Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-04-05
Denssra.lt Heeaomy.

t..... DeuotTtt Economy.
"The folly imbccily reckessness and OF
the present administration will probably exceed anything
known In government. One Of the most popu.
lar ideas In the Inaugural WAS that the government
to be conducted the principles Of economy and strict
accountability Of all the public but according
present appearances the expenditures Of Gen. Perces
sdminisration for the present year will be MILL be-
yond those Of any previous year in national eIs
tsnce."
such IS the opinion entertained Of the present Ad-
ministration by the New York Herald As the He
raid was in wonderful favor with the Democratic
party during the last Presidential canvass and con.
trbutcd essentially lis success its estimate Of Mr.
Pierce and the effects of his policy ought to command
ut least respectful ention. If we are not to rely
upon tho warm supporters Of the Brigadier's election
for full and authentic information in respect to his
Administration OF the Government to what source
wa beg to know, can properly look to satisfy pub
lie curiosity upon the subjects
We are not surprised at the announcement that
the ex ,enditures of the Pierce Administration are
likely to exceed those of any previous administration
of the Government. Professions of economy on the
part of Democratic politicians afford no guarantee of
what their practice in office will be- On the contrary
when such professions INDUCED in very freely we
may reasonably expect to them shamelessy fasi-
fled, as all past experience amply demonstrates. No
political party in the United States has ever protested
Government as the Democratic party has done when
out OF power and it is due to the same party to saw
that, when an power it has uniformly exhibited the
most reckless facility in turning its back upon all its
old professions 1t within the recollection of all OBJ
servers Of political events that the enormous expend
itures of the Van Buren, Administration were regard
ed with much satisfaction by Locofocoism; but wbe,
the hyPocrcai oldh bag directed her attention to whir
expenditures under the sncreedno I'm;
brow became cloudy and her tongue became garulous
with the choicest specimens of Bllingsgate elocu-
ton It was all perfectly right in Democrats Ad-
minssration to spend thy.sx millions Of the public
funds in year. but it proof of deep deseneracv
in Wing Congress to vote appropriations amount
ing in the aggregate to little more than half that sum
So, also, during the last Presidential contest Demo
cratic politicians pretended to be greatly Mortified at
the eStravagance of the Fillmore Administrator
which they were pleased very good humoredy to call
the GdLphi" Administration. Now however, We arc
informed that, according to present appearances
the expenditures of General Perce's Administration
for the present year will be millions beyond those
OF any previous year in our national existence"
The struggle of 1852, like several previous Presi-
Dental contests, was, on the part of the Locofoco
demagogues OF the country, struggle to glin the
power to again plumber the public treasury The
promise was held out in every State and township in
the land, that all those, who would signalize them
selves by their efforts to restore the Democratic partv
to power, should, in the event Of success become
partakers Of the rewards which Locofocosm would
then be able to mete out to them. 1t was thus the
dazzling hope that they might once more be able TO
I'LL their pockets with the peoples money that fur.
nished the motives to thousands of Democratic cham
pions, who employed all the force of calumny and
the fraud OF their natures to place Mr.. Pierce in pow
er. Ihey did not care What man might be selected
to lead them on-hey did not require distinguished
mind or manifold servces-all they wanted was sue
cess, and the isnobe use they wished to turn that
success to when won, was to get into office and there
by be able to dcpredae on the public money. Num-
oers succeeded In their hopes, but thousands have
been sally disappointed, and Indignantly "Iefuse to
be comf,rted."
Indeed, profusion and extravaganza in public ex-
penditures are getting TO be required by Democrats or
their Administrations. There are so many dema-
gogues and mammon-worshippers in that miscela-
neous party, who acknowledging in their hearts more
oil the proud incentives and genial impulses of patti.
otism, cannot be satisfied with any other than pecu-
mary rewards for their vices that it is becoming
imperative ona Democratic Administration to increase
the Gov rnment expenses in order that its leire SID
porters may be becDmingly compensated. If such
an A administration should fail to cause n thousand
Pactoleon ris to flow froh the public treasury in all
directions, to Stake the mercenary thirst Of those t
whom it is indebted for its authority wide and IMAM
peasable disafecton would be the inevitable conso
quence. To reward those who have built il nm md
TO hold out the cup of promise to all the purchasers
Die patriots OF the country is necessary alike to its
presenttranqulity and its future success Hence nc
money is the object for which its corrupt partisap.
night, the spols OF victory must be liberallv na,,;
TONED out among Them and made as nagniii cent NJ
cunning and corruption can render them. Vast cx
pendtures of the public money thus become necesso
ry. The treasury is deprecated on. Corruption and
proiigacy, embroidered by success stalk unblushinr-
~ through the land Leg.treasuryism becomes fash.
ionabe, feetness Of legs is symptomatc of Gllne,
oil pockets and any paradise Of punderers that lies
contiguous to the public highways receives valuable
accessions to its population.
ouch, we know, was the condition Of things when
Democracy had perfected its system Of public plumber
in the eliminating period Of its history under the in
bIant Administration Of Martin Van Buren, And
quite as bad, we fear is to be the condition of things
under the equally corrupt and scandalous Administra
ton of a Pierce and Forney
IN According to the Of $50, the slave popula
ton OF Kentucky amounted 2lO9s1 By recent Stat,
censis It appears that the slaves now number less thar
100000, making decrease Of about 900 within thu
last Tour years The above figures Indicate large slave
emigration from that State They show, also We think
that Abolition thieves have been idle in tina, region
the country. Only few weeks ago, a Northern lcmal
was arrested In Kentucky aud committed to Jail upon tn
charge OF aiding the escape of slaves from her neghbot
hood II Is difficult to estimate the number of negroe
annually kidnapped aud smugglcd of by the abolition nj
rates OF the North Aud yet 10 the very act nj s,e.i