New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-30

pay, &c, of Army officers serving III Tue Du-
reau, or enforcing Reconstruction are not IN
cluded under one Of these heads they certainly
are under another. And, if either Of these three
items is too small, then another must be cor
respondngly too large. At all events, here il
the entire expense of Army, Freedmen's Bureau,
! and Reconstruction aggregated; and the total
is less than Sixty three Millions, instead of the
Army alone costing "mOre than One Hundred
and Fifty Millions"
These expenditures are being heavily reduced.
Seven of the ten Rebel States having framed
Free Constitutions and chosen loyal officers,
have been restored to the rights which they
repudiated or forfeited by rebellion-those in
cident TO Slaveholdng excepted Hence, the
cost of registering their voters, holding cleo
tions, &C.. &C., is ended. The President has
Just abolished the Military Departments COM
posed of those States. The Freedmen's Bureau
is being rapidly wound up; so that White
Rebels will no longer be fed by it in thousands
and the cost charged, to g lazy, worthless mig
gers who would rather beg or steal than
"worL.r The appropriations for the support Oh
the Army for the fiscal year just begun are
Thirty-three Millions; and they will suffice I'M
less Frank Bar's threats to subvert the new
State Governments by armed force shall mean
time be executed. AS, however, he does not
propose to set about this ticklsh job till a
Democratic President shall have been elected,
we presume the appropriations will suffice.
Commissioner Wells officially states that the
National Debt has been reduced Two Hundred
and Fifty Millions of Dollars between August
81, 1865, and June 80, 1S6S-less than three
unconstitutional nearly ten thousand distinct
articles or products have meantime been re-
leased from taxation, and taxes taken off to
the amount of One Hundred and Sixty-seven
Millions of Dollars. During these three years,
we have paid many Milions-we think not
less than Two Hundred-to Soldiers for pay
and mustering-Out bOuntes and to States for
the cost of fitting out troops for the War;
And, even in the last fiscal year, the Revenue
exceeded the Expenditures by Thirty -four
Millions, beside many Millions were paid as
back interest on the compOund-interest notes
Including this item, the Public Debt must have
been reduced in the last fiscal year by at least
Fifty Millions of Dollars.
Reader did or did not Horatio Seymour lie,
in asserting that "it will cost this year more
ethan S1JO,OOOOOO to maintain an army to keep
the people of the South in subjectiOnW
Did he or did he not lie, in asserting that
"more than SSOO,OOO0OO year have been
wasted in order to uphold this policy of Re-
construction 7"
Did he or did he not lie, in asserting that
"Now, $4OOOO0OOO Gper annuml are raised, and
"Out of it the public creditor gets only $780,
"OOO,OOOr
We have set forth the facts, as officially as
certaned, and ask you to pass Judgment there
on without fear or favor. And, if you say he
made false statements, but did not mean to lie,
can man whose hate of e-half his fellow
citizens is so malignant, so internal, as to inn
pei him TO make such false charges, be fit for
President of the United States9