New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-24
fprICfN EXPENDITURES.


five. has discovered that 1.-THE revenues OF the
Government for three years have been
$500 100000 a year. and he calls on the Repub-
lican party to explain what they have done
with the 81 500 900 of the peoples money.
The question displays the same charming mod
esty which Judas IscariOt might have shown
had he demanded of the eleven in what man
ner of dissipation and deviltry they had squan-
dered the apostolic treasury, when Judas HIM
self carried the bag But the minority apostle
did not venture to put question when wouia
have placed him eternally on par with the
modern Democracy. However, as Mr.. Eden
probably does not Iknow what the money was
paid for, and as The Chicago Times asserts
that it was "Squaudered for partisan ot9ectS,'
it is well to see what objects the Democratic
party regard as being of interest only to the
Republicans During the three years beginning
July 1. 1865, Ethere were paid out OIL these
revenues for interest on the pubic debt an
average of $14OOO0,00O year. or for the three
years exactly $418,4SfSS5. Thereirom we lhIer
that to pay the interest on the puDlic deOt Is
Republican partisan object, IN which Demo
Gratis have no lot nor sympathy. Ihey ioaheu
no money to feed, cothe, and pay our soldiers;
they own no bonds and would pay no interest
In the first six months after the close OF the
war; there were paid S233,491,77S as back pay
and transportation to send our soldiers 10 thelr
homes. This, too, according to Coy. Eden ana
the Democratic Journals, was RepuDhcan
squandering of money on partisan OBJECTS
In order TO make it Democratic or partisan,
our soldiers should have been sent home beg
CARS and pcnniless, or the amount paid should
have been equally divided between the armies
OF Grant and those of Lee. Still more Demo
cratic would it have been to lump the Union
and Rebel debts into one. and then repudlate
the whole.
Out of the same sum S49, SS2, $50 were paid in
bourties 10 Union soldiers only. Clearly
Republican "squandering of money on partisan
OBJECTS as no bounties were paid to Rebels.
Eleven million dollars more were paid to
Union men for property lost and destroyed
during the war. As none Of this was Intention
ally paid to Rebels for property destroyed by
the Union armies, this also was money
"squandered on partisan objects"
Should the Democrats come into power they
would rectify this injustice by paying Rebels
for the devastations committed by the
Union armies on the property of Rebels.
This is what The Albany Argus means
| by saying that the "unascertained" debt OF
| the United States amounts to about two and
| a half times the asccrtained debt, or S6000,-
| OOOOO0 The balance of the debt will never be
"ascertdinedr until the Democrats come into
power.
Ten million three hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars were reimbursed to Northern
States for sums advanced by them to aid in
suppressng the Rebellion. This is clearly par
tsan and Republican, as not dollar was re-
imbursed to the Rebel States, nor to the New
York rioters, nor the Sons of Liberty, nor the
ST. Adams raiders, nor the Confederate bond
holders, nor the English pirates and blockade
runners, for the losses incurred by them in sus-
tanning the Democratic rebellion.
Sixty million dollars were paid to the navy,
the brave sailors of FaTagut, Porter, and
Foote, for back pay, and contracts made during
the war. AS nothing was paid to Semmes,
Lynch, and the Rebel pirates, this is evident
ly money squandered on partisan objects"
SO are the SlSj, 1877 paid in army expenses,
including those of our Indian war, and the
100000 paid in pensions, and S73,OOOOOo
paid in the expenses of the navy, and the
S247, 900, 900 paid toward reducing the principal
of the debt
1t is rather more difficult to explain how
the $147,373 800 paid during the three years as
the ordinary expenses of the Government or
civil list, almost wholly to Johnsons 1900
Democratic Ofiice-hodcrs, who are now con-
tributing to pay the expenses OF buying votes
for Seymour and Blair, can be regarded as
money squandered for partisan objects"
though doubtless some of it may inadvertently
find its way into political channels.
Then the expenses of Reconstruction, &c.
H,70O were so equally divided between the
Democratic "pOlicy" governments set up by
President Johnson, and the final State Gov
ernments authorized by Congress- rs to render
the pickings moderate, when it is considered
that the officers of both governments have
stood nearly as much chance Of being muir
dered by the Rebels and Ku-Klux as of being
paid.
Finally, S944,SGO has been expended in re-
moving the exposed bodies and bleaching
bones of both the Union and Rebel soldiers,
without distinction of the cause in which they
fell, and burying them decently in the National
Cemeteries.
Having answered their inquiry will the wise
acres of the Democratic party inform us what
are the other and Democratic objects on which
they would have expended the same money!
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Gen. VIM. c. Wickham of the Confederate
Army was recently invited to address q Re-
nuhlican mpetinp in North Carolina and in his