The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-13
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
FRIDAY NIGHT, AUGUST Is, Is47.
Expenses Of the War.

The cost of the is all the rage in the oppos
ton papers They start with audacous assumptions and
they end with fearful hobgobns of extravaganza and ex
pense That is always expensive, is certainly true.
That an economical people would avoid such an expense
when they can do il consistently with their rights and
their honor is equally true. But who will grudge the
expense of maintaining them Or, who will grossly eX-
aggerate the expense of maintaining them unless it be
to damp spirit, and 10 animate the hopes OF the
enemy
1t is part of the whig tactics now to swell the ex-
penses of this war; and trumpet them forth the OF
the Mexicans The Mexican wings have spared no eff.
fort or ingenuity to throw difficulties in the way of its
prosecutions and to lend aid and comfort to the
They have attacked the of the war; They have
pronounced it to be UNJUST outrageous and unconsttu
tional Notwithstanding its brilliant results they have
censured the manner of It's prosecution They have bold
y declared that had neither the of carrying il
on had the administration the skill to employ those
They have predicted that could not raise the
or Aad yet than four times the number Of
troops which wanted have offered their services; and
that generous patriotic spirit is not yet exhausted And
for money, than four times the amount required
has been rendered a loan to the United States.
presses is the heavy expenses of the war; Mr. Webster
idly began the camor by charging the daily expense at
half million of dollars And now, the disseminated
editors of the National Integencer have taken the field
and are attempting to alarm every economist with fright
full representations of the prodgous amounts which are
expended for the They put article of this porten
tous character in their yesterdays paper and already
find it transferred to the columns of the Baltimore
American" and the Clipper of this morning 1t will
60 the rounds, presume, like the other pancs of the
opposition press We shall not anayze and expose this
article all its parts but will contne ourselves to
very few remarks, to show the extravaganza of its blum
ders and the grossness OF its Misrepresentation The
article in the "Intelligencer' runs thus:
From the National Inteligencer of yesterday.
ELEcTIoNEERING MANGUvREs.-1 call Them
though in truth harsher would well characterize
the straagems which frequently employed the eve
of any important election by INSCRIPTIONS parsans One
of these have noticed in party paper in Baltimore
(he Argis) which hardly deceive any intelligent man.
and yet being uncontradiced, may through its bold
ness, pass current with those who will give themselves
the trouble to inquire how true it is.
We refer to statement in the Argus of Tuesday last de-
nyng the expensivenes Of the Mexican war; contained in
the following words
has yet voted only lwenty-elgh millions tor pur-
poses, and that part of this sum yet unexpcnded
The facts in regard to military and naval appropra-
tons made since the commencement of the Mexican war
is shown by the appropriation laws are as follows
appropriations at the last session.
For support of the army and volunteers 32 l7s 46 SO
For support OF the army 9,3O7,95S 10
For concluding peace with Mexico 3OOO,O0O 90
4i,4S6,4l9 9S
appropriations at the previous session
For prosecution OF existing $l0,O00,O0o 90
For support of the army 6,S73, DS2 81
For volunteers and other troops 1857, 1853 on
For support of the navy 7,4i9,703 IS
For regiment of mounted riflemen 81, 500 90
For sappers, miners, and pononers 25, 900 90
36,3s6,6i5 OF
Var appropriations since the begun.
Last q, no