The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-01

Customs .s&2s, ,9OO, 900
| Internal Revenue. lJ3,Oco,OOO
| Miscellaneous. s.---.--......-...--.-.. 4iWO,OO0
| public Lands Observation-Disclosures. 500, 900
| Total. s47l 100 900
ind this enormous rerenne was all spent
mithin the gear, ercept about hrtyJor
million dollars! Deducting this sum,
we have the following exhibit for the
year which closed with the end of July
Total Revenue. e....................sir .sirl, 700, 600
| Un.xpended balance ce...... 81, 100000
Expenses of the year. ar.............s si37, 600
This is the third year ofpeace. 1t cost
oue.sixth ofour entire public debt. AS
the World puts 1t:
A Republican, administration in time Of
peace costs for one year nearly as much as
tras raised in tdres during the whoie eight
years of Mr.. Pierce's and Mr.. BuchdnanS
administrations. For the eight years pre-
ceding the Goth of June, 1861, the total
amount of receipts, both from taxes and
land sales, was S492 900, 900, and the
expenditures for the one year pre-
ceding the 30th of June, 1868, were
S437 100000.
At this rate of robbery, payment ofthe
pablo debt is impossible. The re-
sources of the nation have their limit,
but it is clear that Radical recklessness
with the peoples money knows no
bounds. We cenclade then that as the
Radical policy is sucking the life-blood
from labor without diminishing the
debt, the exhaustion of the power Of
the nation to produce will find the
debt still unpaid. Radicalism will
have compelled reputation By rem
dering the redemption of the bonds
impossible.
1t is nothing that the party in power
proposes to postpone payment for long
term of years and to fund the debt
at . lower rate Of interest.
This will merely compel the pay
ment of the debt two or three times
over in the shape of gold interest and
leave the country after thirty or forty
years, depleted and prostrate, and as
heavily burdened with an actual debt
as it is to-day. There is no escaping the
conclusion that Radicalism cannot and
will not pay the debt, and that under
its domination there will be no escape
from reputation.
But Radicalism means rebellion.
'Let us have peace" says GRANT, but
his prayer is for "the peace of desola-
ton and DEATH" The regular army at
the South breeds discomfort among the
people, and reducing there the highest
race in the world to the servitnde OF
the lowest, stands ready to do the bid,
ding OF the Commanderin-Chief, by
subverting the liberties of the country
as it has already trampled upon the
freedom of section. Congress has al
ready provided for arming political or
ganizatious at the North; the G. A. r.,
with muskets and bayonets belonging
to the people, have violent leader at
n their head who is as willing to-day to
, destroy by force the liberties of the ma
f tion as he was ready in February to
march his hosts to the White House &c
drive therefrom the President IF the
United States. Not content with
this, the blacks must be armed and lei
loose in savage fury upon the whites o.
the South. When the proposition te
place muskets in the hands of thu
Freedmen was before the Senate
DRAKE, of Missouri, declared that
"He would, il he had his way, arm
. every loyal man in the Southern State
3 with o Springfield rifle ana cartridge
{ Cd be was perfectly willing for it to b