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From the Globe.
DEFAULTERS.
The Opposition not only condemn every'
,j,;nf done, or proposed to be done by the
yminisiration, but contrive and commit
t'tc great est mischiefs against Ihc com muni
ty, to cast the blame of their own miscon
duct on those whom they would persuade
the people are responsible for all public
misfortunes. The panics, which were the
result of combinations among the banks,
capitalists. and policilians, toovcrlhrcw the
Administration and command the Govern
ment set up by the people, were all ascri
bed to those who had the greatest interest
in preventing them. All the distresses
brought on tiie people by this nefarious
plot, were, under the most frivolous pre
tences, laid at the door of General Jackson!
What interest had the venerable patriot,
who was always ready to la' down his life
for his country's welfare, in producing
these public calamities? The interest of
Messrs. Biddlc, Clay, and their political
partisans, laboring to establish a Bank
Government, was obvious. The interest
of the spcculating'tribe of capitalists, who
had money to invest in the sacrificed prop
erty of ruined debtors, was also obvious.
Now the game of the Oppositian is to cry
tlownthe administration for dilapidation of
the public funds. And what motive have
those entrusted with the management of
the public concerns to incline them to this
waste of the resources on which the success
ful management of the nation's affairs de
pends? None whatever. Their interest,
both as it regards themselves personally,
and the fortunate conduct of their official
trusts, is to prevent depredations on the
Treasury. It is just the reverse with all
the factions whose leaders have been exclu
ded from the stations ihey sigh to attain.
They are interested in rendering every
thing connected with the Government dis
astrous. They owe the people a grudge,
and their dissatisfaction delights them. At
all events, it will be revenge for their re
pugnance to Federalism, and it may serve
so to exasperate them with ihtir present
public agents as to lead to a change of Ad
ministration, and bring in the conspirators.
Ijence the universal zeal with which the
disappointed, repudiated enemies of popular
"eltts- raise the shout about defalcations.
A defaulter is their best friend. His suc
fcss gives them the only enjoyment they
tave in the present state of political affairs
-the happiness of complaining They
Jan seem to be sorry, too, at the public
losses, and win the sympathies of the peo
pk and be h appier, because it suits so well
vth their system of hypocrisy, and the
J0)' is the more sweetened because it is sto
len. At this moment, that original Federal' si
and late Conservative Whig, Mr, Swart
wout, and ids chum, Mr. Price, find in the
echoes across the Atlantic of the Whig de
nunciation of the President for their crime,
a double gratification. They have their
SlIs visited on one whom they hate as the
great enemy of their old party, and the op
poser of the great defaulter when seeking
he place that gave their rapacity full scope.
toy rejoice, too, at the triumph which
have given their political friends,
Jyhile they riot abroad on more than a mil
Jon of pmloine d money. We are not sur
ged that the Federalists in the last Con
fers refused to make such robberies a felo
ny' as proposed by Mr. Wright's bill,
they derive such satisfaction and ex
P ct such favorable political results from
nor are we surpised that Federalists
hJ"Ustec wln public money should not
J ate to become defaulters, when their
- " me countenance oi tne ureal
,i.r tncir nartv. which screens the
suiter frnm ' .
, i P puiuaiuiiuui, aim uuuvuiis
.wuon into so much political capit-
al.
It is remarkable, and it shows the effect
Jflhe circumstances to s-hich we have re-
W that there has n. t been d great dc
e ' 101 since lhe foundation of the Oof
0nemecommitted by a Democrat! Not
iw'i edo not believe the Opposition can
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-S K instance of the ultimate loss of
Tarborough,
tWentv ih
ontl " ' ""iiars oy a Democratic
collector, d.sburser, or receiver.
Hut how has it been with the Federalist
Jinct.onariesand agents entrusted with pub
he money? Dr. Duncan, in his speech col
hjted from the official documents laid before
Congress, some striking cases of men rc
nowued as Federalists and defaulter
ve quote from his speech the list he pre
sented. . 1
FeDRRALIST IEPAULTEltS;
"The first name, then, sir, (said Mr.
liuncan in the speech referred to,) I will
present, is that of one .John Adams ence a
t resident of these United States. lie, sir,
stands upon the records of this Government
as a defaulter to the amount of 312,898.
