, 1867-08-16
The Public Debt.

now CONCEDED on all nanus tnat there 10 no
probability whatever of the reduction of the
public debt, and it is believed it will be
largely increased. The War Department
alone now expends twice as much as the
,rhole cost of the government in Buchansn's
time. Half of the whole cost is in keeping
an army in The South where it would not
have cost anything # the States had been
restored as they could have been year ago
as we'll as to-day. The party in Congress
favor the continued oppression of all the peO'
pie by taxation so high that business withers
and dies bencath it, and it must land Us in
the ind in financial crash that will sweep
the country. Look at the condition Of busi
ness in all the principal cities in the States
the cry comes from all quarters that busi>
ness is PROSTATE, and 10 high taxation is at
tributed the general depression and stagua-
ton. Yet the radicals in Congress persist
in having large and expensive military es-
tablshments in the Southern States, whilst
the great highways to the Pacific and Rocky
Mountains are blocked to emigration by hos
tile Indians, and they cannot be driven out,
because the army is unnecessarily sent into
the Southern States to Cypress vanquished
people who are quite willing to submit to
the authority of the general government
Light is fast creeping in on the real designs
Of the radicals, and an over taxed people are
beginning 10 see that the party in power in
Congress are engaged in efforts to retain
office rather than to reduce the public debt
or Tighten taxes. Never in the history of
America has such an utter disregard of
economy in the expenditure of public money
been manifested than is now shown by tie
radical party. Millions upon millions arc
squandered-the public debt is appalling
the country is grooming under the immense
load of taxes, and whilst ruin and bankrupt.
cy stare the nation boldly in the face, these
fanatics are engaged in piing million upon
million upon the already over-taxed shoul>
ders Of their constituents. Certainly the
American people cannot long endure the rule
of party that so terly disregards their
interest. Under radical rule there is not a
single ray of hope for deliverance from the
evils that are crushing out the very life and
industry of the country. What is all the
toll of the merchant and severe labors Of the
husbandman worth to them if it has all to
be paid out to sustain the extravaganza
CT selh>h Congress? The present public
debt will be an incubus upon generations
unborn, and those who now live are only
''hewers of wood and drawers Of water" to
keep up the extravaganza of Congressional
legislation. Could the American people have
presented to them the items of the various
bills paid out of the contingent fund of Con-
gress for travelling expenses of Congressional
committees. it would astonish them. This
practice has grown up entirely since the
radicals obtained control of the government.
Every conceivable expedient has been adop.
ted by this party to rob the government.
This piIlaGe and robbery must he stopped, or
the government will become bankrupt. The
power to change this state of affairs and re-
lieve the people of the burrhens That now
oppress them, rests with themselves, and
they can and will throw it.oH.