American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-06-18
Necisless Expenditure.

Inc press vi the country are bcgln'
ming to speak out in condemnation of
the heavy debt which is now being pill.
ed up by the present administration.
Even Andrew johnson, Of Tennessee
one of the most INSCRIPTIONS partizans
of the age, pertinently declared, in a
discussion in the Senate the other day
that unless his party friends checked
their career of extravaganza and reck-
less expenditure, they would have 49,
40 over again Thisprophesy is like
~ to be fulfilled, unless the tariff is al.
tered, American manufactures protect
ed, and reckless extravaganza ceases.
We copy the following appropriate
and forcible article on the subject of
the reckless extravaganza Of the De-
mocracy from the Petersburg MtelH.
genccr, which We commend to the ear
nest attention Of ourrcadcrs and Of the
whole country;
eff there were no other ground for
opposition to the Democratic party, the
recklessncss with which they add to
the national expenditures, and the
proiligacy with which they squander
the public treasure, would be cause c.
nough for every lover of the country
and every advocate of morality to band
together in uncOmpromising opposition
to them. Enormously as the expendi-
lures of government were increased
under tho late administration. the cx-
travagance of the present one exceeds
all precedent and passes all endurance.
1t is impossible that such wastefulness
can be unattended by decay. 1t cx-
ceeds Ito employ the language ola we'll
known cotenporary,) anything Of the
kind ever known to the country. Mr..
buchanan has been in power but lit
tic more than a year, and yet has push
cd the cost Of government from fjiy'
ty'e|ghty mtlltons-which had been
complained of, and justly too, as an ex'
ccssive hgurc-to over EIGuTY-THREE
MILLIONS. He found when he came
into power sccentccn miNions in the
Treasury; he quickly got rid Of that
COLLECTED during the year forty, tour
millions of revenue; got rid Of that
borrowed t,oemty millions by Treas.
ury notes; got rid of that--and is now
besicglng Congress TO let him raise if.
teen millions more on n loan with Il
moral certainty that new loans will be
required of Congress at the beginning
OF the next session to meet actual de-
iiciencics. While the unprecedented
sum of eighty three miNions--unprece-
dcntcd even in time Of warts spent
during the fiscal year foots up to the
enormous aggregate of NINETY THREE
MILLIONS.
"-Nll this reckless mode Of expcndi-
turc is going on, too, while the reve-
nucs OF government are in q miserably
depressed condition, and without any
effort to improve our revenue system
so that it shall be better able to meet
these extraordinary demands. No
measure whatever is proposed for rails
ing the tariff. It is certain that that
tariff will not for the remaining years
OF the Administration, produce moro
than fifty-iivc millions annualIy-du-
ring the present fiscal year it yields
less than forty millions-and yet not
the slightest manifestion is made to-
wards rendering the source of income
more productive--and for the simple
reason that the increase of the tariff
would involve bettor protection to 4
mcrican industry"