Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-18
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by the committee. In the commencement OF their
third number, they state that in The third year OF M
Van Buren, power "he had created national oeol
of between eleven and twelve milllons!" They then
p-oceed to the expenditures for the 4t year, AND
s,hbt for THIS purpose tables made out under resn
luton calling for particular nformation and made with
view TO present the information called tor merely
omi,,inr subjects called for as reveanl, but which
If inserted would demonstrate the aosurdhy OF using
them 10 exh,b, the state Of the public debt This ia
BILE presents the liabilities of the Treasury the Attn
March, lS4l, and shows grand total OF
Now 10 show what result viii be ar
rived al by the same sort OF calculation,
based upon the principles, embrac.
ing similar items, and in every way cor
responding to the table presented ny
themselves we present you the aoIli'
ties for the year ending 4th March, 1915,
liabilities created by Wing Congress,
i; a1' 'A'@' s39,l73232 81
Being difference in favor OF Mr.. Van Buren, OF near
five millions
But the Wing Central State Committee, not salts
fed vet with grand results and desrous TO swell the
charges their utmost extent proceed TO add to these
thirty -four millions and upwards, the appropriations
of the Extra Session, Gen. Harrison extra session.
for objects neglected and unprov,ded for by the Con-
gress which expired the 4lh of March, lo4l; con-
s,uting the mselves The judges of what were neglect
ed, and what ought to have been provided for Add.
ng appropriations made at the second session OF
last Congress- 1928, (two years after Mr. Van
3crens time,) including among these, "arrearages
since 1854 in General Land Office mark The year,
embracing three years before Mr. Van Buten came
.nto Office Georgia Militia, for services in le}5-6 =
Two years before Mr. Van Burens time "Louislana
attis, for services in le36'-one year before Mr. '.
Buren's time; "prin,ing and binding documents order
ed by Senate in 1886; "repars OF building occupied
bv Post Office Department, under contract with Amos
Kendall 1886 Adding further, "what the Wings
found themselves bound by solemn treaties pay tor
the year 1912 and had to appropriate accordingly
including al .tem-'fulhlllng about az other Indian
trea,ies"-and they would have you believe, that Mr.
Van Buren, had concluded all these AZ Indian treaties
when, in fact they had been concluded from time 10
tune for years upon years And then after using such
statistics and adding such accounts they bring them
selves the consolng conclusion, that the total la
bnes thrown upon the Wings, at the end of MIR. Van
Burcps term amounted TO the round sum OF S3S. l23
Sic And this, too, iciihout showing what were the
Liabilities thrown upon MIR. Van Buren, term, by Inc
preceding administration, and without staung, that
such or other liabilities have been, and must be left,
hy every administration that ever has been, or ever
will be- and are obliged 10 be met by their successors
MIR Secretlry Ewing had stated the outstanding
balance without these extraordinary extras, on the
4th March, lS4l, 10 amount to 30, i29,6l6-and Mr.
Van Burens Secretary Of the Treasury had submitted
an estimate of means for the year, TO meet This out
standing balance, making aggregate OF 29,723,413-
leaving balance of outstanding appropriations on the
4th March, l54l, Of 3706,l43, which less than the
outstanding balance of appropriations for The last forty
years. With equal propriety, and in as much justice,
might he appropriations for the current service OF 1881
Amoun,ingto 37,755,606
Outstanding. l9503.O l9
Making together, 57,255, 625
BE- charged 10 General Jackson's Administration, q
debt 10 be paid by Mr. Van Buren's-or, those for
Is2S, the last of Mr.. Adumss years,
Amn,n,;no n 22642,4OS
With the balance Of old appropriations, 3,737 ,533
Making together, 2o,379,94i
he handed over as a debt from the administration Of
Mr. Adamr, to be paid by that Of General Jackson
Bot who ever dreamed Of such CHARGE II has been
left to these days of enlightened economy to make the
discovery, that such appropriations should be cassed
with what is usually termed the public debt
Blu, Mr.. Woodbury's table, commented on by the
Central Wing Stale Committee, embraced payments
on Of objects either extraordinary or Temporal
~; and among these objects, are the sums paid Tor
'',he removal Of Indians, and the warsfor the Pnr
chase of Indian lands, and extingushng Indian titles
to lands in the States, and for erecting durable pubic
buildings Now, surely, these are extraordinary ex-
penses, and surely something might be deducted Tor
the value of the land purchased the land remains the
property of the after it has been paid for, and is
worth, as every body knows, infinitely more than il
cns-and the enhancement in it's value produced by
the removal of the very Indians that occupied It, And,
surely something ought TO be deducted for The build
ings erected they still the property of the nation,
and are daily used for national purposes Take these
sums, then, aud make a fair deduction:
Removing Indians Sl3,7l43l7
Purchasing lands and extinguishing Indian
titles s,795 s26
Durable buildings 3,s2O624
S26,O3O,767
Deduct duties refunded for if they had been impro
pery paid INTO the Treasury, they surely ought 10
have been returned to the merchants and they
returned precisely received, they cannot be consi
deed with proprety either receipts expenditures.
We cannot go through the whole Of these expend'-
lures it would swell this Address into volume. These
items must suffice. But say the Central Wing State
Committee, "1hese tables formed the subject Of
ichte-rashny speech by the honorable member for the
ADMINISTRATIONS" (Mr. Benton,) "then engaged in hot
contest for its existence it easier, wcitizens,
10 denounce truth. than TO refute IT, We only wish
mat each OF you could read that speech for presents
the explanation OF the expenditures of the adminstra
f'on IN hight so pa'n so ntegble that every man,
VINO READS with an unpreudiced eye must at once be
satisfied with their popriety and necessity IA white
washing speech :, Does this epithe, d,sprove or re-
flute ita conclusions With equal force and beauty,
might speeches Of those who attempted to denounce
The administration for the expenditures which they
themselves voted for approved BE- denomipated
dr,-daubing speeches bot f they were !, would in
like manner neither prove their correctness nor their
faacy.
Now then, fellow.czens having demonstrated, as
think have gross errors in statistics and
shown that instead OF "35 1852 dollars thrown
upon the Wings with the Government, on the 9TH OF
March lS4l, there was in truth, but the small sum
of s3,l65,33l o. which, had Mr.. Van Buren, CONT
nued in office, would, under the annual reduction Of
expenditures then going on, have been entirely pro-
Sded for or utterly estngushed in the next year.
hlving shown that these Treasury notes were is.
sued, and these loans created 10 supply the place Of
the revenue deposited with the States in 1896, shut
up IN Banks during the suspension Of 1887, or due
from merchants TO whom indulgence had been granted;
and that Mr.. Van Buren, paid off the debt almost as
fast it was contracted, you will conclude with US,
that this outcry against his administration is a clamor
hioh III no cd Aodr
der. too, that Mr. Van Buren, repeatedly urged upon