New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-12-04
WHAT IT COSTS, AND VHIAT liz ~
THAT COSTS.

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| GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES The Washington cor
respondent of The Baltimore sun writes on the 22d oil
November as follows:
opiuon is seoficialy promulgated and reiterated
that the estimates of the budget for the neat fiscal year VIII be
+ 20o000o0 those for the Navy department aone pcS
about 100 O00D approximate the total "oveihe
expenditure from tie beginning Of the war to the chn o. e
fiscal year in 1903 For the several sessions ty a se %
for regular of 1901 $esi 900 oeo or REGULAR session OF
for line next fiscal year 200 600 o0-tota $3.50 l'oop
We beg our readers to dwell for moment on these
figures Our appropriations under Mr.. Lincclns Ad'
mInistration already amount TO two thousand one
hundred and thiriy.thrce millions of dollars. The next
fiscal wear beginning the first day July lSOi IL to
cost us twelve hundred millons-mahing total of up
ward of three thousand three hundred and thirty three
millions This may be set down ms the cost OF Mr. Lin
coins Observation-Disclosures the entire expenditures
of the Government from ls nrSt ORGANIZATION uhu'r
Washington down to the close of Mr. buchanan term
Tie total expenditures OF the Government during the
seventy tive wears preceding the Inauguration oi Mt
Iincoln's Administration we've e22IbO,l6l. The sum
lof Si2i j64i7, included in this amount was for the
reduction Of the public debt and should be deducted III
order to arrive az the actual expenditure OF the Govern
mcnt Making this deduction, We have. rs the toiii
actual expenditure Sl,sll6L'i This Is what II cost
us to support Government carrying II through two
foreign war; from the day which George Washing
ton was inauguratcd down to the day which James
Buchanan lett the Presidential ohcc-a sum much
smaller than has already been expended by MI Lincoln
and but little more than huii "a large ~ lln huHih
siration viii have cost when he retires from oihcc
on the 4th of March. lc65.
These are startling figures, but they should be pom
dercd by the American people. Are We mol pa! N
dearly FOR four years OF Abolition Tucf
We print the above without the change OF
a letter and without caring TO inquire whether
the cost of resisting and putting down the Slave
holders Rebellion be or be not exaggerated by
our Democratic cotcmporaries above quoted.
Il is very certain that the cost Of this War l.
enormous, and that it is very likely to equal the
whole vast sum at which the -Four Millions of
Slaves held in 1850 under the American dag
were then valued. The official valuation Of the
entire private or individual property oithe Amer
lean People in 1850 was little over Sixteen
thousand Millions Of Dollars. eve presume
the actuGI value Of that property was not less
than Thirty Thousand Millons.) II. then, the
War shall cost -Four Thousand Millions IT viii
consume nearly onc-Scrcnh of all the property
that it found in the Country; which proportion
Republic as worth only Twenty thousand Mil
lions will be swellcd TO on,:fGt So much j., to
he wTcnchcd from the sweat and toll Of our PeO-
pie TO establish the fact that shareholders must
obey the laws and keep the peace the same as
other folks and that those who break up their
own party and nominate boiling ticket on pur
pose to bee defeated. must not make the defeat
they have thus contrivcd and invoked prcic1t
for Rebellion and Civil War.
This Rebellion j., in all its impulse, anl in
When il broke out, sixteen States hal Demo
cratic Governors to fifteen Republican, aud two
(Sprague of Rhode Island and Hicks Of Mary
, lsnd) who We're of neither great party OF those
sixteen Democratic Governors, tWoire carly and
arlently enlisted in the work of dividing and
destroying the Union; while of the other four
Burton Of Delaware, Downey Of California.
Macof,n Of Kentucky and Whitaker OF Oregon,
not one has given hearty and thoroughgoing
support to the struggle Of the Republic for OK
istence Every Governor who did not call him
self Democrat stood for the Union against the
Rebcllion-twclyc Of the sixteen Democratic
Governors openly took the other idle. while, Of
the other four, at least three have betrayed a
very decided sympathy with the Rebels.
This gigantic treason was for ycars icrmcnting
and prcparingin The bosom Of the Democratic
party before il burst ont into Rebellion and
Civil War. Many Democrats have nobly rc-
,i,c1 and still rrss, IL: but this doe. not affect
the truth that it j. essential. and practically
Democratic revolt, lomcn'cd and inauglratcd
'hy Democratic leaders and finding -ympa'hy AID
support even IN The loyal States. mainly among
tie most bigo'cd dcyotec. OF partisan Dcmoc-
racy. Find a ,ymmhizcr with and apologs'
for ,hi, atrocious Rebellion where you viii, you
may be ccrain-eyen though ho were a violent
Fedcralis' IN the oldcn time, and bitter Whig
.incc-that he now calls hm,clfa Democrat.
Suppose, then. that it ,hall cost SIXTH,
fifth, or even fourth, Of oil the property in
the land 70 suppress this Rebellion, who shall
bear the blamc--thc Rebels, or those on whom
/ the Constitution imposes the duty OF putting
them down. Were the Democratic party 10
carry the State Of Rhode Island next April, and
! their opponents thercupon break ont into re-
bcllion and inauguraic Il civil war which, before
| il could be closed, would whelm the State in
blood and ruin, destroying half lis property,
would The Post consider hot a reason for
| blaming the Democrats and restoring their m.
tagOnists to power