Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-06-03
POLITICAL.
SIIKpLuS REVENUE.

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constitute inroran deductions from the surplus eyeeene OF
them is the bin for purchasing the French and Mapoten ;"a.n
tho eommunyand diminish tho surplus that rx
s a Otsa rs sc mot
Why the faith OF the Government pisdsed SO many years to
Iks Of m Indaa war possible schemne
candidates tho Soae attempting defeat the Indian teate
White lost all Of consistency how can he e.cnd to
Cherokee treayand for distribution OF the surplus
alter having but four yoa ago, vehsncny opposed a "ca
These two items would knock off fourteen millions Of
what is called surplus revenue and is precisely be-
cause they would knock off fourteen miltions and ex-
ngush the illusion about the surplus, that they canRo.
be passed The times certainly strange and imperial
leled With money in the Treasury for every purpose,
there is a soppage, delay, refusal, denial, md a
Illustration of ordinary current and necessary aPPrupra.
TONS such has been al the lowest ana mrst
desperate state of the national finances Not dollar for
Publications 10 this day making two years that we are
going without having an appropriation tor forlIhca-
lions! The country understand the reason why
the three millions were rejected at the last session, anu
with the whole amount for the annual fertilization bill
Never never have such times been known. full Trea.
sury-denal of approprations-pubc service suffering
and cormorant cry for the division of the surplus
when every body knows there would be 40 surplus IT
the appropriations could be carried How happens this
strange, unparalleled state of things? How this
notifying paralysis Of the Government? is because
"Me line Of safe preeedcats is transferred from the De-
parment OF State 10 the Senate chamber 1t because
desperate knot of broken down candidates for the Pcs
dency have got into the Senate Chamber, and having
played out all their cards. and lost all their stakes have
to the last of the ruined gamescl
the double end quit! For this purpose the public
ney is resored to- They make up Of public mone
and offer it TO political panders in the Staes 10 be paE
out in nsalments before and after the election But how
to get money enough the question For this purpose the
old plan ofdvdng the proceeds Of the public lands for
years to come, would do it would not make huge
nf tab hand or nj
election is depending new plan was then to be de-
vised and this plan consists of two parts the fret
part to stop and delay all the appropriations and defeat
all the Indian treaties and all the bills for the defence Of
the country; the second part Of the game is reach
back three years into the Treasury. and rake the
pended revenue from the lands for that period, and Of
fer it oil tor division on the LIST of July the ls Of
the LIST Of January, &c. Thus SiXTY-FOUR MIL.
LIONS will be offered for distribution in ghteen months
The enorIpy of this sum, these Presidential candidates
believe, will present irresistible temptaaon and that
for the sake Of getting the money the people po
cians will sanction the delay ofappropratiens the defeat
of Indian treaties the loss of the defence bills and all the
corruption debauchery, and ruin which result from
vass for the Presidency carried by the candidates voting
the public money Of the Treasury gain for
themselves. This is the Of the present unparal
leed state of things 1t is the sixth month of the
sion Not dollar for Notifications! not dollar for the
defence bills: not dollar for the Cherokee and Mch
gan treaties Even the millions Of gold which the
President has ordered be brought home from France
and Naples, cannot be purchased from the claimants
and thus of the greatest measures for promoting the
gold currency is delayed and jeoparded by those who RI
dicule the gold currency, and who unfortunately have
the power By their votes, 10 defeat the which
they affect 10 rdicule. The President has in
operation to increase the gold currency 10 upwards Of
TWENTY MILLIONS of dollars by the end Of his ad-
Ininstration, and is still believed that he will effect it,
but it cannot be dissembed that the Opposition in the
two Houses is yet strong enough to paralyze the Ad-
minstraon-to stop the wheels Of Government-to de-
feat the most useful measures and to triumph in the sixth
month of the session. in the of their tactics for
wasting the year. TO the time in which the
money ought have been expended and then say there
no time to expcnd it, Never has there been such period
in country since the slime of sae preoeenis has
been transferred from the Department of State to the Sc.
nate chamber, and desperate nest Of brSken-down
factous, trading, gambling, Presidential candidates
have established themselves in that chamber; and after
exhaustng all the ordinary of faction intrigue
and venay, have at last the audacy undertake TO
stop the Government to plumber the Treasury, and
offer the spois of an outraged country 10 the se man
agers, they drive up to the polls! SIXTEEN
MILLIONS on the first Of July; SIX MILLIONS on
the first Of October; SIXTEEN on the FIRST of January
1887 SIX the first of April; TEN the FIRST of Ju
ly, and TEN the first Of January, lS35-n all SIX
TY.FOUR millions of dollars. Such is the sum which
these candidates now offering out of the Public
Treasury; and TO make up which, they delay, defeat
destroy, fnstrate and overturn every for the
defence, support, and protection of the country!
(Globe.
Since Inc ABOVE was in type we gratifed learn
that the Opposition have let 90 hefr hold upon the
Cherokees, and ratified the treaty which will send them
beyond the Mississippi. The Opposition probably
induced to surrender these dangerous allies which they
turned to political account since the beginning of
as administration in consequence Of the late outrages
Perpetrated ey TIE Greeks in their neghborhood news
of which arrived yesterday So good comes out of evil
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