The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1817-01-03

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| PCess 81 dernDcrauc rebeiiioD in PtDn.
| -yivania " FSis rebellion, 1 rcmembes
consisted principally OF few distillers
! 80 the western part of the state, who're
used TO pay The direct tax on stills,Ssc
AS l have 10 documen: before me to
prove the amount it cost. the admins
traiion, l will agree with the writer,anci
admit IL TO have been immense. Il
then, federal administrator CouiG
proi0seiy squander away money in the
suppression OF Eefty rebellion, wha,
sum would be adequate TO setisiy theii
| pfoo'gaiity when IN the prosecution oil
| a 7var Ii this rebeliion, and the cx-
penses which grew cut vi il, are 10 be
introduced as an instance OF federal
economy, can have no objections. 1t
wiiI prove, coaciusivsly, that had the
late wan been wssed during federal
administration, II would have cost the
Uniteo States more millions Of dollars
shdn there are cnbtf Jcet Ii, the earth
! allowing 1t, as is seGeralIy stated by
geog raphers, 10 be seven thou sand,
nine hundred and seventy miles in cis-i
meter!
In following the writer little further
he observes, The expenses OF this
war, with the loans and taxes imposed
by those very men who abused Wash.
iHgton as a spendthrift, at the end oithe
present year viii exceed The expepccs.
OF Washington's administration by Co.
545 81 dollars and ~ cents and will
exceed Adams administrator SIS. mil.
liens &C." BEFORE DIoc G, d 10 &c ~lr
| 10 tl.e aouVc, viii quOte me expsnCss
as stated by him OF the expenditures OF
! Generel Washington's adminlatration
'oi ttliit. ~ :fi.irs, &c. Tor eighr years,
| and AIr. Adams for ;out years. which
he makes as follows: for the f ST, g.,
4oe,6ZO cellars g. cents for he Sc
I Conc, frenty-fhfsc miitioaS. TICn. the
toregoing,- man, who supposed the
! writer TO be q mon Of candor, would
wonder how ii escaped his notice that
Mr.. Adams,o on his own principles, was
not a Sfendth'iIf, when he admits that
Adams spent near foe millions of dol
! lars more in 4 years than Washington
| did III 8. But if you ask this writes
| how to account for it, he will probably
| answer, that MIR. Adams had to sup
press democratic rebellion" and if
so, we will allow MIR. Adams his pro
| portion OF the amount of the eXpencCs
| OF Washlngton's administration, and i,
J VIII then appear that the suppression OF
I the rebellion cost Mr.. A. the immense
sum OF 1879, $50 dollars and 50 cents
And II the late war had been conducted
agreeably 10 federal economy, 1t would
have cost more than i have stated.
Fellow citizens, now ask your at
tenuon'in special manner. We have
| clue on the writer, which will show
bow hard he has tried 70 oeceipcayou.
You Will observe. that Ire sets out 10
prove that the exprnces Of every admi-
5i'SttauoG, TOR the SAM fuiuber Of years,
stouid be gust NJ natter If one
should be in peGce snd 5no,her in. war
| no matter as to the ~. snitude or dura
Ilon II any vars IN which any admlnis-s
irauon may be engaged And yet,
strange 10 tell, he admits that Adams
spent more .}oDey ~ 4 years, by nearly
i've millions 81 doiia,s, than Washing
,on did IN eight years Was ever such
inconsistency heard Of " Beware of
faIse ftToEhets, and those zvho lay in
1DaH 10 dscelUe y0u"
In following the writer a little fur
Iher, be observes, rather uninleiligiby.
at the conclusion OF the year 1914. if
the war continues, The public debt will
amount 10 more than lO7,Ooo,0oO dol
lars" Although he has no, the hardi-
hood to say tina, the debt accumulated
by the war would have amounted TO that
sum, yet 1t is reasonable TO infer that
he wishes 70 make you believe it. l
VIII new state the amount Of the debt
created by the wsr, which did not end
until In 1915, as ascertained at the trea.
surv, and which amounted TO but 6s,.
7S3, dolls and IS cts a few claims
against the U S were unsettled Fl the
tine, but they WILL not vary the amount
much, 1t is not the amount of the ma
'ionai debt, fellow citizens, that alarms
his writer; he wishes it was nurh lar.
ger No. Is the result of The late G.
lectioEs that has irritated him it has
given him an aWiu pre- sage of the down.
iul OF his party il has assured him hat
the federal opposition is sinSFg into
lnerlted obscduuy,w here naaght but the
hnger OF sgoro will accompany it.
Towards the conclusion o his num-
Der, he says" the republic of America