New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-13
EXPOSED ITSELF.

The other day the Administration discharged some.
thing like hundred thousand dollars worth o.
clerks from the New York Custom House, and per
hans hundred Thousand dollars worth more have
been discharged from other collection depots, for the
work Of decapitation has been brisk and extended
We have nothing 70 ayagainnt this wholesome work
Of retrenchment, which Ne altogether approve; but
4 the same time ~ ars utterly unable to toss oul
hat in ths air and shout hurrah for Buchanan in q
rspture Of complimentary vociteration. On the con
sry, ~ feel constrained to save breath for thu
Deserved reprobation Of the corrupt government
which b. for years dishonestly appropriated thu
naton's means, confded to it ~ Q sacred trust, II
extra clerks, robbing the Treasury to give to thos,
service for them to perform.
The misdoing 10 use no harsher word) OF the EN-
ployment Of these parastical supernumeraries, who
were 90 many " friends to reward st public ex
pense, is only equalled by the laundering dulnes'
manifested in their discharge for the act published
to the whole country the evil which was thus &C
tardily rectiied advertised the OWE
fault In having deliberately despoed the Treasury
through term Of years. But the Administration
has very bad luck, We remarked the other day. ol
it, wickedoess always finds its out, and il nobody else
does, itself somehow contrves to stupidity blnnder
into an exposure Of it, own malfeasance. Il it had
not been 30 foolish In thus discharging the extra
clerks there would have been such direct evidence
o. it's own confession furnishes Of its maladmnlsfra-
ton in this particular, and the charge might never
have been added to the long List Of counts in the IN
ictment which tho universal jury OF the great public
have found against IT,
II W thought that the Administration was repent
Ing of il sins At this ate hour and that this was
sort of conscisncestricken deathbed reparation, We
should not have word to ray In condemnation, but
rather tender our orgving consultations to the ex-
pirinR penitent But We know it is not so, and that
this welldong il the result Of lack Of shrewdness
rather than OF sudden accession of virtue. It has
heretofore Numbered into the right path without the
least idea Of the road it was travelling No wonder
that the Governmental expenditures Of the country
have 30 slarmingly increased during this administers
ton, for here We see by its own acknowledgment
that it has been giving away at least 100000 per
annum in the one item Of extra Custom House clerks
and the amount might probably be multiplied by
three or four. And il in this one department much
wrong has been done, We need no further fact to
sufficiently sustain the charge that it is In every de-
partment, BY far the most unrighteous Adminstra-
ton which ever held federal place and power But
there Is other fact and abundance, to sustain the
charge which is known, and abundance that may
never be. All We may know Is that the money has
gone, and that there are no great and necessary
public works to show where it has gone to-no
method Of accounting for large proportion of the
deficit.
The high price at which votes are held will be the
rnSY of thio cnu vAt and Un1itca1 economists
should turn their attention to the devsing Of
way Of cheapening the quotations, or the next Demo
cratic Administration that gets hold Of the purse will
entirely exhaust it and spend it, whole term in work
ing out Of debt to the dsinterested patriots who in
stalled it. Perhaps the reason the extra clerks were
discharged that they had just been paid up the
amount for which they were bought in the Presi
DENTAL canvass Of SO! Who knows?