel Utter - - 1,095 00 1,095 00 JohirMcGralh 1,095 00 R. M. Van Beuren - 1,095 00 1,095 00 iMontso iiery .Mi:ses 1,095 00 J. L ' Van Boskerck . 1,095 00 1,095 00 John Maislon - 1.095 00 John VanDyk . 1,095 00 1,095 00 James .McAlillan 1,095 00 C. Van Anlwerp - 1,095 00 1,095 00 John J. i\Iaiiniii2 1,095 00 T. B. Vermilvta ■ 1,055 00 - 1,095 00 1,095 00 Patrick .AlcCafltrty 1,095 00 John W. Vei'hake 1,095 00 Donala McDonald 1.095 CO John Van Dine - 1,095 00 1.095 00 Chalks .McDerraoU 1,095 00 William Welling . 1,095 00 1,095 00 Win. Marshall, jr. - 1.095 00 Evf lasdus Warner - 1,095 00 1.095 00 D. McGralh - 1.095 00 Benjamin Wood - 1,095 00 1,095 CO Wm. C. Neilson - 1.095 00 Isaac Wood - 1,095 00 1.095 00 S. C NicoU - - 1,095 00 Wm. J. Wiswall . 1,095 00 1.095 00 Gideon Oslrander, Jr. 1,095 00 JoJin W. Wheeler . 1,095 00 1,095 00 James M. OukUy l.o95 00 W W. Wells • • 1.095 00 1.095 00 Morris O.ikley 1,095 00 M. R. Walsh - - 1,095 00 1,095 00 Cornelius W. Oakely 1,095 00 J. W. Wesiervell - 1,095 00 1,095 00 John Orser - 1,095 00 J. R. Wall! ran - - 1.095 09 1.095 00 Francis 02sbur2 1.095 00 Thomas Wiswal - 1,095 00 1,095 CO Rolen Phllliiis" 1,095 00 Asa W. Weldran - 1,095 00 1,095 00 Na|.liPhillii)S 1,095 00 Daniel AVinans • 1.0D5 00 1,095 00 Ale.x. V. Phis;er ■ 1,095 00 William Sevmour Barnuin Whipple - 1,095 00 1,095 00 Abra. K. Pallerson - 1,095 00 - 91-2 53 NIRHT INSPECTORS. 6:» 75 Rich.ird Harrold - - G3S 75 Michael Smith - - 6.38 75 6.38 75 J. E. Hatfield - fi.'K 75 Enoch Soper - &iS To G3S 75 Stephen A. Keni- - iXiS 75 Jacob B. Mesereaii ■ 63S.75 US 75 Chrisliaii Kramer . 6.38 75 J.Tyson - - 63S 75 Wi-i 75 Nathaniel Ladd - - 638 75 John H. Tupsler- - 638 75 - fios 75 James 0. Ludlow - 63S 75 A. J. F. Tombs - - 638 75 t;:W 75 Lawrence Langion - 6-3S 75 Philip Tabele • • 638 75 03- 75 Robert. Lawrence - C;}3 '5 P. G. Turish - 6;J5 75 GiS 75 John MiMah'ii - - 6.38 75 James Van Tassel - 6:i8 75 ftiti 75 John McPherson - &iS 75 John Vandervoori - 6:38 75 6;j3 75 Charlis IMasness • 638 75 A. Van Orden, jr. • 638 75 - 638 75 Bollis M Klfe. jr. - a38 75 John E. Wix)d - - 63S 73 ■ 6:58 75 James Moncriif - - 6.38 75 Samuel WixxJ - - 56387 &J8 75 Parker Mnren - - 635 75 William Wason - 638 75 B'{8 75 John Neafie - G3S 75 William Whitley - 638 75 RS 75 John Priestly - 63S 75 Zorhan W.xid - - 638 75 ■ 6:i6 75 Alfred Palmer • - 638 75 William WoodhuU - 638 75 6,38 75 Frederick Koome - 638 75 Amos Warring ■ - 636 75 638 75 Thomas Standerwick - 938 75 James G. Yates • - 633 75 638 75 William Spreisht - 638 75 G. B. Wooldridee 638 75 - 6.3S 75 Charles K. Smith - e.-^ 75 AlejtandT Bleeker ■ 1,.>18 56 Jfreiiiiah Brower - 2,8'J7 64 William ECruger - 1,134 40 E. H Dp Camp ■ 1.796 05 Robert Duinonl - 3370 15 John Franklin - •2,254 21 BpHJarein FuUer • 3,088 44 Thomas W. Garniss - 1,150 VS A. C. H uehion - 2,33-3 51 Thomas Morris - 1,06S 62 WEIGHKHS." Thomas Hazard Step. B. HotTmain Thomas Kirk - Lewis Loiitrel - Charlfs Mills - John W. Cakley GAUGERS.* Alex. Ming, jr. Elius Ne.xsen, jr. William Ryer - Henr>' E. Riell - MEASVREHS. Jospjih Hopkins G. W. IMcPherson George Nixon - Lemuel Filtman J. J. B. Rowan - J. W Richardson Henry C. Sperry John Alwaise - - 2,013 54 Jacob D. Cluie - - 1,911 74 William Durell - 1,7S0 72 J.'W. Forbrs - • 1,712 83 Kdmund Filch - 1,683 97 W.M. Hitchcock - 1,7.34 18 William Hagodon - 1,836 49 G. H. Richards, Deputy Inspector of Revenue or Marker Marcus Se<4rs do do Allan M Sniffen do do John J. I'lume, Assistant Collector Hiram Perry, Surveyor - . - - • Ely Moore, .Surveyor . - . . • S. Brewster, Deputy Surveyor . - - - Andrew .A. Jones, 'Jhief Clerk - - - - E. H. Sears, Second Clerk . . - . Charles F. Lineback, Third Clerk William Froment, Fourth Clerk James W Carpenter, Fifth Clerk R. Davenport, Messencer and Porter William S. Coe,NavarOfficer - - - - George W. Cop, Deputy Naval Officer • EliasB. Uaylon - - 1.20O John Cockle , . - 1 ,050 !V1. U. Van Dvck - - 1.05(1 Samuel Van \Vyck - 1,050 Samson IVL (saacks - 1,050 George W. Gantz - - 1,050 Samuel H. .Moore - - 1,050 1,254 42 2,596 82 1,996 00 2.560 02 2,516 77 1,866 69 2,-2S3 43 2,113 65 2,723 42 2,6-.a 12 1,618 31 1,820 58 1353 11 1,925 64 l,rJ8 82 1 ,677 03 1,654 4^1 John M. Paiiison David Poiire George Si bell - Jc'hn Sickles - Jamee Wesiervell John Tuomy - Edward C. Thruaton A J.Walker • T. P. Walworth Alfred G. Stevens John ;\L Thoriie J. B. Vanderpool Jacob .M. Vreeland E.J. McCarthy Garrit T. Brati Rol«n Gourlay CLERKS. Wade Houi;h - 1.050 .Abijah Insrahani • 1,050 Jtishua S- Bowue - 900 John V. Largee - 900 Francis D Swords ■ 900 Wm. C. Thompson - 900 Timothy F Cooke Joseph Crosthwaite Jeremiah Green Richard Kidney, jr. John H. Robins W. B. Rhodes, Porter 3,132 50 2,156 77 3,463 06 2,036 82 2,317 99 2,343 08 1,9.6 60 3,059 o9 8,960 50 1,110 16 1,829 92 1,779 47 l,s-29 10 753 63 47 49 1,767 OO 81,637 00 1,-2S5 65 1,829 65 1,000 00 150 00 2,900 00 1,500 00 1,150 00 1,150 00 850 00 1,000 00 70 OO 600 OO 3,000 00 1,500 CO 900 900 600 600 37& 30O "A formidable list, indeed!" as said Mr. Bexto.n and his committee in 1826 of the List of Officers of that day. An astounding list ! say we. Look at the regiment of names cnmi'risrd in the above enumeration I Look at the great amount of public money distrib- ut'd amonc; them ! Compare this exhibit wiih that of the vilified (and falsified) Admin- istration of Mr. Ad.\ms, and mark the ditlerence! In .Mr. Ad.^.ms's time the whole num- ber of olficers employed in the collection of the customs (excluding the officers of the reve- nue cutter and the light-hou,>e keepers, not included in the late enumeration) was one hundred and xlx/i/six, and the ag(;regale amount of their compensations about one hun- dred and twenty th(niiM) dollaiis.-j Here we have an arithmetical demonstration of (he true dillVrencc of value between profcs.