Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-01
The Pubic Expenditures.

weapons of attack used by black Republicans and
abolition Know Nothngs against the administration,
are taken up and welded with as much vgor as if
these weapons had not been forged in abolition
workshops Witness, for example, the eagerness
with which the Southern K N. presses catch at and
re-pubish the vile ISLANDERS and palpable misrepre
sensations uttered against Mr.. Buchanan's admins
tration by that prince of black Repubcansm Thur
low Weed and also the eagerness with which they
avail themselves of the false statements Of another
black Republican, Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, in
relation to the public expenditures.
The Raleigh Register quotes extensively from this
man Trumbull to show that the administration has
been extravagant, and especially that money has
been squandered in collecting the revenue. Now
let see how completely plain statement of the
facts will put down all these Misrepresentation of
black Republican Trumbull thus endorsed and COM
mended by the Raleigh Register' The Washington
Union of the 25th August says:
"But our object in this article Was to compare
the statements of the Illinois senator with the facts
as they appear Of record The senator, after deal.
ing in some general misrepresentation particular
ICES the expenses of collecting the revenue sub
ject for which he censures the democratic party,
| and holds them responsible for an increase in the
same. He institutes comparison between the ex-
President and the last year Of Gen. Pierces ad-
ministration, and attempts ridcule certain expen
ditures in certain localities by showing the disparity
between the amount paid for the service in collecting
and the amount actually collected
For instance, he says at Wilmington Delaware,
there collected in 1867 81, OO4 95 while the
pense of collecting was Sl5.s4s 3s. He omitted 10
tell his constituency that in 1852, the last year of
Mr.. Fillmore'S administration at the same port
there was collected $4,4sl 40, of which the expense
&c and hall fhn
document in his hand from which he obtained the
one fact, and from which he might have commune
Gated the other Again, he says at Annapolis,
Maryland, there collected in 1857 1914 25, and
the expense of collecting was 1888 AZ, and yet he
remembered to forget to inform his constituency to
whom he was endeavoring to mpart the truth from
the very same document, that in 1852 there COL
lected at Annapolis the very same port, 1928 60,
and the expenses paid for the same $2,l53 80.
Again, at Ocracoke in North Carolina, 1872 3D.
was collected in 1S57-expenses 81 3O1 So; and
yet this very official report of the Secretary of the
Treasury which he trumphanty held up, contained
! the information, which Mr.. Trumbull would not
communicate to his people, that at this identical
port in the State of North Carolina the amount COL
lected in 1852 was $43 70, and the expenses $2517
70; and so might convict him of every to
which he could have referred.-Every acquain-
ted with the subject knows that many collection dis
trics do not pay expenses nor was expected they
would when they were created by Congress. They
instituted to prevent smuggling, and men cannot
be expected to give their time and labor for such
purposes without being paid for it 1t could not
have been Mr. Trumbulls want of sagacity that pre-.
| vented him from knowing it.
The senator is equally unfortunate when he as
cends from particulars the total expense of COL
| ecting the revenue He says that during Flmores
administration the whole revenue collected for
much less than it was during the administration of
General Pierce This is the assertion of a senator
who has reached one of the proudest positions not
only in this republic but We might add, the world,
and yet the official document he held in his hand,
and from which he attempted instruct the people,
contained the whitening fact that the amount of
! venue collected in 1852 was, $40, l65, 933 81
The expenses for collecting the same 1886, 423 %
And the amount of revenue in 1857 g. III ,O34 o.
And expenses for collecting the same, 1862 1853 so
Is any further evidence needed to vindicate our
charge that his speech was dsingenuous dsreputa-
able and disgraceful?"
| Thus is Trumbull exposed in few words, and
held up to the scorn of all honest men. Will the
Raleigh Register publish this reply Of the Union to
Mr. Trumbull! If the object of that paper be truth,
| it will if not, not.
! This then, is specimen of the manner in which
! the administration is assailed. Black Republican
testimony is called up to injure an administration,
and to deprive it Of the confidence of the Southern
people, by whose constitutional rights it has stood
| ike JoCk OEedStHg Tue StOTm OI aOOI tlOnSm
And this is done by paper professedly Southern
rights by paper protesting to be devoted to the
truth by paper which Processes to detest black
Repubcanism and its opponents in all their forms |!
But this is only part-the commencement of the
programme for 1860 The opposition leaders North
and South are counting on humbugging the people
| in 1860 as they were humbugged in 1910. They
regard every new generation as their lawful prey.
Let the Democrats be on the alert and spike their
guns as fast as they loaded; and let the people
without regard party hold to strict account those
Southern politicians who shall presume, in the ex-
tremity of their party bitterness to ally themselves
in any manner whatsoever with the disunionists and
| black Republicans of the North.
Discovery Progressive.
1t is very rare that one man is so fortunate as to
perfect the chain of discovery when it lies in
the same field of research 1t usually proceeds step
by step, and these steps taken by many different
men, Take, for example, the discoveries respecting
the action of plants upon carbonc acid. The ccle-
brated Bonnet first observed the evolution of gas
from leaves immersed in water In the next place
Priestly discovered that that gas was oxygen. Then
Ingenhouse showed by experiment that solar light
was necessary for its disengagement and finally the
range of discovery completed by Leuwesten,
that the oxygen gas is derived from carbonic acid
Such is the history of most great discoveries, and
taking proper view of the subject it should dispose
us to set due value upon the labors of prede'
cessors as we'll upon our contemporaries.
The same chain of discoveries have led to the
connection Of America and Europe. 1t was not Morse
nor Field who laid the foundation of this great
achievement. Both Morse and Field were sleeping