The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-08-19
FROM the National lntel.iseucer.
Citizens! IS Ii not time for II
Change.

Fifteen hundred millions Of lollars have
| been paid by the people to the Gov ernmpnt
of the United States since the war ended
| All the public buildings in the Union,
| from the magnificent Ca9itol at Washing
/ ron to the country court houses in AL the
! States. have not cost so much money. 1t
| would buy the navy of Great Britain. Ii
would Law pon.oon bridge across the Paci.
fc ocean. II would dig down and cart in
to the sea the highest mountain in America.
1t would rebuild Baalbee, Persepolis or
PaImra. 1t would buy barrel OF -four for
every family on the globe, and the quarter
of it would give Bible apiece to the hui
man race This enormous sum is more
than three hnnd,cd dollars to every white
voter in the United States 1t has been
paid by the people. What has been done
with it?
llas the national debt been paid? The
national debt is growing larger instead Of
smaller 1t drinks up every year sum
greater than any Administration ever cost
before the war, without making the debt a
dollar less.
Has il heen expended in compensating
faithful Union men on the border for the
Spolia,ions and impressments rendered nee
essary tor the Union cause during the war?
No. The laws allowing the liquidation and
settlement Of that part Of the public lndebt-
edness e1 cInde loyal men, even soldiers IN
our armies, they were legislation will yet
cost a score Of millions under that head.
Has it gone to uphold civil authority in
these times of military vice; to strengthen
tie law against the sword; to pay the ex-
penses administering Justice by a heneii
cent judiciary? No. The entire judiciary
fund is less than two millions Of dollars.
Has it gone to pay the expenses ot the
postal service? That service supports it.
self substantially, without a dollar out Of
the Treasury. 1t is not the courts nor the
mails whose blessings cost the money.
Is it any branch of the civil seryice?-
The figures show sums so incOnsderable
for all the expenses Of carrying on the
Government, on tho basis Of peace, for
which governments are made, that they
leave the tremendous sum Of fifteen hun
dred millions almost unaffected, as start
ling conception CT quantity. Whittier has
it gone?
Nearly two-thirds Of it ($9l7,Il7,043l
was dSburscd by the War Department, ex~
clusively of what was derived from the
vast sales of war Material; of the known
and unknown millions poured forth from
the department of vagabondage; Of expens-
es of the navy, and Of everything else but
strictly army expenses. Nine hundred
millions to support an army without foe!
Every white voter in the Union, as it were,
paying $50 for negro soldier to stand
guard with his bayouet over him and his
vote
But it is not only that this prodigious
sum has gone to army account 1t rs NOR
dAy certain hat most of Il has been pfim-
deral The army is known 10 have heen
Immediately reduced after the war, and Is
now set down at $4,000 men. Before the
war the military establishment, was, we be
liave, estimated at 27,0O0 But the whole
expenses of the Buchanan Administrator
for the last year was $4,000, 900; while
here, with an army scarcely more than
treble, the money swallowed IN by it alone
is nearly four times greater than he whole
expenses of the Government in 1860, being
at the rate of nearly two hundred and
eighty millions a yearl Citizens Is 1t not
time Jor a change? -.-.........