Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-01-04

sOMeO.--NO. i Deaderie 4 Street.
/. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 4. 1850
RaysDag.-Look to the State of Your
Finances.
The reader will please glance at the date
OF this paper. He will observe that it is of
the 4ih of January We trust we have en-
FILTERED no mans cup of coffee. nor caused
the butter to melt Iess deiiciously on bis
smoking breakfast roll. nor brought tough
ners over his rorsiy brciied tenderlOin steak,
SO juicy and luscious. by this gentle admoni-
tion. We hope that each one has the where
vithal to meet any and every promise 10 pay,
10 which he may have committed his auto
graph. We trust none of them may be under
the necessity of receiving neatly folded "no-
tice of protest." on account Of any inaccessi-
BILE /. o. C.: and that the first and fourth"
may have no Suspended written tToub-
les 20 liBger after they is gone. So, also.
We trust that all those who may have had
running accounts" may beable TO square"
chem at once. and still be able to accept the
liberal Invitation, Sc courteously extended 10
-punctual custOmeIs Uy OuI uiciSahhiC
friends. But whilst our readers are exercis-
ing their aritbmetical talent in ''casting up"
their Individual Indebtedness, and their inan-
ciai ingenuity in casting about" for the
"ways and means" ito FOOT the same. we
respectfully invite their attention to the
kindred affairs of the government They
have been told a good deal about the
ington have been squAndering their funds,
and a good deal of It has been denied 1t
has been charged by the politicians that the
President is using the funds of the people al
togeiheritoo layishly. Other politicians have
expressed contrary opinion. One party
has held him up spendtbrift. and the
other as the pink OF economy. Some people
k.ve placed crrdence in the assertions of the
one, and some in those of the other We have
felt called upon. at times, to offer some OBJ
servations and reflections and to state some
facts on this top;c, which have shared the same
fate A. those by the politicians We propose
Jus row to state the account between Mr.
JAMES BUCHANAN, Agent, aud the People for
whom he has been doing business, for three
60 the official publications OF the Secretary
of tbe Treasury. Before preceding, how
ever we make this explanatory note in adj
vance. to wit: We Observe that the Finance
Report, emanating from the Treasury De-
paIiment at Washington, make many re-
ferrnces. from time TO time, to certain sup-
posed reductions in the public expenditures.
reasonable figures, aud annual promises are
>asde that the expenses of the next year will
Drought below, what has been customary
.sfo-e. We then have "extrsOrdinary ap-
,ropriations'' which appear TO require ex-
straordinary sums to meet item; then We have
'.defciencies," and balances in the Treas
ury at the end Of the last fscal year; :" and
L'business margins e-,-6c, presented and
stated in such a way that We are almost per
suadetI that the affairs Of the government are
really managed in a very economical sort Of
way, that we are paying precisely the just
and proper sum for one whistle; and the adj
ADMINISTRATION. but for some exit aOTdinary out
standing little matters for which it cannot lie
held responsible, would be a model OF frugal
matters out OF the account, and try to cxhib-
il what the President has received and what
he has paid out That is what We want TO
know, and what the people have right to
know. Thus simplified and Invested of all
extraneous matter, the account will be found
20 stand as follows:
JAMES BUCHANAN, Agent,
IL account with THE PEOPLE
ps-IsS6-T.
To- ba.an~e the Treasury, July.
Amount received from the People
rom July 1856 to June 80, 1851 IS ISL 5I3 o.
AfnrInt c-iv ed from same source
from JGy / 1857 June 80, 1855 80 ,273 500 80
Amount received from saEse source
fr. m July l. 1855 June So 1852. 81 e92 AL OIL
a. Amount received rom sIme scarce
from July l, 1853 10 sept 80, 1852 sO,olss65 IS
Total for s years and 3 months s2sI ,IIs O45 81
by amt expended se-IsIo, ss2 "a IS
= '.7-s 81 ,5s5. 667 20
under promises Il re-
from July
L, 1859 % Sept 30. 20, oO1l'i :"
Total Expenditures 2-61s. .O7s % |
Apparent baInee in the Treasury..--s i,9yO,s,6 %
In addition /. the foregoing cxpendi-
there J, due and unpaid FOR the
June, the sum ell ------------- $500" W
L..ving for a proper baIance........ 1854 90 IS
This account current shows an aggregate
expenditure for three years and three months,
of $500, 1863, OS7 81.
IL may be well also to note the fact that a
Considerable part OF this sum is borrowed
quincy. The President has not only spent
al the NANCY We have placed in his hands
arising from the ordinary sources of revenue,
hut he has called upon US for our bonds and
our notes. To show what amount he has dir
posed Of. over aud above that furnished by
collection from the PEG pie during these three
years aud three months, we state ihe account
of that, thus:
C.sl eu :lnd ~ 1856 SO, sOI 325 IS
fron Loan, authbrz-d b. act Of
J1nc Il, lsbs--------------- 10000 900 90
Treasury notes authorized
ky act Dec 3, 1857 and
norxr6eemed lat Iuiy ,fS5e, Is .ot6 500 90
Total S5aIs+erl-9 -
We have included, in this statement, the
receists and expenditures during the last six
month. of Mr.. Prices administration, which
10 favorable to Mr.. J. b.. since his has out
stripped all Of it, predecessors in extraSa-
rance. IL has no parallel liz 4he annals OF
the Republic, either in time Of peace OF
war, and we hope that il win never have a
successor which shall contest iis supremacy
in this respect. Let the four years admins
tration of the Sage of Hheauand." stand
alone. unapproached and unspprUachable, 10
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