Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-01-25
The Enquirer and the Administration.

The Enquirer and the Admi nIstration.
The old Richmond Enquirer has become a
thorough rebel in the Buchanan Democratic
camp 1t arraigns the leading measures and
poli,y of the Administration with a vim that
is rea lily refreshing, and calls "for minority
in Congress to represent the people" 1t as
serts that the present expenditure of SsO,OOO,
600 per annum more than exhausts every source
of revenue, and that "the Executive advises a
number of extraordinary expenditures, which,
if resorted to, will raise the yearly expenditures
to nothing short of SI2O,OOO,O00." The En-
quirer proceeds to point out the different class
es OF Legislators who favor these enormous ex-
penditures, and with emphasis adds:
We must have a battle royal of debate in
both Houses of Congress. The men who pre-
tend to represent tie cause of conservatism,
economy and reform, must boldly assaIl the
leading recommendations of the Executive, in
volving proposals for unprecedented expendI'
ture We must have parliamentary contest,
active, searching, diligent effective in exposing
the MEANS objects and probable results of IN
creased extravaganza. The present calm OF
careless acquiescence and timid remonslance,
and their representatives.
The Enquirer next pitches into Mr. Slidells
S30,OOO,00 Cuban proposition, which it trusts
will not ''be allowed to pass through default Of
opposition, or by sufferanee." The Enquirer
well claims that when proposition is made 10
raise the public debt, which, twelve months
ago, stood at cypher, by single coup, to
Sl0O,O00,OOO, the people have the right to de-
maud some substantial evidence of good to be
accomplished, OF benefit to be derived. The
Enquirer scouts the idea that the sum to be Of
fered would tempt the cupidity Of Spain, or
woIld be hardly an ''instalment" in the purchase
ofCuba 1t declares that we have lost much
ground, both as regards time and international
confidence, by inopportune movements for the
acquisition of Cuba and that at present, an ab-
siinence from all public demonstration, if no:
an entire "masterly inactivity" is what is need
ed to ripen this fruit of territorial aggrandize-
ment.
Hear the old Enquirer sum up on the Bu-
chanan Administration projects Recollect it is
no "Black Republican" speaking out, but the
Teritable Richmond Daily Enquirer of January
10Th, 1859. 1t says:
The acquisition of Cuba, at minimum ex-
pense of sl0O, ,O00, 600, the construction of &
Pacific rail road, at perhaps double the figure;
g Mexican protectorate, international prePon-
derauce in Central America, in spite of all the
Powers of Europe; the submission of distant
South American States; the repulse of unwar-
rsntsble demands, in which the selfish British
policy of foreign encroachmsnt is deeply inter-
ested; the enlargement of the navy; largely
increased standing army; a vital re-actionary
change in the mode of collecting revenue, di-
recty opposed to the current of free trade SEN
timent which is now drawing into its channel
ali the nations of the earth; a gigantic financial
revolution, which eontemplates transfer of all
the power over banking aid industrial corpora
tions from the hands of the States to those of
the Federal Government, involving monopoly
of monetary command at the centres oftrade;-
what Government on earth could possibly meet
all she exigencies of such food of Innovations
What treasury could afford the drain required
TO supply it
No. this sort of thing is out of the question.
This chasing after a multitude of objects, will
inevitably lose Us everything of solid benefit,
besides involving us in complicated embarrass-
pents, which the wisdom of subsequent CEN
tury will hardly be sufficient to unravel