1830--Whole expenditure, 1831--Whole expenditure, Deduct public debt, 25,044,358 28,168 12,412,035 $12,632,323 24,585,281 11,355,748 17,625 42,000 11,415,373 $13,169,908 30,093,087 16,174,378 190,000 419,748 327,781 - 17,111,907 Among these cases, that of the recall of Mr. Middleton, our minister to Russia, and the appointment of John Randolph as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to that court, is worthy of special notice. Of the political character of Mr. Randolph, it is my purpose to say nothing; nor will I dwell upon the peculiar circumstances connected with his appointment, or the extraordinary fact, that, instead of requiring him, as is usual, to repair to the seat of Government, to receive his instructions, the Secretary of State condescended to repair to Norfolk, and there wait upon the minister for the purpose of communicating them. Suffice it to say, that the instructions were receiv ed. The envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary received his outfit of 9,000 dollars, and was, with the new secretary of the legation, Mr. John Randolph Clay, transported in a public vessel, at an expense estimated Expenditures during the last three years of the last admiat not less than 40,000 dollars, to the place of his destination. He was presented to his Majesty the Emperor-remained near his court ten days--retired to England, where he resided about fifteen months--returned to the United States, and received a compensation at the rate of 9,000 dollars a year, for the whole period of his absence: thus subjecting the Government to an expense, independent of his transportation in a public vessel, of near 25,000 dollars for ten days' service at the court to which he was sent. What compensation has been claimed by, or allowed to, the secretary of the legation, who was thus left in charge of its affairs, I am not able distinctly to state; but I have reason to believe that there has been claimed by, or allow ed to, him, in some form, an amount much exceeding the ordinary compensation of 2,000 dollars per annum, allowed to secretaries of legation when not left in charge of the entire business of the mission. But it is said that, although the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations have been increased under this administration, yet it has done something; that its vigorous and successful diplomacy, far exceeding that of the last administration, fully warrants its extraordinary expendi tures. Before I proceed to examine this subject, which I intend to do, by instituting a comparison of the results of the negotiations of the two administrations, I beg permission, while upon the subject of expenditures, to present a comparative view of the whole expenses of the Government during the first three years of the present, and the last three years of the last administration. In stating these expenditures, I omit from those of both administrations all items of an extraordinary character, such as payments made by both to claimants under the Comparing, as before, the two administrations, in the treaty of Ghent, and the treaty with Spain of 22d Febru- last two years of each, (which, for the reason before menary, 1819; and by the present administration, for removing tioned, is the fairest comparison,) the disparity is still more the Indians, taking the fifth census, and in satisfaction of striking. Thus: VOL. VIII.--174 sident upon the subject of this treaty, to which I have alluded. In giving an account of the foreign relations of the country, and the result of his efforts to place them $26,151,088 upon the most favorable basis, the President, after alluding to "the injury to the commerce of the United States, resulting from the exclusion of our vessels from the Black Sea," and "endeavors" which had "been made to obtain a better state of things," said, "sensible of the importance of the object, I felt it my duty to leave no proper means unemployed to acquire for our flag the same privi leges that are enjoyed by the principal Powers of Europe. Commissioners were consequently appointed to open a negotiation with the Sublime Porte. The negotiation was persevered in, and resulted in a treaty, which will be 24,745,130 1,405,958 This excess is rendered the more extraordinary, by the fact that the policy of the present administration, with regard to internal improvements, indicated by the vetoes of the President, has resulted in a large diminution of expenditure, on that account. General recapitulation. Excess of the present over the last administration, during the last two years of each— In the Executive Departments, In the intercourse with foreign nations, In the general expenditures, forthwith laid before the Senate." He then proceeds to describe the great advantages which will result to the United States from the provisions of the treaty thus concluded. The general impression created by this message throughout the country, was, that the commissioners who nego91,101 tiated the treaty were all originally appointed for that 135,830 purpose by General Jackson; that they opened the nego1,405,958 tiation, and that the negotiation thus opened resulted in What a fulfilment of the predictions and promises of re- the treaty. The people of the United States did not even form and retrenchment, which were to take place under suspect that one of those commissioners (Mr. Offley) had General Jackson's administration! been appointed by Mr. Adams. They did not suspect But the gentleman from Mississippi, [Mr. PLUMMER,] as that that commissioner, in conjunction with Commodore if conscious (as he must be) that no real reform or