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EXPENDITURES OF THE VAN Blu.
rem ADMINISTRATION

posing 10 Tetrench The expenditures Of
the Government, and to regulate the
duties on imports, &c
will now pass TO another objection
urged by the Senator from South Caro-
lima. II was that no retrenchment Of ex-
pendtures was made at the extra session;
or, in others words, that an economical
administration Of the Go, ernment' has
not YET been obtained.
But frat let me stop a moment 10 in
quire whence this objection proceeds.-
The Senators from New Hampshire. from
New York, and from South Carolina, all
united IN urging and insisting on 1t, and
they Wed with each other in lmputlng
wastoluIness and extravaganza 10 the ex
listing Administration. And if the
charge were we'll founded, could 1t come
with grace from such quarter? The
Senator from South Carolina, in 1887,
abandoned his political friends and went
over to their opponents, with whom he
has ever since remained IN close alliance.
And now who is it that rcproaches US
with prof1lgate expendltureG The friend
and advocate of an Administration which
expended annually during the four wears
OF its continuance anaverage gross sum
of thirty five millions of dollars; which
seized on every available resource with.
in its grasp 10 supply lis nee sstIee; /;
which, during its whole term, exceeded
lis income, as is now confessed, by an
average balance of eight millions; which,
when il discovered that the annual in.
come was far short of the annual expen.
diture, failed for the space Of four Years
10 provide an adequate revenue: und
which has left us an empty and lmpover
ished Treasury, and tariff descended
or descending TO zero! Is it from the
friends of such an Administration that
reproaches should come on the subject OF
economy? And, alter all this vast aud
pfohigate expenditure Of money, where
are The nationa monuments which they
have left behind them? 1t has been
sunk in the morasses Of Florida, or worse
than wasted by the transfer of Indian
tribes from one side OF river to the 9th
er, and by locating them in the mmedi
ate vicinity of our frontier settlements,
creating the cause for new expenditures
for the defence OF our citizens thus en-
dangered. Where, | ask again, are the
monuments of all this exponditure'-
What has the nation got TO show for its
money! You expended thirty five mil
lions a year for four years; and yet il
was you who put down The Adminislra
tion of Mr.. Adams for its extravagaHce
which expended but thirteen mIIIions!-
Gentlemen have disputed the gross a
mount, but | speak from official papers,
They have gone into Iaborious examina'
tion of the account, and after all then
wInnowing and sitting, they have beer
compelled to confess to an annual exI en-
diture of twenty. eight millions. AnC
yet gentlemen who had the Government
for years, after Spending oil they couI(
Icy their hands on, and leaving us al
empty Treasury, without any provision
whatever TO repIenish it, come here Ont
reproach new administration, not II
power sing gle year, for cot having efiec
led a general system of retrenchmenr!-
Genllem"nr. "hc "t.c, iiinsiea33 .! Stouds. lcC
US Il largo debt, aHd who violate all dc
cency and propriety in taunling US will
loans, the necessity for whi,h they ar
the real authors oI! say. then, if th'
charge were just, and the papers prove'
il, still II would como with very il
grace from such a quarter Retrench
ment! Why did not the Senator irou
New Hampshire and the senator (rom \
York effect the rerenchment for whic
they now profess such patriotic soIlciiud
when one was at The head Of the Freasu
nv and lie other at The head of the Coz
mitlee on Finance? What were the
doing all the while they hold the ConIr(
OF The whole fiscal means Of the Cover
menl? The Senator from New Hamr
shire tells us that he did, at last, wax
up, + laugh. and was very desrious
efscting a reform in the year l840 =
But let us look little INTO the clrcmn
stances under which The hpno'abIe ger
ileman felt this SUDDEN zeal for reform
What were they? This whole land, frat
one end OF II to the O her, WAS filed wit
general outcry against the was'etuI cN
travagsnce of his Administration.
Presidential election was approachInI
moreover, and it was particularly impo
tant that fair and motelate accoun
should he made up for the inspection
The People. Under all these powerf
motives 10 action, what was accomplish
I'd by The united Iabors Of The Admini
UO.IoD, backed as they "ete by the So