-iion and practice — between the aristocracy and extravagance of the Administration of .Mr. J. Q. Auams, and the DEMocKiCT and se- vere troNOMT of tliiit of Mr. Vax Uvkkn. Do politicians ever blusli ? Do they ever hang their heads for shame? Afler this exposition of the utter falsity of all the preten- sions of his party, how dare any 8poil9-man look an honest People in the face ! We will, however, npare the reader any conimentary of otir own upon the profupion and waste of public ntoney which is tli.t,' \s an oveiiiialch for the power and inlluence of .b'/a/e pairiTiage ; thai il3 workincs will containinale the purily (ifall elrrlion.s, and enable the Federal Governnienl, eventually, lo govern through- out the .Slates, as effectually as if they were so many provinces of one vast empire. '• The whole of this ureal iniwer will centre in the frcsiilent. The King of England is the ' fountain of honor;' the President of the United Slates is the source of patronage. He presides over the entire system of Federal appoinlnients. joljs, and contiacts. He has ' power' over the 'support' of the individuals who ad- minister the system. He makes and unmakes them. He chuses from the circle of his friends and support- ers, and may dismiss them, and, upon all the princi[tlea of luiiiian action, will dismiss them, as often as they disappoint his expectations. His spirit will animate their actions in all the elections to State and Federal offices. There may be exceptions, but the tnith of a iieneral rule is proved by the exception. The intend- ed check and control of the Senate, wiihoul new constitutional or statutory provisions, will cease to operate. Patronaire will [lenelralc this bnily, subdue its capacity of resistance, chain il to the car of power, and ena- ble ihe President to rule as easily", and much more securely with, than without, the nominal check of the. Senate. If the President was himself Ihe officer of the People, elected by them, and responsible lo them, there would be less danirer from this concentration of all power in his hands ; but il is the business of slates men lo act upon thiiii.'S as they are, and not as they would wish them lo be. We must then lookforvvard to the time when the piildic revenue will be doubled : when the civil and military officers of the Federal Go- vernment will be quadrupled, [ihey have been already all but quadrupled without waiting for the increase of revenue;] when its inducnce over individuals will be multi[)lieu to an indefinite extent; when ihe nomination by the President can carry any man ihroush the Senate, and his recommendation can carry any measur^lhroUL'h the two Houses of ('ongress; when the jirinciple of public action will be open and avowed, the Presidiul wants uiy vok^, and 1 want his patronage; 1 will vole as he wishes, and he will giv" me the office I with for. Whai will ihis be but the Government of one man ! and what is the Govern- luenl of one man but a mnnairhi/ 7 Names are nothing. The nature of a thing is in its substance, and ihe name soon acconrndales itself lo the substance." '• Those who make the President nnisl support him. Their political fate becomes identified, and ihey must stand or fall together. Kighl or wrong, they must siq'iiorl nim ; and if he is made contrary to the will of the people, he must be supported not only by voles and sjieeches, but by arms." We have thus seen, hy one illustration, what sort of confidence is due to the professions, by the ruling party in the Government, of detnocrucij, cconotuy, Sfc. Nor will it be in the power of the [larty to shelter it.«elf behind Congress, and, as is their wont, throw the blame on the Legislature for having forced this expenditure upon the Executive against its will. This is an expenditure which ('ongress has had no hand in. It is one for which Congress is not called upon to make approprintions, because the salaries Me paid out of the revenue before it reaches the Treumiry. 'I'his list of officeholders, therefore, with ilV long array of salaries and emoluments, never pas?es under the review of Congress at all. The compensation of Inspectors, Weighers, &c., is indeed fixed by law, but the number is dependent on the unrestraineaymeiils were madf. Answer. The weighers were called on to pay tifteen dollars each for the support of the election ; and when I declined, Mr. \ anderp.el, th« deputy surv yor, observed that I oualit to cousider whether my gloOO per annum was nnt worth payiiis fifteen lUllars fur. Ui;di-r the iiiipreesiun that ifwas the price of my situation. I paid it The above oci:urred duriii:^ the last spring election for chaner otlicers. Durinc my holding office, for. about five years, I was occasionally called on, but alwavs declined until within the last two years. Question. Do you know whether other subordinate officers besides yourself, in the custnni-houie. were called on and required to pay such tax or assessment upon their salaries, for the use of party and political purposes ! Answer. Only by hearsay, as it regards the other officers ; but I saw niany of the weishere par the tax of fifteen dollars. Question. Was the money thus collected from you and others to be used f'jr political purpcees 7 If yea, lor which of the tlien and present |jolitical parties ! Answer. It was intended to be used tq supfwrt the election of persons attached tolhe prosem administration. Abraham B. Vaxderpoel examined. Question. Do you know whether the officers of the ciist.m-bouse have ever been called on to contribute sums of money to party and (Kjlitical objects? what officers have Ijeen so called on ; by whom. Air what amount; with or without reiiard to their salaries of office; when did they contribute: it ihev refused, was any intimation civen that their refusal miehl occasion their removal ; what amount has been so contributed or collected, and for the supjfon of what [lartv. at any one election ? This imerrouatory was objected to by ^Vlr. foster. Mr. Foster called' f.ir the yeas and nays. The question, Shall ihe interrogatory' be propounded ! wa;- put, and decided in the affirmative. \ eas— jMessrs. Curtis, Dawson, Harlan, Smith, Wise— 5. Nays— Messrs. Foster, Owens, Wagener— 3. Otiii r proceedines were had, in regard to which Mr. AVise offered the following resolution: Resolved, That tlie following facts be entered on the journal: Mr. U ise propounded to the' witness, Abraham B. Vanderpoel, the followini question, to wit ; yuesiion. Do you know whether the officers of the custom-house have ever l*en called on to coniribnts sums of money to party and political objects; what olVicei-s li.ive so been calbdupi'n; by whom, f-r what amount; wjth or without regard to their salaries of office ; when did they contribute ; ifihef refused, was any intimation given that their refusal mishl occasion tlieir removal ; what amount has so been contributed or collected, and for the supixiri of wh.it n'any, at any one election 1 The witness took the interriiL'atory, without objection to prop lundinz the same, and proceeded to write his answer thereto on the pa|)er ailached to the question ; and had wriitcifthe following', U> wit : " 1 have known officers attached to the customhouse to have been called on At'— when Mr. Owens, mem ber of the comn>ittee, interposed and informed the witness that he was not Iniund to answer any ic.lerrosa- lory relating to his [private affairs: and thereu|>iii Mr. Foster, :inother meniber of the committee, otjectecf to pM|poiinding the interrogatory. The witness here commenced to tear off what he had written before obj-c- l,ion was made to the intempiory. Mr. Wise prevented him from doing so, by forbidding the act. Mr. Fos- ter insisted that the witness had the right to tear off what ne had written, and that it was not his answer un- til It wa.s complete and handed in, and he asked the witness whether it was his answer, and he replied, " ii was not ;■' and the comiiiiitce havinn decided that the intern jauiry should be propiiunded, the said question by Mr. Wise was again handed to the witness, ami he returned the following : " I decline to answer the -(* question." The witness was then perinitted to retire. Mr. Curtis called for the yeas and navs ; and the res dution v.as adopted. Yeas— Messrs. Ciinis. D.Vw.son, Foster, Harlan. Owens. Smith, Wasener, Wise— 8. Nays— None. Davii^. Lvon e.xamined. Question. Whilst you were deputy collector at the ^nirt of New York, were yiHi ever lulled on, as an officer of the cusiorn-liouse. to contribute anv sum or sums of money toparty or political objects • If so, what amount ^ Was such amount, from you, called for in con.sideration of Vour salarr troin Govprnment I What propunion did it bear toyoiirsalar) ) Did youjiay it ' If iioi, why no'.'