Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-16
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REPUBLICAN FINANCES;
"A NEW WAY TO PAY OFF OLD
DEBTS.
From TIE WRmingson MirrDr.
PUBLIC DEBT.
Unredeemed principal on
the 1T OF January,
1901, So,i6i,so7 60
Unredeemed principal on
the 1T of January,
1907, = 77,SsI,s9o 70.
T,rqfay Department,
Resifer,s Office. Dec. II, 1901,
JOSEPH NOURSE, Rsgiaer.
Thus it appears from the teaiaony OF
federal Legislature, that free Mr.. letter
fon came into Office, the national debt has
been dlminilhed z,z59,3I7 dolls. and 81
cents.
Whit he has alto relieved Us from all
cdious oppre6ive internal taxation.
Muf no, thefe facts diftfe a general
Joy over the couatryi
A federal fecretary of the .:eafury', in
4 letter to the committee OF ways aaa-
means, dated zzd OF January, 1900,
ftates that the principal OF the debt OF
" the United States had increaled dnce
" the eaablihment Of she p~refen, govern
{" ment, the fun of I,5i6,53s dolls. and
d" 50 cents"
This, i, will lie rcmsmbered, was after
twelve years of peace.
In lefs than one year, p'cGdent JeRer-
fon's wife and frugal mealptes have de-
created it nearly three miAavs.
Thefe things, fellow citizens, are wor.
ahy your attentive and ferrous ccnddera-
tion---they are :
STUBBORN FACTS.
THIS piece has been tranlpianted into
Smiths National Iaseliigencer, thar copi-
oss fountain head Of Jr8:y5siar milfepre-
feutations. A few additional fa2s, which
are quite as fA66oru as tee foregoing, re-
main to be annexed to the lit. FACT
FIRST. Iii here iaii thar, in the firt
twelve years of the fedora! government,
fifteen hundred thoufsnd dollars had been
added to the public debt. But it will be
remembered that theie were MT years of
PEACE; but of alnoa perpetual .var. The
war with the Nlr:h WeRern tribes brok-
out in 1890, and a peace YVES not figned
until Aaguf 81, 1875. This conteit
lated for FIVE years. 1t cot FIVE or fix
millions. The UniIed States 5snsbt 4
peace from the favages, by giving twenty
thoufand dollars worth of goods in hand
and by plsdgiog themfe!ves TO pay nine
thouland FIVE hundred dollars worth OF
goods per nnxum, forever. 1t is long
iince the Algerine bufinels had cot ieven-
teen hundred thouland dollars /; as has al
ready been proved in this papc.. Prepa-
rations for a French war colt t@everal mil
lions of dollars. The Wefern expedition
coli thirteen hundred thoufani dollars, or
fomc fuch fun ; and the hot water infu:-
reaion of Northampton, eigsy thouland.
The French and Brltih piracies deprived
this country of many millions of impoe,
that would otherwife have been poured in
the federal trea(ury.
Twelve YEARS OF PEACE! Smith
might as we'll have faid that we had
twelve years ofincefTant rain, or twelve
years Of thunder aud lightning, or twelve
years Of an earthquake! This fagle afir-
nation, this audacious, this more than
common fallehood, mutt of iIfsif, be tafici.
ent, with every man of candor, to afcer.
tain the genuine character Of the National
Intel!igencer, that ~iavorite organ of pref
Dental impofure.
FACT SECOND. This writer has grossly
con,radieted himfelf. In his paragraph,
CihS.a Stubborn Fats tells us that the
national debt has been diminilhed by the
fun Of two millions two hundred and
fxty Thousand do'ls;s. But, IN his con-
cluiion, the Reduction is mounted up to