Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-06-06
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s. Why, / would ask, these parallel columns, II
4 which the years 1926, 1927, and 1928, were ar
ranged on the one side, and the years 1923, 1924
& and 1925, on tie other' Why were additions made
beneath all the years, in each of the columns in
Guiding the year lS2S-and why were the sums re
sClting from these additions, then set off agans
each other' Why, in short, said, that ''thert
4 1cGs expended OF this fund in, sc" proceeding with
all the years enumerated underneath, unless il wa:
q intended to make the impression, that the erpen
0itures OF the whole OF the 3years in each column
were represented by the sums at the bottom of tina
q column: This question put to the gentleman:
conscience, ii it has not been entirely swallowed ny
& IN Z" the vast profound OF his statistics.
Let now how he disposes OF another alie-
81 CATION made by me, that the ''difcTe7H results he
exhibits owing lin parD 10 arbitrary cum
bnation of totally different items of expenditure
under the same general head He says, his was
q separate table"-(the gentleman il seems has
his separate tables though ne does not like my
4sepdrate lines)-his was "a separate table OF the
appropriations for foreign intercourse, and another
q OF the expenditures OF the contingent fund for the
same, and upon this the charge of arbitrary COM
9binaon is made Nov, If the gentleman found it
Convenient to refer this charge to the tables here
4 described by him. think it must have been appar-
rentto every else who took the trouble TO read
my letter. that il referred, in fact, TO other tbes
exhibited by hin, in which he gave the eXpendi-
2 lures oil the three earliest administrations under
the head Of Foreign intercourse from which it
appeared that in several years Of MIR. Jefferson 5
administration, the expenditures for 80 Foreign in
ttercourse" were from one 10 two millions OF dol
lars, and III one year, largely upwards OF two mil
&iions.---Thesc tables were brought in Immediately
after his table OF the appropriations under the pre-
sent administration for 'Forcign intercourse and
were triumphantly appealed 10, (in the language
OF the gentleman) TO shew, how very far from tn e
fact, may be the coniectures and assertions re-
speeding The increasing ectrdudgdnee and pr0di-
4 Sdftfy OF the government"
d Now, alledged that, in these formidable sums
r taken from the period of Mr. Jeierson's admins
& tIatlon, and arranged under the general hcad'
s. OF Foreign intercourse, there were included many
items OF large amount, Of totally different char
meant ~ tn expenses OF foreign intercourse in
Z the comparisons instituted by us, of the expendi-
lures OF the late and present administration. fhs
A Proged, by taking the sum given ior paiicular
: year uS03) and analysing il Into it, constituent
parts, by doing which il sbewn that the fright
: ful sum OF 81 ,001 1858 81, (Which had been put
+ down by the gentleman MIR. Jeffcrsons expen-
s diture IN that year for Foreign ntercourseJ was
made up oil no less than six distinct items of xpen-
4 dilure and that only Sol 1873 ~ of II were nm
account of what both the gentleman and nv.
4 self had comprehended under the denomination OF
4 Foreign intercourse. Here was the "arbitrsrv
combination of totally different items VI expendi-
ture under the same general head" Of which !
4 spoke, and ain glad to lind some evidence, that
a however he may have been at loss about the
Pathological import Of the charge he felt the full
orce OF its practical application, for he has dropped
from the very middle of the extract from his speech
which he introduced into his letter, the imposing
tables to which the charge applied, AM which evi-
IDENTITY not the least pleasing fruits Of his Ia
oours, 10 his own eyes, when the speech was ori-
4 ginally given to the public.
should have given the gentleman credit for hc
/ eompunc,ous visitings Of nature" which he ha
discovered upon this subject, If IT were not for h
refuge he has sought in an ntmaton that the
'ases were not introduced with reference to L.'