re- Crane, had been instructed to negotiate the very treaty in trenchment has been effected, seeks to excuse the Pre- question. They did not suspect that, under that instrucsident, by saying that "his efforts have been paralyzed by tion, a negotiation had been actually opened, and that the Congress." Paralyzed by Congress! Did not General reason why it was not brought to a successful termination Jackson commence his administration with an overwhelm- was the limited pecuniary means which the last administraing majority in both Houses of Congress-composed of tion had been able to place at their disposal. And they men who had aided his elevation to power? And yet the did not suspect that all this was known by General Jackgentleman from Mississippi, who says he has been sent son, within twenty days after he came into power. All here by the people of that State to defend General Jack-this was carefully concealed from them in the message, son, and who may be presumed to be not altogether igno- and they were given to understand that General Jackson, rant of the grounds upon which he places his failure to sagaciously perceiving the great advantages of a free trade fulfil the pledges of reform, says that "his efforts have to the Black Sea, originated a mission for the purpose of been paralyzed by Congress!" Yes, paralyzed by his own opening a negotiation to obtain it. friends!! Now, sir, I do not know who wrote this message. But What an inconvenient appendage to General Jackson's one thing I do know--it was an act of most flagrant injusGovernment is a Congress! Let us, Mr. Speaker, dis-tice. Mr. Speaker, I cannot find language to express my pense with it--Senate and all! Invest the President with emotions on reading it. For the honor of my country, I an iron crown, and a hickory sceptre; give him the "Kitch- would, if I could, blot it from her records. But, sir, the en Cabinet" for advisers, and then we shall have a Go-"spot" is here, and "all great Neptune's ocean cannot vernment--a glorious Government! wash it out." And is General Jackson capable of this' I would fain not believe it. Rather would I believe that the wand of the "great magician" touched this paper, and made this blot. The gentleman from Mississippi proceeds to say that the operations of the administration, whenever they have been "untrammelled," have been eminently successful. As a proof of this, he refers to the President's negotiations with foreign Powers, and points to their successful results in the treaties with Denmark, Portugal, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, France, and England. Permit me now, Mr. Speaker, to advert for a few moments to the treaties negotiated by this administration, (alluded to by the gentleman from Mississippi,) and to institute a comparison between them and those negotiated by the last administration. I must be brief. Before proceed to examine these treaties, permit me, Mr. Speaker, to express my surprise that the gentleman 1. Treaty with Denmark.-Indemnity for spoliations, omitted any allusion to the treaty with Turkey. An allu- $650,000, concluded 28th March, 1830. Negotiated by sion to that treaty, in summing up the successful diplomacy Mr. Wheaton, under instructions from Mr. Clay. of this administration, would not, I am sure, have been 2. Informal arrangement with Portugal.-Indemnity for omitted three months ago. It is not until recently that four vessels and their cargoes, taken and condemned in the almost universal delusion in regard to it--a delusion 1829, about $140,000. Negotiated by Mr. Brent, long a created by the President's message to Congress in Decem-resident chargé d'affaires of the United States in Portugal. ber, 1830, and since kept up by the partisan presses 3. Brazil.-Informal arrangement; indemnity; not apthroughout the country--has been dissipated. It is now prised of the exact amount, though not large. Negoeffectually dispelled by the frank admission of the honora-tiated by Mr. Tudor, under instructions from Mr. Clay. ble chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, [Mr. 4. Colombia.--Informal arrangement, by which the ves ARCHER,] recently made on this floor, that the treaty, for sels of the United States are placed on the same footing negotiating which this administration claimed the exclu- with regard to import duties in the ports of Colombia, as sive credit, "was commenced, if not matured, by the last the vessels of Colombia, to extend only to December next. administration." And this has been confirmed by the Also, an indemnity to a small amount, the negotiation of statement of the late President made here. which was closed, or nearly closed, under the last adminis tration. I cannot, Mr. Speaker, permit this occasion to pass, without particularly adverting to the message of the Pre 5. Mexico.-Treaty of commerce, navigation, and limits. MAY 5, 1832.] Wiscasset Collector. [H. OF R. Negotiated by Mr. Poinsett during the late administration. with Turkey and Mexico, (for which this administration Ratification delayed by the Mexican Government until has claimed the entire credit,) it negotiated two informal after the time limited in the treaty. Re-negotiated by this administration. 6. France.