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. IP had Gen, ('ass to reduce their pay one-third ! if lie could constitutionally take away one-third he rould take awav the whole. iSo : the law was uil- "just, it was unconstitutional anil void,, and wheji v.ppnsed dnd spurned, and its author.lujng in era- y. it was a!)andoned aod given up. But we are sskt?d how this bill came to pass both housqs with out opposition He answered, because no bne iinew the amount received by the regulars ; this was fixed 'By ati army order; audit being staled i!iat it was a bill for the hcnefil bf the volun uvrs,v it passed at once without inquiry or Oppo sition. Such is the brief history of this shameful md(unjuiUaw. What would the. volunteers, the ppopiP S3V to the man who would' take $30 pr davwhilst enjoying all the .luxuries of civilized lift?, and who would rob the honest and brave vol unteer of one-third of his pittance of $3,50 per month for clothing ? Not. enough to purchase a hat or a pair of, boots. Would old Zack have done this? No, sir; he would have given his hat and shoes both to an bid soldier rather than take a single cent fron him justly or unjustly. And there was another thing to which he wished to call the attention ot gentlemen. Gen. Cass was said to be a friend to economy. He was a very -great-economist. He takes particular care tsftlie people's money especially when he gets it ! his own pocket. Laughter ) ' He had some proofs on this subject to which he would refer to the committee, and he called "upon gentlemen to i-xamine the official documents which he should produce. Gen. Cass, it was known, was once Governor of Michigan and ex-officio Superintend ing of Indian Affairs, appointed under a special law, with a fixed salary of $2000 per annum. He was appointed Governor, and was ex-olflcio Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy; and he would nsk gentlemen had the one any more right to extra pay than the other? But Governor Cass not rmly drew his salary while he held that office, between seventeen and eighteen years, but he charged extra compensation while drawing his salary of $3000 per annum, amounting to the e normous sum of $60,412 over and above his sala ry. He would readio the committee some of the items to show what the character of these charges was, which he had derived from official and au thentic sources, and which could not- and he pre sumed would not be controverted on this floor. Extra charges by Gov. Cass, as Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, over and above Ins regular salary, as per docninent No. 224, 1S39, third session, 25th Congress, page 2. From October 9, 1S13, to Mav 27, 1S2?, (9 years,) ten x iauon- per day, (-.0 cents each) .$6,610 From October 9, 1S13, to July 31, 1S31, $1500 per an nuin, extra salary 6,715 $33,325 raid to be allowed by Mr. Calhoun, six years after he was out of office. liocuincnt No. 112, sameession, page 15, part embra ced in subsequent accounts 4j750 55 days per diem, at $8 per diem, trarclling expenses, . 40 cents per mile, in concluding treaties at Green ville, ISM.St. Mary's, ISIS, Saginaw and Sautde St. Mane, and making arrangements with the Wyaff . doli, Ac., from 1S17 to 1S20, as per document, No. 6, 3d session, 27th Congress, pages 11 and 12, (being txtia compensation,) 50 days preparing before and , after traatv 2.476 Tor diem, 52 days mileage, Vc, $8 per day and 40cts. pT mile at the treaty of Chicago, m IS2I 696 Tor attendance at Washington ni lbi!l-'22 (SOS days) to settle his own accounts, and mileage, (10 rations per day) ai.d 1,032 travelling expenses 1,-149 'Extra services as" commissioner to treat vwththe Indi ans at Wapaghkonettn, and at Frame du Chicn, in 1&25, tu cnty-liine days, daily pay and mileage, $356, taking trejty lo Washington $2,092 . 