1 he history of thisdcfalcation is understood
to be, that a sum of money was appropriated
forfurnishingthePresident'sh.Mise. Presi
dent Adams drew tlu; cash in advance. He
employed thisamountin purchasing splen
did carriage and horses, aiid other person
al accommodations. This the accounting
officers could not allow. He refused to re
imburse the money. This amount, there
fore, remains unsettled to this day, and will
until the last day.
Edward Randolph, a defaulter for SGI, -155
07, in 1797.
Andrew and James Erwin. Document ,
1 1 1 exhibits a defalcation to the modest sum
of SSO,000. Who has been benefitted by
ihis plunder any man here to answer?
What were thcpoliticsof the base peculators?
Whigs.
Here Mr. Dell of Tennessee rose, and
said, that the Messrs. Ei wins wen; not
defaulters. It was a slander promulgated
by the Globe paper.
Mr. Dunean responded, that he did not
get his information from the Globe. In a
Note he says:
"An inspeciion of No. S3, in the docu
ment referred to by Mr. Duncan, shows that
the defalcation of Erwin has been tlx sub
ject of judicial investigation, and that a
judgment was obtained against him in
October, 1S30, for the sum of S02,(S5!!
So much for the "slander of the Globe pa
per." The extreme sensitiveness of Mr.
Bell in regard to this case, may be accoun
ted for by the fact that Mr. Erwin is his
father-in-law."
Mr. King, late collector of Bath, Maine,
seems to be a defaulter for the modest sum
ofSl5,000.
Joseph Wingate and J. B. Swanton, late
collectors at Bath also. I have nst before
mcthcamountofthcirdcfalcations; but they
arc defaulters, and the former, since his de
falcation, has been a Whig member of Con
gress, and most, lovingly embraced by the
whole party. The latter, for his violent
abuse of the Democratic principles, has
been rewarded, by the lale Fed- ral Gover
nor of Maine, with a responsible office,
the functions of which require a purlieu
la supervision of the. Jinances of the
count of JCcnnebeck-. 1 ask an exa mi na
tion of the reports. It Will be found that
the collectors, receivers, and disbursing
agent, all, or nearly all, support the views
which are now advanced with so much
zeal for the entire indemnity of this s) stem
of fraud and plunder. Examine No. 191,
made to the House uf Representatives, Fe
bruary 28, IS3S.
The lostf by Banks estimated at about
SG, 000,000; their nominal debt was near
ly double, but partly secured. This a
mount is exclusive of interest: with inte
rest, it will be nearly WS20,000,000. I re
fer to the report to the Senate) Feb. 2,
1S3S, Document No. 15S.
Arnold, the collector of Perth Amboy,
under the administration of one John Q.
Adams. He is in default for $80,000, not
one farthing of which was recovered; yet
we hear no Federal murmuring about that
defalcation He was a modern Whig.
G. W, Brucn, of the firm of Thos.
Smith & Co. in default for the modest sum
of 800,000.
Edward Thompson,. the records show to
be a defaulter to a considerable amount
the reasonable sum of 3700, 000, or mom
James Monroe, formerly a Captain in the
army, is in default 4,115 44. I have
understood that this is one of the Whig
members of Congress elect.
Robert Brent. The name of this indi
vidual stands on record- with a defalcation
annexed of S7S,541. He was a Paymas
ter General, Whig.
Samuel Chaplin, late Paymaster, dclal
cation 3109,000, Whig.
Amos Binney, late Navy Agent, dedica
tion 70,562, Whig.
Joseph Kuhu, Defaulter for 22,621 55,
"Whig"
Miles King, Navy Agent, Whig, de
falcation not known.
But here comes Wm. McMurtry, Pur
ser, defalcation 17,991, Whig '
Who next? Robert Randolph, defalca
tion 25,097. . .
Bank defalcations. Look, sir, at the
millions that have been lost to the Govern
ment by the frauds of the banks, since
1817, up to 1833, inclusive, all during the
70 in number; all defaulters at one time.
