The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-16

Extracts from the Address of the Hon. LYNN BoID to his constituents, published at Washington City, February 22d, 1913.
 Of the long catalogue of Whig complaints against tic two fast administrations, none was more universally and perscveriDgly persisted in than the charge of eXtrayagance in the public expenditures. This allegation was always coupled with the cry and promise of retreacbmeat and reform, as the certain con- sequences of the election of General Harri- son and his friends. They were elected- the Democrats turned out, and what has been the result2 We have already noticed few samples of Whig economy; but for a more comprehensive view of the subject, l beg leave to refer you to the following table:
 Estimates. Appropriations. Expenditures. 1887 $22 ,4l2 $31,l26S07 $3l,6i0,003 IS38 22,735,2i9 33,l35,37 3l,544,396 lS39 g, ,S62, ,560 25,445, ZIG lS40 l8,2S3,6Oo 2l,G53,s72 22,389,356
 This table shows that during Mir. Van Bu- ren's administration, the expenditures were brought down (speaking in round numbers) from thirty-onc millions in 1857, to twenty two millions ii 1840; and no one in the least acquainted with the policy of that adminis tration can doubt that these reductions would have continued, if the management of our finances had not been transferred to other hands. The unusual and extraordinary bur dens thrown upon a good portion of General Jackson's and the first two years of NIr. Van Buren's administration, on account of the Florida and Creek wars, building new custom and other houses, revolutionary debt to the State of Connecticut, protection to the north eastern frontier, removing the Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi, &c., which in 1888 alone amounted to upwards of S7,000,000, were known to be rapidly pass ing away; and, in view of this, NIT. Van Blu ren and his friends confidently calculated on being able to reduce the expenses of the Government to S1S,000,000, or less, per annum. How stands the account since the Wings have had the control of the finances? It must be borne in mind that estimates and appropriations for the year l84l were made by the democrats, just before they went out of office, and were as follows: estimates Sl7,6S9, ,736, and Congress appropriated for ordinary expenses, S19,708,796 62, and at the earnest solicitation of the Wings, and to avoid the necessity of a called session, also gave power to issue treasury notes amounting to $5,43l,42 l7-thus giving over twenty five millions for the service of that year.
 The Wings were not content with that sum, as will be seen from the fact, that, upon meeting al the extra session, they made new and additional appropriations to the amount of S5,043,705 02. Thus swelling the ap- propriations for 1S41 to thirty instead of twenty-five millions as proposed by their De- mocratic predecessors. The difference be- tween Whig and Democratic economy is here seen al a glance And it may be set down as one item in the long list of blessings promis- ed by the former, that they have cost the good people of this country, in the first year of their rule, the modest sum of S5,043,705. O more than the Democrats proposed, or would have expended, had they been permitted to remain in power. Passing to the year lS42, we find the expenditures were S23.S37, ,S05 6l-showing an increase over Mir. Van Bn- ren's last year of one million and half; and this too after the treasury had been relieved from nearly all the extraordinary expenses growing out of the Florida war, as well as the other causes to which have all6de' Bearing in mind the patriotic strains with which he Wings every where denounced