Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1859-04-16
Croakings Of the Opposition about a Bank
rupt National Treasury.

The Efpreaa OF tnla morning III cOnceas It's gral-
Rcad01 over the announcement Of . bankfupt Ma
tiunal Treasury. With much gustO il says
1.-THE Treasury is absolutely bankrupt" What
words OF fearful import this brief sentence contains.
What tale Of extravaganza and prOdigality i I'M
fnlds in . country Of illimitabe resources. What .
record 0f diaappOiRtment and bligIted hopes and
expectations 70 makes upon the bis"Fic page " the
times.
The present deficiency in our National Treasury
has no more " do with the policy the exFavagaRee
or econ0my II the Democratic party, than with the
Grand Mogul 81 Tartary. Is it surprising that a
Treasury should be empty when the sources from
whence Il is filed are comparatively dried up? Is
1t astonishing that q Sirenin should be exhausted
when the f'uInian bead has been diverted! The
immense falling OF In the revenue, consequent upOn
the almost total cessation II foreign importation 10
the principal eanse 0f the present Treasury decien
cy This Is well known 10 the Opposition Press,
but Of course the fact will be concealed by them,
and they will be prOfuse In charging il upon the
wastcfulners Of the Democratic National Admins
TRITON. Whatever divcrSies If opinion may have
existed or may still exist with reference u the Kan
Sas- IecOmptOH Policy Of the Administration, extra
vagance cannot be truthfny charged upon it. In
Its financial and IOFeign policy President Buchanans
Administration has been eTninentv sound, enlight-
ened, patriotic and Democratic. Its measures can
nOt0nly now be successfully defended, but will be
commended By generations yet to come.
And " not the deficiency in the Treasury easily
accounted ERf IL &c TO he supposed that the over
whclmng financial disasters 1t 1887, BY which hun
dreds 81 millions were lost, would not finally affect
our National Treasury Were not and are not the
resources n the great Importing Merchants If the
country f,aVfdlly crippled! Has not everything
cOnspired 10 diminish the resources IL tie General
Governmentl The mistake" Of an Opposition
President, Willard Fillmore In appointing brigham
Young Governor Of Utah, and investing him with
extraordinary powers bus already cost our Treasury
millions Of dullars.
The panic "f 1856 was produced by ovcr-spccua.
ting, everything, Over.cheatinH over, ing, over
/ Al OsIfn
The Democratic Administration had M more IL d.
with IL than the lIabcs in the WmdS,' whose snf
fcrngs arr 81 dtcfuily told IN old nursery rhymes.
But II IL part II the stock In trade If the Oppnsi
tiOn Press to mSligu the Democratic party, rs well
as falsiy the history Of the country. The Opposition
to the Dcnocraiic party, years ago. prayed for the
success Of Great britain In the last war; aud refused
70 vote money and supplies to aid in the war with
Mexico i u ever ready 70 exnlt over the distress
Of the country, aud instead Of striving to relieve
them, prefers to ride into power by gross lsehoOds
as 10 theiF Cause. Decidedly the must cool and nm
bushing attempt Of the Is this effort Of the
unscrupulOns opposition 10 cnst odium upon Presi-
dept Buchnnans Administration because Of tenn
porary and unavoidable deficiency in the National
Treasury. .-BgfaIO pOst- NEUTRAL PAPER.
@SSSS-
DvoRcED.-Niss Judsnn, says the Detroit FREE
PreSs, the young, beautiful. rich and iastidious he
roine IL the Anglo African cl0pcmcnt which caused
80 much cOmmOii0n about six weeks since, arrived
In town on her way hOmeward, having been t. In.
diana, in company with her brother, and advertised
Joe, her durkey husband, fort divorce Joe hadn't
any money ~ take him there to plead his cause,
and time being up and negro philnnihrOphy ex-
lIaustcd in HOOAcrdOm, he wasrepudnted. and lIis
wife made free woman. much ~ the disgust of
her black associates. She was just in the nick Of
amended ~ as to cut on all such operations in fu
ture. The father Of the deudcd Young woman has
come 10 the conclusion that Republicanism is well
enough IN theory, but very bud in practice. He