Trebou gives
full credit to the Bureau of Internal Improvement for the
skill with which they executed the commission given them
in a department quite out of their line. Our brethren of
the `Argus' will be pleased to know that every grain of
oats and every spear of straw paid for by, the now famous
$47,000, are accounted for in detail. The authenticated
signatures of the somewhat celebrated Camara and Gazza
and the mythical Captain Cole appear. Very valuable
letters, throwing interesting light on our relations with
the Government of Mexico, from the pens of the lamented
Adams and Prigg, show what were the services of those
Spanish turncoats and their allies.
"We cannot say that we regret the attention which has
thus been given to a very important piece of history, too
long neglected in the rush of more petty affairs.
We take the occasion, however, to enter our protest
once more against this preposterous system of
`Resolutions,' in which, as it were in echo to every
niaiserie of every hired pen in the country, the
House degrades itself to the work of the common
scavenger, orders at immense expense an investigation
into some subject where all well informed persons are
fully advised, and at a cost of the national treasure,
etc., etc., etc. to the end of that chapter.'"
But I fear no one at the Molyneux mansion had "the
lantern.
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