New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-09
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The new Secretary Of the Treasury Gen. Dix
has Informed Congress that il will REQUIRE twenty
millions Of dollars in addition to thu ordinary re-
ceipts from customs and sales of public lands, ia
rum the Federal Government from now pntii tbe
first of next July. He therefore calls on Congress
70 provide that amount of cash, one Bay or an.
othet, else It may be necessary to fall back upon
tae states for the money which was distributed
among them some years ago, on condition that it
should De returned to the Federal Government
whenever needed.
Before the year is out, we are of opinion ii will
require much more than that The Black Renub.
iican party has never been noted for economv
They vote money in Congress, on every occasion
with profase and indiscriminate liberaltv. ana
Ike al people who are tenacious If their avn
money, exhibit a wonderful activity in eynendino
that OF others. Stewards idea-snd Seward ia to
pc the master-spirit of the Administration of
" Honest Old Abe as his friends call bim-has
always been that this should be q splendid Govern
ineht spending money in princely STYLE and
buying the loyalty of the people bylayish disburse
menus. whether H. O. A. will subscribe to this
poilcy, when be becomes President, or whether he
VIII WI, DC allowed to have any say in the matter at
all, Will make no difference The majority in both
houses OF Congress will be SO overwhelming that
tney can appropriate any amount they choose to
any objects they choose, without asking permits
sion of Old Abe. and regardless Of his wishes
The only trouble will be to devise some wav il
which to raise the wind, and here, we apprebena
will be the chief obstacle the party will have 70
encounter
Ihe principal source of revenue, everybody
Ha IJt1fxy ,
no duties are collected at New Orleans. Mobile |
Charleston, Savannah, Norfolk, etc. how tben9 r
= true, New York is the heaviest importing CITY
wy " view ofk viii have to stop importing when
III ioses her best customers for her goods-it |
'sihg aosnra 10 suppose the Southern people will /
import =. Iinrough New York and pay high duties, /
wen they can import direct, and pay next to
ipof ~. u me way Of imposts. Therefore, the
upplles 70 the Federal Treasury will be cut off il
~ srespects, anu the new Administration will
ave all OF its extravagant ideas and splendid
isons OF Federal bounties, without the where
'itaai 10 indulge them. Tt will be reduced To 4 l.
ohaition Of mpecuniossty at the very moment 1
men u mad projected plan of extravagant *.
enditure.
Where the money to coerce the South with Il IL
'nie rom, IS another question which these neonle
ould 90 well to consider before undertaking Tia
.. " ar costs money, and great deal of it, IF ;
ere ne not even enough in the Federal strong |
y AZ Washington to keep the ordinary machinery
the Government oiled, we would like to know
~ me South is TO be invaded and reduced to I
nlection Even the Old Public Functoparv +
th all Of the States tributary to his Treasury has
zen sadly in debt, and has had to borrow and S
,gotiate ana resort to all sorts of financial ex Il
'alehts 10 Keep the head of the Administration n
'oYe water How Old Abe, with nearly half the .
ates iost to him, and with an inevitably heavy c.
daeton in the imports at Northern cities. is to in
ep the pot boiling, and at the same time whip Of
South, Is problem which we confess our en-.
g inability to solve. n,
as 1or the project of calling upon the States to D,
uhd the money which was distributed, we SIM. III
Sc Gen Dix must have been joking when he dc
'posed 1T. The claim, to all intents and mr. fir
'es, is out of date. So far as the seeding ar
ties are concerned, it is sort Of tlansed
acy. Il the General Government will settle pl
ny and honestly, however, and allow us the due er
portion Of our interest in all the properties per CT
ai and real, OF the late Union we suppose there fe
uld hardly be any objection TO allowing this to
I'M OF deposited money. Louisiana received ne
than nan million, we believe, and on fair M
ltemeht the balance would be so overwheln- or
" IN her favor that Gen. Dix we think, would ar
g nothing by his motion. But, instead of at. N
1pting to keep up the ricketty and bapkrunt
sernment at Washington, they ought to aban. G.
it at once, even as vessel is abandoned when tn
as been dashed to pieces on the breakers. us