? Wl,o called for such contributions .' Were other subonlinates in the cti.siomhouse, to your knowledge, called on to contribute in like maimer • For th» sup- finrtof what i«trty were these contributions called for? Was any men.ice, directly or rndirecllv, of removal, held over these olficerf or yourself, for failures to irntni such contributions ! Mr. Owens objected to the interrogatory. The i|ue.sijon. Shall the interr.i'aiory be propounded ! was put. and decided in the nffiniiativp, the yeas nntl nay ■ •• ' rtioaof from one topi.v per cent. 1 frequently paid a jmrtof the amount; when it was to « hiL-Ii, and more than I could afford, 1 urired them to reduce it. In one itisunce, where I was a890«.sed twenty ilollars, Mr. Swartwout told the rollector of the tax that ten dollara wa? euotieh lor me lo pay. For a It w years back I have not paid anv thing to the ;;eneral committee, bec.ause 1 coUlJ not atfird to pav the amount asses,sed, ami because t could lU't conscienticuslv longer sustain ihe iiar ty. The cjdlecloni of the Tammany Hall general committee, one of whom was John Be'cker. oiled on me several limes. Willinm Tyack once or twice called on nie i.i collect the amount with whii h I was asses- sed: he WHS Mot the reguLir collector, but was one of the general committee. 1 believe \hH m arly all the officers of the i-iisioiii.hoii.linbetical book, which contains the imiiii s of (persons taxed, and the amouni i ach individual is reqnirtd to jiay. We have confined our oxamiimlioii of tho erowlh and extent of Executive patronage timler our iirtvcnt and liile rulers to the New \ Hrk f'ustom hou.se. onlv hecnusc it was (he case selected for illustration by themselves fourteen years ago. We have little Joul»t that correspondent extravagance would, upon examination, be fnund to exist in other branches of the public service. In the Indian Department, tor example, it is believed the mosi cor- rupt practices have yjrevailed, and the most extravaajanl and wasteful expenditures have been made, especially in the making and executing of treaties. At this moment, it is as- serted, there are hundreds of thousands of dollars o( Indian apjiropriations unaccounted for. In the hands of individuals, who have had the gratuitous use of it, some of ihem for a num- bcjr of years. But .Mr. Bkxton's committee did not confine themselves exclusively to the expenditures of the New York Custom house. They obtained from the several great public offices it the seat of Government accounts of their contingent expenditure:, in priming and advertis- ing, &c. Upon these they did not, in their rc[)ort, pass any direct censure. Nor, in truth, was there any room for it. . Under no Administration up to that of (Jencral Jack- son, had the Executive patronage of the press been regarded as the means of purchasing, hiring, or retaining political partisans A certain amount of printing and advertising was done under the orders of dilfercnt public offices, because i^ was indispensable to the con- duct of the pullic business, and it was paid for at no higher or other rates than individuals are obliged to i>ay for similar services. Except in an honorary point of view, the custom of the Government was, for a great many years after our first acquaintance vvitli it, any thing but desirable to publishers of newspapers. Mr. Beston and Mr. V'\?r Buuen had, however, in all probability, other views of this matter, when they called for the names of all printers em]iloyt.-d to do bu^^iness for the dif- ferent puMic offices, with the amounts paid to each, (v^'hich were not then, as they now are, included in the Blue Book.) It is certain, at least, that other views of the subject were entertained by the political confederates of those gentlemen in the year following, when a debate of three weeks' duration took place upon ihc expediency of changing the mode of designating the newspapers in which tlie laws shall be publisiied ; it being by law, at that time, as it is now, and with oi)vious propriety, the duty of the Secretary of State to make such designation. 'J'he number of publishers of the laws to be so designated was and still is fixed by law; and the amount of compensation (also fixed by law) which so roused the jealousy of the pretended democracy of that day as to incite them to a system- atic war upini it, does not exceed an average of one hundred dollars a year for each pres>-, not more than is annually paid by many persons in the private ways and walks of lite for their individual advertising. This enormous patronage of the press savored too much of Executive inlluence ibr the taste of the disinteiesled patriots in Congress, who had combined their wits to wrest the " barren sceptre" of power from the hands of Mr. Adams, and turn it to a more profitable use in their own. It is even supposed that the allusion in the Inaugural Address of Gen- eral Jackson to "the patronage of the Government" being brought "in conflict with the freedom of elections" had reference to this branch of Executive patronage; an idea ludi- crous enough, certainly, when wc consider for a moment what was afterwards the practice of his administration, from its first start, when he appointed Amos Kkndall and other partv printers to some of the best offices of the Government, down to his testamentary act on retiring fron^ office, by which he imposed as a duty upon his successor in office the pat- ronage and support of the press which he had established at the seat of Government, and supported by the means of Executive jiatronage lavished upon it by every conduit under his control. However that may be, the alleged danger to public liberty from tlie immense patronage of the press wielded by the Secretary of Stale became, in the early part of the year 1827, the subject of