Glasgow weekly times., 1849-12-13

OF revenue 10 meet the demands upon the
Treasury within the next and succeeding
fiscal year, can have surprised no one who
has reflected upon The necessary burdens
upon the Treasury, (wilhou, any provision
ing our OF The late war with Mexico and the
Treaty OF Peace al its conclusion. The de-
| 6ciency. however, can present but little
difficulty TO q Government possessing os
high credit and as boundless resources as
our own. The only question, indeed, that
can arise out OF il will be in tho choice oI
modes for meeting it.
Inevitable and beyond the control Of th,
Administration (having been created and left
unprovded for by its predecessor as is this
deficiency Of means for meeting The unpaid
residue OF the costs OF the Mexiceu war and
the interest on the public debt, which /, has
en,ailed upon the county, the organs OF a
reckless Opposition have yet the hardihood
to attemp! to saddle upon the existing Admin.
stralion this dedication OF their own crea.
ting. The editor OF the Union, for example,
raises his hands in holy horror at this devel-
opment. and holds it up TO his readers g.
proof that ",he leading policy OF the Wing
party is to multiply expenditures, and thu,
increase both the taxes and The Indebtedness
OF the Government" This view Of the SUBJ
ec, is either on optical illusion or mental
hallucination. 1t is certainly, whether one
or the other, seeing, or representing as seen
thing that has no existence. This admin
stralion has not expended any money nor
contracted any debt that can make necessary
additional taxes, or even additional loa ms. -
Tho deficiency is solely the creation of The
late Administration. Of which the Union was
the organ and is still the eulogis,; and theirs
the neglect OF making provision for a con-
.ineency which stared them in the face, and
which, unless binder than beetles, they must
have foreseen. The cream oil the joke, how.
ever, is, that the Union finds historical
parallel to this pretended increase OF expen
di,ure by the present Administration in the
following statement:
ut will be remembered that, prior 10 The
coming in Of the Harrison Administration in
in 1s41, q Democratic Congress, at the pre>
ceeding esson. made ample provision. by
way Of appropriation. for all necessary and
reasonable expenditures OF the Government
for the year ensuing; yet a! the extra session
those expenditures were largely increased and
the burdens Of the people rendered still more
onerous by the Wing majority Of The hard
cider Congress.
Really! The Democratic Congress which
expired in March, l54l, made ample appro
priations for the necessary expenditures OF
the year following its exit! Very well. -
They did not spare the appropriations but
they. like the last Administration, omitted 10
provide the means to meet their o,on e1pen
ditures-to make up the deficiency which
they themselves had created They ran
away dixie rats from an empty barn) from a
Treasury which their own improvdence had
utterly exhausted, leaving the succeeding
Wing Administration under the necessity,
within the first month OF its existence, oil
calling Congress together 10 enable it to
avert the disgrace OF National bankruptcy.
which. whilst in power, the Democratic
Administration took no care 10 guard against
The moral Of the historical illustration by
our venerable coiemporary. therefore, so far
as one can be extracted from ii, is, that in
essential particulars (similis simil) one
Democratic Administration is very much like
another.