The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-05-29

IN every case first and then the extraordinar
separated from the ordinary expenditures, and /
same items charged and credited in every case.
In looking at the aggregates, it will be seen Il
every Administration needed this classification
that the aggregate under Mr.. Adams's administ
ton was not thirteen millions, as repeated so ma
millions Of times, but about the double Of tn;
and that this thirteen millions for that gentleman
administration was only attained by deduct
exiraordmarics by going through the very proc
which reduces the expenditure under Mr.. Y;
Buren, TO thirteen and Il half nil ions. The sini
est aggregate in the whole table is that of Is;
under Gen. Jackson's administration, when
public debt had ceased, and the Indian wars l
no, begun. The aggregate for that year is sey
teen millions and half Even including the ext
ordinarics of that year, and the aggregate v
but seventeen millions and half And so it u
| be again As soon as We are done paving
Treasury notes, which are issued in lieu of
misplaced revenue, and so soon as our Ind
troubles are over, and the payments completed
removal of Indians, and purchase of their laI
| the aggregate expenditures will come down
about what they were in 1885 and the Ordiua
expense will be within fiieon millions
Mr.. b. demanded who ever deemed it an
pense of the Government, when Mr.. Jeiler
purchased Louisiana at fifteen millions of dolla
And who could think of charging as an expense
large sums which had been lately paid, in exI
gushing Indian titles, and removing Indians q
would as soon think of charging, among the
penscs of family, the outlay which should
made by a prudent and thrifty farmer in purcl|
ing additional land, and inclosing it with fences
covering 1t with improvements, The extinction
Indian titles-the acquisition of their land for
tlement and cultiya,ion-and the removal of
Indians themselves from all the states, was on@
the gieGt measures which illustrated General Ja|
sons administration, and was beneficial both to|
Indians and TO the States So great an object ed
not be effected without a large expenditure of Il
ney; and who Is there now to stand up and 81
den.n the Administration for this expenditure
Who wants these Indians back, Who wfI
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and all the OF
States, again incumbered with the Indians vii
have left Them
That the expenses of the Government had|
creased in the last twelve or fifteen years, Mr.
said was just as certainly true as it was natur
TO have been expected, The country itself |
increased in that time several new States
been admitted into the Union, and several !
Territories had been created An additional
petus had been given to the public defcnces in |
increase OF the army and navy, wars with scv
Indian tribes had interviewed, vast purchases OF
dian lands had been elected whole tribes,
whole nations of Indians, had been removed,
removed 10 vast distance, and n, vast expc
This latter expenditure was chief, for the ben
of the South and West but where is the ma
any quarter Of the Union that can stand up
condemn il
| sir, admit an increased expenditure and
from conceallng, exhibit and proclaim it. |
play the items they are spread ont in the st
ments now under discussion point them o,
the country, ! say they will be found princp
in the navy, in the army, in the indian deparn
in the pensions, in the lighthouse e',Gbiishn
in Indian wars, in the defence of the front
North and West, in Notifications, in prcp'
arms and munitions of war, in the Legislative
parmcnt, in permanent and durable fire proof
liz buildings, aud in assuming the foreign debt,
making other expenditures for the District of
lumba. In these branches of tho service
| the increases be principally found, aud suppd
Them all, except the increase for pensions,
hors, some of the lighthouses, and the book D
Ing part of the legislative expenses. srppd
all except these hut the gentleman of the a
stion supported all that did, and these best
and now 20 forth to raise a cry of cyiravagan
Mr. H. said, the opposition not only voted
these increased expenditures, but in some ina
cos greatly augmented them. This was the
in the Indian expenditures, and especially and
The Chcrokecs. The Opposition sat lhenselve
for the guardians Of these Indians they see
To make political alliance with them. The
dlnns became parties 10 our politics the OPP
ton became allies to them and the result
doubls trouble and double expense, aud do
delays, and dogblc veNuticn Of every kind
those Indians until it required military ford
compel them 10 comply with treasics which
them millions more thnn thy ought to have
cevcd
The opposition rot only voted for all thu
Crcases, and caused some Of them to be augn
cd, but they attempted mans enormous exp,
lures which the Democrats members opposed
prevented. Let any one look to the bills "
were rejected, either in the Senate or in the II
of Representatives let any one look to the
Der of these bills, and the tens of millions, il
aggregate, with which they were lreighcd,
then say what the expenses would have been
Opposition had been in power. One of these
alone, the French spoliaiion bill, was for five
ions of dollars ; Others were for vast sums.
cmlly the barber bills They were rejected b
votes of Democratic members and il they
not been, If they had passed, they would
sweled the thirty-scvento near fifty millions
would have been charged upon US as reck
was,erul, horrible extravaganza.
Mr.. u. said that the financial statements w,
difficult subject to handle, hard for speaker {,
derstand himself, and harder still TO make hir