Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-08-14

A. LgbTand Son hgys one ;of the mos
uFonderfuI Clothes WsehersH ever omereS
ssiai1 &. 1t can Be- put into any waah boiler
More i a e clothes and washes IN one-hal
49, cs--,akes by any other mode. Ok
aaware County Frait Can De
brand & son for your cans.
~ N i sr,S LIE I'd & Son sell Fruit Cans, mads
1-Sts5 ! Charcoal tin, as cheap as they
S.t5..a1 slsetL0 0Ll-sEht anywhere.
FiooSe5 I've and fruit can wax can be bought
be effectively = iIyI1 setf -
In that speech
- s1s,Si IsneI,yst c. B. CronkIeton thEeG
said: 5esE frIiit cans ana ssal.
afyov, when the Repta-
zufated the policy of goEeE-.
by force, it Involved the necessity oxe stock
tsinfuq great arnaies-great standing afll44-sa
II involved great national expense. The
war ceased nearly four years ago and yet
,5sfrs;Js an ann 10 Keep he South Ss sub
5ecfioI-a people that ought rather to be
helping Us TO bear the cost of governing the
INV frisnd Gen. siclzles says nothing is
better than the military Governors down
South. That may be very wen for the Gov
ernors herewith their salaries; but can you
afford to have that state Of things exist, when
We show yon tnat more g & tan y oo9o99 sf g
folfc5 81 Eee0nstrssctf07l 2 ask you is the
public 2aith safe 7-,is there no danger OF
45I5d II f1gs policy fs continued What do
lvCE1 say Z. The GaX-gathereF calls upon you
and you complain Of your taxes These
taxes are imposed for the purposes OF pay
ing our unwfse public debt Now, 500 009s
600 are raised, and ola or q The creator Gets
I sssie tfSs capitaIists, ask the men who
hold these bonds lL II Is wise and prudent
pose these taxes upon the people, to uphold
s policy that endangeEs the liberties Of our
1and7 I ask you can yon, sustain 90 these men
frHEs - n
they devote one to the payment Of the pub
ereditor?7 IApplause.l
Here are bhree distinct specific asser~
tions as fellows:
/. 1t is costing this year "more than
$3.50, 90, 600 to maintain the army to keep
the people of the South in subjectiOn."
2 nMore than $500, 100000 a year have
heen wasted in order to uphold this
policy Of Reconstruction
8. lfsToW, S400, ,00O, 600 are raised, and
out of &c tie creditor gets Only$l00, ,0O0,-
000l'' s
not mere mistakes, because made in
palpable defiance of public records and
official statements so explicit and no.
torious that a person of average intel
ligence could not make them without
being impel1ed by a desire to bear false
witness against his neigh bor.
OF course, we could not state the pre-
else aggregate of National expenditure
in a year not yet concluded F.; but we
cited from the accounts and estimates
of the Treasury and War Departm ents,
and even form The World Almanac,
facts which proved Gov. Seymour's
above-quoted assertions at war with the
We have now an oficial statement,
by special Revenue Com missioner d.
Al. Wells. of the exact amounts disburs-
ed from the Treasury during the fiscal
wear which closed with the last month
that is on June 80, 1S68-the precise year
in-which and of which Gov. Seymour
was speaking. These are not estimates
nor appropriation-, nor guesses, but
the exacts amount paid into the u s..
Treasury from all sources and drawn
from it for all purposes during the MS
cal year Just ended. e.--.. r
This report shows that GOV. Sey Inour
was very nearly right as 20 the amount
of Income to the Treasury during the
fiscal wear lust closed--the exact
amount being $406, 100000. But instead
of only SIo0, ,000, 900 of this gong to the
public creditors, there was paid to them
no less than $141 ,635, ,551 for interest aie-
IA large part of this being he -stae
est on the compoun@ log inter-
prfnCi F,.s .Ass years. interest and
+ -.,.sn are all paid OF at once. These
4 1eIng now paid of and Cancelled the cur
rent interest on oar National Debt Is
4
Aside from payments of interest and
princip Of the Public Debt, there was
4 paid from the Treasury, during the fs-
Icaa wear Just closed, $229, ,9l4, ,847--in
round mum bers Two Hundred and
Thirty Millions being Serenity Asy1so1ss
I of DotE0Es less than the aggregate stated
/ by Seymour in his Bridgep8re speechs
/ Bnon WfEEsalatslfr0En the War De-
parEment, there was paid from tbs
| Treasury for all purposes, during the
1 \ too q
Thirty Millions less than Seymour as-
serted was paid 'fto maintain an army
| to keep "the people ef the South in
subjection." But, instead of being eI~
pended for that purpose there was
| paid,
For Rein basin9 State war Claims l9 s
| For Engineer Bereau (naainiy Riv-
er and Harb0r iapToVenaenEsl 6,132, $50
For Payment Of property lost or
vice Of the United States Act
of March 8, 1S4s, and supple
ments thereto esbimaba3....... Sill, 300
] For Subsistenee of indians estima-
=. -. TED =; .....-..:. 9995099
/ For Expenses Reconstruction'.. :. = .799.27O
For National Cemeteri es. ...-..-- = 792, $50
For CommutatIon of Rations5 of
PRISONERS OF " ar. - :. ..... 45zs0O0
Total SCI, ,5ss, 2sS
These are the Commissioner's figures;
but we Will subtract the items for the
Freedmen2s Bureau, for Reconstruc-
ton expenses, and even that (hough
we should not) for Subsistence of In
dians, so that there shall be no chamce
for even unreasonable caYils, and add
these to the cost of maintaining the
Army which will then stand
Regular Army expenditures. :. -. s56, ,7l8 ,4lO
Freedmen's Bureau. 45,215,000
Reconstruction expenses. .......... 1.799,270
Subsistence Of Indians. 100000
Total. -. So. "a, $50
Here Is the entire cost of malAt tain :
ing the Army, supporting the Freed
mems Bureau, and executing the Recon-
structiou acts, altogether and the aggre-
gate is less, far less, than osse-hGEf the
amount charged by Seymour, He told
the people OF Connecticut that SIT
would cost this year more than $780,
100000 TO maintain an army TO keep the
people of the South in subjection -
while in fact the entire cost ofthe Army
Z fvvhereof Millions were required to sub
due the outbreak OF several tribes of
savages on the Plains) with the cost o f
executing the Reconstruction acts and
supporting the Freedmen's Bureau, was
aciuallY less than Sixty-three hEiIlionsl
Can SO gross u iIlisstatement have been
hon. silly made by one who has been
Governor OF a State and is now running
for President
We have grouped the Army, Recon-
struction, Freedmen's BureaN, and Ia I
dian Subsistence accounts, with a p51r \
pose. Had we not done so there are
those who would say, @The Array prop
er does not cost much; it Is the Recon-
struction policy, or the Freedmens Bus
reau;" and when we show what is the
actual cOst7of the EEeedmen7s Bureau,
it will be said that we have taken 70
account Of the pay and allowances OF
officers who belong to the Army, bat
are in. the service of the Froedmen's 's
Bureau or enforcing the Reconstruction
acts; but when all these accounts are
summed up In one aggregate, what
dodge can avail? IF the pay, &c, Of
Army officers serving in the Bereau,. or
enforcing the Reconstruction acts are not
inclnded under one of these heads, they
certainly are under another And, If
either of these these items is too small,
then another must be e0rsaponding1yl
too large. At all events, here is the en-
tire expense OF Army, Fneedmen's Bu-
rea.us and Reconstruction aggregateds
aud thetOtal is less than Slxty-threei
Millions instead of the ARMY alma