The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-04-11

Speaker, for nearly three years. From
the surrender of the confederate armies
IN April, 1862. to the present time.
there has not been an arm raised any.
where against the power Of - federal
government. Why, then, these enor-
nous expenditures, that are crushing the
very life out Of the people Why should
the ordinary expenses Of the government
now greatly exceed those Of the years
immediately preceding the war? Mr..
Buchanan's administration has always
been characterized by tho party now in
power most reckless and extravagant. |
un not here now for the purpose of de.
Tending it. But let US compare for mo.
ment the last and most extravagan' year
of Buchanon's administration with the
expenditures now inaugurated under rad.
ical rule. Men may msIcad the igno.
rant by frotl.y defamation. but figures
are stubborn things, and when used fair.
~, never mislcad. In the figures now
give | do not include the public debt or
the interest thereon, nor the pensions and
bounties to soldiers aud their families, all
Of which the people will cheerfully pay
The Secretary Of the Treasury asks for
appropriations for this year as follows:
For tho war department. exclusive
of bouuties and pensions 95 900 900
For the navy department 5o,0000OO
For civil service ............. 81 900 900
Toial.."... 900 900
There can be no doubt that the actual
demands and expenditures OF the gov
crnment under existing legislation will
greatly exceed even this enormous sum
For who ever heard Of a congress in
these days without q series of deficiency
bills! The expenditures invariably ex-
cced greatly the estimates.
The whole expenditures Of the govern.
ment for the same service in 1860 (thc
last year Of Mr. Buchanan's a1ministra-
tom were:
For ciyil list. s5o77 900
F"T The war l6 a63 090
For be navy departn. t................. 900
r., -. go
81 900
| Difference between the estimates for
| 1865 aud actual expenditures for the
kanis items ia 81, 600
Thus il is demonstrated that the ordi-
nary expenditures Of the government un
der radical rule is more than FIVE times as
great as il was under the much abused
administration of Buchanan.
We have been accustomed 10 call ours
free, aud happy, aud prosperous people.
But, sir, no people cat be properly called
| free or prosperous, whatever may be the
/ form oi government whose daily earnings
are wrung from them by the tax gathcrer
to feed a horde of hungry vultures who
are preying upon them. We now pay in
taxes nearly twice as much per eapita az
as any other people in the world. And
| il will be seen from the foregoing figures
that. even, If our national debt were wip.
ed out a. with sponge, We would still,
under our present rulers, be the worst
taxed and worst governed people on
earth. The people should N thunder
/ tones demand of this congress-''Nb Nby
does this country, in time of peace, vita
no prospect Vi war, require FIVE times
more expenditures, in proportion TO its
population, for the army, or the navy. or
the civil list. than it ever required ut any
time before the republican party came in
to power 7" Your wretched, unconstitu.
tional, and most wicked policy, your me-
gro bureaus, your large standing army,
your military despotism, your hordes OF
hungry vultures sent all over the land TO
devour the substance Of the people, fur
uish the answer. Sir, the republican
party has been trusted by the people as
no party was ever trusted before, aud
their generous confidence has in every re-
spect been most shamefully abused. |
know it is easy to indulge in loose and
/ idle defamation aud censure and lest |
might be accused of SHINING in this di-
rection | will furnish here for the consid-
Grafton of the House and of the country
some tables compiled from the archives
of our government, upon which | wish to
base few additional remarks, and which
will demonstrate beyond all possibility of
contradiction the folly, recklessness, and
extravaganza of the party that now most
unfortunately controls the expenditures
of our government
Table giving the entire expenditures of the federal
| government, exclusive of the public debt, from
the foundation of the government to the close
of the last British war