--Treaty of indemnity for spoliations, amount $4,885,000. Allowed to France the long contested and doubtful claim of Beaumarchais, of $281,000. arrangements for indemnities, and eleven treaties, one of which extended for ten years an important commercial convention with Great Britain, and seven of which were treaties permanently regulating the commerce and navigation of the United States with some of the most important nations in the world. What, sir, are the boasted results of the diplomacy of the present administration, when compared with this? Full credit to the minister who negotiated this treaty (Mr. Rives) is cheerfully accorded. Yet, I am fully warranted in saying that the man who fired the first gun in the French revolution of July, 1830, is entitled to as But there is one consideration connected with the sucmuch credit for his treaty as the able diplomatist who cessful negotiations of the last administration, which ought negotiated it. That revolution placed upon the throne not to pass unnoticed. While the general treaties which of France the present king, who, in addition to his favor- it formed constitute the basis and the security of the exable regard for the United States, resulting from a pre-tended and extending commerce of our country with a vious residence here, felt the force of additional motives, large portion of the world, and are, every day, silently arising from the fact that our just claims had been long dispensing to us their blessings, they were negotiated and stubbornly resisted by the prince whom his elevation without parade, or the sounding of trumpets. It was all had dethroned and sent into banishment. None could in perfect keeping with the peculiar character of the dismore ably or faithfully urge our claims than did the pre- tinguished head of that administration, whose whole cadecessor of Mr. Rives upon Charles the Tenth, whose con- reer has been marked with one unbroken effort, not to tinuance upon the throne of France would probably have court momentary applause, but to make himself useful to rendered as ineffectual the efforts of our present minister. his country, and to rear a monument of enduring fame These remarks, however just, would not have been upon the basis of her permanent prosperity and glory. made, but for the extraordinary credit for this treaty, claimed by the present administration. 7. Great Britain.-Arrangement concerning the West India trade. I have not time to examine the merits of this arrangement. It has been sufficiently discussed elsewhere. I will leave the gentleman from Mississippi, who has echoed the praises which have been lavished upon the present administration for negotiating this treaty, to settle the question with the commercial and navigating interests, and the insulted and wounded honor of his country! Here, then, Mr. Speaker, we have seven treaties, or informal arrangements, in which are summed up the whole of the boasted diplomacy of the present administration. Allow me now, sir, to detain you a few moments, while I glance rapidly at the treaties negotiated by the last administration. 1. Colombia.--Informal arrangement. Indemnity to individual claimants. Amount $72,658. I have thus attempted, Mr. Speaker, to present some of the evidences of the violation of the pledges on which General Jackson was brought into power. And now, before I leave this branch of the subject, permit me, in review, to ask, what has the President been doing these three years in regard to the promised reform in the Executive Departments, which have been immediately under his eye, and over which the people have been made to believe he has exercised the most searching supervision? Why have not the number of the officers in these departments been reduced, as it was confidently affirmed they might be, to the extent of one-third of their number? Or why, I may more properly ask, has there been a constant effort to augment them? Where is the "new distribution of office hours," and the increased efficiency of officers, and the simplified modes of doing business, by which this reduction was to be aided, and a substantial and permanent retrenchment of expenditures effected? Wherefore, let me add, has the country been subjected to an enormous increase in the ex 2. Russia.--Informal arrangement. Indemnity to indi-penses of managing its foreign relations, resulting, as we vidual claimants. Amount $16,994. 3. Great Britain.--Treaty providing indemnity for slaves carried off during the late war. Amount $1,204,960. 4. Great Britain.--Treaty providing for the submission of the Northeastern boundary question to the arbitration of the King of the Netherlands. 5. Great Britain.--Treaty renewing the third article of the convention of 1818, relative to the territory on the Northwest coast of America, west of the Rocky Mountains. 6. Great Britain.-Treaty renewing the commercial convention of 1815. 7. Denmark.-General treaty, regulating the commerce and navigation between the two countries. 8. Sweden and Norway.--Treaty of commerce and navigation. have seen, in benefits in no wise to be compared with those connected with the negotiations of the last administration? And who can account, consistently with the professions of economy and retrenchment which brought General Jackson into power, for the great increase in the general expenditures of the Government? What, in a word, has become of the "comprehensive scheme" of retrenchment, which was to emanate from the mind of the great reformer? Sir, the people have been deceived, deluded, mocked. The man whom they honored with their confidence has "kept the word of promise to their ear, but broke it to their hope." They expected retrenchment, and they have extravagance: they asked bread, and he has given them a stone; a fish, and he has given them a serpent. 9. Free Hanseatic Republics of Bremen, Hamburg, and To the falsification of professions, and violation of Lubec.--Treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation. pledges, which I have thus attempted to describe, I might 10. Prussia.--Treaty of commerce and navigation. add numerous others. I might especially advert to Gen11. Austria.-Treaty of commerce and navigation. eral Jackson's communication to the Legislature of Ten12. Brazil.-Treaty of friendship, commerce, and navi-nessee in the year 1825, in which he deprecates, as an gation. alarming evil, the practice of appointing to office members 13.--Guatemala.--Treaty of commerce and navigation. of Congress, and in which he makes the memorable declaThis last treaty is one of distinguished importance; pre-ration, "It is due to myself to practise upon the maxims senting a perfect model of a treaty embracing, in its full recommended to others;" in connexion with which, I extent, the great principle of reciprocity of commercial might present a list of near twenty members of Congress privileges, which this Government has long sought to make the basis of its commercial relations with foreign Powers. It thus appears, Mr. Speaker, that, independent of the agency of the last administration in concluding the treaties appointed by him to important offices within one year after his elevation to power. I might, also, read to you his messages to Congress, in every one of which he has declared that the public good requires that the service of H. OF R.] Wiscasset Collector. [MAY 5, 1832. the President of the United States should be limited to a lineated, I shall endeavor to select men whose diligence single term of four years: and I could then read the com- and talents will ensure, in their respective stations, able munication of his private secretary, sent from his mansion, and faithful co-operation; depending for the advancement and franked by his own hand, to a distinguished Senator of the public service, more on the integrity and zeal of of Pennsylvania, in January, 1831, expressing his desire the public officers, than on their numbers. A diffidence, to be nominated by the Legislature of that State for a se- perhaps too just, in my own qualifications, will teach me cond election to the Presidency! But, Mr. Speaker, time to look, with reverence, to the examples of public virtue would fail me, and I forbear. left by my illustrious predecessors, and with veneration 1. To correct the abuses that have brought the patronage of the Government into conflict with the freedom of elections. I come now, sir, to violations of pledges of a very dif- to the lights that flow from the mind that founded, ferent character. General Jackson was elected to the and the mind that reformed our system. The same diffioffice of President of the United States, and on the 4th of dence induces me to hope for instruction and aid from March, 1829, stood up in the face of the nation, and so- the co-ordinate branches of the Government.” lemnly proclaimed, in his inaugural address, the princi- The clause which I have read contains, in substance, ples upon which he would conduct his administration. the following promises: Before I proceed, however, to consider that address, permit me, Mr. Speaker, to advert, for a moment, to the oath which preceded it. Accompanied by the assembled representatives of the nation, he proceeded to the eastern I will not now inquire how far this promise has been portico of this capitol, and there, laying his hand on that fulfilled. Some light may, perhaps, be thrown upon it in holy book which enjoins that "rulers should be just men, the course of the remarks I intend to make upon the sysruling in the fear of God," he swore, in the face of Hea- tem adopted by this administration in the dispensing of its ven and his country, that he would "preserve, protect, patronage. I cannot, however, pass over this part of the and defend the constitution of the United States." That inaugural without adverting to the insinuation which it constitution declares that "treaties made under the makes, and the circumstances under which that insinuaauthority of the United States shall be the supreme law tion was conceived and uttered. of the land;" and makes it the duty of the President to General Jackson assumed, as the grand basis of the re"take care that the laws be faithfully executed." And form which he promised, that his predecessor had athow has he fulfilled the obligation of his oath, as touching tempted to control the freedom of elections, by the pathis part of his duty? Sir, he has violated it. tronage which the constitution had placed in his hands! [Here Mr. SLADE was called to order by Mr. CARSON, I will not consume the time of this House with a serious on the ground that it was not in order for a member on attempt to expose the glaring falsity of this assumption. the floor of Congress to charge a co-ordinate branch of Sir, I need not do it. The time was, indeed, when, backthe Government with the commission of a crime.] ed by the authority of the present Chief Magistrate, it Mr. SLADE explained: Mr. Speaker, I have told you commanded the belief of, at least, a portion of his devoted that I must speak plainly of the men in power. When friends. That time has gone by. Even now, the delutheir official misconduct involves a plain violation of their sion is dispelled, and the last administration stands reoath, I must say so. But when I say that the President | deemed, in the view of the great body of the American has violated his oath, I am, of course, not understood to people, from this foul imputation. Even the gentleman charge him with the legal crime of perjury. But, sir, I from Mississippi is forced to admit, as he has done on this do mean to say, and I have a right to say, that he has floor, that the very man thus scandalized is "an honest violated the obligations imposed on him by his oath of of man"-ay, an honest man. Think of that, sir--an hofice; which I regard as a high moral offence, for which nest man! he is responsible to his country and his God. But there is a circumstance connected with the concep To one of the most important aboriginal nations of this tion and utterance of this slander upon the late Chief country, have the United States, by numerous treaties, Magistrate, which places the author of it in a most exsolemnly pledged their faith, in the guaranty of its terri-traordinary light. In the order of arrangements of the tory from all intrusion. And who has not seen the rights ceremonies of the inauguration, agreed upon by a comof that ill-fated people--rights derived directly from the mittee of the Senate, and published, it was provided that Great Fountain of all right, and solemnly guarantied by the President elect should enter the chamber of the Sethis Government-trampled under foot by the State of nate at half past eleven, and take his seat, with the exGeorgia-their territory parcelled out--their laws abro- President (Adams) on his right; and that they should progated--and their regularly constituted authorities pro- ceed at twelve o'clock to the east portico of the capitol, hibited from the exercise of their appropriate functions, where the oath was to be administered and the inaugural on pain of punishment in a penitentiary! And who has address delivered. Who can contemplate, with ordin seen the President of the United States redeeming, as ry emotions, the fact that this very inaugural was writter, he was bound to do, the plighted faith of this Govern- and put into the President's pocket, with a knowledge of ment, by executing its laws, and extending protection to the arrangements which might place before him, during this feeble, yet noble, remnant of a noble race, who raised its delivery, the very man upon whom it pronounced a their imploring cry for relief from oppression! gross slander! Mr. Speaker, I cannot dwell upon this: I now turn to the inaugural address, and ask the in- and I envy the feelings of no man who can. I proceed to dulgence of the House while I examine, for a few mo- the other promises of the inaugural. ments, that part of it which relates to the subject now 2. To adopt a rightful course of appointment, and under discussion. "place and continue power" in faithful and competent "The recent demonstration of public sentiment (says hands. Mark that, Mr. Speaker, "faithful and compethe President) inscribes on the list of Executive duties, in tent hands.” characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of re- 3. To make diligence-talents-faithfulness-integrity, form; which will require, particularly, the correction of and zeal in the public service, the test of qualification for those abuses that have brought the patronage of the Fc- office. deral Government into conflict with the freedom of elec- 4. To depend more on these qualifications, than on tions; and the counteraction of those causes which have numbers. And, finally-disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed or continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands. In the performance of a task thus generally de-[ 5. To look for instruction and aid to the co-ordinate branches of the Government. Now, sir, of all the deceptions ever practised upon ba man credulity, I think I may safely affirm that few have exceeded this. No American, it seems to me, can look at it, in connexion with the policy of General Jackson which was soon after developed, and which must then have been in contemplation, without the deepest humiliation. I must, however, do a vast majority of his supporters the justice to say that they honestly believed in the existence of abuses, and that General Jackson was about to reform them. They did not suspect--they could not--that all this was a disguise to cover the grossest abuses. They did not discern the subtle operations of the men who had, unfortunately for the country, gained the confidence of the Chief Magistrate, and succeeded in giving direction to his movements. [H. OF R. War in relation to the employment of agents among the Indians for their removal," &c., recently laid on my table, that the same Wharton Rector has been appointed by the President one of the agents for the above purpose, at a compensation of four dollars a day; in which agency he is at this moment employed. I say nothing, because I know nothing, of the private character of Mr. Rector, only so far as it is affected by the conviction in question. After a full examination before the Senate, he was twice rejected on the ground of that conviction. That the President should, after this, have committed to him so important a public trust as the one he now holds, evinces a disregard of the deliberate decision of the Senate, and of the public feeling, which nothing, it seems to me, can justify. S. C. Stambaugh was nominated to an Indian agency, and rejected by the Senate. By the report to which I have referred, it appears that the same individual has been since appointed an agent among the Indians at Green Bay, at a compensation of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum! But the mask was soon thrown off, and a system commenced which defies a parallel in the history of our country. The Senate remained in session from the 4th to the 17th of March, for the purpose of acting upon the nominations submitted to them by the President. On that day he sent them a message, informing them that he had no more business to lay before them; whereupon they