Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-01-10
WASHIN GTON.
I. Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and
inseparabie.U
THE "NEw BooKss-AGAIN.

| The Editor Of the " Union" must have very
poor opinion of the intelligence of his readers, il
ne expects, under cloud of such mystifcation as
occupies column of his paper Of Thursday night,
to escape from responsibility for the glaring mis-
representation Of Wing principles and Wing prac-
tees which we have convicted him of putting forth
some days ago, under the head of The New
Books" This misrepresentation was, we have no
doubt the consequence of transformation, and not
Of intention; but, when proved, the Union should
have retracted it, and thrown the blame upon its
informers, and not made il worse by laundering
attempt to change the issue.
The issue made by the Union did not consist in
its parade of figures, showing that the public debt
was, on the 18th Of March, ls45, more than it was
on the 4th of March, ls4l, by ten millions Of dol
lars for we did not dispute its figures, but took
them upon its own showing. The figures, there
fore, repeated in the Union of Thursday night were
not " the material portions" Of his first article, as
now averred. The material portion of that article
was the following:
Hence it will be seen that the Wing new
| books show we have national debt Of about
| eighteen millions of dollars, more than ten mil
lions of which constitute one Of the Rgacies Of
j the late Whig Standardization. Whig promises
= OF refrenchme,t and economy end IN millions of
debt This is the manner in which the Democra-
cy predicted they would fulfil their boastful UNI
dertakings. They proposed, during the previous
campaign, to reduce our annual expenditures to
thirteen millions of dollars and relieve us from all
debt and unnecessary taxation. But Mr.. Webster's
new books show that they increased our en-
/ peases and our taxes by the unequal and unjust
tariff of 1912, and hare left the people to struggle
Wih heavy national debt"
This is the material portion Of the first article
of the Union, and the only portion that possess
! ed any materially; and of this portion the only
averment that is true is, that the Wings, whilst
they held the power in Congress, increased the
taxes" They did SO by enacing the wise and
benefcent Tariff of 1912, which rescued the
Government from bankruptcy, and restored the
public credit from the disgraceful prostration
] in which the Democratic Administration left il
to the highest honor. The rest of this chap
ter Of assertions is wholly unfounded in fact
1t is moi true that ten millions of debt was the
legacy Of the late Wing Administration" The
dishonored credit of the Government was the neg
lected offspring of the preceding Administration,
left for the Wing Administration to protect and
which, notwithstanding the untimely and lamented
death Of their venerated chief, they did succeed in
recovering, and putting out to nurse at home, in
stead of letting it go about begging, as it had done,
for support among strangers. The Wings did moi
g leave the people to struggle with heavy national
debt" When they took charge of the Treasury
they found it ga beggarly account Of empty boxes ::
they provided the means of replenishing it, and
after funding the debt created by the preceding
Democratic Administration, and paying off two mil
lions Of that debt, such was the effect of Wing mea
sures, that, at the return of the Democracy tc
power, they found eight millions of dollars in the
Treasury
i These are facts SO notorious that the wonder is
that they should be unknown or misunderstood by
any body, and especially by those who have, and
profess to have to the records of the Trea-
sury.