Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-03-12
MIR. RIVES' LETTER.
CONTINUED.


have differed with him. Some cr his nois,,
partlzans have claimed for him GREAT credit
Tor t.lc lapish professions Of cconon, he makes
In his late message to Congress. But what
has been the practice, which we are mucl,
moro interested in knowing that the cmptv
prectp!s OF his administration! Acccrdip,r
70 MS own statement, The public expenditures
during the year 1887, the first Of his p,asi-
dency, amounted to IS the sum Of tbirtv-ibr,o
millions ot dollars, -during the wear 1883.
he says this amount {. was somewhat rc.
duced, and Tor Tie year 1889. he thinks
that the public expenditures will not in nil
probability have exceeded twcnty-six miilions
OF doliars.' But this sum of twcnty-siy
millions oil dollars happens to be lust the
ooub.c CT tic public expenditure under the
adU.hiStratlon ci Mr.. John l.. Adams, which
most CT us tAcught was so enormous and ur-
JuSHhasic as 10 mort tho dispieasure and IT,
bike oi the people. What, however. arc yrc
10 mink OF the Presidents promise OF .'con-
unued reduction" Of Tie public expense.
when VIC find on the very same pace Of his
message, the most earnest recommendation
by hiin to the fayourahlc consideration az
Congress. of plan Of the Secretary Of War
Tor recruiting militia army IF t,co hunI-ef
h9uSdnd mc2, one half to be in active, sar-
wee" the other half to form q .reserve -,
the term of service to be eight years--the
troops tobe armed, equipped and paid bv the
United States, according to a rate Of com
pensation to be fixed by law but in other
respects TO be under the regulation of the
War Department! The annual cost of sucb
force, according to any conception can form
has g;von ~ Z. r "i'i "i''or me outlines he
miIjiens tn III, n',kl;a - p' IAN 70 a"o many
only of tho croS,;c,, - ., HOW speak
asnccts. tbis ,nost ~ pInso. put IN othef
phaticoilv onJorsoI ~. - PrGject' en-
for in hi: ,nessr.o - 90 " - ry 'ie president,
cannot recr.nr,o,a :. 'ess; ne says: IL
sideration >, Josnr,-a, ,I o''ioiSiy oyouF con-
lion of everv fre,a ,f Iion' serious reiiec-
Is not nc ,,,;I;,:,, 9, Wy puo'iS iioefty.
chooses 10 eli - ~ 49, Is [,se secretary
which is tn bo 6. j., -, a'i % IL a. ieast,
crpited for e;,,bt vow. >, 60. vice, re-
er the Secretary If War sill airs whefev7
ard na;d., ~ a. e. 9.','iI uiiect- armed
tent and and rrpS, s's a,.su 9'atea'-to all in
nomiratod =, IL rS army, and de-
instinctya ;o.innn 'i.l ioli:, Ghly TO avoid the
stand;no ,r,n, IL @n'e.i ''lc name oil a
freeman. Gan smch = $50 ~ e"o iiima OF every
in the sansc nj fly 49,; VI ia caiioo militia,
which declares that {. ELL .n,ii oi rights
composed Of the bo9, of He ii'ili'ia'
arms. is the proner naiur.I ard .oc "
of free Stale'n or in tho sn,a s'. r usiThce
sti,ution Of the Irni,aa g. % ''le Sof
yes CONGRESS- :. tn ,,-o,,;L "i'ion a'thofl-
militia 10 execu,a he In'ilg loF'il Tie
press insnrrect;cns ,,J 80 ~ '.'o mon. sup
there at This mor,oot ;rsi,rr -: "S'uiS. Is
or resistance to the Iavs nf ~ INVASION
would Justify calIinr forth ,,a n,i';.: :" ';i.'i
actual servicc.' or if there n',,'. i iito
Justify embcdyinc them as s.recruits." far
eight wears term Of seryice1 NJ snoi ,o'
stitutional exioercy EXISTS cr i III. III
can view the Secrctarv,s MAJ, ~ go l''u
light than as proposition fer raisira larrra
st.ndino army without q la Se
founded Republican jealousics which its n" ~,
excites; or otherwise as most in@enous $40 de-
vice for cytendinr the influence If H. EoIoI
executive by seiting anart f,oa, cue I'e eoe'ai
the neopic, two hundred thousand ,.,,: =,
Gghiiag men, receiving ray fron, The I7,';.oJ
States as militia in acfnal sarv;co :, .,5
looking UP to the Pras;tsnI ,s $. "I''
laamder in chief as the constitu,"n 1V t,,a.
case, provides and directs. Ero,,. IF L,,t
one precedent fer so profound = co,,tr;..orao.
and That was in the DAVIS cf the i,,n,rI;, e.,
monwealih," so called, when tbat wiz, st.tn-
man, Oliver Cromwell. divided t;,a -,
into 'twcivo military Jurisdictions :, 80 -,
the Secretary now PROPOSES to divide tIo -;
ted States into .eig ht military districts ), and
under cover Of organizing the militia. ca,'soJ
them to be "eniisted.'' or recruited nd
proper oii;ccrs, and Irregular nav to he J;str;
buted among them - which the bistoy;,n
says, the Lord Protector found 10 he roo"'
cffectual resource for reprcssinrr bic III
ical enemies, but which all reasonab l ,,',,
lioerty' and ".parcelling out the people into
SO many sub-divisicnS of slavery" have
.i,o ViSpo'itioh 10 question the originality of