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The merit of carrying the proposition into full effect, andsof causing thorough investi- gaton beIOng~ to the frients of the admins tratiOn.

 Had they united with the opposition in the motion to laysthe resolution on the table, there would have been an end to theenQuirv. The friends ofGen. Jackson would have pro- claimed the nagnanimity nf the motives that prevented them from prosecuting the admin lsfratiOn, while the friends of the latter would in due time have been subjected to the open accusation of having shrunk from enquiry

 Failing to lay the resolution On the6table, the only. course left the opposition as to vi t'lperate the dmInistratiOn.--Then commen- ced the war of slander, personal abuse, and wltherIng lnsinration, species of tactics in which Messrs. Floyd, Ingham, &c. stand far above the reach of competition. All this was intended to prejudice the pnblic mind, in or der to remove any impression which might shaVe been made by the readiness of the ai- ministratio1 and their friends, to meet inqui- ry the most rigid. The ppblic ear. Therefore .was to be dragged with ftiis pernicious helle- bore. Acting on the defensive the friends of the administration contented themselves with repellng the missiles which were leveIIed a. gainst them; until finally, the opposition,p pla- ced hors de combat by the last. masterly and unanswerable reply of Mir. Wright, shrunk from further conflict, and allowed the resolu- tion to be unanimously adopted.

 What will people say of this course? Near ly onesixth ofan ordinary session of Congress has been spent by the friends of Gen. Jack son, not inreconciing adverse opinions as 10 the proprety of looking into the public ex- pendtures, for there was scarcely aeyoice in the negative from the beginning ofthe debate except from those who stirred the matter, & at last the resolution passed without dissent; not in the disclosure of any facts which could promote the puhlck interests snot in, the production of any testimony to prove thstthe administration had done aught to ir,- cur public odiam; mo but in ringing the old changes on the charges of abuse and corrup- tion, in which Mir. Adams was paid for his services dozen years ago, on the billiard ta- ble, and the gorgeous furniture" of the east room, so industriously propagated by MT. Ritchie, and every other obsolete calumny which could be geaned from the annals of slander :-and allsto operate on the next pre- sldential election. It the men who have don all this faithfully represented their constitu- ents, the virtue and intelligence of the people are woefully on the decline.