The National Republican And Ohio Political Register

THE SWISS CORPS

From the Democratic Press, August 17, 1824.

(Not an Adams paper, and prints the laws by authority.)

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This state is not yet the property of a Family. It is not a close Borough which can be sold or transferred to please a Prime Minister or subserve the interests of a Family. The people are warned of what is intended, and it is they that must turn out in their right and speak in their own opinions and instruct their Representatives. Those of their Representatives, fourteen in number, who recently instructed their constituents against a caucus at Washington, thus did all in their power to bring the Election for President into the House of Representatives, and thus put the vote of the state into their own hands, shall, in their turn, be instructed, that Pennsylvania will not patiently permit them to cast the weight of this democratic state into the Federal scale, and bring another John Adams to reign over them with a rod of terror, if not of iron.

The eastern papers are endeavoring to screen Mr. Adams from the disgrace of countenancing Ninian Edwards, by repeating the assertion that Mr. Gales, editor of the Intelligencer, showed Mr. Edwards into Mr. Adams' pew in the absence of the latter. Mr. Gales under his own signature has published an explanation of the circumstances, from which it appears that he first saw Mr. Edwards in the pew with Mr. Adams on one Sunday, and on the next Sunday he saw Mr. Edwards before Mr. Adams' arrival, apparently looking for Mr. Adams' pew, and then it was that he pointed it out to him, for which Mr. Edwards appeared thankful. Neither Mr. Gales or any other person except Mr. Adams appears to have shewn Mr. Edwards into the pew on the first Sunday that he sat in it. Edwards has been playing the part of the cat, in the fable of the monkey and the cat, and he has had his paws so much burnt, that like the Fox that lost his tail, the other Foxes will not associate with him.

From the same paper, Aug. 23, 1824.

From a "Short Sketch of John Quincy Adams," published in the New-York American, we learn that he is now in his 58th year, and that in his 14th year he went to Russia, as private Secretary to Judge Dana. From that time to this he has been hardly a year out of public employment, so that he has been forty-four years in one public office or another. The last eight years he has had $6,000 a year; for many years before, he had $9,000 a year; but averaging the whole period of his services since he was fourteen years of age at $5,000 a year, it appears that Mr. John Q. Adams has received from the Nation Two Hundred and Twenty Thousand Dollars for his personal services.

He now wishes to be President of the United States for eight years, the salary for which office, for that term, would be two hundred thousand dollars. At the expiration of the Presidency, Mr Adams would be in his sixty-eighth year, and would have received from the Public Treasury in the form of salaries, excluding all fees, which have appertained to his offices, the sum of FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!

This sum would be equal to six thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars a year: or seventeen dollars and sixty-four cents a day—from the time he was born until he had attained his sixty-sixth year He would have absolutely received a piece of money for every breath he has drawn from his birth! This indeed is being fed with Treasury Pap. If as we are assured in some of the papers, Mr. Adams' habits are so economical, that in warm weather he goes without stockings or jacket, and does not allow himself a pocket handkerchief—what a heap of money he must have amassed!!!