New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-19

main, unoceupe] should be thrown open to cultivation
BY savos and to ownership By the masters OF those
ssyes To 1920 the territory Of Florida waspurchssed
for the South at coz. Of seven millions Of dollars, paid
cut Of taxes imposed on property Of the North a0d
South In the eight years succeeding that Plrchlse-
from 1927 10 lS9-he annual expenditure OF the Gov
erDment exclusive # pay ments on account OF the IA
cial debt was but thirteen millions of dollars, aud
We. out Of that small considerable appropriations
were made in aid of the Cumberland Road and other
works OF internal ia provement
The Administration of Cen Jackson succeeded TO
that Of NJ Adams in 1929 AMI the expenditure rose
in the fret term 10 nearly seventeen millions while IN
tie ,econd il was more than twent! FIVE millions little
or none of which was expended any Of those works
of peace desired BY the North because the SOua had
then determined that all such appropriations were vio-
ations Of the Constitution II was. however dee ned
perfectly constitutional swell the military and naval
e1peudture from eight millions in ISIS to twenty-five
millions 10 1885, because the object OF that increase
was the extirpaon of the few poor Seminoles OF
Florida whose occupancy inerfered with the enlarge
nent of the field for slave labor.
Mr.. Van Buren, followed and 10 bis period we iind
the expenditure to been carried up 10 an average
of thirty millions DO part OF which was permitted to
be appropriated TO internal improvements aked for
by the North while the Florida war was allowed %
absorb enormous masses of treasure contributed by
tbe people of the Union. North aud South In the
fret Two years of this Administration the expenditure
for military purposes alone averaged no lees thin
twenty one millions, and the total amount 80 expended
in the four years sxtyeight millions or sixteen
rili,Is more than was expended for all purposes ny
Mr. Adams. Ii was, however, for southern benefit,
and therefore constitutional
Under the succeeding Administration, the total ex-
pendituIe reduced to twenty millions, or less than
was expended on the army and navy alone oy Mr Van
Duren while engaged in clearing out the Semlnoles
The death Of Gen Harrison having tbro IN the execu
tive row CT into southern hands find that twice dur
ing Mr. Tylers occupation Of the Presidential Chair,
uss the veto applied to bills intended to satisfy tle
lust expectations of northern men anxious to improve
the intercourse by tie lakes and rivers Of the West
With Mr. Polk came the war for settling the boun-
dsries Of Texas and enlagDg the ar OF slave terri
tory and now the expenditure TO an average Of
orty.four millions chiefly bestowed on the army and
navy. Large, however, as was the amount to be ex'
pended not dollar could go for the promotion OF the
peaceful improvements of the North for whe0, In
1645 Congress appropriated about million OF dollars
for improvements in the lakes aud western rivers the
bill was vetoed by Mr. Polk unconstitutional and
when in 1876 still modest bill was sent 10 hun,
appropriating only half million 10 s such purposes, he
pooketed it and it failed to become law The same
difficulty occurred in regard to bill for the payment
of the debt owing by the nation to the unfortunate
claimants account of French spOations Passed by
Congress it was vetoed by the President because was
inoonrenen pay such claims VIII e engaged in war for
the extension Of territory our southern and south
western borders To secure that extension ne Lad 10
support expensive war and finally TO pay fifteen mill
ions to the Mexican Government; but happily squat
ter government secured to the Northern States
portion of the territory for nearly all Of which they
had been required to pay.
Texas had been dragged into the Union by Mr.. Polk,
and in 1850 the people of the North required to
unite in paying ten millions for this enlargement Of
slave territory.
The expenditure seems now to be fixed at from forty
TO fifty millions Of dollars OF which the military aud
naval department, exclusive of the contracts for mail
steamers require than twenty, OHehGJ more
than uas e1pendtd by Mr. adams for all purposes, utter
nal ard external. Having purchased Louisiana For-
d. Texas ard New Mexico for the South have but just
escaped paying twenty millions for enlargement of
tue area Of Slavery; arranged by Gen. Gadslen
and Yet 10 appropriations be obtained for removing
Instructions from the great rivers of the West for
improving the barbOrs OF the lakes. Any amount may
be layished upon foreign missions having for their OBJ
iect removal Of restrictions the tobacco trade OF
France or Germany because that interests the South
but the treasury is Theoretically sealed against the
claims OF the North for any aid il developing the
sources of lite territory, OF in facilitating intercourse
between the States OF the East and the West.
We beg our readers to reflect carefully upon these
facts and thea to study how much expenditure would
army for desire extension of territory while the
South is always at work to obtain territory by pur
cbsie, or by force of But recently it offered
hundred millions for Cuba to be paid out OF the
contributed by all the States and the chief reason for
SO dong the danger that the slaves of that island
might at some future time, become free, snd thus be
placed in situation that would render them dangerous
to their slave holding negbbors of Florida OF Carolina
The North could not be allowed to accept free of cost
the British possessions with two and half millions of
free inhabitants and yet the South does not hesitate
buying Cuba at hundred millions nor would it hest
tate about involving the whole country in a war that
mig cost twice that sum for the purpose of prevent
ing any movement in the island looking to the en-.
Establishment of its negro population
The North as We have said scarcely needs an army:
1t has but little need for navy; but even admitting
that five millions were required for thst purpose it is