Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-04-28

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Treasury Department Register
Once March ., 1853. T. BIGGER, Register


once, March ., 1858. F. BIeGER, Register.
There cannot be moro complete and conclusive
illustration Of the want of sincerity in the canvass
economy Of the opposition than is furnished in the
foregoing table.
Let US now consider the appropriations made by
the Congress which expired on the 4ih of March
last. The increase was mostly in the War Depart
ment The necessity for this increase is thus fOrci
bly, stated By q writer il the Democratic Rsvie1c:
1.-The distant territory of Utah had became re-
beious its population was acting IN contempt OF
all law, and in defiance Of the Constitution and au-
thority OF the United States.
IAN armed force was necessarily sent there to
enforce obedience to law and TO protect the naugur
ration of new set of officers Who went cut to sup
plant those who were deep in treason. This force
had to travel over two thousand miles, amidst fross,
SHOWS and storms-not by conveyance, for there
was neither that afforded by water or by railroad,
for there are no rivers yet has the iron horse
penetrated those boundless Wilds. They had to
march foot, and their supplies were necessarily
transported in teams at heavy expense. No sane
man, at all acquainted with the then condition of
things in Utah, will question the fact that all this
march Of troops, and consequent heavy expense was
necessary. II was this that increased the eXpen>
ditures in the War Department, and not any motive
Of extravaganza profigacy. 1t may be well to
remark that the timid policy Of Mr.. Fillmore, while
President, with reference 10 tC Utah, has been the
source Of all this trouble and expense. When the
territory was organized THE Mormon difficulty was
but q Eiere spsck on the horizon Had governor
been appointed at that time outside the church, ac
quieseence by the Mormons would have been easily
gained; and, II not, it could have been demanded.
Mr.. Fillmore was frightened by the speek. His
quskiDg knees shook at the contemplation Of the
mere jdtus Of the late rebellion To coDciliate the
Church be appointed Brigham Young. The speck
grew larger and larger, until, under the admiDistra
ton Of Mr.. buchanan, it eliminated into dark and
mighty cloud Mr.. Buchanan met the emergency
in It's crisis, dethroped the Mormon king, and ap-
pointed an anti-MormOn IN his place. sent the army
10 enforce the law, and hence the expense which
the opposition now denOunes"
The increase Of expenditure in the Naval Depart.
ment grew out of the amount expended in building
new vessels, and preparing this branch Of the ma
tioual service to vindicate our homer on The high
seas, mperilled by the presence of foreign navies
in the adjacent waters suhjecting our merchant ma
rne to insulting exactOns and painful humilisliOns
in the pursuit of their legitimate business
The remaining item of expenditure under the
pres snt administration demurred to, is in the Post
Office Department. This arises, in part, from the
establishment CT overland mail routes to California,
against which not a single opposition Senator voted
in the thirty fourth Congress, the amendment pro-
viding Tor it having originated in the Senate.
As it was engrafted in conference report in the
Senate, there wss 10 means of getting vote on the
proposition in the House. Besides this, at the last
session of the thirty fourth Congress, over three
hundred additional mail routes were established by
Congress, which tended to swell the expenses of the
Post Office Department during the fiscal year. This
is a department the expenses of which must con-
tnue to augment. The advance of settlement into
the wilds Of the mighty West demands the exten-
sion Of routes Our people wiz not DO without mails
Reform, therefore, must lock 10 a more just mode
of acquiring revenue for its support, than to any
restriction of he domestic mail facilities.
But the opposition charge that the democrats are