2,448 Similar semces in Indiana in 1826, 46 days 552 Similar services in Fonddu Lac in 1626, sixty-five days 1,360 ainlar services at Batte des Moi is in 1827, 60 days 900 Similar services at Green Bay in 1S2S, 66 days 1,1 12 Miinlar services at St. Joseph's in 1827,10 days 240 Services and expenses in Washington city in 1S2S, pre paring a code for the regulation of Indian affairs, and , -mileage, 111 days 1,520 Sei vices for superintending Indian agencies at Piqua, Fort Wayne, and Chicago, for the years 1822-3-'4-'5 ' -'-7-'s', at 4 1 ,500 per annum 1 0,500 Simitar services, s.tme agencies, 1S2SK30, and part of -3i , at 1,500 per annum 3,S75 , Total extra charges $G0,4W It would "appear from this statement, made from , documents specially referred to, (and which, if wrong, can be corrected, by Gen. Cass's friends.) ! that he charged and received pay four times for the .same period of time : 1st. His tegular salary as Governor and ex-oliicio su- J7-i 11U1IUL.1I V V 1 ill 111 Ail 4111(1.1 J C J 1 I lib A CI UlUI Jf VI j Michigan, 2000 dols.per annum for about 18 years 36,000 ( . 2d. Fifteen hundred per annum extra Hilary from 1S13 to 1831, nearly eighteen years paid in 1831 20,715 Rations ten rations per day at 20 cents each for be : een nine and ten years . 6,610 3d. Fifteen hundred dollars per annum extra salary from 1821 to 1831, about ten years, being part of the above eighteen years 14,375 4lh. Specific charges for 772 days of the above time, at Eight dollars per day and 40 cts. mileage, in attend ing' at Indian treaties, at Washington, to settle his own accounts; and, pay for extra.as above, preparing an Indian code, etc. ; being upwards of S16 per day for the tune specified as above. 12.7EJ Total $96,412 This last charge, with his three salaries, one fixed at 2,000, and two extra salaries of $1,500 each, would make his pay at this period amount 4to $11,355 per annum inoie than $31 per' day, .Sundays and all, exclusive of his rations, taken from the pockets of the tax paying people of the United States by Gen. Cass, for his services as Governor and Superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Michigan, at a fixed salary of $2,000 per annum. If such were his extras as a territorial governor, what will they be as Presl f dent! At the same rate they will amount to up wards of $60,000 per annum, which he would have Just as good a right to claim as cx officio comman- der-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. Where is the difference 1 t ,,. In connection with this there was the fact that some of .these accounts were made out and certi fied when he was hims'elf Secretary of War; but not .liking to pass his own accounts, he left them .lor his successor, with the endorsement that they were authorized and correct. And yet Gen. Cass was a great economist! "He subscribed to the Baltimore maxim, that " the people's money must be carefully guarded for the people's benefit." But he (Mr- S.) thought the General had in this case rather exceeded the bounds of moderation, whatever the opinions of -others might be. But this was not all that Gen Cass had receded. Besides the above, received as Governor of Michigan, and cx officio Superintend ed of Indian Affairs, he was about five years Secretary efWar at $6,000 per annum, being a diial of S30,000. He was subsequently some six .; v ears minister to St. Claud, at $9,000 per annum, being 54.p00, with an outfit of $9,000 and an iufit k .of 4,500 ; makinga total of some $87,000 The n . , inount of extra charges during his travels in Eu v rope and to the Holy Land lie had not yet ascer . tjiined ; he presumed they were considerable. ; Add to these sums his per diem and mileage ,as Senator from Michigan, his pay as an officer dur ing the late war with Great Britain, and it would , . resent an aggregate of between two and three -;hundred thousand dollars of the people's money. , Enough, he thought, to satisfy a reasonable man ; i, . , but it seems not, he wants one hundred thousand . - .more. Of the pnvais conduct and character of .j ,ren...Qass he would say fiothing, but. hie official ojjidtjctJwas a fajsr.aixl legitimate subject of disj rAsJoh, and he would not shrink irom the dis- charge of his duty, he the consequences what the may:.' It was to the extra charges he Wished to call the especial atteiitlunj)f his friend's,- and he would be glad if 'they could furnish some satisfac tory explanation of these eiirflo'rdinaryNchargesj which he eared they could not and would not give. lib hoped the fridnds of Gen. Cass would exam ine these matters and be able to give someexpla nation of them. The people' bf this country would BXfJect it ttf be cleared up 'some how or other, though he believed it would be found that there were no vouchers to sustain these extra charges not the oath of a single witness to establish their justice, but they were left to depend mainly if