The Arkansas banner., 1847-11-08
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The Expenses ef the wsF---A Consraus.
 One sf the tavossss ssgamenss of Feasr.iism against the psesent war, is the aiiegatiun, esess wAese nsastea 1pun sad daily Fspeaied, Ia aal the costing the nstioa many millioas of monev, It is this aegzsson thss is hsld ID iika fiixks3af -. trs Co alarm the tax-payeFs of good esd penrsvva- nia. Ii is this which s expected ta sssase sl ss. efKies ot s aat-war FedsTalisss. h the eeaafy of Lancaster and elsewhsre1 Nafwithsfandinr the .s. innate presented as ioi the actual amount Of fis deks are in every case gross and wilfai nisrepsesensz. lions, they continue to be repeated and eirrulated with malicious and extraordinary Industry Tst rr contrast the course which Fedesalisu A.s s.le. s-. portant and exciting question:
 The Bankrapt Law, for which. and againss sAs repeal ef which. Js ls cpasissensly and hifterlv voted was snsetst apea nest dEshonest pxsfepers. lt was called for by 10 egigeney of the tises anA demanded hy rc expFession of public opfniua. Ie was carried ander the whip ssd spur of tAe Fesssl iockies. in Federal Congress, ana heesme < lsw, almost hsors the people began Co realize that itwus under discussion. What dsd fhas saycyits Fei~snI measure accomplish. It piundered tho nsehsnie. the farmer, and the small dealer, and tn iess than short twelve ve-monfhs. it cost the peepfe, in hards earned moasy, more than fauR hundred mslli~n Of siGiaers-that being the amount of honest dekfs which fl released and obliterated and which stiI, remain, and will probably forever remain onnai8 Here, then, was sangle act of Federal aAminis. traton, which, in tess thaa year. cost the neopIr. in money cooily ahsiracted ftom their packess. more tacm fsxee tiraes as mech ma fke prn4s sent war has cost the Cosernmene. fhoasir t has been waged for nearly eiehtesn months ear. sied on against distant people, and taking h n theatre of operations embracing fs00. .ego eaunfs miles. and extending from the Gaif of Mexieo to the Pacific ocean. and froa Texas to the hoandafies of Eenfrai America.
 Look al the difference. voterl The war carrieA on against Mexico is war to average wrnnes which have been witnessed by the world ler twenty veers. and which have been submitted 10 impafientiy zuI almost disgracefniy, by former administsatians n is war to aveage ysw injuries, for the outrage inflicted by foreign power upon our citizena, be- comes the injury suffered by ai end unleas nyouptIv punished, dehes and violates the great ptiacspie which es at the very toandstion of our liberties. It is war begun for gsuv sn- amd for yas,s ens,n.
 rys and there is not true heart that does not heaf with asder that it may be vigorously and severely. and successfully prosecuted, f ifs cpsf G wAnf A nay. The expenditures. however. which N h2a made and may hereafter make necessary no mat ter how great they are, will be felt very little hy ths citizens Of this republic but will be made up i6r in our abundant. increasing. and overhnwing nstscnaf revenues. So that Federalism wili and tkst its sts tempt 10 excite alarm and panic, on account of the var, will amount to little or nothing.
 The bankrupt law pinndered the citizen with bold and daring hand ItreAched hiin in his buaiS ness. Ii broke down his enterprise h destrosed his confidence in his fellow man. it robbed la6ors 1t encouraged extTavaganre by sponging oR ths honest debts of luxurious aristncfais and ieaving their poor creditors daped and cheated If refused to aid tine poor debtor who fniied for few iHnress but protected and liberated the vast operator whoss movements effected communities, whose speeuia- tions involved thousands. and whose eisonsry schemes looKed to the formation of paper cities aa water tots The really meriiorious whom it relieved. were few and far between; and the records Of tha courts will show tha t carried into eisef. ss General l. and its authors intended ss great sys. tem of repudiatien aBd fraud, intended for the dss honest capitalist and the wA sHa reckless gasae- ster No wonder that the whole nation started upy and indignantly demanded the repeal of al law which had thus deliberately taken from her eitixens more tAna foar hundred millions ef aoliasus
 Let Federalism complain oi the expenses q the present w1 as it may; here is page ffom its ows bisiory--a siagle soiled end plotted page from a volume flied with maay other attacks upon fhe ia- tesests and rights of the peoplewhich pats si saeA coapiaisss. matter how exaggerated and distnd. 1 ed, to the blush. Make the eomparsoA betwesp | the expenses sf the war against Mexico, and the expenses of the war upon Labor and Pdvste Credit carried under the aasriees of General r. and his layorite bankrupt law. Make the eonpasisop, lel.
 ow-eitizeas, and you wiii sOnioaBd the oppositios aiid make their fdfss stAfst6ehts sgainsf Inc val stick in their throsts.