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lminisi aiio or existing againSl the government. To whom dees the government owe any thing, or r IF O. ernmen liable on account of those appropria- ti' ms! To no one. The acts making th' SC appro- priations be regarded m no other light than as directing certain amounts 10 be expended n on certan objects, ,cheneu he money Piaced 'n tht IreasTy. They do not glanl grounds ol claim to any one, obligations of debt to any one against the government It is entirely competent for the gov ernment to repeal them at any time, and if the par ty in power believe as they profcssed to believe be- fore the election, that these appropriations were eN- lravagant it IS their solemn and sworn duty to re- peal them. So far from. this, however, these very identical appropriations have already been increased at this extra session to the extent of four millions of dollars and upwards. What commentary upon the charges of extravaganza dprodgalily 10 fierce ly made and rung through the land during the last administration.

 The truth is that so far the conduct of the late administration is to be considered in connection with these appropriations, WIG canlOt avoid a conclusion honorable and credable in the highest degree to that I adminstraton. It shows beyond dispute that the

  the government within the means of the treasury, whilst Congress, by it's appropriations, greatly over ran those limits Which was right!

 Would you believe that the charge of extraya- gance and prodigaty against that administration has been changed to that of a nggardly and parsi- monous economy? Such is the fact now daily ex- emplifed on the floors of Congress.

 ! Could any thing more fully illustrate the danger and impolicy of building up great central nonied power here, in the form of fiscal agent, in close connection with, and indeed constituting part of the Executive Department of the Government, than the action of Congress at this session, raising and placing at the disposition of the President and in the vaults of this Bank such imlaense of money un- | der such Aimsy pretexts! At this rate no bounds can be fixed to the patronag influence and power nff fhis nenartment.