one of the most excited debates that had ever occurred in the Representative Chamber. The ground of the debate thus brought on by the Opposition of that day was the fact that the Secretary of State had ciianged the publishers of the laws in ten cases out of the whole list of publishers, which was seventy -nine. It is truly ludicrous, again, that the Hiuse of Representatives, " Like Ocean into letnpesl loss'd " To waft a feather or lo drown a fly," should have been thrown into a ferment by so moderate an exercise of his legal discretion by the Secretary of f?tate, when it is notorious that these same pretended democrats, when they got into power, changed the entire list of publishers of laws with a single dash of the pen, and would as soon have thought of lieing inoculated for the plague as of employing any man in any trust in the Government who was not SiSjjurdi/ democratic as themselves. But so it was. On the 1st of February, 1837, came up for consideration the following resolution, moved by Mr. SAixuEns, of North Carolina, (the discomfited candidate for Governor of that Slate at the lale election :) 10 " Resolved, That ihf SecrMary of State commuoicaie lo this House a list of such of the newspapers^in each uf the States in which the laws of Contiress were direcl^l to be published in the years 1825 and 1S6 Also, a list if such in which the laws are directed to be published in ISJ?, designating the changes which have been made, and the re.is n for each change." In support of this resolution Mr. Sac.xdehs affirmed that "the gentleman now at the head of the Slate Department has been guilfy of selecting papers more for political and personal objects than to give the greatest publicity to the laws," &c. This was the gist of the argument of the opposition throughout the debate. " I lie t Hect I'f such a course of thinss (Mi. Satkders said) was calculated to operaie, not only on those who now print ihe laws, but on all three who iniEhl have any desire to print them. By seeing those re- warded who had shown the most zeal in promoiiiig the Secretary's views, they wuld naturally be taught to infer that if ihev displayed a zeal still more anient they should have it conferred uixin iheni. •■ it was thus ciiftulaled"to uperaie, and did actually operate, si far as it went, lo coulnil the freedom of the press, and to enlist ihrou^houi the country that powerful instrument in behalf of the views of the Slate De- partment. In this re8|ieci it was much more effectual and much more dangerous than the far-famtd alien and seililioH lairs. 1 he provisions of those laws were direct and tangible. They were open and seen of all ; but the p'>wfr to which he alluded oi>eraied directly, but was not seen so to ciperate." It was the opinion of the party leaders of that day that the Executive was hound to give reasons for appointments and removals from eflice. [How utterly repugnant to the notions of the same party, now in power !] "IfisaidlMr. HoisTo.v in this debate) the head of the Department has any cause to show which will justify the course— the v<-ry extraordinary course — he has adopted, the House will, no doubt, L>e saiislied : aiid d. ubtlesa if he has such reasons to produce, he will not hesitate to lay them bef )re us. But if he is to remain lotallv irresponsible— if his robe is not sti much as to be louclied— if^his person is sanctified, and he has all the iiifallibility uf the Pope— then, sir, let this House and this People talk no longer of their privileges." Mr. Polk (now Governor of Tennessee) took an active part in this ^sfrea/ debate. He was particularly indignant that the Secretary of State should have taken his patronage of a hundred dollars a year from one publisher in Tennessee and given it to another, &c. •• Thoush we have noalien and sedition laws, (said Mr. PoLK,)are we tohave what istaiiiamount to litem ' Are the public fuuctii naries of the Government to be wraf'l up in the robes of office, and to be held irrespon- .sible to the People or the People's Representatives ; knA are all those who have firmness and indep-ud- ence enouch fearlessly to inquire into the conduct of public men. and the manner in which the public money Is expended, to be denounced, by the partisans and servile adherents of the House that now reigns, as faciious oppsals tor mail contracts, in the year 11^23, amounted lo 8'2,367 ji ; in the fallow! ne^year ti> gi.'-.'T'S Ai ; and in the year liSli, to J'*,466 -15 In this year, the amnum w.is greatly increased hv the priniine of alMul ten thnisand pamphlets, containing a stateriienl of the Post Hincrt, Jcc, and nlK)ut tfie same number of the Po«t Otfice laws, instrucu >ns, &c. " The amount imid fir the publication of propi«als, aa al*.> the papen in which such publiculion.i were ii)ad», will appear fniii ih" ("opers enrloeod, to wliich the .ommiilpe Hr<> respectfully n-ferred." 11 List of Post Offices where advertisements tvere published, bi^ order of the Postmaster General, in 1825. Post Offices. Cahawba, Alabama Columbii, South Carolina - Frankfort, Kentucky Indianapolis, Indiana Jackson, Mi-'ssissippi Jefferson city, iMissouri Little Rock, Arkansas Territory Milledgeville, Georgia Murfreesboro', Tennessee - Raleigh, ]\orth Carolina - Richmond, Virginia Pensacola, Florida Territory Vincennes, Indiana Annapolis, Maryland Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - Trenton, New Jersey Washington City - vflbany, New York Canandaigua, New York - Boston, Massachusetts Columbus, Ohio - Concord, New Hampshire Dover, Delaware - Montpelier, Vermont Portland, Maine - Harford, Connecticut. I Name of Newspaper or Publisher. Account not rendered. Telescope Dana and Halerman Douglas and Maguire Account not rendered. Ditto. Ditto. Camak and Ragland Account not rendered. Raleigh Register - Account not rendered. Pensacola Gazette Elisha Stout Account not rendered. in Pa. Intelligencer, yd qr. in Tren. T. American, do. National Intelligencer National Journal - Daily Ad. & Gaz., 3d qr. D. C. Miller J. A. Stevens Patriot, 3d qr. - Ohio Monitt)r, 3d qr. .Account not rendered. Ditto. E. P. Walton, pub., 3d qr. Todd & Smith, do do Goodwin & Co. do do Amount paid. 63 20 32 37^ 00 43 75 40 00 45 00 32 00 39 00 12 00 690 00 714 00 • 66 30 80 50 80 50 18 75 29 25 19 05 18 75 11 20 S2,056 67 The expense of printing for three years preceding 1826, it appears, amounted to $12,007 42 — or, averaging the years, to §4,002 47 (say four thousand dollars) a year. The cost of advertising for the single year immediately preceding 1826 was $2,056 67 — the greater part of that sum being paid for the long advertisement of Proposals for carrying the mails, published annually in two newspapers at the seat of Government. This was the whole extent of Executive patronage dispensed to the press