Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-09-08
FIGURES FOR EVERY CITIZEN.
Cost OF the Reoeilion-Rntire Receipts aud tx
penditures for seven u ears-the Public
Debt-Federat Taxation.

ftVm the flttspdrg 6aZette, Aug. l'th)
We have applied to official sources
for exact information on certain
points of considerable interest to the
tax paying people, and the results of
our inquiries are embodied in the
statements annexed. Every fact ci>
ted and figure repeated in this arti-
Gle are taken from the annual reports
of the Secretary of the Treasury,
submitted to Congress for the fiscal
years ending respectively and seria-
tim from June 30. 1860, to June 80,
1867, with the date for the year end
ing in June last Ito be reported by
the Secretary to Congress in Decem
Der next which are from the recent
official statement of Commissioner
Wells the authenticity of which no
man eau question, and for the cur-
rent year ending June 80, 1869, from
the estimates Of the various depai t.
ments, as revised, cut down, and APP
propriated for at the last session
These appropriations, be it remem>
bered, limit all drafts upon the Treas
ury, and not dollar can be lawfully
expended beyond the authority thus
given by the representatives of the
people, and the amounts thus author
lied are therefore assumed, under
the uniform practice of the Govern
ment from its earliest days, as max,
ing the extent of probable expendi~
lures
We propose to show:
|. The money cost of the late re-
bellion, including therein the expen-
ses of the War and Navy Depart
ment, interest paid on the public debt,
the cost Of the Freedmen's Bureau,
up to the period when all these ex-
penses, except for interest on the
debt, shall have ceased.
Ii. The aggregate receipts and ex
penditures Of the Government for the
eight years ending June 30, 1861, to
June 80, 1868, inclusive.
III. Where the money came from,
which we have thus expended.
". How this money has been en-
pended.
V. A statement of the public debt
at various periods from July l, 1860,
to August l, 1868
vi. The present condition Of our
system Of Federal taxation.
We invite to these statements the
fullest consideration Of ever reader
who is taxpayer, and challenge the
most critical examination of the fig
ures submitted, in reference to the
official reports of sworn officers Of
the Federal Government. The wild
est and most absurd misrepresenta>
ton of the real state of facts have
been INDUCED in by Democratic
presses and public speakers the great
er part Of whom err through simple
ignorance, their incompetency to un
derstand the details of financial
questions, or their willful and reck-
less disregard of the truth. The
country is already vocal with these
persons, many of them candidates
for Office, for Congress and the State
Legislature who either knowingly
and purposely state what they know
to be untrue, or who exhibit a de-
gree of ignorance and incapacity not
only disqualifying them for the posi-
tons they have the assurance and
vanity to ask for, but establishing
their entire unfitness to be trusted as
political teachers, or to be respected
as men of ordinary veracity and
common sense.
/. THE COST OF THE REBELLION.
ExpENsss oP TIRE WAR DEPARTMENT, YEARS ENDING