Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1843-04-13
THURSDAY. .iPRH Is, 1873

~ he clo,e n ,ur I'm Buen', .4dm6istratie

~ TIE co,f u ,lr I'm B,uea's administration
NJ one disputes that there MAS, at tie close Of Nj
Van Buron's administrator FoLhc Dclf in existence
HIS "amest friends admit it. lie only question Is,
What was lis amount TLis We preposo to examine,
sibJeciina 1t 10 the only certain which We think can
BE- applied 10 its clueldation Brore NC do so however
"e iog leave To premise, worthy of special rcu1rk
thai the party which denonecs Tie Wings as the adyo-
Gates Of public Debt, regarding il they say "a ub
he .tssns," is ilscllIle only parry in this country
Which las eyer had any agency IN creating National
Debt IN time Of general peace The great floria ,car
ofeanlsc, al"a1 excepted 1t looks very much Ike the
pursued rogue. crying stop hief" in order To avert
suspicion from HIMSELF and to fix It upon some innocent
bye-standcri
Mf Van Buren's Giends adait tia, al the close IF
his administration there National Dec, Of fuc mil
fo'' sT h"ldred thousand dotias-and they admit this
only because that amount OF Treasury Notes being then
outstanding and constituting visible and pressing de
mand upon The public treasury was impossible 10 deny
~ ~ conceal H. The Wings. on the ohar hand con
cnd that the debt WAS much arger and they acdye tina,
lis lfne amount VII. concerted by obligations inc,n,ed
ny The Van buren, administration, but which there be.
ing no money III tie inasury then To pay were handed
over 10 IT'S successor, together with the five miions CIV
thousand dollars of treasury notes for liouidaton and
that the Wing Congress who have been fb,rr.5 vi,h
ddd'g some twenty s!X millions Of dollars to the public
debt have only seemingly done 80 in fact by the ncceg
SLY oil mahu'g f'er'Sfn lor the payment of tie debts
Jeff by Mr Van Buren,. Had Mr. Tyler and his Cabi
net remained true to the Wig cau5e Instead Of len
lying themselves as far as ii in their power so to
do with the baeo3co party whose fi'is mislccf and
deih1nenres they are cqncniy ur1cr e s,rope,s,
of all conceivable Inducements = conceal fr,,, aIl
scrutiny, that "new S,t VI books spoken of by Mr.
Webster IN lsiG, would prolatI, Ia I'VE zen o6rpoJ
and correct state o the facts would have been arrived
al, and officially diyusod for the information Of the
country, as wei as to against the restoration ot
The Boerboas whose broken pledge and fsed promises
rise up on every hand against tlem-Nh no preached G.
conemy, and ptaclised Altayaeauce-w ho claim 10 q
lscpuNrans and vet are governed by the loascsi
rules d constitutional causructlo- ho dcnunce tar
H. aud vote tor tariff lawsN 10 lIae against internal
improvement by the general government and yei
eNpend more money for that ohect than the party which
they denaunce for holding 50 damnablc heresy-vhn
yesterday advocated Bankrupt Law containing the
very provisions for passing which they now denounce
the Nhigs-who deenlm against National D,bi
as the worst Of national curses and vet as the only men
by whom, under similar circumstances National Debt
hasever been ceaedn Short who preach good docriuos
ottcn but accompany them by the most detest,be ac-
tons. Bat as these new books lave not been upcn
ed, We must 90 back to the old ana come to such con
illusions as that recrcu'c orrcs us TO-
hat tcs IS the most cerain " which to ascertain
The anouu of the public d,ht al the elise Of Nj Van
Bufcn's administration We know a none winch an
ProAmates 10 certainty but oncand that Is 10 ascertain
how much money Nh. Van Buren, received dnrjnu bis
four years, and add HAT which ocru Use came into b,s
F'ssesSon-aad then to see how much he expended fl
all purposes, extraordinary well as ordiuary-and II
deduct the former from the latter The dcfriencv il
seems TO us will be necessarily IT, pee amount of III,
do5t.
Assuming, then, that we have f0ual the proper test
NC proceed TO showfrst, the amount of money which
fell into Mr. Van Buren's hand. during his four wears
administration and secondly the amount Of his exrend
lures The d Florence. repeat, must Of nee, ssy b,
he amount of the debtor surprising that there may h
some slight variations they must be of trivial inpor
lance. Il appears, then that Mr.. Vac Buron received,
From Customs. From Loaas Total
In 1887 81 l69, 29o 50 Sj77G256 - sf7.9i5.5aGql
In less I6,l5S,s00 50 1861 $50 Il lq2t0.7sgS st
In 1889 23,l3 ,92t 81 7,0e6Il7 80 30,2II.S72 It
In 1910 l3,l99,5O2 Il 2,292 2sj 50 l6,19l7s7 u
81, 1872 t26 Is
In addition to the sum above stated
here in the treasury on tho LIST Of
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