The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-08-04
0OsT OF THE WAR.

was hooted at and pronounced utterly
false. The present calculations show
that Webster was not far wrong. And
for the purpose of showing this, we will
con6ne ourselves to the Presidents owl
statements, although we believe they arr
far below the truth as time will show.
The President states the public deb
at $65.778,450 Al, exclusive of SIP,
100000 yet to be paid To Mexico for con
Senting to treat after she was whipped
From this the amount of the debt before
the war, Sic, 1927 $50. must be deducted
The balance left is $40. .450. .S9l Al. Add
to this. the $4,000, 900 yet to bo paid
and we have the sum of SCI ,450, sol A.
At the commencement Of the war, there
was in thetreasury the sum ofSl 1000. 900
which has been speut and must be added
This makes $73,45O,S91 al. To this
again must be added Sl3 900, 900, the ex.
cess of the revenue over the ordinary ex.
penses ofthe government during the war
and we have $50, ,45o.S9l Al. Besides
this. there are al least SO. 900 volunteers
who are 10 receive each 160 acres Of land
which. at the Government price of 81 ,25
or $500 per man, makes 81 900. .000.-
This added tothe above, makes 500 ,450..
S9l al, as the actual cost thus far of the
war.
Nextcomesthe pension list. We have
no means, except by comparison. of es.
tima!ing this, and we can only approx.
mate TO the truth. The list of the last
War und the Revolution combined, it is
said, amounted 10 $3.OOO,O00 per year
for SO years, and we have every reason
TO believe that this will be much larger.
But for the sake of being below rather
than above the truth, we will place it at
$4,000. 900 per aunum. At this very low
estimate, the country will have to pay, in
in the next 80 years, $96, 900 900 in pen
sons, swelling the present actual cost to
$l92 900 900. in round numbers.
The claims Of our citizens against
Mexico for spoliations, which we have
agreed to pay, have been estimated al
100000. Many of these are fraudu.
lent and will not be allowed. Take the
half, $4,000, 900, and add to $192, ,45O,-
S9l Al, and we have in round numbers.
Sl96, 900. 900. And then comes in anoth
er estimate, which we have no means
OF ascertaining, the claims which will be
presented for jobs, contracts, losses, de-.
strucllon of property, &c, which may not
amount to over 100000 and may go
up as high as S6,OOo,oOO; placing these
at 81 900 900 and we have in round mum.
bers 5000 900, 900.
This is rough estimate of the cost OF
this Mexican war, made from data fur.
niShed by the President himself. The
estimates made by whig members of Con.
gress, who have us good means of ascer.
taining the cost as the President, are
much higher and we have no doubt, as
time will tel come nearer the truth.
We have not, in the above calculations,
added an item which we have n right ,o
ndd-lho loss TO the country occasioned
by the withdrawal of 10000 men, in
The prime Of life, from the peaceful &c.
cuPaiions Of the country where labor is
scarce. This, political economy will
tell US, is dead loss to the country, for
hose men were udding wealth to it. AT
$3.50 per year, and these men would more
han averaged this, the sum would have
been sufficient To buy the Whole territory
we have acquired ut the price it was Of
Tered for, aud not life would have been
sacrificed upon tho altar of the Presi.
lent's insane ambition.
Neither have we udded the loss to the
country, which will be occasiuned by the
death and disability of several thousand
young and active men, caused by the war,
who in the course of their natural life
would have added millions of dollars to
The aggregate wealth of the country
And this, too, in land that wants tilling,
and were millions Of acres are unoccu.
pied.
We have said nothing Of tho moral
svils resulting from war. We have said
nothing Of the loss of life. This as the
Richmond Wig truly and forcibly re.
narks, "Cannot he estimated. None
'an kow II save the Creator himse
Poured out like water, on the plains of
ii has brought US in return,
'Ost unpeopled solitude, small lruct set.
led by the vilest Of mankind. who are
rom this time forward our fellow citizens,
and the agitation of question which al
ready threatens to dismember the Unionl'
Ms Fillmore Chicago Convention
we clip the following from tho last
weeks Eagle:
1.-The whig papers throughout tho
country have been heuninc THAR v,a,h