Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-06

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IVide Public Accounts, for 1910, page 240l printed
and preserved in the Registers Office.
But the Federal party, then in Congress, gave their
votes carry the appropriations beyond the estimate,
and yet daily abused NJ. Van Buren, for his honest
deavos to restrain them The speech delivered in the
House Of Representatives on The 18th of Febfuary,
1910, BY Mr. Barnard, Federalist member from New
York. is scmpl. Of the general abuse Of President "
Buren, for his rigid economy. But, finding il imposs
BILE to fix any odum President Van Boren for the
practice Of economy, the Federal politicians changed
the tune and often declared that President Van Buren,
was the most wastefu prodgal Chief Magistrate we
had This old tune, with addition oil catches
and gees, they now raising TO u NOISY pitch -
Throughout their ceaseless and contradictory efforts
get control of the Government the Federasts assert
ed that under the administration of President Van Bu
rem the nation owed forty millions of dollars They
daily circulated this untounded accusalon and induced
many honorable citizens to believe it, This unwarran-
table and unmanly conduct designed to destroy,
By The odium it would create, oil Democratic
dancy in the national councils, to transfer political
power to the Federal party, and to pretex
for those wicked and oppressive measures which the
truly extraordinary Congress of Mr. Clay inflicted on
the nation. These reckless Federal accusers daily
promised to open books, to expose abuses to ban
ish extravaganza, and to reduce the annual expend-
lures of the Government to thirteen millions of dol
lars, sum which they assured the people was amply
sufficient for honest and dutiful admnstration.--
With hasty confidence, the people listened TO this idle
tale; dismissed the Democrats from office; aud, by
absolute surrender OF the Government INTO FEDERAL
hands, offered every opportunity and inducement to the
Federasts to establish their charges, to comply with
their promises aud reform The abuses they alleged
exist in the Republican administration of the Govern.
ment.
| Well, on the 4th March, 1871, the hour when
promises would longer serve; when the people
qued assertions be proved, and engagements 10 be
executed. Accordingly, the first effort which Presi
dent Harrson's Cabinet made, after their demoras-
ing carousals had seated them in power, was to es,a
bsh and fasten Government that heavy national
Indebtedness, the existence of which they often pro
claimed, and labored TO create. MIR. Ewing, the Sc
cretary of the Treasury, attempted to effect IT, Bot,
finding i, impossible aud dreatrg an exposure of the
idle and mische tale his party had told h, cocly
obscured Whatever related to the public finances His
report submitted on the Sd Of june 1871, freely
discussed in both Houses OF Congress, where every
Read Mr. known speech delivered during
Of 1885, his Speech which he said that
expenditure might brought down from forty to one
third Of that lie then assured the that about r
teen million. would suffice for the frugal Wings Bur in his Sd
Senate resolution which he afterwards submitted
he assumed millions would suffice for the ord-
expenses Cnvernmenmuch about the annual
pense President Van Burens administration in fact the
solution thus: hat in the adjustment of Tariff To
tpenysr millions of revenue the principles the
Compromise generally should be adhered to- &c land
showing adherence the Compromise
with 20 per duty s to support The black Tariff OF s4e