The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-06-17
"THE GRoANs OF THE RRIToNs y

The lntelligencer Of this morning croaks over tn
message Of yesterday, and the report from tn,
treasury. 1.-THE revenue is giving out! Every
body knew it would! The estimates of the def
cheney are not half large enough The twenty
three millions additional asked for will be spent be
fore December next instead Of lasting through the
fiscal year! No modification of the tariff can hell
the matter. The land fund is no resource. So w,
have nothing to do but to borTow. Such is tn,
painful and disreputable predcament in which ou
government will soon be placed Congress mus
hasten to relieve it, and, meantime, may as well le
the tariff alone, and not lay an 'impracticable' tax
| on the necessariss Of hter'
This IL the substance Of the Inteligencer's groan
| ing for to-day.
| Now the mannsr-the snarl and snap OF all this
is the worst part of it. Because peace revenue is
not sufficient in war time, government, forsooth
though 1t have some twelve millions ahead, is in o
"disreputable predicament." Efforts to raise the
proper revenue, or portion Of it, by suitable rev.
enue BILL are "unprohtable and impractical Sc
our minister Of finance" must 'Sorro,v" We sub.
init to the "lntelligencer" that this tone would be
very becoming at Vera Cruz or at Mexico |,
would be quite the thing in the columns of the
"Tiempo" or the "Locomotor." 1t is decidedly no,
as well in journal published at Washington VIVA,
though the ''Intelligencer" did make a most sad
blundcr when the war news first came, and then
backed out of its position with a very i'll grace,
and under a storm Of censure almost UNIVERSAL
Still that is no reason why it should persevere in
putting the worst possible face upon matters, in i'm.
agning d;rcredit where there is none, and defcen-
cy of the estimates where they are made with entire
unreserve, on the ampest scale, and in view of all
probable contingencies. Impractcable !" Does
the Integencer really imagine that the whole PEG.
pie have been studying in its school till they have
learned to object to any reasonable modification of
the revenue bill, whether it tax "necessares of fe
not provided that such tax be necessary to sus-
tain their government in vndicating their national
rights and honor We can tell the Inelligencer that
though il may look upon this Mexican war as the
child looks upon the fire which has burnt its fingers
the heart of the country turns towards the scene
action with quite another feeling Witness the
grand energy Of war moyement-the ia
nous voluntary system" tried to new
purpose, and on new scale. And wit
ness too, we venture to predict, the willing
ness with which the country will sustain its fnan.
cal burden, as it has already rallied without
hesitation to participate in it's military effort and
peril But every one to his taste. If the Intelli-
gencer finds it's account in sneer, dsparagemen, and
hostility against its own government when engaged
in foreign war, we surely, the opponents of that
Journal need not be dissatisfied when it takes such
acourse. We must say, however, that it has prof
tied but little by the somewhat severe experience Of
the last few weeks.