The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-08-30
From the 81. Paul Pioneer.
The Extravaganza of the Republican
PARTY.

Any
Secretary McCulloch lately appointed o
committee to examine into the affairs of
the United States Treasury. They have
reported and announced that since the
Republican party took possession of the
Government on the 4th of March, 1861,
six years and four months ago, the
amount of national funds that have pass.
ed through the Treasurer's hands, is
FOURTEEN THOUSAND AND FIVE
HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS (14,500,000,OOO)l
The entire valuation of the whole
United States and Territories by the GEN.
sus of 1860 was but little over sixteen
thousand millions. Thus we have it that
during the last six years and four months Of
Radical rule, funds to the amount of more
than six-seyenths of the entire property
of the United States and Territories, have
been wrung from the pockets of the peo-
pie and passed through the Treasury of
the United States
Look at these figures in another form !:
Valuation of the United States
and Territories, lS60......"..$l6, 196, 5l6, 068
Spent and squandered by Con-
gress since March ], ls6l..... IA, 500, 900, 900
Unexpended balance. MINIMUM. ST. sos, GIG O6O
Now contrast the frightful exhibit with
the total amount of funds that passed
through the United States Treasury from
the formation of the Government in 1889
to the hour when the Republican party
took possession of it in March 4, 1861,
period of seventy.two years. That
amount was just two thousand one hun
dred and ffty-ono millions, ninety.eight
thousand three hundred and twenty -sey en-
dollars ($2,15l, 098,327)
Republican expenditures in six
years and four months.......$14 500, 600, 900
Democratic expenditures in sew
enty-two years...........-... 2,l5l, 098, 327
Thus the Republicans have ex pended,
in six years and four months, seven times
as much money as the Democrats spent in
seventy-two years And yet, during
these seventy-two years, the Democratic
party carried the country successfully
through two great wars, one with Great
Britain, and the other with Mexico, be.
sides through innumerable Indian wars.
Look at these figures in another light
The average annual expenditures of the
Republican party, for the six years and
four months it has been in power, has
been two thousand three hundred mil.
lions ($2, 300,000,000)
The average annual expenditures for
seventy.two years previous was but thirty
millions ($30,000,0O0) Thus the gov
eminent under the Radical rule, has cost
on the average seventy times as much as
it did under the Democratic rule.
The figures are not made up for the
Legitimate work of crushing the rebellion
alone. They are made up of the swindles
of contractors, the brides and steals of
those who have run the machine, the
Freedmen's Bureau, and military expen-
ses of keeping white men down and ele-
waiting the negroes up. For instance, our
taxes last year were, all told, $5S0,O0O,-
600. Only $3.50, 100000 of this was for
interest on the entire war debt of so, 600,-
QUO, 900. What was the other $780,
100000 for T? Certainly not to "crush
out the wicked rebellion" for there was
none. $30O,000,000 was for radical ex-
travagance--for Democrats ran the govern
ment for seventy-two years for only $780,
O0O,OO0 per annum. Cut this out, tax
payers, and study it over at your leisure.