The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-06-05
exp GOo. .O0o Government.

e.o eo,. .OOO Government.
Time was, says the Louisville democrat, when
80 sa,tor Of ,he Journal snuiied from afar all
svmptorns Of extravaganza IN the ieoeral gov
qbc columns of his paper teemed
-, s,;ohtfr, exhibitions of figures, showing to
an e4teut of prodigality the corruptions
"-',,. I~.asoco;sm had gone. Lately, when appro-
-.;o,;ons TO the amount OF hfty-three or four
,;,,;ons are asked for, and pressure for more
Nv a vhie administration he is as dumb as an
,-..or Indeed, the editor does not think that
INV ,sper. except the Democrat, would dare to
.,orsa the administration of extravaganza
After all the monstrous appropriations, the
,omplsint is that the locofocos in Congress had
the estimates made for military forces on the
,.,rt;er and refused to allow the money. So
Ue have it confessed that whiggery to get along
wanted more money. The 500, COO, 900 was not
enough! And yet whiggery wanted in addition
s5 900 900 to pay old French claims, Il, 900, 900
acres of land to give to insane asylums, and
=. 100000 to squander away on duck ponds,
mill creeks, SC.
In the name Of conscience, how much money
would satisfy them, Would it not be better for
the federal government to mortgage the States,
and raise what is needed for the whig party tC
carry on the government for the next year?
Prentice has the impertinence to assert that
these enormous appropriations were made to
pay the expenses of the war. This is utterly
false. The expenses of the war have been paid.
n g, Iaft Int Mt Of
debt, about So, 900, 900; the indemnity TO Mex
leo .or territory, So, 0OO 900; add the additional
charge of the acquired territory say 81 500,
900; put all together, and you have only seven
and half millions. The expenses in time of
peace, before the war, were only about S25,
100000 Thirty-two or three millions should
be amply sufficient now. The claims that may
be decided TO be due to our citizens for Mexican
spoliatiOn reach perhaps S3,O0O,OOO. The
overplus of about twenty gmllions is mere
corruption fund to reward partizans-to Craw-
f0rdize, Ewingize, and Galphinize upon.
We are asked to name one item to be re-
trenched. That is the duty of the departments,
aud not ours. 1t is not even possible for Con-
gress to perform it judiciously. The country
knows that S53, 900, 900 are not needed. The
federal government isn't worth the money
There is not enough for the federal government
to do, of any benefit to the States, that's worth
that sum annually; and a party that can't get
along with less should be scourged out of office
and political power. Depend upon it, the next
Congress will apply the pruning knife The
hypocritical simpering about the Mexican war,
to hide reckless profigaey, will not answer the
purpose.
We are referred to Corwin's report shallow
partzan production-of which any party ought
to be ashamed. Corwin made out the expenses
Of the Mexican war about $3.50, 000,0 900. And
how do you suppose the cunning calculator made
1t out? He computed the expenses of some
years before the war, and guessed what he
would want to get along for an equal number
Of years now. The balance was a formidable
sum. We don't know why he stopped where he
did. If the whig party should keep power
twenty years, the expenses will be a thousand
millions over what they have been the last
twenty. This, however, would not be the ex-
pense of the Mexican war, but the expense of
the whig administration. 1t viii cost the coun-
try more than the Mexican war. If our from
tier suffers, set it down to the mismanagement
Of Il whig administration. The revenues of the
world would hardly support it, if it and its
partisans had their way. If the wings had
passed all the schemes they labored for at the
last Congress, the expenses of this year would
have amounted up to at least S75, 200, 900. Il
they had the next Congress, they would break
up all nature. They would mortgage the gov
ernment, but they would get the millions to
Galphanize upon.