Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-07-02
.Thirty Millions of Dollars for Secret Service!'

Such is the caption of portion Of an election
eerng pamphlet, bearing no name and no imprint,
which friend has forwarded to us from the First
District This pamphlet was no doubt sent out fiom
the Register office, but who wrote and who printed
it no one Lao,es. 1t is sort of unclaimed anony-
nous flSehood, very thoroughly condensed, fasten-
ed together by fancy figures and floating about the
various Congressional Districts of this State. Who
wrote it, Mr.. Syme? Is this the pamphlet from
which Gen. Leach read and endeavored to make the
people believe he was reading from Cobbs Report?
The statements in this pamphlet which is cnti-
tied what it costs to be governed" are as wide of
the mark and as far from the truth as were the cele
bratel Ogle statements of 1870 We warn the peo-
pie against it. 1t is intended to mslead and de-
ceive When these "opposition" leaders, fellow
citizens read to you long accounts of extravasant
expenditures from anonymous pamphlets, ask them
they think you are so verdant, so inexperienced
50 unacquainted with the ways of the world, and
with the tricks of unprincipled politicians, as to
take for granted what these pamphlets contain
hmand the taets-caU for the official Statements
Ii sound rule in politics well as theology, to
prove all things" and hold fast to that which is
good"
This pamphlet contains the following utterly false
statement in relation to the thirty million bill
Read 1t, and then say if the writer couM tell the
truth if he were to try, about any thing:
THIRTY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR SECRET SER
T!cE-Anl to complete the list of the extravaganza
Of this most eXtravagant administration and to add
the climax to its unblushng effrontery, Mr.. Blu.
ehanan now asks to have $780, 900 placed at his
disposal, to be by him disbursed secretly, without
check restraint Or responsibility. Is it not time to
pause and consider. Having depleted. the public
treasury to its last dime, with $4,000, 900 short in
the Post Office Department, he wishes to grasp the
expected incoming revenue, to the exclusion of thu
legitimate expenditures of Government, to this vas
amount. Have the acts of his administration in thu
past been such as to justify confidence which ha
never been given to any administration wises
and best! In effect, he asks to be clothed Will
powers which not only have never been exercised
ont have never been asked for, by any administra
ton"
There is not one word of truth in the foregoing
extract. 1t Is all talse. "Secret service none,
'"'ee''!-when the bill proposed to be passed con
ahed the sum to be appropriated with directions a
" how it should be used, and an express conditio
mat the President should account to Congress 70
every dollar expended. Do these people, who &c
up the pamphlet and who are circulating it,-doe
""y respectable man believe that James Buchana
would steal, Or squander, or permit any one else
veal Or s1uander the thirty millions referred to
no. fellow-citizens, it is all "for Bumcombe" tt
intention is to excite and impose on the people
have these "oppositionists " forgotten the pec'
i'''on the stealing mot to put too fine poll
upon (which was carried on under the Fillmo
administration? Have they forgotten the Gardne
Tue Galphn, the Crawford frauds? Do they n
""o~ that Mr.. Crawford, one Of Mr. Ffllnor.
s"''aet c1feers was compelled to resign on accou
=, lis completely in the allowance of fraudule
I'" against the government, and out of which
',Sanee he pockcted $4,000? And yet these pc
p's nave the audacity to talk about "secret servi
,''"ey, and to cast reflections on the integrity
James Buchanan!