not altogether on the statements made by Gen. Cass himself, on his own ipse diitt. But his hour was fast Wasting away and he must hurry on. THbre was another thing lo which he desired to refer. If he had the time he would refer to ;the expenditures during the present war with Mexico. He, however, had not the time to refer satisfacto rily to the wasteful expenditure of money. There had been much of it squandered amongst Presi dential pattizans and fa' ontes j some rewarded with high offices, such as Pillow & Co., and oth ers with fat contracts. They had paid for the hire of steamboats alone $851,031 a month and life sum of $115,900 had been paid for old and worthless vessels. But he had riot time to refer to these matters in detail, which he had before him ; he might put them in his speech should he. ever write it out. But he must hasten to advert to another thing, which would shdyV how the great economists of this Administration spent "the' peo ple's money for the people's benefit. His atten tion has been called to the fact that this Govern ment has been expending the people's money for the benefit of hundreds of their partizans and pets for actually doing nothing ; and in many of the custom houses in the country at this time the re ceipts were wholly inadequate to the payment of the officers who were quartered on the public. For instance, there were fifty custom houses, of which he had made a list, that collected the sum of $74,425,77 ; to collect which an expense had incurred of $301,)75,39 over and above the entire receipts a clear loss to the Treasury of this amount to support the party ; making, therefore, an ex penditure of $135,501,16 paid to support custom houses that paid not one cent into the Treasury. There were twenty-one custom houses whose ag gregate receipts were $32,218,391 the whole of which, together with $270,280,28. was paid to a set of idle officers ostensibly employed in its col lection, but actually doing little or nothing; a gross sum, without any receipts to meet the ex penditures, of $302,498,67 thrown away on favor ites ! There were likewise ten custom houses which collected the sum of $867, 19, which cost the Government $36,248,32 or $35,381,13 over and above the whole receipts. And that was using " the people's money for the people's benefit," ac cording to the Baltimore resolutions. Oh, say they, you must take care to spend the people's money for the people's benefit, and here as an ex ample, was an expenditure of $36,248,32 to col lect $867,19 ! If gentlemen had any doubt on this subject he had before him a transcript from the official statements, made out by an officer of this House, he would hand to" the Reporter : he bad not time now to read it. Here Is a portion of the list : Statement showing the gross amount of revenue collected in the following Districts, and the ex cess of expenditure beyond the duties received for the year 1845 : Excess of experi Districts. Gross Revenue, ditures beyond receipts Frenchman's Bay Waldoborough Kennebunk Saco ; . York Plymouth Ipswich Edgartowrr Barnstable JSew Londore Stonington Osvvegatchie Cape Jjjicent Presque Isle' Delaware St. Mary's Yeocomico Tappahannocfc Ocracoke Beaufort, S. C. $415 33 2,145 79 592 33 191 87 333 74 1,825 14 Nothing. 298 IS 2,845 63 614 25 351 43 385 71 779 40 312 66 1,501 42 2 82 157 79 132 06 56 27 7 00 1 36 75 38 160.70' 195 01 50 02 197 35 40 71. 4884 $14,506 46 18,798 05 2.740 18 1,810 65 1,166 99 25,716 02 124 87 2.303 21 44,819 77 11,946 03 2,269 81 2,99 67 3,426 18 8,996 97 22,447 63' 159 68 331 21 1,684 54 2,034 25 243 00 110 32 4,078 56 1,686 13 6,157 67 2,955 43 351 03 480 29 1,289 32 Brunswick St. Mary's St Augustine' St. Mark's St. John's Pearl River1 Vicksburg Miami , $13,788 21 $185,034 11 Old Zaclr, he trusted, would soon make this list of drones and cormorants " small by degrees and beautifully less ;" for, if there was any one trait in his character more strongly developed than-any other, it was his love of economy and his abhor rence of everything like- extravagance and; waste ful expenditure, and especially of the public mon ey. n-matter$ of this kind he understood he was peculiarly rigid and exact ; and it is now, in these times of profligacy and wanton waste, that the country and the tax-paying people want such an honest and faithful man as Gen. Taylor to muster and