(Edgecombe County, JT. C.) Saturday, June 8, 1839
Yes, sir, in defalcation at one time to more
than 20,000,000. This was all right in
the banks, though the Government was
made bankrupt thereby, the nation's cha
racter blighted at home and dishonored a
broad." To these add
Samuel Swartwout, Conservative Whig
defaulter, with his old Federal comrade,
Mr. Price, one million and a quarter. Du
ring the progressof their joint malversation,
Mr. Price, although devout in attachment
to Mr. Swartwout, hailed as an Adminis
tration man. Mr. Swartwout was the giant
of Whigery and Conservatism. Inthis
way, like cautious Scotch brothers in the
lime of rebellion, they kept a hold on both
parties; but when discovery became inevi
tdile, Mr. Price threw off his mask; show
ed his old Federal colors, and shot his Par
thian arrow at the Administration as he Cod
to Europe to join his fellow.
Samuel Gouverneur,upwards of 20,000,
postmaster, New York.
Gem Gratiot, upwards of thirty thousand
dollars.
W. S. Smith, (Mr. J. Q. Adam's brother-in-law,)
appears in this morming's Na.
tional Intelligencer to defend a default for
which a jury has just rendered a verdict
against him, in the court of this city, for
upwards often thousand dollars.
This makes up quite a distinguished list
of Federal defaulters.
If there be a Democrat of distinction, a
drjauler, or in other words, a case of de
falcation, distinguished for its heavy
amount, by a Democrat, we are ignorantof
it. If there be such, we call on some cre
diblc opponent to point out their names in
the oilicial published documents.
From the Globe.
LOSSES IN THE REVENUE.
Comparative statement of losses in the
levcnue tinder all Mminhlralhma.
from ff'ushinglon's to lhe present. The
lrcqucnt application, from various sections
of the Union, for information on the sub
ject of the relative losses in the revenue
under different Administrations, induces
us to give, from the document used by Dr.
Duncan, "taken from the records and re
ports of the Treasury Department the
following synopsis. We hope the Demo
cratic journals in every part of the Union,
will consider this information, derived
from authentic official statements, of suffi
cient importance to give it insertion and
general circulation through their columns.
It will be found useful in correcting the
misrepresentations of the Opposition, who,
seizing upon the late" defalcation of their
friend Swartwout, for the want of some
well founded ground of attack on the Ad
ministration, have given the subject of de
ifications a nrominence for clectioncerinir
purposes, which they never would allow it
lor that of legislation. The whole subject
houhl be thoroughly investigated. It is
important that the country should know tow-hat
extent losses have been incurred un
der all Administrations from the want of
those financial regulations, and penal en
actments, proposed in ;vir. van liiiren's
first message, to the defeat of which, by
the joint Opposition in Congress, is to be
attributed the principal part of Swartwout's
defalcation. The earlier and greater de
falcations of merchants and banks, under
previous administrations, is certainly ascri-bable-to
the introduction of the credit and
banking systems into the business of Gov
ernment; while the losses by Government
officers must be attributed to Congress,
which failed to provide the securities of
which Mr Wright's bill furnishes an ex
emplar. Total losses io the Government under
each different Administration, by
Jianks, Collectors, Receivers, Mer
chants' Bonds for duties, and disbur
sing officers.
IV asl tin gt oil's Administration 1789 io
1797.
Banks None: few banks in existence.
Collectors of duties, including Attor
neys, Marshals, etc. 13,000. Collectors,
10 or 12 defaulters, but all failed or secu
red, except 3 on very small sums.
Receivers of Public Lands None in
existence or established.
John Adams's Administration 1797 io
1S01.
Banks None;
Collectors of dutics,including Attorneys,
Marshals, etc. 220,000. Collectors not
settled 7, and 3 or 4 more paid, or very
small. N
Receivers of Public Lands None.
Thomas Jefferson's Administration
1S01 to 1S09.
JJanks None.
Collectors of duties including Attor
neys, Marshals, etc. 200,000. Collect
ors 19 failed, besides small sums from
others due; some paid or secured.
Receivers of Public Lands few in existence
lS09j
Banks Five millions of dollars in de
preciated paper taken. No bank defaults,
exrept by a suspension of sp'ecie payments
m 1S14-15, and '16.
Collectors of duties, inrluding Marshals,
Attorneys, etc. 210,000. Collectors, 14
failed, and part secured.
Receivers of Public Lands One in de
fault; only a few in existence.
James Monroe's Administration 1S17
to 1S25.