through the agency of the Post Office Department at the date of Mr. Bento.v'u report. Yet this amount of expen- diture for advertising was regarded \\ith so jealous and distrustful an eye by Messrs. Bts- Tos and Van Buhe.v, that of the objects proposed by the bills which thai committee re- ported for the purpose of " trimming down the powers of the Executive by statutory enact- ments," one was "to regulate the publication oi public advertisements." Let us now turn to the Blue Book, and see what reduction in this description of pub- lic expenditure has been effected under the administration of Mr. Van Burex, and how far by such reduction the sphere of Executive influence has been contracted. And what do we fi'nd in reference to this matter in the Blue Book I We could hardly credit the evidence of our own senses ; and our readers, we are sure, will partake of our astonish- ment when they read the following account of the frugal and economical rate of expendi- ture, for advertising, especially, which has been substituted by ih'is democratic Admii]i.>itra- tion for the pretended extravagance and prodigality oi xhe aristocratic .Administration upon whose fall Mr. Vax Bcrkx rose into power. Here is the proof of it : 12 TnOM TUE OFFICIAL BEGIBTER. S'amei of all Printers tmploycd by the Post Office Department, with the Cumpensativn nlluwed io each, fur une year, ending '6uth fiepttmbcr lad. S. Eiclielhereer - $f>43 50 J'ark Jc Rogers ■ 7U1 25 GiiieuJc Thompson • 564 77 Gainf^Jc Murriiy - l-2<,i 00 Wjllidm Wallers 42 00 H. B. GrigsL/y - - S25 UO D. Br.iwn . - 175 5U H. A. ."Miichpll- . . 7 6l -Mifflin it Parry - 32 75 Hollis A: Beaii'ett - 3 75 B'-lsericFariii-r - IIG 50 P. Allen k S m 4 HQ Thomas Kiichie - 38 00 Th Tiids [yiriae - 35 0") D. Bh cker - 4 00 Park & Ri.oers - . - 76 50 Bpals (5c Green - - 4,5 62 H. Haines - - ' . 34 13 Jas. H Campbell - 85 Ifl D. £ich. lljf^reer - 31 25 .Vaihan Hale" - - 12 75 I. N. Cardozo - - 609 63 H. A. Miichell - - 27 50 M'lrrill & Dinsmore - 4 00 J'>hn Busk - 19 50 iVI. Spotm' r - . 7 25 U.ivid Brown - - 52 50 H. K. Gri-si.y - . 45 UO Fiirsyih & KiLby - 232 50 Guii'u & Thompson - 68 M W. C. Brvanl Ac Co. - 31 50 I'honias L.)rin? - IS 75 Edward J. Hale - 12 00 L. E. Thumps .n - 33 25 Penni. Kllini - - 36 50 W. E. Woodruff - 12 50 R. CGrepii - - 6 25 Geo. \V. Wood - - 10 no W. A. Hawlev - - 3 50 D. C. Go(hI,iI(>& J, Cobb 13 53 Lawson Gilfird - 25 00 C. E. Barilpit ■ - GO 10 KnuwIrsA, Hu'.chins - 210 00 J 110. C. Has well - 'JO 00 Enelish,Browuwliun Osiiorn At Baldwin L. E. Thompson L. & F. Girt .rd P Dean Carrique Brill & Browu . Wni. C. Bryanl O. H. Wells ■ Alboa Chiise K. H. Stanmn - Geo. R. Welder - Siuitli 4: Robinson Beats k. Green - Jn.i, F. Hulibard Leicher&Gilliick Pr^y 4: ThoinfS m Wni. B Andersjn Joel M. Smiih - Paniel Bradlord Wm. Walters - J- Weiilw.irili . Karaes Jt B:L<:seil I). W Wliiuluirsl W. W. Lrland - Jno. M. Tilloison CainpI.ell &. Wilsiin • W. H. Gny - Br>\vn & tindsay Niwnan Ac Shules G. S. Gilbert . Ji>SP|>h Justice - Brsiincon Ac Haliday • Tlinmas Kiichie Beiij. Hayes Edw. Cole J. Liviiissiou - Cyrus Biinnii - Bishop Ac Wiiislow Premiss & Weisinc ') er, P<'an & Elliot, > • and J K. Brown j Zini A: .Aliller - Hale Ac Eaton - iNjitchell Ac Burr P. Woods in. jr. Penn Ac Elliott - vertisiiis.] 830 34 31 10 29 75 32 55 26 94 6 00 33 40 2,00 lou no 31 35 33 00 45 00 24 37 40 (4 35 62 25 00 41 42 40 OO 50 00 •25 00 32 27 64 5tl 48 33 54 37 90 OO C9 75 91 05 22 50 72 50 30 80 45 00 97 00 5" 50 25 00 15 00 46 50 4? 50 [Amount paid for print S. Mfdary & Bro.«. • 81,949 23 Paine Ac Clark - Mifflin Ac Parry - 53125 James Rice. jr. - Reals &: Green - - 2,164 41 S. Peiin.jr. Cyrus Barton - - 556 11 J. KUioi - S. Penn.jr. - - 4.'?5 67 Mifrtiii & Parrv Piin.> Ac Clark - KG (^2 S. Medarv Ac tin*. Janes Ki.o • - 19 50 Beals & Green ■ .Mitllia & I'arrv - 4.'iO f^ S. Penn.jr. Beal.i Ac Gnea - - 1,816(0 Paine Ac (lark Cvrus Barioa - - 645 10 Cyrus Barton ■ S. Medarv- Ac Bros. - 1.612 24 JamisKIre S. Penn,jr. - - 27100 S Penn.jr. [Note. -This llsl, larce as it is, must yei be incomplete, pnMlshersof ili<>Glo()e I., in'.; entirely oiiiiiied. The reader aa other proL>«ble uniisslons, and add to ihe rest.] 50 62 52 50 40 00 36 00 26 25 21 00 .50 00 70 00 .50 47 62 50 97 75 ing blanks.] 3r»! 45 319 12 555 83 500 00 .S46 75 1.079 67 1.633 80 199 00 713 23 699 07 .>71 25 .■)56 78 H. C Bunce • Jas. Clark Ac Co. A. Huier Byers Ac Jordan J. Glf'ssaer E. Devakonrt - L. Eiclielberier J. Bnwyer James Hasan Edward C^le W. W. Leland • P W. Gamer, jr. Guieu Ac Thonipson ■ C Bav.n Ac Warner - F. .^. 3Iyer T. Santiird Messenger Ac Rnllston Welib Ac Hutchinson ■ H. Baee Isaac Snow P. B.Ankeny - Ramsay Ac Craiehead - E. KiagsLury, jr. J.G. Ac r. J. .McLain - Oil Ac Weber - Wm. B. Anderson HarkerAcBusk John ,M. 5>pencer" A. H. Pemberton J. Livingston - G.S.Gilbert - Win. Ac Geo. Johnson JoS. Justice Ac Sun JMifflin Ac Parrv J. P. -MaEill ■- Jack k. :\IcEln.y Geo. W. .Sherwood Daws >ii iV Fishtr D. K. Liphlner - C. B. H. Fessenger J 'SPph Pouch - T. B.Crowell - S. Ac .M. H. .Medarv - B .as Ac Ciipl.in A.H.Ac W\F. Pember- ton J W. Shusert - A. S. Willinston Ac Co. E. Sl>>ut Ac .Sin • McGoiiivjh Ac Dimick - F. S. Mv^r F. S. Mver Mifflin Ac Parry Beals Ac Urecn - S. ."VIedary A: Br,«« Cyrus Bart ^n • Puine Ac Clark • F. S. .Mver S. Pen a', jr. F. S. .-Myer S. Peeii, jr. 835 00 27 50 7 80 55 75 5 00 30 00 45 00 40 00 51:) i« 33 75 17 50 4500 34 12 105 TO 2-25 15 S40 00 15 no 35 75 75 00 10 no 205 at lo O'J 337 50 4 16 152 75 48 75 210 37 619 25 80 62 780^)0 10 00 Si 00 133 50 r57 00 566 25 757 10 140 75 567 12 259 00 182 25 133 00 133 00 614 2r> 760 50 3 IS 594 75 27 30 5 00 614 2.-. 8197 10 68 40 541 S5 1.706 37 i.srr 50 715 45 549 -20 >1 00 av? 00 16S 00 4o9 95 Ihe amounl of priming and advertising bv the must be comnnt to Imagine that amount, as' well Whiilcvcr may be held kick in the composition of this part of the Blue Book, hv acci- dent or liv contrivance, (.such, for instance, a.x sus|)on(linc: the p.tynicnt of accounts until alter the /'.