The North-Carolina standard., 1843-10-25
saturday, october Fl, ls4s.
For the North Carolina Standard
ro tho Ercenen of North Carolina.
mo. 81


(No. S.
Fellow CITIZENS: We stated in our last that
Mr. CLAW had asserted IN the Senate ofthe United
States in 1872 that the average expenditures oil the
4rears of Mr.. Van Buren's Administration was
- millions of dollars This we contradicted and
referred YOU to Secretary Ewing's Report In page
o ofthat document you may find that so far from
NJ. Claws being sustained, that the yearly aver
oga is something like millions less. How Of
len have YOU heard it asserted, and that by men
who ought 10 know BETTER that the public debt in
tho last Administration from the issue of Treasury
notes alone was upwards of20 millions of dollars,
when The fact and truth is that the very law which
authorized Congress to issue the notes. at the same
time contained an express provision that there
should be at no time, greater Indebtedness crea-
ted by such emissions, than 10 millions of dollars.
What ought to be thought flhe leading men of
lbe party who would deliberately make such un-
supported charges2 Either that they have asser-
tel that to be true which they Knew to be false or
that they have asserted thing as true not know
ing whether it was trueor false The first assertion
We do not make, itwould be wrong so to charge;
but in the latter we are sustained by the facts, and
although we donot sehargethem with uttering
hIsehood, we will refer them to higher authority
in ethics. to u, Paieyasnas ayiand, who do
We have said. Fellow Citizens, that the Wing
party promised economy, and gave US ertrcra-
gaace. In making comparison of the two Ad,
m'nsrations. we are necessarily restricted to the
year 1871 and 1912 With these we will COM
pare the year 1889 and 1840, the two last years
Of the former Administration.
Secretary Ewing, Whg Secretary, (mark
thaD, in a call made on him by Congress, gives
the appropriations and expenditures for each year,
from 1889 down to 1910, inclusive. For 1889
the actual expenditures were something less than
p l-2 millions; in 1889, they were a little more
than p l-3 millions Now with this compare the
annual Report made by the Whig Secretary in
1872 and you will find that for I84O they were a
little more than "a l3 millions and that for l842,
las near as could be ascertained at the time the
Report was made), 25 2-3 millions, making DIFF
ference in favor of the former Republican Admin
istraon in two years, If more than SLs73 mIjLlOns
Of dollars. Now we. again seriousl ask what
ought to be thought of the leaders of party, Of
GsaIemea, who in the face of all this, still con-
t,.ue to cry out extravaganza Were the Rcpub-
ican party disposed to retort upon all the decen-
cy," the coarse and gar abuse which has been
heapcd upon them, they might in their turn apply
an epihct " which hard usage has coined" and
say, take it, for it is thy due" but we will not we
cannot, like them "stoop to conquer"
Extravaganza did we say? Yes, Fellow Citi-
zcn3, profuse and wasteful extravaganza, and that
loo, after they had rode into power by denouncing
it.
Who is there in North Carolina, that does not
recollect that extravaganza was the burthen OF
their song2 Who has forgotten that Gov More
head while canvassing the State, harped upon that
and almost nothing else? That he spoke of the
prncely style in which the palace was furnished,
ofthe massive chandeliers, of the gold spoons, of
the French bedsteads, of the English carriage of
the servants in livery stating that extravaganza
reigncd within and without, from the drawing
room down to the cellar; for, if mistake not,
his Excellency even dabbled among the dishes,
soap and towels Who of you that heard him,
does not recoect that he told the people that the
clog cabin President when he entered the palace,
would stand back with looks of amazement?
Now what was the truth? 1t was not ten days
after President Harrison was installed into Office
before Committee was appointed by the Wings
whose duty was made to visit the Palace, and to
report to Congress whether it required any addi
tlonal furniture This whig Committee reported
that so far from abounding in all these fine things
that it actually required $4,000 make the Palace
comfortable forever 'log cabin President lfthis
was not a fact ofsuch notoriety,we should be afaid
to utter it; but it is so, and they will not deny it
Extravaganza did we say2 Yes, profuse extrava
eance. The President dies within about one