inspect the- crew, dismiss the idle and useless, put " the ship to rights," get it fairlv before the wind ; and with a noble crew and well selected' commanders, our noble ship of State would soon surmount every obstacle, and be once more safely moored in the ' haven of peace and prosperity. The Baltimore Convention speak in their reso lutions, with great exultation, of the Mexican war and the Mexican peace. And what have we got by the one orJby the other ? This war has thrown this country back full half a century. Look at its demoralizing effects ; look at what it has cost in blood and treasure. And, fur all this, what have we gotl Nothing; I fear worse than nothing. Sir, the pecuniary cost of this war, and this was by no means its greatest cost, would not fall short past, present, and prospective of some three or four hundred millions of dollars. Cost already incurred, say $100,000,000 Land bounties 15,000,000 Amount paid M'exicor debt and money 20,000,000 Addition to pension list, two millions for twenty-five years Standing army to defend the northern frontier of Mexico, and maintaining our new possessionshere, five mil lions per year for ten -years Increase of army and navy at home, rive millions per annum, sav'ten years - ' : ,- 50,000,000 50,000,600 50,000,000 Incidental enpenses, damages, losses, ' &c.tobe'provKledforhefeafterTsayi. 10000,000 . $395,000,000 And to this' add the loss of .time andPlabbr to the country.of fifty thousand volunteerss for two years, and the loss to families and to the country of 15 or 20 thousand valuable lives. And, he e--peated, for all this, what have we gained 1 New Mexico and California, which will. cost us every year, to maintain and defend. as much as it is worth. Arid where is our promised " indemnity lor the past and security for the future V In demnity ! We have none, not av cent for all our .tosses.; but Mexico has received. " indemnity for. the past" by a release of the five millions of debt which Mr. Polk made the war to recover,-and fif teen millions in cash ; and as to " security for the future,'1 we have none. But what has Mexico ? She has security for the future. We are bound to protect her northern frontier against the hostile and predatory incursions of the Indians of Califor nia, now ours, heretofore a source of so much an noyance, expense, and suffering to her people. From the calamities she is to be hereafter protect ed, not hy her own, but by American armies ; so that, in point of fact, Mexico and not Mr. Polk has got all the " indemnity for the past and secu rity for the future " Such aire the benefits of our war and the bless ings of our peace, of which we hear so much boasting on the other side of of the House. Sir, but for the madness and folly of tlijs administra tion, all we have got could have" been obtained by wise councils and amicable negotiation, lor some fifteen or twenty millions. But no 1 nothing but war and bloodshed would satisfy tfie President he would "cavil on the ninth part bf a hair; he would not consent to change the title of our ne gotiator sent to Mexico, from " minister plenipo tentiary" " commissioner," which was all that was required to secure his recognition by Mexico, and the opening of negatiations for peace. Rather than comply with this reasonable request, he instantly, ordered Gen. Taylor tO march to the Rio Grande, and commencoil the war without con sulting Congress, then in session ; thus fixing on Polk and his party the responsibility, the fearful responsibilily of this war and all its consequences. But there was another grave objection he had to the policy of this Administration. Our Govern ment, as now administered, has in effect become a foreign Government. We could now do '.every thing abroad and nothing at home. I he Ameri can people were taxed for the benefit of foreign ers. The millions raised to carry on this war had been expended for the most part in a foreign coun try. Internal improvements were unconstitutii al at home, but not abroad ; we could survey and of course improve the Dead Sea; we could make roads and canals across the isthmus of Pan ama and Tehuantepec. Tf We want goods they must come from abroad. American hats, shoes, and coats were not good enough for the Adminis tratian ; they reduced the duties and brought them from abroad. A proposition was actually made by his