•./ wa.s nhidc out for "the hook,") cnougii is disclosed lo show a prodigal use of the public'nioncy for the purpose of establishing or pensioning party presses. Of'ali the names of persons who have received the public money for advortisimi during the past vear how many are known, even to those of their own vocation, as publishers of newspapers of any .such circulation as would recommend or even justify the Dcp.nrtment in publishing its adveriisements in them ! It is not to be doubted that a Post drtke advertisement, yielding 13 an emolumi'nt of t'rom two or three to seven or eiglit luiiulrcd dollars, would be an accept- able annual gratification to the printer of any weekly jiapcr of a circulation of three or four hundred papers, confined, perhaps, to the limits of a sin°rle county : it cannot be doubted that upon the inducement of such a douceur (suiruient lo pay the whole annual expendi- ture of such a paper) a subservient party press mi«ht be established where none existed before ; but who is there that will undertake to justify such emjiloyment of the public money, under the pretence of advertising for proposals for contracts for carrying the mail in parts of the country where perhaps none but a weekly horse-ninil is to be carried, or in those in which the Post Oflice call tor proposals is already abundantly circulated through the regu- lar ortkial channel ? It is too plain, upon the face of this list, to be susceptible of doubt, in the mind of thos=e at least who halronage of the Government in conflict with the freedom of elections." Out upon such hypocrisy ! But the most serious objection taken by the Van Buren party (of 1826) in the House of Repre^entatives was, that the enormous patronage oi one hundred dollars a year (a bare equivalent, if so much, for the actual labor required) to each publisher of the laws had been employed by the Executive with the intent to favor the friends of the Administration ; inasmuch as, in one year, 1825, as appeared by one of the documents accompanying Mr. Benton's Report, the publication of the laws had been transferred from one newspaper to another in ten cases out of the whole number (being seventy-nine.) It was the principle, and not the amount involved in this fact, which in their opinion endrtngered the liberties of the country. Yes, it was the principle of removal from office which most offended their delicate olfactories. This abuse must be reformed, said they : " Th' offence is rank, and smells lo Heaven." And how, when soon afterwards, by means of this olnmor and th'bse pretences, they came into power — these sensitive patriots, who had snuffed corruption " in the tainted gale" — how did they reform this particular abuse? Let us see. Besides removing all the high Cabinet Ministers, which was done on the first day after the inauguration of President, (and to which no exception is taken,) the Jackson-Van Buren Administration, by removals from office, within that year, filled with its own polit- ical friends and partisans the following offices, viz : Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia.* Secretary of Legation t.o Colombia. Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. First Assistant J'ostmaster General. Minister Plenipotentiary to France. Second Assistant Postmaster General. Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands. Second Comptroller of the Treasury. Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain. Second .Auditor of the Treasury. Charge d'Aflaires to Mexico. Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. Charge d'.^tf.iires to Sweden. Treasurer of the United States. Charge d'Allaires to Peru. Register of the Treasury. Secretary of Legation to Great Britain. Judge of Territory of Arkansas. Secretary of Legation to France. Treasurer of .Mint United States. Secretary of Legation to the Xetherlands. Marshals of the United States for the Districts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, Louisiana, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, aird Missouri. Attorneys of the United States for the Distriits of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, New Jer- sey, Lousiana, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, New Hampshire, Connecti- cut, New York, Alabama, Indiana, Florida. * It is remarkable enough that the only public officer removed by President Jackson, on the very first day of his entering uponihe discharge of his duties (besides the heads of De|:>iiriraents) was General Wm. Hknby Harrison, Minister lo Coloihbia. 14 Collectors and Surveyors of the Customs, Naval (Revenue) Officers, and Appraisers, as follows: In Maine, three; New Hampshire, one; Massachuselts, nine; Vermont, one; Connecticut, one; New York, eleven; New Jersey, one; Pennsylvania, two; Delaware, one; Maryland, three; District of Columbia, two; \'irginia, one; North Carolina, two ; Louisiana, four ; Western States and Territories, six. Indian Agents, six. Navy Agents, three. Receivers and Registers of Land Ufhces, twenty-six. Consuls for foreign ports, twenty-one. Clerks, &c. in public offices at the seat of Government, number large, but not accurately known. PosT.HASTEBS, fouT hundred and ninetyone, viz. In Maine, fifteen. In Georgia, two. In New Hampshire, fifty-five. In .■\labama, two. In Vermont, twenty-two. In .Mississippi, five. In Massacliusetts, twenty-eight. In Louisiana, four. In Rhode Island, three. In Tennessee, twelve. In Connecticut, tiventy. In Kentucky, sixteen. In New York, one hundred and thirty-one. In Ohio, fifty -one. In New Jersey, fourteen. In Indiana, nineteen. In Pennsylvania, thirty-five. In Illinois, three. In Delaware, sixteen. In Missouri, seven. In Maryland fourteen. In Florida, one. In District of Columbia, one. In Arkansas, two. In Virginia, eight. In Michigan, one. In North Carolina, four. Besides these direct removals from office by the Executive, there was a host of removals of such person.'! as held office by secondary appointments, such as clerks, inspec:ors, &c., in the Custom-house, whom we have no means of numbering. We have a statement be- fore us, however, which may afford the reader some idea of the extent of the proscription in their case. In the Custom-house at Boston alone, out of fifty-eight persons employed in different capacities, foiitv were removed ! Such was the slashing operation of the first year's .Administration of the pretended De- mocracy. What was the further extent of the "reform" — the /a.«A- which, President Jacksox said in his inaugural, was "inscribed on the list of Executive duiies in charac- ters too legible to be overlooked,"' we have not lime at present to follow out through the succeeding years of the improved Administration of the liovernment. Nor have we time to compo.se & homily upon the virtues of disinterestedness, consisten- cy, meekness, rharity, and forbearance exhibited in such interesting lights in this chapter of political history. Neither sliall we here debate upon the effect and consequences, any more than upon the character and complexion of the motives of the principal aitors in this scene of proscription. Happily we find these so tiuly and plainly portrayed in a public document now before us that it will be a happy relief to our readers to meet with what is so applicable, from so able a hand, instead of ours. In a report made in the Senate on the 9th of February, 1835, by Mr. Calhotx, as chairman of a select committee appointed "to inquire into the extent of the Executive jiatronnge, the cau.sis which have contributed to its great incrca.se of late," &c. we find tlu- following striking passages : " Bill Af grently as ihese causes [increase of pul)lic expenditures, ic] have added to the force of jiatron- age of latp, there are olheisot a ditferent nature, which have cuniributed to give it a far creater ancl m.