New-York tribune., 1868-08-22
NEw-yoRK DAILY TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, AUGUST 80 1868

Irish private, who had pinned savage mas
tiff to the ground with his bayonet.
"Sure. and so l wud, plase yer honor, IL inc
&" baste had run at me wild his tail"
We feel that Mike was more logical than
the captain.
II seems clear TO our mind that there exists
formidable conspiracy to lie the Republicans
ont of mower by the most enormous exaggera-
tions and fabrications with regard to the Ma
tional Expenditures. Take recent illustra-
ton:
d. w. Voorhees, recently made a speech at
Terre Haute, Indiana, wherein he (ot course)
tried hard to make Copperhead capital out OF
the Freedmen's Bureau. To do so, he roundly
asserted that said Bureau "SpendS from ten TO
fifteen millions Of public money for the support
" of Southern negroes" AS the said Bureau is not
spending even one million, nor half a million,
for the purpose above indicated, we regard the
aboye-auoted assertion as going to the utmost
limit of allowable rhetorical establishment.
But VOORHEES, did not sec fit to stop here. He
proceeded to give chapter and verse for his as
sertion, by quoting not any official return OF
money actually expended, but an estimate by
Gen Howard, three years ago, OF the money
he probably could usefuly spend in that de-
partment in the year 1866, provided Con-
grcss should see fit to appropriate it. The
aggregate of the sums which he would
have chosen that Congress should place
at his disposal was S11, $50, including
100000 for estes for Schools aud Asylums,"
81 800, 900 for Transportation" &c, &C. Gen.
Howard having, in 1865, asked Congress to
place so much money at his disposal, voorhees,
triumphantly quotes this estimate as though
the money had actually been appropriated and
actually spent although Gen. Howards brief
letter of July II, exposing similar cheat OF
Mr. Boyer, Copperhead NJ. c. from Pennsylya-
mia, was freshly before the public, showing that
Congress appropriated less than Seven Millions
of the amount asked for in 'GJ-G, and that all
the money ever spent by the Frccdmen's Bu-
reau during its existence, with the pay and
allowances of all the Army officers employed
therein, and the COmmissary stores furnished
TO the Bureaus order from the Army depots
at the South-in short, every outlay that could
possibly be charged against the Bureau in any
way-amounted to less than Ten Millions, or,
to speak exactly, S9,95i37O. Here was a fresh
explicit statement from the official head OF the
Bureau, stating its actual and entire expendl-
ttlrc from inc uay OF us lOIhidtIoHb yc0 wv =
hecs ignores this, and gives instead three
ycar-old estimate Of what might be spent In
1866, as the nearest attainable approximation
TO the cost of "the support Of Southern
negroes"
If The Sun believes this aud kindred state
ments of tho Copperhead orators innoccntly
honestly made, il is its duty as well as right to
say so. But we, on our part believe them
wicked. villainous lies, put forth with deliber-
ate and criminal intent to defraud the People
of their sufragcs, aud thereby restore to power
Howell Cobb, Wise, Toombs Slidell, Forrest
Semmes, and the whole Rebel crew, whose
sway has already cost their country such
oceans of blood and rivers of tears; and we
mean to expose and defeat the nefarious intent
by saying exactly what the truth seems to re-
quire, in the most direct and expressive Ian
guage at our command. That is our way; 1t
seems to MS the sincere, honest, manly way F;
wherefore, we do not commend il to The Sun.
Let that lumnary "just gang its am gait"
willie we adhere to ours.