colleague, (Mr. C. J. Ingersoll.) and sus tained by his party, a few days ago, to take half the present low duties off the rich man's luxuries, jewelry, and every thing of the kind, and off" iron, coal, clothj hats, shoes, and every species of man ufacture, reducing the revenue one half, express ly to favor foreigners; who were represented by his colleague to be in n suffering condition, no matter about Americans; and then, to make up, it was proposed to put a duty of twenty-five per cent, on the poor man's tea and coffee. Thus, sir, everything done by these " progres sives'" inures to the benefit of foreigners. Our money is sent in ship loads abroad ; our improve ments are foreign; our goods are foreign; our ar my and our navy are employed abroad. Every thing is foreign, foreign ; nothing American. No power to protect or benefit our own people or improve our own country. The power to contract debts, to tax and oppress the people, were the on ly legitimate powers of Government as now ad ministered. Was this not true to ihe letter? Would the people longer submit to this state of things 1 The power and the remedy was in their own hands, and they Would apply it, by elevating that honest, true-hearted American, General Tay lor, to the Presidency, who would soon correct these foreign and anti-Ameiican tendencies, and bring the country back to the good old revolution ary principles and the true American policy of the earlier and better days of the republic. The Baltimore platform-had a great many things in it to which his brief remaining time would not permit him even to allude. He saw, amongst other things, they had a resolution in which they repeated the President's charge that the Whigs gave '' aid and comfort to the enemy." Now, he would like to know what sort of " aid and comfort" old Zack gave to the enemy T Mr, Polk sent San ta Anna to give them aid and comfort ; while, in stead of aid, pen Taylor gave them " a little more grape'and canister. He wished the gentleman op posite to make the most of that " aid and comfort;" old Zack had spiked that cannon, or rather had turned.it upon their own ranks, now flying lffe Mexicans before him. In the next place they go in for a sound curren cy r and yet that party, after the destruction of the United States Bank, had established six or seven hundred State Banks. This had been done by the Democratic Legislatures in Democratic States. But it was perfectly consistent with all they did. They make an outcry against Bank paper, and they fill the country with il'egitimate paper mon ey, issued in violation of the constitution, which expressly declared that no State should issue bills of credit; and of course they could not authorize others to do what the States themselves were not authorized to do. This provision, Mr. Madison says, was inserted for the very purpose of prevent ing the States frpm issuing or authorizing the is sue of " paper money." He (Mr. S.) was not a bank man. He was opposed to a United States Bank, though he had once voted Jorit under the unanimous instruction of a Demacratic Pennsyl vania Legislature, when every member from Penn sylvania in this House voted for it but one. Next, the Baltimore platform declares that the present Administratian had given " a noble im pulse to free trade," by repealing the taniTof 1842, and establishing that of 1846. This was an nounced as the crowning merit and glory of Mr. Polk's Administratiin. It was too late to enter upon that subject, for his time was almost expired, but he would merely observe that their system had been so successful as to produce a,balance of ppr haps some forty millions against the country. Spe cie was in consequence going out of the country at the rale of three millions a month from the port of New York alone, and goods were coining in by millions ; and he would tell them, while their im ports are vastly increased under the tariffof 1846, that their exports were greatly falling oft". The exports of breadstuff's vy.ill not be one-tenth' part of what they were last year, and judging from what he" 1 saw in the last Union, they would be. mncTi less than that; The " Union" ol ye9ieroay,siaies; uie exports to Great Britain of flour last year at 2.269, 114 barrels, this year 159,161 ; wheal last, j ear 2, 157,448 bushels, this year 215,129, and set on ; and. yet gentlemen talked ofevidence