Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-14
sunnressIa Yerl suggestLO FaIsI.

Tho increase Of tho public debt from March 81,
s65 The close of the war 10 July 81 1865 has been
Sib6, b79 400 6s Is II any wonder the people com
plair Of hard times Tho tax-gatherer takes from
them fully ono-sixth Of al their earnings and even
with thss tbo debt Is increasing. There must be
change or the consequences Of radical rule will con-
vert Tho people into nation Of thieves into which
that rale has indoclrinsted them. Of the SIX hun
dred million taxes collected during the year ending
July Let the radicals can exhibit expenditures OF
mt uttle over oDa-half Where has Che other two
hundred and hey millions and over gomez Stolen
Pres and HereA
A suppression Of The truth is the suggestion Of
falsehood !" and the falsehood becomes doubly
pinrng when il is villully and maliciously done,
for base purpose, and in the face Of facts of which
every reading man, much loss an editor, must be
sppsised. AID hence wo say that the latin phrase,
Spbressio peri Suggeslo Jaisi' could not be moro
aptly applied than 20 the author Of the above. As
we'll might il DO said that the rebellion closed in
ls6a when Grant swept down through the wilder
pes ana fastened his grasp about the throat Of the
rebellion al Richmond not 10 be loOsened until the
last culver Of srmed life had fed from the hideous
monster secession as 20 say that the closed the
slss OF March 1865 The only difference was that
tho cad was little nearer. The fight from Peters
burgh and Richmond was in April. That mag
niacent sodier,' Of the Democratic party, Lee had
not yet visited the apple tree at AppomStox.-
Hampton, who made tho only plank ia the New
York platform yet commanded his troop of traitors
democrats al of them johnson had not surren-
dered, and Forrest the hero Of Fort Pillow yet
looking for an opportunity 10 win from the Rebel
Congress nj Richmond q second vote Of thanks for
a Gallant act for another massacre Of prisoners
and unArmed wounded men. April saw the death
Of the bayone.cd rebellion, but the great army of
million heroes many Of whom had not been paid
for raonths were yet TO DO discharged and paid and
transported 70 their homes.
On tho lst Of April, 1866, the sscertained debt of
the United States amounted 70 ST. 966 OF. Soon
AFTER this the discharge and payment Of the army
commenced, and before the 9oth of June 1865, or
during the three months succeeding April ist there
was paid 70 the array being discharged the vast sum
Of SllA io6 377, and on the first Of August, 1866,
the ssceltained debt was 50, 757 6Se,75l above
which amount The deb. has not run at any one time
Al the end ,,f the fiscal year ending June soth,
1853 the debt was S2,bil, 900 600, actual re-
duction Of the debt from August ist 1885, when the
debt reached It's maximum, 10 the 3Oth Of June ss,
amounting 70 S246,es9, 757 A vast difference, Mr..
Herald, between this and an increase of Si5e,b79-
4O3 g. Aad these figures arc correct and aaeoHtro-
uer6ble difference on your part, 10 put II po-
litsly, Of q democratic electioHecring mistake Of
stg3, Isl, leo 60. But this is not all From June
sob 1853, TO June 3Oth, 1866, there paid, Of
Expenses which accrued before at the time of the
discharge Of The army and navy, consequent upon
the suppression of tbo rebellion, the sum Of $780,
ees.474, aud a further sum Of Sl45,9l2,4Ol, which
was due aud payable at that time, on account of
pensions bountios, prize money, &c
These figures constitute hts paymeats made upon
ne actual irar debt, and are not any part Of the
current yearly erpe,,ses Of 0e government Our &C
tual debt, then, the LIST Of April 1865 was in round
numbers, So 300 600 00O, and, the SOth of June,
1868 il was S2,5ll OOOo O0 The difference between
these sums is the amount Of deb. that has been
paid. And what Is the amount In round num-
bers, nenr auSDaEp MILLION DOLLARS. One
quarter q tic ,chois debt has been paid IN three
gears.
when Buchanan, the last Democrasic President,
was inaugurated the national debt was $40 600 900.
During his administration, and in tine Of profound
peace the debt was increased 10 $50 900 900. Eight
million dollars per year Hence besides having 10
meet put down and provide for all the emergencies
Of the Democratic rebellion, the Republican party
had 10 take up and carry Democratic debt Of
S60,0O0oooi and il remains to-day a part of the
great burthen that party has imposed upon thu ma
ton and the people. And why was il necessary
that this increase Of eight million dollars per year
should be nader Ii was made in the interest Of
the impending rebellion. For twenty years the
Democratic party-yoiv Party-had been educating
the popular mind for secession. For twenty, yes
forty years, free speech had been unknown in the
South, and the national Gag bad been mockery,
because II had failed 10 carry protection in those
States, 70 ctiZens from other or Northern States
Thrests and intimidation had been resorted 10, in
Congress and out Of Congress, and the plastic mind
aud sabseryient viii Of the Northern wing Of the
marty had been readily moulded 10 your purposes.
and The wear SCI found you armed for tho mighte-
conflict the world ever knew The national treasury
sbe army, the navy, and the national arsenals had
al. in the four years Of Buohanans administration,
,,onred heir power inso the South. You had len
the Incoming administration Of the patriot Lincoln
100, and naked, and as you thought, poworless 10
soe.d tbe national life and the trAitorous hand Of
,hs Democratic party in the South was raised ia
o-,,.nizea rebellion secession was attempted, Ii,
80. ,v.s torp down and trampled In the dust, fort,
vveTo invested and the garrisons summoned 70 sur
.s,ser. The reyerberations Of the FIST gun Of ih'
- tbe cannon fired By the hand Of the Democrat
- r,,.vr.- THE TRAITOR, whom God hail
-. -, s,aorfioner. thrilled the heart OF 10y