Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-05-05
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,.xn,,>.I,tu,Isprs tlE GOVERNMENT

4 ore,t clamnr has been raised by the Opposition
about the expenditures OF Government, with how much
| ;nius,icc we have repeatedly shown 1t is curious
10 see how much these expenditures would necessarily
have been increased if their farourite policy IN regard
| TO the tariff had been perserered IN
The duties which actually accrued during i've years,
from 1894 TO 1888, inclusive. amounted in the aggre-
rate to Sll and the nett payments into the
Treasury, after deductng expenses OF collection, draw.
backs etc amounted to Ss6, 44 29. 1t the tariff OF
1928 had remained unaltered the duties that would
have accrued the article imported in those years,
wonld have amounted, in the aggregate, to S2J3, OBJ,
49, and the payments into the Treasury TO about
Sl7i,00O
General Mckay Of North Carolina, in his late excel
lent speech upon the expenditures, brought before me
| Hn,,s. these striking facts From them he argued 20
show the real service rendered by General JACKSON ana
his successor TO the country Every body knows tha
in every successive message, the late and present rre
sidents have urged the reduction OF taxes and the re-
duction of expenditures. The Opposition, on the otner
hand struggled, from first TO last 10 keep up the ta
and To render every extraVa
cant drain they could think Of to waste the Treasury
in carrying appropriations for millions beyond
the estimates of the Departmcns-and were defeated IN
millions proposed BY them, by Democratic votes
The official statement publsicd as referred |" IN
General Mckay argument, proves, beyond dispute,
tia, the Democratic Administration have lett IA me
pockets Of the people 10 millions by reductions
in the tariff Of lS2S which that tariff would nave "a,
ken ont if the Federal Administration had continued
in power Messrs. Adams and Clay had lad down
their prodgal plan of sectional distribution and favor
tsm which was 10 draw The surplus from the Trcasu-
rr and keep mp their tariff Of -c aud tins was TO
prop two other portions Of their sysem-a National
Bank hv lis dcposes-and the joint stock companies
engaged in certain manufactures 10y the lev:rs 'h.y
were enabled make by the monopoly created IN Their
favor through the tariff. The nation has been saved,
therefore, only the l20 millions, the indirect TAX
which the tariff of 1928 would have laid upon it; but It
has been saved probably many millions more, winch
the private manufacturing companies would nave IT,
Wed by The exclusion of competition with their inrr-
chandisc.
Gen Mckay showed, moreover, that besides t'esr
savings 10 the nation, (Which relieved almost
without knowing it, rs It was taxed rnsldonSiy with
out pcrccyn@ The hand that took the duties from IT.,
ra, puJiic dcj hal been dschargCd by nc Dsmarrac
.3dmiaistrati0aS-that trentg-eigM millions had betn
distributed jr0m Mc Treasury amOpg The NdfS-tha
three md half millions had jcsn gircn 10 railroad cor
poreiioas and others IN hC remission 81 duties on rail
road IRON &r.-that large and liberal appropriations
amounting TO many millions more, had been made
TO public works and establishments, avmores, hos
pitfalls, Notifications, &c.-Tnat immense sums have
been appropriated in laying in materials Tor our
navy-ftiing out and armng of the nobest
vessels in the world arming our iortresses-rebnild
nr public edlticcs. and in other works Of an useful
and impershable character-,hat al least score
Of millions had been paid i'll acquiring the Indian
domain within the S,aeSan acquisition which IN time,
will more than restore the taken BY il rom the
Treasury while II will give birth 10 population IN a
single lifetime which, On the most reduced scale
contemplated for The tariff, will refund annually and
forever more than the OF the lands. Gen. Mckay
observed Also that tho Democratic Administrations of
Jackson and Van Buren,, abused for waste had ma
mayed 10 paw a greater sum- the last eight years. for
pensions, than all other Administrations from the toun
dation of the Government.
| Now We ask candid countrymcn 10 compare the
state ofthngs which Gen Mckay has justly carried
Ia the credit Of the Administrations with the condition
of every thing in The hands Of Federalism. They have
involved the States in inexrcabe debt whenever they
had control Their banks have suspended twice--and
their great Bank the regulator, utterly insolvcnt
No doubt, if the Tariff Of lc2S had remained mna
tered the importation o some articles would have been
Diminished but 10 what extent is conicctural. The
revenue would evidently have been greater than il was
under the tor the reduction Of duties; and what
taken from the people in the form Of axaton
must have been spent in way other It IS PLAN
that the expenditures ol Government must have been
increased in like ratio.
On the articles imported from 1880 TO 1888, the re-
ducton in duties amounted in the aggregate 10 S1I0,
I39,3l9 To this lcsscnlng of the burdens OF the PEG.
pie is in degree, to BE- attributed the prosperity which
the country has enjoyed-a prosperity which the
Wings, by their various hubbleblowlng systems. have
converted almost into adversely.
1t folly for the Wings 10 sci up Tor the economical
party. Economy is uttcrl Incompatible with their
scheme of "a splendid Government" Such a scheme
cab be carried MIC effect nj other way than by hea-
w taxes on me people, ana corrtspod'S n'd'S cH-
pendturcs on The part OF the Government. The OBJ
ect of the Democrats, the other hand IS TO reduce
the burdens the people to the lowest amount posi-
BILE, by strictly limiting the Government to the few OBJ
ects to which it is confined BY the Constitution.
The following table, derived from an authentic
source, will enable the reader to Judge of the differ
ence of the policy of the Wings and the Democrats,
in regard to the revenue; and consequently in regard
to expenditure.
Had the tariff Of ls2S remained unaltered, as
si,. ttoru SIrAG
and the expenses Of The Government for internal I'M
provcmcn, DC. been kept up high enough TO consume
only The dnties, without including the receipts from
land, it will b" that those expenses would have
ranged from forty TO sixty millions Of dollars hat
would have been the splendid display Of the Clay and
Harrison pariY,