THE INTERPRETATIONS OF WHIGGERY IN

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THE ApPIsEHENsIoNS OF WHIGGERY IN

 RELATION TO EXECUTIVE CONTROL

 OF THE Pt RSE AND THE SWORD," A

 MOCKERY.

 The country has hardly recovered from the fright feigned by whiggery, when Mir. Van Buren was left, for short time, in the GUS tody of the public treasure, before he could get Congress, after the failure of the banks, to regulate its keeping by statute. They did not pretend to doubt the probity or caution of Mir. Van Buren but the principle of leav- ing the purse in the same hand that held the sword, filled them with alarm. With the ut most promptitude, he proposed the independ- ent treasury, environed with such checks and guards as rendered it impossible, without general conspiracy of a whole body of public functionaries appointed under the sanction of the Senate, and immediately responsible to Congress, that any dangerous use could be made of the public means. Not farthing could be converted to any unauthorized use by public officer, without the commission of felony. The act of appropriation specif- cally granting the sum disbursed, would alone shield any functionary, from the President down; all being responsible for wilful and wrong disbursement of the public money made by them-not as breach of trust, in the sense of the common law, but as rob- bery of the treasury. This system silenced the clamor about the President having the nations purse in his brooches pocket, as was really the case with Mir. Riddle when he had charge of 1t. It silenced the cry about pet banks, and the odious favoritism which it might originate. All such pretexts for car rying back the revenues of the Union to be- come the spells of stockholders in national bank, were done away with, when Coonery made it's grand foray in 1S40. And then, the first act of these fearful adversaries of any system which would put the keeping of the pu lie money one hour under executive con- rol, was the repeal of the independent trea- sury-all its checks and guaTds-and all its penal provisions, to secure the highest re- sponsibility!!

 And, as if to mark still more signally the hypocrisy of the men who did this, the cus- tody of the nations treasure {about which they acclaimed when they admitted the Pre- sident to be an honest man., is now, by their own act wholly at the mercy of set of men pronounced by themselves every way dis honest; and yet they seem perfectly at ease, under these circumstances, in regard to the safety of the public funds. How is this How could the clamorous whigs, who un- derstand so well Mr. Webster's looseness in money matters, trust him with the dispensa- ton of the secret service fund, and all the contingent hundreds of thousands, withou,