The Madisonian

we must not dally with these truculent pan-ders of the Globe, that skulk in idleness around the public offices, meanly and gratuitously gormandizing the revenues of the dear people they love so much. When, however, we see the money of the people thus disposed of, not to say squandered, and offices established by Congress abused, not to say prostituted, we are constrained to call public attention to the case, without reference to the individuals who may be found connected or concerned therein.

The Deposite and Distribution Act of 1836, authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to employ three additional clerks to perform the extra labors which that bill imposed on the Department, at an aggregate compensation of $3600. Notwithstanding there is now neither deposite banks, money to distribute, nor hardly any money comparatively in the Treasury, yet all these clerks are still retained! The deposite bank system, say these people, has failed and is obsolete. And were not these clerks a part of the system whose offices ought to have expired with the law that gave them birth? Yet the public calendar will show that there are three clerks more connected with the Treasury Department now, than there were in 1836, prior to the passage of the deposite act, when there were thirty or forty deposite banks to attend to and thirty or forty millions of revenue per annum collected! This is the kind of Sub-treasury-ism; we suppose, that will not cease until 1841, 'in spite of lamentations here or elsewhere.'

It is quite notorious here, we are informed, that two of these clerks are idle, so far as legitimate official duties are concerned, and there is nothing which they perform, except writing for the Globe and Democratic Review, that could not be executed as formerly, by others. Three thousand six hundred dollars of the people's money are thus used, virtually, to do the editorial writing of this administration. An unrighteous stretch of 'strict construction,' independent of its being a bad bargain! This is 'democracy,' patriotism, economy, morality, with a vengeance!

It is well that the public should know these things, that they may be able to fathom the intensity of that love of the people, that glows with such fervent heat from every political page issued under the patronage of this administration. The new Congress would do much service by instituting a committee to investigate the anatomy of a passion which forms so essential a part of the Natural History of Loco-focoism.