Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1847-04-22

Messrs. Edtorslt is always important Tor W. to look
at what government costs for Ne the People
all have To pay the ppers. Al the birth OF Democracy IN
tins country m ls21, the cry "Reuonchmen OF pub
c expenditures REFORM" clear the "Augcan Sta
bes,' and the like. John Quincy Adams administration
had cost the country average of thirteen millions OF dol
lars Tor tho four years of lie oSistencca large amount OF
which had been Tor the public debt General Jackson sue
ceedcd-hc expenditures OF the government under the
beginning the reign OF Democracy, up about an
average o twenty -ihcc millions for la this time
the Bank Of the u. States killed of by General and
h- supple insrumCni--such men X. y. Taucy, Ac-
Martin Van Buren, succccded-a faithful OF theirs
The average greater, gong up thirty-nne millions
IN the last year OF his ogn, banEupug the Treasury and
hegcarng the nation John Tyler succeeded, 30
OF Wing administration with u heavy Democratic debt,
amounting, by the estimate OF the Hon. MI Graves OF the
state ot kentucky, something like twenty millions. lie
reduced the expenditures tn about twenty millions
Mr.. Polk succeeded IA Isis, with debt oi ,te less
than five millions OF dollars u the remembers right
upon the country, in time OF profound peace with all the
world The first wear Of this administration marked
by Ptoiuso expenditures Of which the following but one,
stated in the papers OF the day and derived from M
French the Clerk Of the House OF Representatives. 10
Biu OF PubIic Printers Messrs Richie Il
Heiss, for the first three months OF the
session OF rs and &c. $3.50 90
Report lor House Of Representatives, o.. $50 90
Do Senate $1,000 90
French's estimate for miscellaneous and other
Jobs. G5 900 90
Do allowance for the Senate, 5000 90
S259 o27 %
This is printers bin, understood for months
Of one session and reported by Democratic Clerk Of
Democratic administration The expenses of this session
up 10 the winter u not mistaken, about thfy NIL
lions Of dollars.
The appropriations OF the last session Of Congress may
c1ghen 10 The expenses OF the present year. VIVA;
Iheyl Why, in the aggregate. iiyscvcn million nine
hundred and egnty-wo thousand i've hundred aud
ty-iye dollars and nnety-jhrcc cents o. this sum- $50
las, i6l = Is tor brought the county by Mr..
james h. Polk, the Democratic President.
II the foregoing statements correct. and they
be, Tor they derived from the Uuon mainly then
M Folks administration up the 3Oth June 1.-Two ycars
and less than three months, will have cost the country
within fraction Of eighy-eight millions of dollars
At this rate saying nothing OF increased expenses for
Nh Puik's Mexican War, the average Tor his four
years viii be considerably forty mill ons per an
il j. generally believed, however that the charges
for the Mexican alone wal reach all OF ~ millions
Nh Calhoun, good authority with LIcoiOcosm .aid
from the first hat would be 30 millions. Well ,low-
cOunymen, Mr. W. ID. Leakc, the candidate the De-
mocracy, forward and your votes or seat IN
the Congress OF the L. 5; aud iAc AgA,st prcensions o
merit which ne upon attention that he goes
Tor James IA Polk, the Mexican war, and all those enor
nous expenditures.
VIII you support himVill you give him your sunrogcs
J VI. Bots, who coutsmns -" Democracy and a lie
prc'ensuns, tA,sIg3ucc and corruption Your solemn
decision against ls party must be registered to-day Til,
Establishments " lcoucoIsm deceive honest and
independent men, who 90 for their country right" their
country, night srung" MARION