The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-06-05

|. The first item to be deducted from the ihirv-
seven million aggregate was the sum of;Tll ,lI6,
69O % paid ON account of the public debt. He re-
peatod, ON account of the public debt for it was
paid III redemption of Treasury notes and these
Treasury notes were so much debtincurred to sup
ply the place Of the revenue deposited with the
States, IN 1883, or shut up in banks during the
pension OF 1887, or due from merchants, 10 whom
indulgence had been granted. TO supply the
place OF these unatiainabie funds, the Government
went IN debt by issuing Treasury notes but filth
fu to the sentiment Which abhorred national debt,
il paid OIL the debt almost us fast as it contracted
it, Above eleven millions of tbs debt was paid IN
1889, amounting TO almost the thad part of the ag-
gregate expenditure oitlmt year and thus, nearly
the one third part of the sum which is charged upon
the Administrator us extravaganza and corruption.
was mere payment debt IA mere payment of
Treasury notes which we had issued to supply the
place of our misplaced revenue. This item being
deducted ilom the 81 millions, reduces il to &C.
2. The second item to be deducted is stated in
the table under the description of trust funds and
consists OF moneys received in trust for the Chca-
saw Indians, and other Indians on the sale of thei-
lands, for which the United States act us their a.
gent and treasurer, 1t amounted to near quarter
of a million, to wit, $40, 6S4 for the year 1889
lion and quarter, and contributed largely to swell
the expenditures, as they were termed, oiis36, IS
81, and 1898. This item had 10 existence in the
year 1924 so that it become new charge, appa-
renly upon the Treasury but in reality no charge
at ALL as it was only delivering over to Indians the
money which had been received for them, and be-
ongcd TO them. Yet this item, amounting to nearly
four millions in the last four years, is set down TO
the rackess eXtriyugance of mad and ruinOus
Administration.
The third item 10 be deducted is the sum of
s7l7 ,552 81, for ndcmities that is TO say for
moneys recovered from foreign nations, under Gen.
Iaolson's administration, toa merchants who had
been pundered under previous Administrations
whose money, when received, had gone into our
Treasury, and was afterwards paid out to the right
full owners AS their respective rights were asccr-
tanned. The payment for 1889 was near three
quarters of million but for three previous years
they amounted in the whole 10 about five and II
half millions; and according to the accusation of
the Opposition gentlemen, constituted much of
the horrld extravaganza of Those years and here
let us mark the difference between the present
times and those of 1924, When, in that year, sun,
Of near five millions was paid out of the Treasury
for iudemities to merchants under the Florida trea-
ty, no one ever thought of making the people be-
ieve that it was part of the expenses oithc Gov
eminent. No one ever thought Of injuring the Ad-
nlinisration ahoutit. These conceptions have been
reserved for the present day. Now, for the first
time in the history our country, or perhaps Of any
country, the recovery of indennes from foreign
ers, and their payment our own citizens, becomes
dreadful extravaganza ruinouS waste ofmoney
for which mad and prohigatc Administration
must be thrust from power
4. The fourth item is Il samll sum of 81, S75
80 for claims of States on account of expendi-
lures for general benefit during the late war, II
was payment,of debt, and not an expense of Go
vermont, and though small in 1889, it had been
considerable in three preceding years, amounting in
that time to about $3.50, 0c0 and, of course,
swelling by that much the aggregate expenditures
of those years, and helping to make up the mon
strous extravaganza of which the country heard
so much.
5. The item grows out of the three per cen,um
fund to the new States by compact, rs u consider
alton, and in most inadequate one it is, for moi
taxing the Federal lands. For the year 1899, this
item amounted to 500 $40 aud being debt due
TO the States, is no part of the Government, cypcn-
SEES. For the three previous years, when the land
sales were at the largest, and when some of the
States had neglected for some years TO draw their
money, the payments on this account amounted to
near one and half millions ofdollars and, Of
course, swccd to that amount the ertr0rNgaRce
of 1886, '37, and'3S In the year 1924, this item
was only $47,7ii.
6. The sixth item 10 be deducted was nearly al
lied to the former 1t was s IS $50 for the two
per ccntum ON the sales of the public lands to make
roads to the new States, and applicable to the Cum
berlnnd road. In the year 1924 it was only 81.
900 but in the great sales Of 1925, g. aud 7, il
amounted To near 81 200 900. Here again was
payment of debt converted into wasiciu extra
vugancc
Z. Donations of money to, or payments on ac-
count of, the Dcstrci of Columbia, was the severn
tn item of deducation which Nir b. mentioned. II
amounted TO Sl2G, 37i for the year 1889. 1t was
new item in the list of Government payments,
having no existence in 1924, nor until the wear
1882. After rhnt time it had been annual, and as
high as >.3l3, 600 in one year, TO wit, 1888, and
for the year fs36, Y and IS amounted to near
$40, 900. It was II gratuily to the District, which
had no political rights ; and it was graluity which
had no other object than to relieve il from burthens
improvidently contracted yet received the usual
character of corrupt extravaganza.
8. The survey of the coast was the eighth item
which Mr. b. explained. 1t was II temporary and
extraordinary object, which had grown up from Il
trine TO large amount within n few years past,
and amounted 10 S9l $50 Tor the year 1882 Pre-
yious to General jackson's administration il rarely
exceeded two thousand dollars per unnum for the
wears 1896 and 8, it amounted TO about S220O,
600,
9 Duties refunded to merchants was another Of
the new and large items which had lately grown
up amoung our Treasury payments From 1924
TO 1882, it was unknown; yet in 1899 il was
$40, 3OI; in the year 1898, it was SOL, 0OO and
for 1861 and :, it amounted TO above $500, 600.
This was favor, or I'm act of Justice TO merchants,
granted by acts of Congress, or by Judicial decis-
ons, or by reversal of previous constructions of
the laws. 1t is no part of the Government cSpcn-
diturc, though, being refunded from the Treasury,
it goes into the enumeration to swell the general
aggrcgate-to swell the cry of extrayagencc-and
to prove the hostility Of the Administration TO
merchants
10. A tenth item to be deducted was the sum Of
STA $50 for collecting mctcrals for the increase
of THE navy. This was an expenditure for the fu-
turc defence of the country, and averaged about
$500, 900 per annum since the commencement of
General Jaekson's administration, though only
ss423, 600 in 1924. II is clearly no part Ofthe en-
pcnses of Government, bnt an outlay of money
for the benefit of after years, and of postery