This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...and that the defaulter owned land that, if sold at THE COLLECTION OF CUSTOMS. 139 1 Speech at a Harrison convention, August 17, 1840, Clay, Works, vi. 218. 2 House Documents, 25 Cong. 3 sess. iv. No. 122, particularly pp. 15-37; House Reports, 25 Cong. 3 sess. ii. No. 313 (pp. 143-147 give a list of the unfavorable ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...and that the defaulter owned land that, if sold at THE COLLECTION OF CUSTOMS. 139 1 Speech at a Harrison convention, August 17, 1840, Clay, Works, vi. 218. 2 House Documents, 25 Cong. 3 sess. iv. No. 122, particularly pp. 15-37; House Reports, 25 Cong. 3 sess. ii. No. 313 (pp. 143-147 give a list of the unfavorable balances). The amount due from receivers on the list of defaulters, January 15, 1838, was $1,073,837.41, of which $248,159.13 had accrued prior to March, 1829. Niles's Register, Ivi. 140-141. 3 What few complaints are found are chiefly made by disappointed land purchasers, and they rarely make out a good case. See House Documents, 25 Cong. 2 sess. ix. No. 297. $1.25 per acre, would amount to $6i, $4g.g8.1 We may disagree with Mr. Garesche as to the expediency of retaining the officer under the circumstances, but he was certainly right in his estimate of conditions. It was, in the mind of most frontiersmen and inhabitants of new places, a very long step between stealing another's money and speculating with it. The main fault lay in the general unfamiliarity with business methods; and we may question whether even Adams could have kept the service entirely above its environment, though he might well have done better than Jackson and Van Buren. Somewhat different was the plight of the customs department. There the defalcations were less widespread; but the individual cases were more striking, and the losses were due to simonpure dishonesty. Educated by thirty years of corrupt politics, the New York politicians were ready to make the most of the chance that Jackson gave them. Swartwout proved a " king of defaulters "; his stealings were estimated, in 1838, at $1,250,000. So cleverly had his books been falsified that as late as 1836 he deceive...
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