The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-03-28

winner OF ulSconienJ Is dawnlng upon
them. They do not como into power
with $50, 600 in the Treasury and five
million loan upon which they can sport;
but with an empty Treasury, a ruined
credit, and s0orse currency, and heavy
State debt"
I'd. The policy and action of the
democratic party on State affairs was not
questioned or opposed or denounced by
the opposition when they were being
adopted and carried out, and was never
condemned but always approved by the
people, and acquiesced in by our political
opponents.
Sd. The condition OF the State in
1854. And here we will repeat the tes-
timony of Gov BINGHAM, in his inaugu
raj message:
The State is perfectly free from en-
Jarrassments IN her financial condition,
and it is believed that by the practice Of
a proper system Of economy, no resort TO
direct taaation will be required to meet
the ordinary expenses Of the government.
Il
"The funded debt of the State ANTS
to * Il n There has been
accumulated in the State Treasury and
was on hand on the LIST day.of December
last, $552,0O0 o." nf
What would Governor BINGHAM have
to say now, if he should tell the truth,
about the condition of the State, and
what has been done by the republican
party? His message would run some
thing like this:
ave have squandered that $4,000
os. s,AH
ave have expended $3,140,17s So
of current revenue. UFa
We have increased the indebtedness
to the trust funds, 100000 90.
awe have paid one hundred and TWEEN
ty-two dollars and fifty cents of State in-
debtedness. ...., ....,.. a....4..>
1--WE have issued 100000 90 of State
bonds.
1--WE have doubled the expenditures Of
the State.
ave have increased direct taxation
from $4,000 in 1854, TO $202,663 in
1859, when l said in my inaugural that
mo resort to direct taxation will be re-
quired.' har ~
ave have abandoned all accountability
of our public officers, by denying all in
vestigations into their public acts, and
by letting the State Treasurer 90 unpun-
ished when he has lost $4,000 to the
State and made himself amenable to the
criminal law. ....-
ave made $4,000 for our black re-
publican pets cut of the Sault Ste Marie
Canal improvement.
ave have paid a hungry BROOD of
hangers on out of the 100000 acres Of
swamp lands appropriated for building
roads.
ave dealt out $4,000 to our parti-
IAN friends under pretext of improving
the cand flats of the Muskegon River.
awe have let Holmes, Bingham, Jones
d. Co. have 100000, represented by the
Artizans' Bank and G. L. Anthony.
awe have let black republican brokers
speculate out of State funds without the
security required by law.
ave have made tax-title law that
gives us and our friends, and our clerks
a chance to rob everybody.
awe have enacted registry law tc
defeat the will of the people, and to KEEP
ourselves in office.
awe have compelled the renewal of al
the State Indebtedness for another twenty
years. .'na.
awe have bahkrupted the Treasury.
awe have kept you people looking al
the nigger while we have robbed your
pockets"
. If BINGHAM was to write n message
ROW and tell the truth, he would have 10
mention all these facts, and many Others
And as the facts have come to light they
have been charged right straight upon
the republicans, and if they have any de.
fences to them they ought to make them
manfully. 1t is a miserable way for the
black republicans, 10 make good char
acter, by attempting TO make others as
bad and corrupt as they are proven to be
by their acts.