Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-10-08
Facts For Every Citizen.

SlavehOldeIS,) nave complete control oil the
! Democratic party, and, through it, of every
| branch of the Federal Government. A ma
| lority of the President. Cabinet are Souther.
ners. In the U. S. Supreme Court, Southern
| ers also preioninate, and exJra-judIcial deci-
sions are manufactured TO order for the con-
venience Of the Democratic party. And
though, nominally, the North has a majority
in Congress, yet every important committee IN
the House is headed by a Southerner or
Doughface, with a majority of the same ilk TO
back him; and Republican Senators are pro-
scribed, as unfit to assume responsible duties
| in connection with Legislation,
Three fourths Of the money appropriated,
at the last session of Congress, for forIiiica-
tions, on the Atlantic and Gulf coast, was ex-
pended in slaveholding states.
Two Custom House edifces are now in pro-
cess Of erection-one at Charleston, the other
at New Orleans-which have already cost
| more than five millions of dollars. and are not
! yet completed. At the last session, $500
were appropriated 10 continue the work on
| them. and when the Committee on Finance
were questioned as to how much the Charles
ton edifce would cost when completed, they
coolly replied that "no estimate had been
made" Enough was elected to show that it
would cost Three Millions when finished, and
, that there was no kind Of correspondence be-
tween the building and the revenue business
at that port. In 1857, there were but AZ Gus
tom house employees at that place and the
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million of dollars. At the New York Custom
House, the same year, there were over 1000
employees, and more than Forty 1tcO .WHiOns
of dollars were collected. The New York
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as that at Charleston,, The Philadelphia
custom house cost 100000; that at Boston,
$ 100000; while the New Orleans has al
ready cost S3,O0O,0OO, and not yet finished. Is
it supposeable that any Northern city could
obtain such enormous sums, TO put up un-
necessary palaces. Never, And yet it is the
North that fills the treasuryli
Let any candid man consider the foregoing
and the following facts, and he will doubtless
arrive al the conclusion that 1t is high time
every branch of Government changed hands.
1t will take $ 0O,O ,OOO. 200 TO keep Buchanan's
administration in blast this year. In lS23, the
expenses of Government amounted TO 50 ISL
l54. That was ninety-lour cents 10 each in
dividual this year, it will amount to three
dollars fer every person. But what becomes
of this immense sum , TO what purposes is it
applied Ii is wasted by the General Gov.
ernmenI IN supporting gang of Shiny syco-
plants, who are noted only for their want of
principle, and their devotion to the .'powers
that be- The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury throws some light on the subject.
During Fillmore's administration, it cost
S2,O00,0O0 per annum to collect the revenue
east Of the Rocky mountains Congress had
appropriated for that purpose 81, $4,000; con
sequently, at the end of Fillmore's admins
tration, there was surplus Of Sl,0O0OOO.
This, Frank Pierce used up, besides the year
ly allowance. When Buchanan came into
power, he asked for SO, 700 900 TO collect the
revenue in the same region, where, few
years before, it had been collected for 81 ,O0O,-
900 and that, too, although tine revenue had
actually decreased. He did not get what he
asked, but he did get SO 100000, for doing
what S2O0O,OO0 had before sufiiced. This
extra Sl,300000 is wasted in sustaining a
pack of ioafing political spies and party
brawlers.
Who has not heard of the Fort Snellns
swindle F! Fort Smelling embraced military
reservation which Government prirqfeiy sold
for 100000, when it was worth S5O0,OOO.
There, too, is the Willetts Point Sw indie, In
this case, Government paid 100000 for
piece of land on Long Island, for a military
post,which was not worth $4,000. Ofcourse
the pets of Democracy rocketed the proceeds,
and the Government connived with them for
the express purpose of benefting a favorite
few and carrying Lecompton. Look at the
gross ineiliclency, and delay, that marked the
Mormon expedition from the beginning TO the
ending, The contracts it afforded showered
fortunes on thousands of hungry locofocos-
friends of Lecompton Congressmen-but re-
suited beneficialy TO nobody else.
Thus is Government going, expenses encr-
mously increasing, revenue greatly decrcas-
ing, bankruptcy and starvation staring the
democratic misrulc. We are suffering from
the gross extravagance of the Democracy and
the calamtous Free trade system it inaugu
rated in 1916. NOW Is THE TIME for the
people of the Old Keystone to declare tha, thev
will aid such party no longer. Let the fiat
go forth that the bogus democracy shall prey
upon the vltals of the country no more, and
that the Protective System shall be established
on a foundation that will defy alike the on
slaught of negro drivers, and their national"
allies. Too long have English shop keepers
and iron-masterS monopolized our market. to
the disadvantage of our own. Let us resoire
hereafter to make our orn Water Pines. Men
Of Pennsylvania now is the time to work TO
advantage. strike for the Opposition cause,
and i'll SO doing you will strike for your own
welfare and the welfare of posterity. Men of
Union county! go forth next Tuesday with
stern de,ermin alton to carry defeat and dismay
into the ranks of the Democracy by rolling up
Tremendous majorities for joan NJ. REAp, WN.
L. FRAzER, JoHy W. KILLiSsER, ANDREW
GRkss, WV. F. WAGENsELLER, JoHS J. PAT
rERsoN, and the entire Peoples ticket, general
and local. Resolve 10 "conquer or die ere
Freedom and Industry perish Remember
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