ad- James B. Gardner was nominated to the Senate as rejourned. Now, sir, mark what followed. On the 20th of ceiver of public moneys, and rejected, unanimously--evethe same month, the President removed the Second Comp-ry friend of the President voting against him. And what troller, and the Second and Fourth Auditors, and ap- do we next hear of him? The same report to which I pointed Isaac Hill, William B. Lewis, and Amos Kendall, have alluded tells us that he has been since appointed as to fill the vacancies thus created. He soon after recalled an agent to treat with the Ohio Indians for their removal, the ministers to Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Spain, at a compensation of eight dollars per day, and his traveland filled their places with his friends; besides vacating, ling expenses! An individual, unanimously decided by and filling, in like manner, the offices of Treasurer, Re- the Senate to be unfit for the office of receiver of public gister of the Treasury, and numerous collectors, naval moneys at a land office, is, in the superior wisdom of the officers, registers and receivers, marshals, district attor- President, adjudged worthy the higher trust of conductneys, &c. Most of the removals to which I have al- ing an important negotiation with the Ohio Indians! luded, especially the first six, must have been in con- I might refer to other cases of this description, but time templation when the Senate were dismissed. I hazard will not permit. nothing in saying that patronage to the amount of more than one hundred thousand dollars was dispensed in appointments which were in contemplation at the moment that the Senate, whose "advice and consent" it was the President's duty to ask, were dismissed, with the declaration that there was no further business to be laid before them!* It was thus, sir, that the President redeemed one of the implied pledges of his inaugural, and furnished an illustration of the "diffidence" which induced him "to hope for instruction and aid from the co-ordinate branches of the Government!" Of a kindred character with this, was his renomination to the Senate, at the following session of Congress, of individuals who had been rejected by that body. Thus, in the case of Mordecai M. Noah: he had been nominated for the office of surveyor and inspector at the port of New York, and rejected. The President waited a few days, when, availing himself of the temporary absence of some of the Senators who had voted for the rejection, he renominated Mr. Noah, who was thereupon confirmed. Do you want a further illustration of the "diffidence" which induced the President, in his inaugural, "to hope for instruction and aid from the co-ordinate branches?" Look at his well-known violent denunciations of the Senate, for refusing to ratify his nomination of the late Secretary of State as minister to Great Britain, followed up by the deliberate declaration, in his reply to a letter of the republican" members of the Legislature of New York, that he regarded the rejection of that nomination as an "indignity" offered to himself. [Here Mr. S. was interrupted by Mr. SPEIGHT, who suggested that such a declaration was not to be found in the President's reply to which Mr. S. alluded.] Mr. 3. resumed. Mr. Speaker, I can assure the gentleman that if he will examine that reply, he will find the declaration there, in language too plain to be misunderstood--language which, if it does not mean this, means nothing. It is worthy of special notice, Mr. Speaker, how remarkably this declaration of the President corresponds with the feelings entertained by him, two years ago, upon the The case of Wharton Rector furnishes another exam- rejection by the Senate of the nomination of Isaac Hill to ple. His nomination to an Indian agency was rejected the office of Second Comptroller of the Treasury. I state by the Senate. In the face of this, the President renomi- this upon authority which no one will, probably, question. nated him, and he was again rejected. The ground of I find it in a letter from a correspondent of the New his rejection was the fact that he had been indicted and Hampshire Patriot, dated in this city, soon after the rejecconvicted, in the State of Missouri, of the crime of stab- tion of Mr. Hill's nomination. The writer says--" I as bing, with intent to murder. He avoided the process sure you, sir, on my own personal knowledge, that the which was issued for the purpose of carrying the judg- President has entire confidence in Mr. Hill, and looks raent into execution, and went into the Territory of Ar- upon his rejection as a blow aimed at himself." kansas, where he now resides. But the worst of this re- Thus the Senate, whenever, in the exercise of their mains to be told. Notwithstanding the conviction, and constitutional power, they happen to reject the nominanotwithstanding the repeated rejections by the Senate, I tion of a distinguished Presidential favorite, must have find, by reference to "a report from the Secretary of The compensations to the following officers, alone, amount to about seventy thousand dollars, viz. outfits and salaries to the three minis ters, fifty-four thousand dollars; and salaries of the Second Comptroller the two Auditors, and the Register of the Treasury, fifteen thousand dollars. their decision tortured into an act of "indignity" to the President, "a blow aimed at himself!" What President, before General Jackson, ever thought of this? President promised to place, and continue, power in I turn now to the other points in the inaugural. The faithful and competent hands; and he adds the qualifica |