The Daily Madisonian

THE PLUNDERERS!

The Globe of Saturday said the Madisonian was sustained by Executive "jobs and contracts," when it knew we had neither to the value of a dollar.

But what will the country say to the statement below, taken from Kendall's last Expositor, wherein it appears that the Government was PLUNDERED of the enormous sum of $1500, by the editor of the Globe, for printing merely a "PERSONAL VINDICATION" of one of the heads of Departments!!! The money was paid in 1840, just before Mr. Van Buren was defeated. We would print 20 pamphlets for half the money. But no such "jobs" are thrown in our way by the heads of Departments under President Tyler's Administration.

From Kendall's Expositor.

But as to the $1,500, the case was this: About $200 of it, if we remember right, was for extra copies of the Globe containing an article or articles vindicating Maj. Barry's administration of the Post Office Department against the conclusion of the Committees of Congress or some of their members, and about $1,300 for printing a pamphlet of the same tenor. This pamphlet was in the shape of a Report to one or both Houses of Congress; but not being in reply to any call, was in fact a mere personal vindication, voluntarily tendered. Although on some points, the Reports of the Committees, from want of a clear view of the subjects investigated, did injustice to Maj. Barry, we did not think he had a lawful right to apply the public funds to pay for the printing of this vindication.

The Globe states that the Madisonian is sustained by the jobs and contracts given it by the Executive Departments. The assertion is without any foundation in truth. We have had neither job nor contract from the Government since they were taken from us by Mr. Clay's friends in Congress. Neither have we bribed any of the clerks to give us jobs contrary to the orders of the heads of Departments.

Our paper has been, is now, and doubtless will continue to be supported by that portion of the sovereign People who do us the honor to subscribe for it; and we think we shall have enough of this kind of public patronage to "sustain" us after the 4th March, 1845.