The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-07-29

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The RoOrback Charge Of Exlraysl
agasce ~ the Fable Expendiil
tures-A few Facts. !
This is one of the fallscious expedientsl
usually employed, when q fusion OF the con-
glomersted elements Of opposition to the
Democracy, attempt to deceive and mislead
the people. This charge was made promi-
nent among the roorbacks of 1910: yet as
| soon as the opposition Of that year acquired
power, they proved their iasiaeerity. Not
withstanding the gold spoon and kindred
humbugs, some Of their first official acts were
the appropriation of some six thousand dol.
lars to procure additional furniture for the
Presidents house, Of some three thousand
dollars TO pay the expenses OF Gen. Harri.
sons funeral, and Of twenty-five thou
sand dollars as a donation to Mrs. Har.
rison. II appears from the official docu..
ments, that the aggregate expenditures Of
the General Government, exclusive of pay
ments on account of the public dsbt,) for
the year ls4l, being the first year of oppo.
siiion rule, was $40, 1876, $50, while the ag.
j gregate expenditure for the same purpose,
during the last year of Mr.. Van Buren's ad-
ministration OF which the complaint was
made, was only 1913 ,327,772, more than
three millions less than the opposition ex-
penditure.
Again, in the campaign of 1s4s the same
bumbug was rung in the ears Of the people
with all the variations and implications,
which political mendacity could invent; and
also again the hypocrisy and deceptive arti.
fees of the opposition were exposed by the
public records. The first year of the Tay-
lor and Fillmore administration, being the
year lS49, the aggregate of expenditures,
exclusive Of the payments on the public
debt,) was $57, 7,63 ,667 while that of the
last year of Mr.. Folks administration, be-
ing the year l848, was only 42,6ll,970, be-
ing near fifteen millions less. The official
reports show further, that while the aggre.
gate of expenditures, Exclusive Of the pay
ments on the public debt,) during the four
years of the Taylor and Fillmore admins
tration, were $l94,647,6l0, the aggregate
expenditures for the same purpose, during
the four years Of Mr.. Folks administration,
were only $l46, 6,924,502, being between
forty.sev0n and forty Eight millions less than
that of the former. These are facts shown
by the public records, not to be contradicted.
After this significant showing, it was hardly
to be expected that the opposition would
hove the hardhood to attempt again to hum.
bug the people with this old roorbuck.
When will the opposition to the Democ.
rucy cease their efforts to humbug the peo.
D pie! The greatest extravaganza and most
, extensive abuses in the public expenditures
have always occurred when the opponents
of the Democracy had the control of the
l General Government; and that too, just al.
f ter their acquisition OF power by long and
a loud professions OF retrenchment and reform.
. The advancement of the country in terrific.
rial extension and commercial interests has
been the exclusive policy of the Democratic
u party, aided by the unfaiIing confidence and
0 support Of the American people-but steadi-
:. y resisted by whatever party and all parties
. and factions opposed to the Democracy. Our
exampled growth as nation is the great.
g est glory Of the country, and the highest ev'
r dence of the efficiency of our institutions
il for promoting the welfare and prosperity ol
free progressive people. This false out
cry of extravaganza in the dominant party
Is but sinister m manifestation of that sent
d ment in the opposition, which has always
= regarded the material success of our nation
I with an aversion wholly Incompatible will
an intelligent love of country. The gov
ernment Of great country is OF course more
costly than that Of an insignificant one; ant
: party which endeavOrs constantly to make
n political capital out Of an inevitable fact
. would be best contenled by freely donating
to other powers every foot OF our soil acquir'
> ed by conquest and annexation, and by clos.
ing our ports against the commerce Of the
whole world. .r,
f But it seems there is no end to such hum
, bugs. 1t is now heralded forth in every
Black Republican Abolition sheet of the
! country, thut Mr.. Buchanan has increased
= the cost of the Government from fifty eight
8 millions, to over eigbty-three millions o.
dollars year. This is Toorback of the
first water, and proved to be such by the Of
fetal record. 1t appears that the aggregate
of the expenditure exclusive of the pay
) ments on The public debD for the year 1856
was 500, 400; and that the aggregate o.
the expenditures for the year 1857 (exciu
sive OF trust funds and treasury notes refund
b ed, and payments on account Of public debt,
;. was between sixty and sixty.i five millions
. And according to the estimates that have
been published in the Union and Nationa
Intel!iyencer, at Washington, the anticipated
expenditures for the cost of carrying on the
:, government for the year 1858, instead 0
reaching eighty-three millions of dollars
will not exceed $53,500, 900.
), That the expenditures for the support o
= the government should gradually increase
81 with the progress OF the country, is to b.
ID expected. That progress is shown in the in
le crease of our population from some fv'
eff millions in 1900, to near if not quite, twenty
seven millions at this time an increase il
e. the extent Of the country from less than on
~ million Of square miles, TO three million
70 three hundred and six thousand eight hun
e dred square miles; an increase in the in
!. come OF the government, from some ten mill
10 ions of dollars in 1900, to over sixty leigh
as millions FIVE hundred thousand 10 1857; an
an increase in the exports of the country
is from less than seventy millions of dollar
worth in 1920, to over three hundred On
as twenty-six millions OF dollars worth in 1856
70 Besides all this, the national expenditure
must have been greatly affected by the sev
eral territorial governments of Oregon, Mir
nesota, Utah, New Mexico, Washington
KansBs and Nebraska, as well as by the va,
increase in our commercial intercourse wit
other nations.-S Statesman.