The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
pOlitital.
The Pnblic Debt.

MI. Secretary Boutwell, is out with his
monthly statement of the public debt.
According to his figures Il was yesterday
q fraction less Than Two thousand Five
Hundred Millions of Dollars-in exnct
amount 50, 1871 500, 736, 30. The Radical
journals have for n few months past been
cackling over the drop in-the-bucket de-
crease OF the debt-as apparently shownby
the comparison of one of Mr.. Boutwolls
statements with another, but theygafe very
carefiil not to SO back to q starting point
and show how enormous has been the in
crease of our public burden. For instance,
compare the present condition of the pub
lie debt with It's condition eight years ago
on tho 1th of March when the. republican
party camo into,absoluto power in the fed
cral government. The now and thou of
the situation show as follows:
Now-sept ~ 90. ..,..s.sss 2.4sl 800, $50
Then-March 4, '60."......... 66.isd,st6
I~pcrOaio. "a. Il. LII. A-TaTSas5Bsi
lButos this exhibits probably too tanta-
lizing for the contemplation Of sensitive
Radicals, let MS come down TO the basis of
calculation made by Mr.. Secretary M'Oul-
loch in his report to Congress, which was
the LIST Of April, fs65-to quote
tho official language, 'at the times The war
was drawing 10 a close"
~" 'NlhH Il % ANHHHHHHsHss. o d &c TAttoA NNNfHff
T~hcn-Aitil1, G5..,.r......... 1896, 955,0O7
"..N ...N.HAN .. ---
Increase, .....""....... Sll4,0l1, 500
Here is an increase of Ono Hundred aud
Fourteen Millions of Dollars since The
'time tho war was drawing 20 n close y
This talk of a decrease of the public debt
is oil deception. We board rit two years
ago when, on the LIST Of September, 1867,
the debt was brought down TO about what
it is now 50, 1872, 7S3, 3G5. And we saw
what il amounted TO when a year later,
September LIST, 1858, the burden had run
! up to 50, 53G, 81 1913 an increase of over
$50, 900, 600. Such a thing asa real, per-
manent cutting down of the public debt IL
out Of tho question under the system of
finances now carried on at Washington in
the interest OF the moneyed power.
The Last Radical Invention.
II is reported from Washington that the
Radicals next winter intend to carve ont
two States for admission into the Union,
with ~ view Of keeping n large Radical pre- -
ponderance in the United States s nate.
Tho proposition is 20 separate East Ten
messed from Middle and Western Tonnes
SEQ for one State, and TO form arother by
taking n tier OF counties from Arkansas and
adding them to the territory Of the Choc-
taw or Cherokee Nation. The division of
tennessee II VIII be remembered, was dis
cusscd in that State last winter, but the Ar
kansas plan seems TO be a new one. As by
the Constitution, no new State can be
formed or erected within the jurisdiction
tof any other State, nor any State be formed
by the junction of two or more States, OF
parts. Of the States, without the consent Of
the j. Rislntures OF States concerned, a.
well ag Of Congress, there isnst much dan.
=, ger That this scheme of the radicals will be
carried out. The Legislature elect of Ten.
nessec is Democratic, and the present body
in Arkansas is not so strongly Republican
Ns that in Tennessee. But even If the Ar
kansas part Of the project should be per.
fectcd It is extremely doubtful iftho Radi
calls should reap much benefit from IT.
They made Tennessee as Radical as Radi
cal can be, and now SEQ whore sho IL. Al
the Southern States now in existence, OF
: that may be created, will sooner or latel
assume the same position. This last Radi
| c~dinyention, like the inventions that, i
successfully put in motion, have preceded
IL, viii return eventually TO plague its in
v%entOp.