The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-02-03

1877. fbs first year Of Van BuTen's reign.
Al Ss7 ,965, 6SI l5i d 1855 lhs seeopa
wear, \, ESQ. ibb.tse 30, nf 1852, ne
.hiri yrar, Il ss7.la9-st6 60. And yei,
liz C6uveniion las deliberately attempted
Is impose upon the people b. asserting
dat the expenditures Of Van BURNS al
minisIrslion neseE cane up . ihiiy-swo
millions.
The charge agsinstihe Wings made ~
de prrsmble i. illaf ihe pIcstnf txpendi-
iures of he government sIe ihiEiy-iwo
millions. lis true thar Il i 50 stated ~
Mr.. TyleF's Message; hGf = / e4ually
uue lhsi of this amount s5.62s,075 -.
was Cor ihe payment Of the debt. IN The
share ofTreasury Notes. cEealad BY Van
Buren's administration. and Is not ihere-
fore properly chargrable a expenditures.
This leaves The actual expenditure Of The
war ls4I. s26.396.s94 ss. But il 4
right 10 apply The same rule % The benefit
81 Van Buren,. We find therefore. BY The
same report d Mr.. Smith. that " 1897.
lhe sexual expenditures, /. independent q
payments on account Of public debt,
were s37, 2l3,2l4 "a. In 1889, $751;
s49.7ls Os. In 1889, s25.9s2,797 20.
What The amount Was in 1910, We have
no. lie means Al hand al This moment 70
saw. But, in lS4l. .independent Of The
payments on account Of public debt" 4
was only SIC, $40. s94 9s.-an amount.
we admit, TOO large; but il should be re-
collected that nearly The whole Of i was
appropriated BY The Van Buren, Congress
which expired on the 4lh Of March last.
and was approved by Van Buren himself.
The appropriations al that session q
mounted 70 s23.I9l.s56 81. II should
also be recollecied, that the expenses Of
taking the Census, amounting 10 sG26,-
527 50, which should have been paid in
1910. were postponed ill 1871. lgreaily
10 The injury Of The Deputy Marshals,)
probably for The very purpose Of swelling
The expenditures Of ls4l. II should
also be recoIlecied, that another half nil
lion. lsi97. 657,) was reuqired 70 he ap-
propriaied from The Treasury. at the Extra
Session, 10 pay The debts with which Van
Buren, had LEFT The Post Office Depart.
ment embarrassed.
But enough cf This. Let Us make
another extract from the preamble:--
With a. country as beautiful and
bounieous as any thalihe smile Of Heaven
ever blessed-wiih a nation Of fleemen
as It's inhabiiants-ai period Of profound
quiei--when neither war nor famine have
desolaied the one or destroyed The energies
OF the other. we find lhe resources Of The
country cannot be made by its rulers 10
yield revenue suflicientfor i;sexpcnses."
II might have suggested itself 10 the
writer Of The preamble, that IN This de,
nnncialion Of those who :. could not make
the resources Of the country yield a
revenue sufficient for its expenses" he
was striking hard blow At his friend Van
Buren,. When he csme into power he
found money in the Treasury, he also
withheld the 4th insialment fihe Surplus
Revenue, which had been pledged 10 the
States, amounting to about nine millions,
and he left about seven millions Of Trea-
sury notes, besides other debts, unpaid,
when he went out of Office. making alto
geiher some twenty or ihiriy millions ex-
pended BY him over and above what " the
resources Of The country yielded"
We might 60 on with such extracts,
hut our space is exhausted. Enough is
given to show The utter worihlessness Of
such testimony as this preamble furnishes.
II is worthy Of its originator, Col. .hOrus
MuificGuiis Wheeler.