Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-04-28
Agents for the Civilian & Telegraph
Keep it Befope the People.

Keep ii Befope the People.
The Knoxville Wig wishes the following
facts kept before the people, and they ought
TO be:
Keep ii Before the People. That when John
Quincy Adams ran the expenditures of this
Government up to Thirteen Millions per az
mum, the hue and cry of extravaganza and
corruption was raised from one end Of the
continent to the othcr-retrenchmen and re-
form were called for-and the people united
in turning Adams out of office, at the cxpi-
ration of his first term
Keep IL Before the People, That when Mr..
Fillmore, having the Mexican war debt upon
his hands, and the thousands of new pensions
allowed in consequence Of that war. ran the
expenditures of the Government up to Forty
fire Millions per annun,, the Democratic poll
ticians, from Maine to California, clamorcd
Tor reform, and for the election of Demo-
cratic President, who would put stop to all
such extravaganza!
Keep IL Before he People, That Buchanan
came into office complaining of the extrava-
gance of his predecessors, and pledged to re-
trench and reform by the Cincinnati Plat
form, but has ran the Government expendi-
lures up to the enormous sum of Ninety NIL
lions per annum and has inaugurated the
most reckless, uuhcard Of system Of plumber
and corruption-giving it the governments
sanction opJ oGio;o1
Kept Before The People, That when Fill
more vacated the Presidential Chair, he turned
over to his successor, Pierce, Forty Millions
of surplus-that when Pierce vacated it he
turned over to Buchanan Seventeen Millions
while Buchanan, in two years, has con-
sumed that surplus, together with the current
revenues of the Government-and now has
national debt of Serenity Millions hanging
over the country, caused by borrowing, and
is without money to carry on the Govern
ment
Keep il Before the People, That the enor-
nous frauds, extravaganza, defalcations, and
corruptions, of Van Buren's administration
for which he was Indignantly hurled from
power in 1S40 were honesty, economy and
religion, compared with the wholesale cor
ruption, public and private stealing, and
reckless expenditures under Buchanans adj
ministration!
Keep ii Before the People, That Buchan-
ans administration, from first to last, is a
tissue of absurdities; it proposes the absurd
ity of spending money we have not gothic
absurdty of buying what was not for sale
and the browning absurdity of offering an
Insult as preliminary to making bargain
Keep ii Before Tie People, That Buchanan
has asked for all manner of powers, never
before granted to any Presdcnt-a Congress-
mans power of introducing bills-the SEN
ate's power of ratifying trcatics-the Houses
power of declaring war-an amount of power
that GEO. WASHINGTON never should have
been trusted with
kept Before The People, That the present
Administration, in its wild and reckless ex-
pendtures of the public money-its total
disregard of the will Of the people, and o.
thepublic good-its unauthorized assumption
of power-its weak and unwisc management
of our Foreign relations-all and more, de.
monstrate thatit has wholly and entirely fail ID
to discharge the trusts committed to it BY
the people, and that it is the solemn duty O
all honest men, irrespective of parties, to as.
sist in hurting from power the present army
of Office holders
Keep IL Before The People, That the present
Democratic rule should he overthrown-no
only because of its reckless expenditures O
The public funds-but also its double-dealins
Territorial policy, asserting one thing to thu
North and another to the South-thereby in
augurating species of dishonesty, disgrace
full to the Government, unknown in the an
nails Of civilization and because it threatens
the subversion of the best interests Of tn,
Republic!