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

alike. The same rule was applied to the eXpen-
ditures under each one The aggregate was given
IN every case first and then the extraordinary,
separated from the ordinary expenditures, and ttG
same items charged and credited III every Casc.-
In looking at the aggregates it will be seen tina
every Administration needed this classification
that the aggregate under Mr. Adams's administers
ton was not thirteen Millions, as repeated 50 man
millions of times, but about the double of that
ard that this thirteen millions for that gentleman
administration vas only attained by deductnI
extraordnares by going through the very process
which reduces the expenditure under Mr.. Van
Buren, to thirteen and half millions. The small
est aggregate in the whole table is that Of 1885
under Gen. Iacksons administration, when the
public debt had ceased and the Indian wars had
not begun, The aggregate for that year is seven
teen millions and half Even including the extra
ordinares of that year, and the aggregate wa
but seventeen millions and Il half And so ii vii
be again. As soon as we are done paying The
Treasury notes, which are issued in lieu of on
misplaced revenue and so soon as our Indian
troubles are over, and the payments completed 70
removal of indians, and purchase Of their land,
the aggregate expenditures will come down Il
about what they were in 1885 and the Ordinary
expense will be within fifteen millions,
Mr. b. demanded who ever deemed it an ey
pense Of the Government, when Mr.. Jefferson
purchased Louisiana at fifteen millions Ct dollars
And who could think of charging as an expense th'
large sums which had been lately paid, in eXtin
gushing Indian titles, and removing indians On
would as soon think of charging, among the eX
penses of n family the outlay which should be
made by prudent and thrifty farmer in purchas
ing additional land, and nclosng it with fences, o
covering it with improvements. The extinction o
Indian litles-the acquisition of their land for set
Element and cuyation-and the removal of tn
| Indians themselves from all the states, was one
the glcal measures which illustrated General Jack
sons administration, and was beneficial both TO lh
Indians and to the States. SO great an object coul,
not be effected without large expenditure of mo-
ney and who is there now to stand up and con
denim the Administration for this expenditure =
Who wants these Indians back? Who want
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and all the othe
States, again ncumbered with the Indians which
have left them
That the expenses of the Government had in
creased in the last twelve or fifteen years, Mr.. III
said was just as certainly true as it was natural
to have been expected. The country itself hut
increased in that time several new States hat
been admitted into the Union, and several new
Territories had been created. An additional i'm
petus had been given to the public deiences in thu
| y
Indian tribes had interviewed, vast purchases of IN
dian lands had been effected, whole tribes, nay
whole nations of Indians, had been removed, and
removed to vast distance. and at vast expense
| This latter expenditure was chiefly for the benei
of the South and West ; but where is the man il
any quarter of the Union that can stand up ant
condemn it
Sir, admit an increased expenditure and ia X
from concealng, exhibit aud proclaim it, dis
play the items they are spread out in the state
ments now under discussion point them out Il
the country. say they will be found, principally
in the navy, in the army. in the indian department.
in the pensions, in the lighthouse establishment
! in Indian wars, in the defence of the frontiers
North and West, in Notifications, in preparing
arms and munitions of war, in the legislative de |
partmcnt in permanent and durable fire proof pnl
lie buildings, and in assuming the foreign debt, nnC
making other expenditures for the District Of Co
| lumhiH. In these branches of the service vii |
the increases be principally found, and supported
| them ALL except the increase for pensions, har
bors, some of the lighthouses, and the book print
ing part Of the legislative expenses. | supporter,
all except these but the gentleman of the oppO
siion supported all that did, and these besides
aud now 20 forth 10 raise cry of extravaganza
MIR. b. said the opposition not only voted 70
these increased expenditures, but in some n>tan
ces greatly augmented them. This was the cas-,
in the Indian expenditures, and especially among
the Cherolees. The Opposition sat themselves u
for the guardians of these Indians they scemet
10 make political alliance with them. The In
diuns became parties to our politics the 0pposi
ton became allies to them md the result wa
double trouble and double expense, and doubl
DELAYS, and double vexulion Of every kind wit
those Indians until it required Il military force t,
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them millions more than they ought to have re
ceived
The opposition not only voted for all the in
creases, and caused some Of them to be augment
ed, but they attempted many enormous expcnd
lures which the Democratic members opposed ant
prevented Lei, any one look To the bills whicE
were rejected either in the Senate or in the Hous
of Representatives let any one look TO the NUM-
Der of these bills, and the tens Of millions, in tn
aggregate, with which they were ireighed, and
then say what the expenses would have been if th
Opposition had been in power One Of these bill
alone, the French spoliallon BILL was for five mill
ions of dollars others were for vast sums, espe
cally the harbor bills They were rejected by tn
votes of Democratic members ; and if they ha}
not been, if they had passed, they would hav|
sweled the thirty-seyento near fifty millions an
would have been charged upon US as reckless
wasteIu, horrible extravaganza
Mr.. b. said that the financial statements were
difficult subject to handle, hlrd for speaker TO un
dersiand himself, and harder still to make himse
be understood by others. II was point at whc
the most uniounded impressions might be made o
the public mind, on which the greatest errors migl
propogaied. Yet it was point on which correc
information should be disseminated. on which cv
cry citizen should be informed, which every on
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