Banks SSOO.OOO. About 30 of the
banks in debt in 1S3S; but over 100 failed
in 1S17, and aficr.
Collectors of duties, including Attorneys,
Marshals, etc. 230,000. Coliectois I I,
some in default, part secured.
Receivers tff Public Lands Ten defaul
ters, amounting to 110,000.
. Q. Adams's Administration 1S25
io 1S29.
15 inks Five foiled; amount 5270,000.
Collectors of Duties, including Attor
neys, Marshals, etc. three defaulters, a-
aiounting tc 595.000. .
Receivers of Public Lands Eight de
faulters; amount, 60,000.
Andrew Jackson's Administration
1S2.9 to 1S37.
Banks, Five foiled; amount, 42,000.
Collectors of Duties, including Attor-
nevs, Marshals, etc. 14; amount, 200,000.
Kecetvers ot Public Linds Seventeen,
but many secured; amount, 60,000.
Merchants' Bonds for duties 500,000
falling due.
Disbursing officers, t including Paymas
tcr.s. Pursers, etc. 100,000.
Merchants' Bonds for duties. Of
these, 5 to G.000 000 are dated before Ge
ncral Jackson's administration, and nearly
7,000 defaults in number on bonds unpaid
before.
tDisbursing Officers, including Paymas
ters, Pursers, &.c. In the previous Ad
ministrations to IS2D, there yet remains
reported on the books, besides all settled
and remitted in various ways, by private
acts of Congress, &c. near 4,250,000 in
amount, and near 2,330 defaults in num
ber, of disbursing officers. Of these kinds,
not over 40 under General Jackson's Ad
ministration, and 100,000 in amount.
Aggregate losses. By banks, 6,112,
000. Collectors of duties, including At
torneys, Marshals, etc. l,02S,000. Re
ceivers of Public Lands, 403,000. Mer
chants Bonds for duties, 6,700.000. Dis
bursing Officers, including Paymasters,
Pursers, etc. 4,250,000.
Actual loss from all of the above sour
ces, 18,493,000.
Notes. The bank nominal losses were
much greater than lhe above Sums tinder
Monroe'sand J. Q. Adams'sadministratioris
by deposile banks that failed, and by others
that failed, whose bills the officers of Gov
ernment had on hand depreciated. But all
have been since paid, except the above bal
ances. All the losses by banks under Mr. Mad
ison's administration, were by taking dep
reciated naper, ami they are estimated low
jfrom that cause, at 5,000,000.
Must, if not all these bank failures hap
pened while the United States Bank was in
operation. The above does not include
Jusses by the United Slates Bank itself, by
not paying full dividends several years, and
by seizing on others for damages. Out of
one hundred and fourteen collectors, ouly
eighty are indebted to any considerable
amount, and the other thirty have paid,
or secured, or the sums are very small.
But as a balance stood unsettled, it must
be reported by the public officers. Of six
ty to seventy receivers, against whom bal
ances exist, near half of the offices have
been established in the last ten years, and
twenty to thirty of these defaults are small
debts, or secured, or paid. Of the two
hundred thousand dollars, estimated as a
loss from 1829 to 1837, it is, after deduc
ting all but one or two cases of any magni
tude. The rest will probably be in the
end collected, and not leave over that sum,
if so much, lost. More money actually
has been collected in one of the years under
Gen. Jackson, from sales of lands, than in
any eight or ten )cars of any of his prede
cessors. Hence the ratio or proportion of
losses is small under him. W hole number
and amount of merchants' bonds for duties,
unpaid when due, and probably lost, is
eight thousand in numbei, and near six
million five hundred thousand dollars in
amount; and of these, six million dollars
were not under Gen. J's administration, ex
cept those falling due about the time of the
suspension of specie payments. So of the
number of disbursing officers in default; at
least 2,300 were before 1S29, and only about
40 between that and 1S37; and of the whole
amount, 4,250,000, all was earlier except
about 100,000. The aggregate of the los
ses since 1789, is supposed to be, after eve
rr f.Ir allowance, over 18.000.000. Yer. 1
under General Jackson's administration,
James Madison's Administration
to 1 s 1 7.
though lasting eight years instead of four, iy, G;rU3i by a man hahid Jenkt, who
and attended wUh great collection, of rife tile aS ilhlc&sirJ. ' """"
Vol XV Wo. 23.
nue, and especially much greater from lands,
man any oiners, me whole losses were only
900,000, instead of thre? millions, theav
erage proportion to each eisjht years
They were less than one-third of the losses
under other Administrations, on an ave
rage. Many of ihcse Immense losses since 17S9
as well as several others in 1820, in lhe sale
of the public lands on credit, are to be at
tributed to the ill-regulated credit system
for duties and lands, and to the facilities and
temptations to speculation and losses by in
discreel bank credits. All happened under
the United Stales Bank and pet bank sys
tems!! . '
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Prom the Norwich (Ct.) Aurora.
