The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-09-10
HOW TO MAKE A DEFICIT!
MODE TIE FIRST!

By report from the Land Bureau, Just made,
it appears that there are now 8 ,i6o,567 acres Of
the public domain, surveyed and prepared for mar
ket, but not adrertised for sale And as they are
not liable to entry until they have first been ex-
posed to auction sale, all this vast amount Of
land, is now withheld from purchase.
1t further appears, that since the 4'h Of March
last, only 5Sl 1863 acres have been advertised for
sale, while in the months Of March, April, May,
June, July and August, of the three preceding
years, the following amounts were advertised:
In 1888, 19,l35,773 ACRES.
1889, 9,130,5l2
"lS4O, GALS
The time for advertising is in the Spring and
md Summer, and the time for selling is in the Fall.
Thus during the last three years Of MIR Van Burens
administration, the annual average of acres adver
tised from March 10 August, was nearly twelve
millions. Now, during the same part of the pres
ent year, il is but little more than half million,
while the administration keeps back upwards OF
eight millions, which are surveyed and ready for
sale
The design is, LIST, to diminish the land revenue
for the present year, so as TO make pretext for
loans and taxes, and for charging the late admin
lstration with leaving debt; and I'd, to hold on to
the eight millions of acres, to be sold next year,
when the proceeds are 10 60 to the British holders
of State stocks.
MODE THE SECOND!
By statement from the Treasury Department.
bearing the date Of July 10, 1871, it appears that
on that day, there was Of monies transferred TO
dsbursng officers, since the 4th Of March last and
not accounted for, at the date Of the statement, the
enormous amount of upwards Of SEVEN MILL
IONS OF DOLLARS!
The wiful, inexcusabe, and palpable atrocity
IN nd n T.
CElVE the people, ought everywhere 10 be held
up, shewn up, and denounced.
To work up n pretext for an extra session of
Congress-. the funds of the Treasury, are IMPROVE
IDENTITY, prcmatureIy, and in unprecedented masses,
scattered broad cast among the disburslng officers.
The resulting deficit, is just what any Secretary oil
the Treasury may create at any time when so dis
posed. 1t il a voluntary deficit brought about on
purpose and brought for the bad purpose OF jus'i-
fyinp an extra session of Congress. And the peo-
nle are now to be humbugged with the idea, that
this extra session was necessary and unaroiddbie
The Land Revenue is voluntarily diminished BY
the new Secretary Of the Treasury, diminished
with malice propense, some three or four millions
of dollars. And the people are now told that the
Treasury is empty, that Mr. Woodbury. bIunderet
in his estimates, that the receipts are less than wa
expec,ed that taxes are necessary, that loans are
necessary, ana mosI cspecIa'iy aie ''ey .o'u, "'"
the tuelre million dcbt is legacy q the demo
cratic administration
Mex, wear, when the eight millions Of acies nov
held back are thrown into market, the land reye
nue. will be enormously increased, but erery dollai
of is 10 go TO The British
Then the Secretary of the Treasury will urg
on, hurry aud precipila,e the land sales, so as 4
feed The stock-jobbers'
.Nop. he holds back, delays and posipones tn
land sales, so as 10 lay a foundation for grea
debt and high tares!
INTO WHAT HANDS HAVE WE FALLEN
.Maine Age.