New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-24

| ist At.on. We canIo,, Ctcoufse stotA .vi 80 = .
| serce Of Mr.. TrumsulPs audience. They miy Dc
ieiots fer sueht We know. Certsin |. is, hs plfs
poor estimate upon their cspsoty, or very hga one
uptn he osn tes.ircny. Bat M. Ira noul Sc; s e.
Abctiontt, acting uDon the maxim thst the end utt
| hss TIE means. While he is charging eIlravsgAnc''
Mr. Cobbs bully eEgsssd IN cutting OIL every ua-
recessaIy charge upon the Treasury, aud y dsly
receiving complaints that the revenue force is beng
| reduced bs.ow the actual demands OF safety.
Now, az this inccses yagrart partn.r.nP os-
tween the corrupt lobbytes and the various brsnc oe.
Of tie Opposition. We need not tel tbs reader tas
hose who orposs appropriations in this city and use
| every erertop 70 limit and cut down the public eT-
penoitures are Democrats; and that those VINO vote
Tor every scLeme locking to the fciease Of the eI
ptnes ard to the squ,nderirg Of the rneans Of tbs
| Government, are Republicans and Americans. As
We have saiG they organized regular Presidential
| campaign only two moths $50 on tue strergta CT
| their own wicked eItrsvsgance 10 voting away he
money Of the pecpe, and were defeated only by the
steady opposition Of the Democracy, otth IN and out
| of Congess.
| LET US correct few Of the more p,p,ble
| errors Of The Union
l. We hare &c knowledge and 10 belief that the
President was ever censured by Republicans for
| his avowed determination to have time afforded
him for full ,crutiny Ard consideration Of all i'm
pcrtant bills presented for his approval. Wha:
"The Lobby" may have thought of ths m,tter,
Prei,, 30 far as we are aware, generally approved
the Presidents suggt stiou, however disappointed
they msy be IN its practical results.
2. We never knew the President blamed for tae
fsirg of in the Revenue sirce the Revulson Of
1857. That the Revenue fell of, was the misfor
tune of tto,e now in power; that they took DO
! measures to coun.eIsct or remedy this falling off,
is their fault The moment it became clear that
the Treasury was running behind hand, the Rave-
Iue sy,tem should have been revised s,i adapted
to tie altered condt on, either BY revision of the
Tariff, or BY the imposition Of Direct Taxes. Toe
Government is Justly blamed, not because the
Revenue has fallen of. but because no resource but
borrowing has been even attempted, when Re-
trenchment was the onlg justfsble alternative for
decreased Taxation.
g. We believe the charge that Mr. Trumbul
90 votes for every conceivable appropriation and
",trains every muscle to increase the expenses OF
:" the Government" to be wanton cslumny; but
there are Republican Senator'S who incline to what
is termed liberal policy with regard to Public
Expenditures, and We ask them to consider the
treatment accorded to Mr.. Trumbull aud take
warning. The journal from which We copy this
railing accusation is fed on Treasury psp, lives for
il, is sorged by it; yet see how it taunts Repub-
Ecan with the crime of prolonging its worthless
existence,
4. We do lot find fault that affairs are not car
" ried OF" now so cheaply as they were when tae
Revenue was but Fifteen or Twenty Millions; but
We do complain that, whereas the cost Of collecting
frop ar xVaa nrr
Two Millions to Three ard more, expressly because
of tie immensely enhanced activity Of Commerce
and increase of dutiable Imports, yet that now,
when that Revenue has fallen over half, there is
nothing like corresponding diminution whether in
the number or pay of those employed to collect it.
Why not! Is il not reasonable that there should
be
3. Mr.. Trumbull did not blame the Admnistra-
ton for the mere fact that there points at which
the charge for collection absorbs far more than the
entire revenue there collected. What he did
arragn was the fact, that whereas the revenue col
ected at those points has not increased of late but
rather fallen off, tie cost Of collecting it has been
trebled. Ard this, be it remembered, in the face
Of reduction of the Tariff diminishing the induce
ments to smuggling. Can there be any doubt that
the ooy necessity for this increase of outlay is the
neceity of the partisans who pocket the money for
doing next to nothing
g. Mr.. Secretary Cobb, Tie Union says, is now
cutting of u,eless Revenue officers, and sis daily
receiving complaints that the Revenue force is
"beipg reduced beyond the actual demands of
"tafety." If 20, we venture the assertion that the
compainants are those whose powers Of suction are
thus rudey divorced from the Treasury or the
friends and relatives Who in default of public pro-
viion, will henceforth be obliged to maintain them.
We have never till now heard Of complaint Of this
sort.
:. The Union broadly ssserts that the Opposition
:" vote for every scheme looking TO tho increase
of expenditures" while " those who use every
"exetion to limit and cut down expenditures
"are Dtmocrats." Here, now, is a tangible test
of Democracy; let us see who can abide it. Who
voted the $1,000 year to Members Of Congress
The authors of that proposition were certainly q
Senator from South Carolioa (whO proposed $500
ayear) and Col. Orr, now Speaker Of the House,
who moved to increase the sum to $4,000, and
thereupOn called the Previous Question, thus
forcing the bill through the House by one or two
majority. Of courie, these and their hackers can
not be Democrats" according to The Unions
test. Then the new Regiments raised last Winter
the Millions for the Washington Water. Works,
the mOnstrous and utterly needless eItravagsnce
eyinced in the construction Of the new Wings to
the Capitol, &C., &c, those who have supported
there can no longer be accounted Democrats, &c.
coidiDg to The Union.
What moekery is all this How can q party
which las an immense preponderance in every