PUBLIC EXPENDITURES.
We are told by the federal Press, that
the expenditures'of the administration of
General Jackson and Mr. Van Buren,
were much greater than those of the Ad
ministration of Mr. Adams. Thirteen
millions a year is said to be the extent of
ams's administration, and thirty-nine mil
lions during U.at of Mr. Van Buren. In
order to present the question in its fairest
i'u"i"- i-.juuuiiun:s uurin :ir. na
aspect lor both parties, we oiler the follow
ing comparisons and arguments.
1. In the first place, the appropriations
for 1S39 amount, in round numbers, to the
sum of 38,000,000. Of this, the item of
10,000,000 mut be deducted, which was
appropriated for the contingency "of em
ployuig 50,000 volunteers for the Maine
service. That will not be needed; so we
may reduce the sum from 33 to 2S mil
lions. 2. The Post Office, during Mr. Adams's
administration, was a separate department.
It collected and paid out its own money;
but the law has since been altered, and an
appropriation is now annually made for its
support, though not one dollar or the ap
propriation is ever paid by the Treasury.
The sum appropriated this year, for this
branch of the public service, is 5,000,000.
This sum deducted from 2S,000,000, re
duces the ordinary expenditures to 23,
000,000.
3. But we have another deduction td
make the sum of 1,850,000 for the Flo
rida war, over above the expenses of tho
regular army; a measure for which the
administration is not responsible. This
deduction reduces the ordinary expenses
to 21,150,000. But there is more yet!
4. The policy of removing the Indians
west of the Mississippi was specially ap
proved by Mr. Adams, but its execution
was not attempted until after the close of
his term of service. As the expense of
the measure is not chargeable to the profli
gacy or extravagance of the Administra
tion; and is no navt of the ordinary exnen-
diture of the Government, the appropria
tions may with great propriety be deduct
ed. The amount is lj765,000, which
lessens the 3S millions down to S19,3S5,
000. 5. Theii comes an appropriation of $2,-'
500,000 for pensions, which is probably
five limes as much as was paid during llieP
Administration of Mr. Adams; and as this
is not for the support of the Government,
and the administration is not responsible
for it, il must be deducted, as mailer of
course, from lhe 38,000,000. The amount
of the expenditures for lhe support of lhe
government is thus reduced to $ 1 0,885,000;
G. Then comes three extraordinary ap
propriations for lhe protection of the north
ern and Western frontiers, and for a mili
tary road, incident to our present relations
wiili the British and Indians, which reduce
the 38,000,000 dow n to $1G,255,000.
7. The survey of the coast, which is nd
part of lhe expense of supporting lhe Gov
ernment, requires an appropriation of
$90,000, which deducted from lhe gross
sum, redures lhe 3S,000,000 dowu 10
$10,105,000.
8. The public buildings make necessary
the following appropriations: For the
Treasury building, Si 00,000; for lhe Post
Office, $50,000; for a jail in Washington
$30, 000; for the t ustom house in Boston
$75,000. These are all proper items for
deduction, and reduce lhe $38,000,000
down lo $15,010,000. This sum, we
doubt not, might be reduced still lower;
hut we are willing to please lhe Federal
press by allowing thai it takes $15,0 10,000
a year to support the Government tinder"
Mr. Van Buren's administration. Now,
if $13,000,000 was nothing but an eco
nomical expenditure twelve or fourteen
years ago, t is most manifest, consider
ing the altered condition of the country,
thai $15,010,000 is less, in proportion tp
the wants of the people, lhan $13,000,000
then was; consequently lhat Mr. Van
Buren's administration is more economi
cal than was lhat of IVIr. Adams.
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