Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-08-17

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men, if your party retain power, will
live TO see this debt paid. 1t will, as
have beGo.e remarked, be pushed on from
one year TO another, until it reaches thai
point Of overshadpwi0g magni6cence 10
which the English debt has attained. II
is vain - think Of relieving the Cover
ment by contracting new debtS. A little
of the frrugality and economy pfactiseC
BY our fathers will soonest effect the OBJ
jeci.
Is there any necessity for this ioani-
This, after all, is the imoortant question
We must Of course ioOk TO the report o.
tie Secretary of the Trel,ury, and tc
he known facts. for the data ne
cessary to answer this question. In the
examination Of this matter, permit me, in
the FIRST place, to advert TO the maailest
difference between the estimates Of the
secretary and those furnished BY fhe Pres
ident in his message. The President
sets down the balance in the Treasury on
the 4th Of March last at S645 GOO: while
The Secretary in one place calls il S572,.
7lS, and in another S646, sos; Deither
sum agreeing with the President. In es-
limalng The new appropriations for the
War Department, the President sets ii
down al S2,5ll, 1928, while the SScre
tary says S2,52l ,336 0s. In The mess.
age, the probable deficit on the lst of
September next is stated at S4.Sl5,000;
the secretary says il will be $5,25l, 1888
30-making difference Of nearly half a
million of dollars! Again, sir, the Pres
ident estimates the deficit of the whole
of The present year at Sll ,4O6 900; the
Secretary says it is $4,000, ,64l-rnakine
a difference ofnearly foe million and a
half. But it may be said the President
intended in his estimate 10 include the
debt and deficit for the next year. Tbs,
however, will not extricate him from the
difficulty; for lie distinctly estimates
that at Sl2,OS9,2I5. 1t will also be seen
by an examination of the items given by
the President to make ont the debt and
deficit Of this and the next ysar,
that those items amount TO $l,S6G,0O0
less than his aggregate statement! NOH
is this all: the message says there will
fall due within the three months cOmmen-
cling lst of June, Treasury nots (ncud,
ing interest) to the amount Of S2,850.,
600; while the Secretary. for prdcisely
the same period, puts them down with
inieresl) at S2,756, ,9OOO-being differ.
ence of S03, 100! Again: the President
estimates the expenditures for those thee
months at Sl2, $40, 900, and the Secreta-
ry at $ll isl ,693-beng difference of
$lS6.307. Now these are incongruities
appearing upon the face ofthe documents
themselves: and what gentlemen in this
House, | ask, will undertake to reconcile
them, or decide between these dgni-
tares! Should there not be commiss-
ion appointed TO take these accounts, ex-
anime them, and report to this House a
true statement Of the facts, before we
pass this bill? When the distinguished
Senator from New Hampsh;re( Mr. Wood
buly) was Secretary Of the Treasury, !
recoiIecl he was denounced in The most
unmeasured terms for what they were
pleased to call the obscurity Of his re-
ports and the want of grammatical accu-
racy in the arrangement fhis sentences,
and, indeed, it was said an appropriation
should be made TO cover The expense Of
teaching him how to construct hts SEN
tences, in order that his periods might be
rounded off and polished TO suit the fas-
tidious taste of certain learned gentle
man fresh from the schools. Well, sir.
we nov have luminous report from your
inancier, who has been much landed here
aud elsewhere for his trancendant ahlli-
ties; and although be may write good En-
glish, vet ! undertake to say his budgets
exhibit the most satisfactory evidence
that he has never made any great prof
cheney in the science of numbers. He
has been compelled, after exposure
in the senate, to send in commu-
nicalion correcting an error of SGl9, l36
IS in his report, made by not placing
that amount having been received from
the Bank, of the United States, on ac-
count of the War DEPARTMENT in the
west in his estimate of receipts for the
month ofMarch. Since then, he has dis.
covered another mistake 10 the amount OF
S500,000, which was charged in the re
dempton of Treasury noies, aud moi
credited, as il should have been, IN the
receips from customs Thess two admit,
ted mistakes amount TO $l,ll9,l2o 20!
Why, sir, you ought TO make an aPpro'
Driaiion 10 teach him 9 e"clphcT, drIVe
him into "solitude,'' and compel him TO
paddle his bark upon some ''deserl waste
of waters" until he fully comPrehended
the science. We are much more deeply
interested in correctness Of his figures,
Than the beauty snd elegance Of his die.
hioD. But the fact is, the Secretary,
when he safe down TO prepare his report,
had but one object in view;and that was
to arrange his figures in such way (if
pospible) as TO show the necessity Of an
Il .vtpn aaaaiou nf nnnnRaaa In hia anxie.