Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-18
Apnropriations
Sl43.l90,l06
$3.50,
S542lq.lSI

SOD, 209, Isl
Now, if the counsels of Mr.. Van Buren, had pre-
vailed instead of deficit in the Treasury there would
have been millions upon millions TO spare. And az
ter this exhibit, rei,erae, Ills he honest, is he
pable, is he faithful to the Constitution"
1t is impossible, fellow citizens, to follow the Cen
trail Wing State Committee through three numbers
comprising nearly three columns EACH filed with STA
,istics which, If insert in this address, and
then comment upon, would swell its limits into
lume which you would not spare The time TO read; but
We think we have commented upon enough OF their
facts and conclusions to satisfy you, that the data they
use falacous, and that their reasoning wholly
inconcIusive There is one other circumstance, how
ever, that We will notice. in their second and third
numbers they set forth statistics, and make Of data
furnished by Mr.. T. l. Smith, the Register Of the
Treasury, and urge arguments upon these statistics,
as they were entitled TO all credit reverence and res
pect: And then, in their fourth number, when they
come to answer the arguments used by the Editor Of
the Enquirer, and the Hon. George &. Dromgoole ba
sed upon statements made by the same Y. l.. Smith,
filing the oiiee-statements which he are
made out upon the same principles with those which
themselves employed, they attempt TO discredit their
witness, by calling him "taat Van Buren, official,
and ihis complainant t. L. Smith, Regsier'-as if he
were not in the employment Of both Gen Harrison and
Mr. TYLER, and is no, therefore just much Harri-
son official, or Tyler official, as Van Buren, off,
cial. Now, his statements either true false; II
they are true, give credit for their force If false,
prove them TO be so, and then denounce him for his
imposition. Public officers, you know, fellow-cti-
zens are compelled to make statements from the public
records in their charge, according to the principles
CURED in the call made upon them, and they respon
sble for the accuracy of they are not
responsible for an improper application of those state
ments to prove what they not designed 10 show;
and if public men will use them, and their antago-
niss should similar statements to be made out. TO
dsprove or nvaldate the rst you ought not 10 permit
them evade the force of the countervang statement,
BY sur upon The officer, "a Van Buren, official, or
"a complainant Register
We have shown you. fellow Citizens, that the debt
left at the end of Mr. Van Burens administration was
So l65,3 3i 03. We propose now To exhibit one more
calculation. We propose to show you, what the debt
was at the end Of The three first years OF the Wing
economical administration; two of those years, with
Wing Congress to sustain them, aud with no measure
etoed by The President that would have cur,a'ed
expenses, but with several the contrary vetoed,
which would have added largely to the debt, by sub
scrp lons 10 their monster Bank. We have been FUR
nshed with statement, by MIR. Smith, the Register,
under call made by member of the House oil Rep
reese natives, sand submitted by the Register to The
Secretary of the Treasury, under whose drec-
ton and authority it made ont exhibiting the
state Of the debt created during the three years ending
3lst December, lS43 made out, TOO, IN conformity
with the statement heretofore used by u.s. and found
in Doc No q. From this statement we extract the
following: