Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-22
The Public Accounts MutiIated to
Cover up DelinQuencies.

The following facts and figures have been
carefully coIlated from the official records
by the National Dem ocratic Executive Res
ident Committee at Washington, and print
ed in pamphlet form:
Nearly four years ago the present admin
istration came into power under pledge of
economy in the management of the nation
al finances. A demand Is now made for q
new lease of power, with an assurance that
its pledge has been redeemed.
The object Of this paper is to demonstrate,
from the official records and Published state
ments Of the Secretary of the Treasury, that
the people ha been deceived and plumber
ed, the public accounts confused, and the
public money wasted. That the national
debt is an unknown quantity and the re-
duction of the debt delusion. That false
entries have been made in the public led
gers and balances forced BIZ fabricating items
Of expenditure. That the records of the
department would not be received as evil
dence in a court Of justice, for the reason
that their statements of accounts are false and
contradictory upon their face. That there
has been 3 duplicate issue of government
bonds TO the extent of many millions, or
else false statement of the interest &C
count made to cover up embezzlement or
theft. That securities bearing 8 per cent
interest have been called in and five per
cent bonds issued for the benefit of the syn
dictate. .
In demonstrating all this weshall confine
ourselves 10 the official records of the Treas
ury Department, and furnish volume and
page for every figure used.
T3rrf.f Tarrrr
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Secretary Boutwell,, in his Finance
Report for 1863, page ., states
% that the public debt on the 50tb
June, 1853, was; 81, CSC 60 3,s55.7s
in his published monthly debt
statement, dated July l, 1869,
he SAYS il was on that day- .-.. 2 645, 10 294 l6
In his Finance Report for 1870,
page - he states that on the
30th June, 1869, the total debt
........................ 2,5ss 452 1884
And on page 276 same volume,
the Register certified that twas
on the same day................ ,4SQ, COZ 4sO.jS
Here are four official siatements-three
under the official oath of the Secretary of
tie Treasury and one from the Register of
the Treasury (the book-keeper of che Treas
urY)-staling concisely to a cent the public
deb, Of the United States on the Both June,
1865, no two Of which agree within eLeUen
millions OF dollars, and in one instance two
OF them diff more than one hundred and
ffty-Sjr millions.
L. is from these official statements that
the people ascertain the amount of our in
debgedness, There is no other record of
the debt than these, and they confute and
contradict each other. From them any
thing can be proved or disproved, and it is
not strange that the debt reduction claimed
by Mr.. Boutwell, can be demonstrated,
where fixed amounts appear to be adjusted
on sliding scale and fluctuate in value like
gold in Wall street on Mr.. Corbin's Fri
day.
Here is Mr.. Boutwell's statement of the
deb for July 2, 1869:
l. Finance Report, 1862 page g. 81 656 sos 955.73
2. Monthly debt statement, July
g. Finance Report, 1870, page 25. 25sS, 52,2lS 81
T. FInace Report, 1870 page 27G.. 4s9, OO2, 4SO So
DEBT REDUCTION.
The monthly debt statement for July /,
1872 Che end of the last fiscal year,, states
that the total debt on that day DULY /, 1922
was s., 294, 957, 1905. BY deducting that