Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-07-21
Er0n, tie CHARLESTON COURIER.

bdCh# COUNTY, PRIV Aneo eaS tsA'hon'h 90
telligencer, which speaks it is said the voice
of government, is, as we have there stated.
very rnanlf est asteYslps 70 IMPOSE. aPop the
public understanding. 1t puts into compa-
rIson, for the purpose OF showing a great
Inequality between them, the public eSpen-
ditures OF two periods OF tln.e, during
which the demands for expenditure were
extremely uneaqual. What would be
thought Of writer in England who should
attempt to impose upon the people by III
stituting comparison between the expen-
ces of four years of war and four years OF
a long continued peace establishments p
Why he would be at once set down by eve
ry man as either q fool or i,nposter. Yet
to that's or the like effect is the statement
to which we all1de. 1t first takes the APP
preparations made for eight years and a
half in this way.
1st. The four last years Of President
Washington's administration.
Cd. The four years of Mr.. Adams's adj
ministration.
For the first Of these he makes the ap-
preparations to be 28,o98,235
For the second, 1885,, COS
By which he makes the app
mopriatious Of Mr.. A greater
5 than those Of President Wash
in8tonby l6.8ss,6T
Here he stoeptup the head ofappropria-
tons, leaving hose Of M. Jefferson, which
one SwouId expect to@see stated injrely
Out Of the comparison: bit h turns on bis
heel and says, . but to maze II appear sill
blaine,, the sJl71ving statement zoiH be use.
.fuk"-and tten he taxes Up the principal Of
the national debt as this criterion, and then
leaves the Washington administration ont
of the comparison. AS the low Cunning
of this evades cursory observation, it must
in Justice be broughtto view. The caicu-
lator 6rst.makes one head 70 shew President
Adams in a disadvantageous comparison
with Washington, andthen shiftstoanother
head to shew him in atlsadvantageous com
parison with Mr.. JEFFERSON. And to this
end he first states the addition made to the
national debt during the administration Of
Mr.. Adams, an,it!.ca taies the ts,o years
and half which have passed Of the present
adm nistyaJion, ard caicnlatng the whole
residue of the tour wears at me same rate
as the,wo and a hall tt.at are past, he makes
the difference III favor Of Mr.. Jefersoa'>
administration to be 249o2I33S dolim8.--
a very striking part OF this cry unfair
statement is, that the calculator computes
the expences Of the year and la,t OF Mr.
JeHerson's administration which is TO come,
by The ratio Of the two years and a nal. which
are past. Though he must nave known and
his copyiSt al Washington actgally had be-
fore his eyes, the grant lately made By con-
gress Cat the special demand OF the Presl-
dent1 OF a large sum to equip an armament
against Irlpoil, and the act of Congress
for raising that sum by additional duties
Our readers will see in this one thing alone
an abstract of the whole practice Of the anti.
federal agents and writer's.
According to this statement, however,
supposing it were true, and supposing Mr..
JetFerson's ensuing year and half were to
be as shrivelled with economies as the two
and half that are past, the difference be-
tween the several expenditures of the diff
ferent presidents would after all be but as
follows President Washington expended
more than President Jefferson by s75, 625
dollars; President Adams expended more
than President Jefferson by 24,o21, 1888.
Now if there be any one who once knew
and has thought it convenient to forget, we
call upon him to remember, and If there be
any who did not know it before, we inform
him now, that the presidency Of Mr. JEFF
terson has been one continuity of external
peace and internal tranquility, save verbal
political chickering's. The last-years of the
administration OF Washington were Of
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