of the north of their system. Where was it, and what was :? A crisis is approaching; it will soon be upon us. The result of such a system would be such a 'cri sis as they had in 1840, which.will crush.the i banks, the people, and the country, producing the scenes and sufferings of 1840, which cannot be forgotten or averted. The famine and the revolutions in Europe have postponed this crises; the expenses of the war, loo, had helped; but it is coming and must come. While exportsre falling off" fhey boast of increased imports and increasing? revenue under low duties thus boasting of that which must bring inevitable ruin. The Baltimore Convention next boasted of this glorious war with Mexico. They were welcome to all its glories, and all its responsibilities. The policy of the Whigs vvris peace and not war. The policy of the Whigs, too, was economy and not' uytravagance; and if Gen. Taylor, that faithful and true patriot, should come into power which no man could doubt if, he repeated, Gen. Taylor should come into power a man into whoe face, they were told by Generals Smith and. 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The most severe and chronic cases are weekly eradicated by its extraordinary virtues James Cummings; Esq ,nne of the assistant in the Lunatic Asylum, BlackwelPs Island, is the gentlemen spoken of in the following letter : Blackivell's Island, Sept. 14, 181? Dr. Townsend Dear Sir : I have suffered terri bly for nine years with the Rheumatism; consid erable of the timel could not eat, sleep or walk. 1 had the utmost distressing pains, and my limbs were terriblv swollen.. I have used four bottles of your Sarsaparilla, and they have done me more than one thousand dollars worth of good. I am so much better indeed, I am entirely relieved. You are at liberty to use this for the benefit of the afflicted. Yours resp'y, Jas. Cummings Fits! Fits! Fits! Dr. Townsend, not having tested his Sarsapa rilla in cases of Fits, of course, never recommend ed it, and was surprised to "receive the following front- an intelligent and respectable Farmer in Westchester Countv : Fordham, August 13, 1847 Dr. Townsend Dear Sir : 1 have a little girl seven years of age, who has been several years afflicted with Fits ; we tried almost everything for her, but without success ; at last, although we could find no recommendations in our circulars for cases like hers, we thought, as she was in very delicate haalth, we would give her some of your Sarsaparilla, and are very glad we did, for it not only restored her strength, but she has had no re turn of the Fits, to our great pleasure and surprise. She is fast becoming rugged and hearty, for which we feel grateful. Yours, respectfully, JOHN BUTLER Jr. Female Medicine Dr; Townsend's Sarsaparilla is a sovereign and .speedy cure for Incipient Consumption, Barren ness, Prolapsus Uteri, or Falling ot the Womb, g Costiveness, Piles, Leucorrhoea, or vvnites, oo structed or difficult Menstruation. Incontinuence of Urine, or involuntary discharge thereof, and for the general prostration of the system no matter whether the result of inherent cause or causes, produced by irregularity, illness or accident.--Nothincr can be more surprising than its invigora- ting effects on the human frame. Persons all t ii i r I ?- . i - B weaKness ana lassituae, iromiaKing ii, aionce rje come robust and full of energy under its influence. It immediately counteracts the nervelessness of the female frame, which is the great causo of Barrenness. It will not be expected of us, in ca--ses of so delicate a nature, to exhibit certificate of cures performed but we can assure the afflif wu that hundreds of cases have been reported to ty Thousands of cases where families have been wi out children, after using a fey battles of this in valuable' medicine, have been blessed witiiue healthy offspring. To Mothers and Married Ladie, This Extract of Sarsaparilla has bes,ri. express ly prepared in 'reference to female, coiaplanis. No female who has reason to supposeiFih.e is. ap proaching that critical period, " The turn afhfe should neglect to tae it, as it is, a4 certain preveru tive for any of the numerous ajid husiihle disease to which females are subject; a,t thta time of lite. This medecine is also constandv kepi on hau l and for.ctle by FRANCIS, S. fAUltl, Siroudsburg, Pa,4 . ' - - i