>re dangerous influencp. Al the head of these should be plared thp practice so greailv exifnded, if not for the first lime Introducpd, of removing from office nersons well qualified, and who had faithfully p.^rformed their duly, in order to fill their places with those who are recommended on the ground that they belong to the panv in power. " Vour commiltce feel ihnt ihey are tourhine ground which may lie considered of a parlv character, and which, were il possil)le, consistently wiili the discharce of their diiiy, they would wholly avoid, as iheir ob- ject is III iiKiiiire inio facts only, as coniril.utinc to increase the pairoiiaee'of the Executive, wiihoui looking to intention, or desiring lo cast censure on ili se in jxiwer; hm while they would cauiiouslv avoid any re^ mirk of a narty character, a» inconsistent with the gravity of ilie suljeci.'aiid inoompaiilile' with the inten- tion of th^ Senate in directing the inquiry, they trust that they are incapaMe of shrinkinc from the perform- ance of the imp iriani and solemn duty confided to them, of ilinrouehly invesiigaiine to the Ivitiom a subject involvine. as tn< y lielieve, the tali' I'f our iMliiical insiiiuiion.'i and ih- liberty of the country, ly declining lo investicale, fully and freely aa reganls its character and cnsequence, evn'rv measure or praillce of the Government connected with ihe inquiry, whi'ther il has or has not been a subject of party contrvnersy. "In speaking of the practice o( removing from offi' e on ^\^^y gmimd as of rerent date, and, of lourse, comprehended under the causes which have of late coniribuied tliihe increase of Executive patninaee, your coniinittee are aware that casts i-f such removals may W f lund in the early stages of the G 'vernmeht ; I'Ut ther are »o few, and exercised so little Inrtucnce, that they may \x said lo constitute instances raiher than as forming a practice. Il is only wiihin the last few years thai removals from office have been introduced as a syslert), and, (or iho first lime, an opiiortuiiiiy lus been aJibrcleJof leslint; llie lendcncy of the practice, and witnessing the mighty increase whicli it has given to the force of Executive patronage, and the entire and fearful change, in conjunction with other causes, it is effecting in the cliaracter of our poliiical system. Nor will it require much reflection to perctive in what manner it contributes lo increase so vastly the extent of Executive patronage. " So long as offices were considered as public trusts, to be conferred on the honest, the faithful, and cajia- ble, for the common good, and not for the benefit or gain of the incunibeni or his pany,an(l so lung as it was the practice of the Government to continue in office those who faithfully performed ilieir duties, ils patron- age, in point of fact, wjs limited to the mere power ol nominuting to accidcnial vacancies or to newly-crea- ted offices, and could, of course, exercise but a moderate influence, eiiher over ihe body of the community or of the rffice-holders themselves: but when this practice was reversed— when offices, instead of being considered as public trusts, to be conferred on the deserving, were regarded .-r partisan services, without n sppcl lo merit ; when it became to be understood that all who hold office hold by the tenure of partisan zeal and party service, it is easy lo see that the certain, direct, and ineviialle tendency of such a state of things is to convert the entire body of those in office into corrupt and supple instrumemsof power, and to raise u'pa host of hungry, greedy, and subservient partisans, ready for every service, h. wever base and corrupt. Were a premium oti'ered for the best means of extending to ihe utmost the power of patronage ; to destroy the love of country, and to substitute a spirit of subserviency and man-worship ; lo encourage vi'ce and discourage virtue ; and, in a word, to prepare for the subversion ol liber ly, and the establishment of despotism, no scheme more perfect could be devised; and such must be the tendency of the practice, wiih whatever intention adopted, or to whatever extent pursued.'' Mr. Calhotx, in this report, refers to cases of removals which may be found in the early stages of t! e Government, which he justly remarks are bo few, and exercised so little influence, that they may be said to constitute instances of exception rather tlian as forming a practice. Few indeed were they ! In the eif;ht years' administration of Mr. Madison, they numbered only fourteen ; in the eight years of Mr. .Moxhok, only thirteen,; and in the four years of Johx Q. Apams, only thhee !* What was the number during a single year of the Administration of the party which succeeded in putting down an Administra- tion which made so "few" removals, the reader will have learned from the preceding enumeration. As if to aff)rd to posterity a standard by which men should in all time to come be able to measure, with the greatest precision, the distance between the professions and practices of ambitious demagogues, the Senate committee of 1826 proposed, along with their six bilU of retrenchment and reform, an amendment to the Constitution to prevent the ap- pointment of Members of Congress to civil office under the General (jovernmcnt, to which their report rciers as follows : •' The committee have also reported another proposition of amendment, intended to exclude Senators and Representatives from appointment to civil offices under the authority of the Federal Government; and ihis proposition they will not despair of seeing referred to the consideration and decision of the People." This is the standard of the pretended "democracy," set up in the year 1826, by its leaders, Messrs. Benton- and Vajj Biren. And here is the evidence of the fidelity of the same party to the principles under the name and garb of which they came into power : Appointments of Members of Congress to Office since the beginning of Gen. Jackson's Administration . Martin Van Buren, of N Y. Secretary of State Geo. M. Dallas, of Pa. Minister to Russia. Samuel D Ingh;;m, of Pa. Secretary of the Treasury. Thos. H. Crawford, of Pa. Indian Commissioner, &c. John H Eaton, of Tenn. Secretary of War. • Wiley Thompson, of Geo. Indian Commissioner. John Branch, of N. C. Secretary of the Navy. James M. Wayne, of Geo. Judge Supreme Court. John M. Berrien, of Geo. Attorney General. Nicholas D Coleman, of Ky. Postmaster. Wm. C Rives, of \'a. Minister lo