The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1803-05-21

80 VI lpe [ ecerai city, or fetS uD q
I@Ye'i'' itage coach, or billiard table; or
Ne'e- mines 10 i've like gentleman,ti His lait
CeH' - expended. before his iuceedor can be
io"no' month eiapies. IN many parts of the
country 5niS cate frequently happens Under
LuSh circumstances, 70 take twenty-five thou-
,ana men from the cbiiiel and toe slough, IN
,GS uFged by potitiYe ncceGity, would b..
n'g"'y aoturd. 1t would tend directly r.
oefFroY the reiources from which alone g,nd
ing army could expect to be paid In Bri,,;,.
- 'le beginning OF 2 war, the public are oftc,,
gao ar the rating OF new regiments, as takinr
On idie or dltorderly people. BUT here the de-,
haha OF idOour IS 10 great, that the leaf ;oduC-
"i0uS man IS generally thought worth his
room heie obieryations point out the nc
8HftVe expence of this icheme, that mart Of II
airing from The dimnuton as the onan,ity ~
labour' his woc'ld, in a Jingle wear. Quad
F,uPIe the whole charges Of the wetfern axne-
oltion' we now come TO the osGtigs rv-
pence, or. the amount Of money which r,,G
De actually RATED and laid cut on Guch Man
In the debate lar referred 20, Mr. Scdr-
WICK re-" an Ultimate Of The expence cf6tri1r
out ielett corps OF militia. The arms ana
accoutrcments would cot ten dollars oer M, -.
his Clothes, by which was only meant Coz,
required twelve dollars. His ratjons 5,r fo,,.
days were &c colt two dollars, or halc dill,
per day Mr. S. Smith, in reply, 2bferyrJ
that the arms would coit nothine. Is thev va -
to be had from t&S repo(isor;es OF the JTnifed
States Confine the o"tfet charges, therefore,
70 clothes and bounty money. he former
eoula hardly be leis than forty th0ufand dol
iSrs. In one Of the ills propofcd about his
hand'ng army, by the fenate, twenty dollars
per man we're allowed for bounty no1.y.
! nus, each man would colt in advance, Gxtv
collars, which on tne whole twenty FIVE thou
tand' cores TO tltteen hundred thou,and dol
'arS' and adding the price Of hories, with
MULTITUDE OF incidents and ioos, this army
would require between t@ @ and thrce MILL
ons o. dollars at its outict. The rat.ons and
pay could NOT, in whole, be lefS than dollar
per day AZ Evsn days in the week, or tbre.
hundred aud iiTsy FIVE dollars per anrun for
| ea~h man, the t0,ai pay OF the priyates is nine
millions one hundred ana twenty-five thou
land dollars a year. The additional pzv 70
officers, lurgeons, On plains, the death of
horf=s, ths ware Of gun gowder, and Yenairs
O. All kinds, could not make tue entire annual
charge iefs than twelve million of dollars.
! his iuIn added TO the wages of thefe Deopl..
! ,+'NNNf - b~'CsN3 di lGNCE lliilcnS and
/ eight hundred thoufand dollars, ould make the
real e%pence twenty millions ofdolags wear.
OF which twelve millions rnuff have been Maid
out IN ready cali, The latter would, in fx
| years only, clear OF the whole public Ceb, !.
bnt tie money could not be found. Had taxes
| or loans, for 10 Vait All additional burden, been
! mPoied in May I7o4, ths We fern iniurrec-
! tIon that sniucd would have been bur the
imalicit Of public misfortunes Annual taxes
/ TO the extent OF twelve millions could NOT
/ have been RATED; but the bare attempt 10 rea.
lie them mutt have filled the continent y,ifb
coHfuGon and djGrel5. An annual loan to tb,t
amount would have extiuguifhcd public Gre
dit; and then the federal machine mutt have
Hood ttlil, OF rather lumblcd to pieces.
beidcs the principal fun expended, obfsrve
the march o. compound interelt, at three. four
or five per cent per month, or perhaps Of two
and IN half per cent. per day, for In October.
1890, the latter premium vas offered in Phi
iadciPha, 5y lome entcrpriling tfaders.%
ouch is orr it'ation without thar Aa74i,o,
army. rs eisahiiihmeag would have ms39
matters ain hundred times WORE. For efr-,-
ing t1iS plan, 70 aTdently preded BY tn, feozte
and by TOME gentlemen in the other bo,,f.
'he nation is indebted 70 the .fgperior oood
ienie OF a majority IS the rsDrelentafives
The former thruit the contribution 70 tbe
edge Of prec,Picc, The latter. conducted
it back again IT, timc IF actual war, the ci
tI2sns Of the United State will, If neceGarv.
iubuit to the greafltt burden. Their hiRorv
has epI1ced t-at thcy will DO 70. But when
the nation IS At peace, ir has too much fDirit
to enawe iochmPo6oons under any pretence
whatever