The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-09-03
From this take the sum in
the Treasury on the first day
of January, 1910, amounting
to $l,566,3s5
Which together make b
And we have the above

Which together make 3,706,125
And we have the above
named sum, $21,O0O,OO0
Thus, then, we have the sum, and the
items Of which it is composed, which has
been expended over and above the receipts
of Government in the last three years.
/ What response can Mr. V. Buren,, after
! all the loud professions of economy, and
horror of extravaganza, with which his
messages have all been filled, with con-
trolling majority in both branches of Con-
gress from the time he came into power,
give to this simple exhibit! How will he
answer to deceived and betrayed people,
with power to reduce the expenditures. if
he had chosen to do SO, to IL, 100000
With an income of more than $50, OOO,-
900, (near 100000 more than double
the sum of the first year of General jack
sons Administrations he and his party
have spent not only the whole of it, but,
in addition thereto, upwards Of $2l ,O00,-
600, which should have been returned to
the people of the States to aid in paying
off their debt. z11
From these tables, taken from the re-
cords of this House, we have sample of
the true character of the retrenchment
which those in power are giving to the
country. The party has redeemed this
pledge in qate as faithful manner as the
many others they gave the country.
We have in the whole United States,
Il suppose, not quite 100000 voters;
but taking this as the number, the amount
which each voter had to pay on an ave-
rage during the four years the wings had
the government in their hands, was Sc
%, annually. And for the last four years
that the present party have had the un-
qualified control, the amount each voter
has had to pay upon the same bases, was
$l7 II, annually. Here, then, the taxes
of the people have been almost trebled by
those that came into power under the
most solemn pledge 10 reduce them.
l think, Mr. Chairman, that with very
moderate share of economy and prudence
on the part of this retrenching and people
loving administration, we should not have
found our finances in their present i'm
e poverished condition. 1t is, however
G not my purpose to enlarge on this branch
6 of the subject.
r. A Precious LErrER.-The authenti
( city of the following letter has never beer
d questioned. The reader will learn from
[e lit, where was begun that system of pro
= scription which has so universally pre-
N vailed of late. In what ridiculous ant
humiliating position this letter places Mr.
Van Buren,:
G" My Dear Sir:-Our suferngs oaO
ing to the rascality Of deputy Post Mas
ters Is intolerable and cries aloud 70
relief. We find it absolutely impossible
to penetrate the interior with our papers
and unless you can attain them by two 0
three prompt removals, there is no limi
ting the injurious consequences that ma
. . result from it let me therefore entres
H. the Postmaster General to do an act Q
le Justice, and render us a partial service b
m the removal of Holt, of Herkimer, an
re the appointment of Jabez Fox, ESQ.,
n. also of Howell, of Bath, and the appoin
IT. ment of an excellent friend, w. B. Rocl
tn ester, Esq, young man of the first RI
spectability in the State-and the RENE
he val of Smith, at Little Falls, and the al
u pointment of Hollister-and the remov
IN of Chamberlain in Oxford, and the a.
mt pointment of Lot Clark, Esq. I am
no extreme haste, and can therefore add 1
he more. Use the enclosed papers accor
on ing to your discretion, and j anythin
he is done, let 1t be quickly done, and 90
mag rely upon 1t much good aniA resa
from 1t. Yours, affeclionately,
4rs. Nj. VAN BUREN,.
Anvil 1SOO IL