France. Philip P. Barbour, of Va. Judge Supreme Court. Louis McLane, of Del. Minister lo England. Jiio. G. Slower, of N. Y. Attorney or Marsh-il of Ala. Levi Woodbury, of N. n. Secretary of the Navy. Francis Baylies, of Mass. Charge d'Atfaires to Buenos John Randolph, of Va. Minister to Russia. Ayres. Mahlnn Dickcrscm, of N. J. Secretary of the Navy. Edward Kavanagh, of Me. Minister to Portugal. John Forsyth, of Geo Secretary of Slate. Edw. A. Hannegan, of Ind. R^-gister of Land Office. Felix Grundy, of Tenn. Attornev General- Thomas Irwin, of Pa. Judge of District Court. Edward Livingston of La. Secretary of State. John Bidiile, of iMich. Receiver of Laud Office. Powhatan Ellis, of Miss. Minister lo Mexico. Geo. W. Owen, of Ala. Collector of Mobile. John McKinley. of Ala. Judse Supreme Court. R. H. Gillet, of N. Y. Indian Commission. S R. Hobbie,ol N. V. Assistant Postmaster General. Joseph Hall, of Me. Custom-house officer at Boston, John Finlay, of Pa. Post master at Chambersburg. Edward Lucas, of Va. Sup't Harper's Ferry Anm-ry. Thos. P. lAloore, of Kv. :\Iinister to Colombia. Jesse Miller, of Pa. First Auditor. H A. Muhlenberg, of Pa. Minister to Austria. Gorham Parks, of Me. Marshal. Andrew Stevenson, of Va. Minister u> Enrfand. Michael W. Ash,, f Pa. Navy Asent. John Chandler, of Me. Col'or of Portland & Falmouth. Benj. C. Howard, of Md. Commissioner about Michi Wm. Smith, of S.C. Judge Supreme Court. gan Boundary. , ,,. . ^ John Anderson, of Me. Collector of Portland. Andrew T. Juds.m, of Conn. Judge of District Court. James W. Ripley, of Me. Captain of Ordnance. Humphrey H. Leavitt.of O. Judge of District Court. C. C. Carnbrdencof N. Y. Minister to Russia. Ely .AIix)rp,of N. Y. Surveyor of Customs. Hector Crai", of N. Y. Surveyor Port of New York. Isaac H. Bronson, of N. Y. Judge in Florida. Chas G De'Witt, of N. Y. Aiinister to Guatemala. Samuel Cushman, of N. H. Postmaster at Portsmouth. Win Wilkins, ofPa. Minister to Russia. Samuel J. Gholson.of Miss District Judge. James Buchanan, of Pa. Minister to Russia. Robert T. Lytle, of O. Surveyor General * Executive Documents, House of Representatives, Isi Session 26ih Congiess, Document No. 132. 16 Isaac S. Peunybackpr, of Va. District Jxidso. George W. Jones, i>{ Wisk^iisin, Surveyor General. Arnolil Plumer, of Pa. ^lanilial. Wm.'FindUy, of Pa. Treasurer of Mint. Nalhl. Garr.jw, of N. Y. Marshal. Jemmus Ji>hfison, of N. Y. Ar'praiser. Geo. L'lyall, of Va. Navv Aieni. Wilson Lujnpkin, of Geo. Indian Aeent. LeunarJ Jarvis, ■ f Me. Navy Aeeni. Thos. Maxwell, of N. Y. Pi>siii)aster at Klmyra. [The greater part of the names iiicludeil in thi.s list were Members of Congress at the time of their appointment. Other- haJ very recently deen, and none of them, it is believed, but Would iiave come within the -pace of two years after service in Congress.] Thus it is that the parly in power have falsified all their professions, and thereby con- verted this Government into a mere machine for raising revenue for the reward, support, and gratification of a host of oflice-holders, who in return devote all the ability :»nd cuerjjy with which nature has endnwed them to perpetuate their ill-gotten power. As now ad- minisiered, not only is the Government just such a machine, but the design is not conceal- ed to keep it such; and, if the party succeed in re-electing its Pre.-iident, and follow the in- dications from its powerful leaders, we shall beyond doubt have a biautiful illustration, be- fore long, of the Locofoco beau ideal of Government, or, as Mr. Attorney General Butleii described it, of " a puiie ami eaiinkst democract, illt-mixatfh by the squxdest piiiNCiPLKS of political ecoxomt." Just such a Democracy, or a Democracy in many points resembling it, France for a brief period once enjoyed the blessing of. Some of its maxims have come down to us in histo- ry ; one of wbith is, that no man should be richer than another, and another that the spoils of the .Ari>tocrats belong of right to the Sans-culoites. Perhaps, however, a scrap of that history will illustrate the points of res^eniblance between the two svstems better than any thing that we can say. We conclude this article, therefore, with the following extract: FROM moore's jouhxal OF the frexch hevolvtiox. "Sept. 13, 1792. — Tlic character of some of the Deputies already chosen by the Dc- partnient of Paris does not tend to convey high expectations of the ensuing Convention. .Marat is of the number; he is supposed to have obtained his honor partly by his own pop- ularity amonu the low clas.ses, and partly throuch the influence of a faction, at the head of which are Danton, the Minister of Justice, and Robespierre. As the reputation of .Marat was not of pure while previous to the 2d of Sepleniber, and has been considered as of a scarlet hue since, it was thought necessary to prepare the niiiuis of the electors, and en- deavor to conciliate them in his favor, before the day of election. For this purpose Chabot, who was formerly a Franciscan friar, has been since a patriotic orator, and is already chosen a Uepuiy to the Convention, made an oration in bis favor in the ^Society of Jacobins, of which many of the electors are members. .As this discourse is ceriainly of a very ex- traordinary nature, and as it discovers the disposition both of the orator and of the person he recommends, I shall give the following passage from it: " Makat is rrprnaclipj with beinc of a sanruinary disjiosirion ; that he contribuied, for example, lo the late massacres in the prisons ; but, iri doina so, he acted in the true spirit of ihe reviiliiiion ; for U was not to lie expected that, while our bravest [lairiuts went to the froiuiers, we should remain here ei|x>sed to the rate of the prisoners, who were promised arms and the opporiuniiy, of assassinaiine us. We are told that he'is sanguinary, because ofiener than once ho demanded the bliH'd of the aiislocrals, and also that ol the corrupt members of the Consiiiuenl .Assembly But it is well known :h<'il the plan of ihearisttx:raisalways has been, and still is, to make a general carnase of the sjins culottes. Now, as the number of ihc latter is to that of the former in the proixirtion of ninety. nine to one, it is evident that he who proposes to kill one, i.> prevent the killing of ninety nine, is not a bloodthirsty man. Neiiher tan he justly be called an incendiary, fur he proiKiscd to give the spoils of the aristocrats to the sans-cuioties ! How, then, can he be accused of wishing to harm ihem •"' Iff Q C^ -sr %.^^ v^ t*^^ ^'^^ ♦ * • * t» . . • • .0 -St • • ^ -0 t 4> .->WJW»'.' , - • , o'^ f» » * ♦ ■ • J • > 4 <^' ^ -'^^ ^ « • ^ • 4 ''^ %rv r>^ .^^ V-^' ^^^r v^' e^"^^. • • o '3 •^^._ .• /\ • .^^•iJ^'^-*» ^^yJJ^^'''^ ^''^^'^^.^ ' • 'o. BOOKB1 - **'\ •.