The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-12-22
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GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND Es,


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The opposition journals are now lifting Hp
their voices aloud against the administration
OF President Taylor for its extravagant ex-
penditures. Every dollar it has paid on, has
boon disbursed under the appropriation bills
OF the late administration; and already the
cry i abroad that these p~estilent Wings are
ptunging the country in debt, and placing all
manners Of burdens on the shoulders Of the
oppressed and plundered people. They know
perfectly we'll just now that this is ali fiction
and falsehood; but they will repeat it so often
before the year is out, that they will begin to
believe it themselves, and neat it as an admit
ted historical fact. Their policy is 10 treat all
their statements as admitted unless they are
contradicted and disproved, and then to swear
to the truth Of them, on the ground Of their
being admitted. 1--WE have charged so and
SO. we have repeatedly charged so and so .
We have charged SO and so time and Ggain,-
You have not denied it. We are prepared to
make oath that it Is SO and 50, bccausc you have
not denied it, ALA, a. IA. t... ...n.
This is the manner in which Locofoco facts
are manufactured ad hbitum. 1t is non a Lo-
%cofocO fact that the Wings are Away SPEND
ing the peoples money, and that the Locofo-
cos are forever busy looking alter the strong
boxes, and taking care that the the treasury is
not plundered. 1t is we'll received Locofoco
fact that the administration of Mr. Adams was
shoekingly extravagant, and that it nearly ru-
med the country in the decoration Of the East
Room. The people have had a succession Of
pure, ~virtuous and economical administrations
and now the wings have got into power, and
the country is to be ruined again in six
months time by The payment of debts that
their hocofoco predecessors have contracted.
It will not be amiss to refresh the memories
o. -four Locofoco friends by few figures, which
we advise them to run over before they pen
their next allegations in regard to Wing ex-
travsganco, aua.U .a.ren m. s..a .
There was expended by Mr.. Adams ad-
minlstration, in the four years. the sum Of $49-
3l3, 1913. This was some -four millions more
than were expended during Mr.. MOnroe's Sec
ond term; but the opposition and Richmond
Enquirer sastonished and electrified the peo-
pie into the belief tina, Mr.. Adams was running
the country, ao@ -Ioa. " T.
Gen. Jackson Was to take the burden from
the shoulders Of the people and show them,
with the aid of Mr. Kendall how they we've
to enjoy the blessings Of d frugal government.
Thee was expended during his FIRST term
S56,249,879. This was only some $4,000 900
Of additional burden; but the democrat.
ic presses assured the people that evgry-
thing was managed in the snuggest and most
economical manner possible, and that they
were in the enjoyment of much more { frugal'
government though it was spending a great
deal more money.
In the second term Of Gen. Jackson's adj
ministration, the expenditures amounted up
to 7,i30,428; and this was so much more
communicates satisfactorily frugal, that the
democratic journals reco amended his appoin.
tee, Mr.. Van Buren,, as the most suitable per-
son ia the world to continue this kind OF re-
lief to the oppressed and Iax-ridden people.
Mr.. Van Buren, came into the administration
and made as many fourishes about economy
as his predecessors and the Globe furnished
its daily certificates TO the effect that everything
was right, and that the administration Of al
fairs was on the most economical scale. In
his four years, Mr.. Van Buren, and his co-pa-
triots managed to make way with $ll2, 1885,
SOL, or something more than twice as many
millions as Mr.. Adams. Thus Locofoco econ
envy used up twice as much money as Wing
ex traVagance.
John myler's administration we pass over.
Il was not Wbjg; it was not Loc0oco. II was an
anomaly, 1t was neither fish, flesh, nor fowl.
If it had been pure locofoco, it would have
been marked by the usual .LocoFoeo corrbP-
ton and extravaganza. But the Harrison start
made il comparatively honest. There were
no defalcations that we remember=-and it's
expenditures we're some 3Oy0OO,000 less than
those of the administration Immediately pre-
c%oeding. e '.a
And now we come tolthe last pure, Balti-
more platform L%ocoioco Polk administration,
and here we find that Locofoco economy
has multiplied Mr., Adams extravaganza by
I three Instead Of $~49,0O0,000 the aggregate
expenditures Of the iour>years amounted to
$l46,9e4,409! HI
Yet, in view Of the familiar facts. opposition
journals have the impudence TO contrast Lo-
%cofoco economy with wing extravaganza
The contrast lie certainly very striking, but y
. is s%trikingly againstLo cofocoism. 1t is hardly
credible that men will venture upon such ex-
periments; and yet pretend to believe IN the
intelligence Of the people whom they insult by
their falsehoods. sa'a 2e