New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-30
4 lar WITHOUT SHAME

On tlir eve of the last Connecticut Election,
Horatio seymour made a speech III winch lie
asserted that More than S3OOOOO,OOO year
"have been irasted in order to uphold THIS
"Dolioy of Reconstruction and that we were
having more than S1J0,000,0OO per annum to
maintain an army to keep the people OF the
"South in subsection
II was then too late to refutc these gigantic
falschOOi, in time to break Their force III ,ha'
election but we dealt with them ana thcii
author frankly and faithfully. He has never
retracted nor attempted to explain or justify
them They were such faschoOdS as no toief-
ably intelligent man could have uttered with
ont intending 10 deceive, unless he were by
partisan malignity rendered incapable OF per
ceiving the truth. Even The World Almanac
suilicCd to expose and Tefute them.
The Hon. David A. Wells, L. $. Commits
sioncr of Revenue, in his letter to the Hon.
W. Il. Allison of July f., last, thus testiies
WAF DEPAErMENT-1h total disbursement made
under the direction of, or through the war Depart
mcnt for the fiscal year ending June ~ lN'c' "eie
SIS 3f5GiS g.. OF this amount there were Pllu M,
r Ertm,rs state War Claims IOijO, iss
on OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES nE,,yo. Ca" ' G5264O
ar FOR property lost or destroyed IN
Of Maroh ;. loiJ. and supplements theretoJ -, ooo
var sni,stence Of Indians estimated ...... 1W0.oOo
Inr Freedmen. Hureau Observation-Disclosures. 325,1p
For Expense, % ReCOnstruciion..---.. ...- l,n2,o
49,, ,,,,, IAN NJ R,tons OF Prisoners Of War l52.e1
T,.,i .............. Soc, 5iJ.23s
TIN, amount deducted from theagmegate eXpendl-
lures above given indicates the regular and egiti
m,te army expenditures for the fiscal wear ending
June 30 SIS to have been Sb,ll3.4lO ol when 10
inc, alb mi /.
attendant upon the existence of Indian hoslll
ties upon the Plains IN the Summer and fall oi lSo'
which largely and exceptionally augmented the COST
OF transportation and subsistence :,
The Military appropriations for the current hscai
ycu aIe S@OS Ol3
We hive copied the whole Of Mr.. Weiss
statement under the head of War Department..
so that our readers may see how 1t meets and
confrtes Sevmour's falsehood. You may choose
to consider Subsistence OF indians" q" Freed
"mcn's Bureau ana DEMONSTRATION ES-
"penScsr fairly chargcablc to the o"r.o"t War
account under SeymouI's arrangement; so we
will add them 60 the SJ6,1l3,4lO that MI. Wells
considers the legitimate current expense oil
maintaining our army; and we now have
total of So, CPS, GS0-DOt nearly hdV the sum
charged by Coy. Seymour a the cost OF an
army to keep the South IL ,ulicctioni whereas
all men do know that a very large portion of
these Sixty.two Millions were expended III the
North and West. but especially in protecting
our pioneer, and lighting Indians on The PLANS
and in the Mountains.
And yet The World, in the face OF this
crushing exposure. attempts to bolster ZAP Sey-
mour rs follows:
"Mr Well. wn- instiglied 20 cook mp his hglres hy
Repubicans who feared the damaging encct ot GOV.
Seymour statement that the expenses OF tt var ~,
t.rtment this year would amount To SlJo,1OV"o Sii
Wells hy taking merely the Registers accounts ana
emitting All reference to the Treasures accounts, easily
made the sum lc,s. Mr. Dclmar gives bOh and enables
n. To know the total winch docs not materially dnef
from Gov Scymour's statement. The War Department
cost during the fiscal year eslng July J, the following
sums: ...-...
Registers Expenditures >+'''hta
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