Will You Think?

The new account of tlie Rpi'ntr of ihe Preamiry, Ma'.cy, t Kit dtiring the fifsy-six ( iirs' of onr Federnl Government, the entire 'xpenditures of tlmt Government, nïfctading lie prmciinl oí' Public Debí, havo been a Ilute uitler one (huvsund millions of dollars, which lave been npproprintd os follows: Tor the Military service 8C6,998,S57 " Naval do. 179,933.124 Pension 51.012,lS5 nterest of Public Debl 42,494.855 Total. 8üü3,488,C21 Tlie balnnce has been expended ns follows: 'rincipal of Kevolulionary debts and claims. (est.) nearly $10O,O00,OüO Uiyil List 03,850,525 7oreiu inlercourse SC, 1GB,8C3 Mndiau Deparlment 42,C0á,488 Miscellaneoud 64,107,7-21 Total vory nearly .vñOG,9rá,tiO2 ■Incl"iding paymenU for Indian lands. flocluding, we presume the purchase of Louisiana . Thus we eee that this most Christin n naion, in sotnething less than a lifcilme, has wid nearly seven hundred vitllions ofdollms lirectly for the cost of War, or more tbon wicethecost ofnll its public pervice beside. The expenses of Poreign intercourse and much else are indirectl y crenfed or exapgeraed by the spirit of War. The real expense f War, ïnchulinp the destrnction of property, he 6toppago of industry and improvement, and he blocking up of our coásts and harbors, has )oen nol less thnn two thovsand millions oj dollars, during those fifty-six years of unbroken peuce. What would bé the cost of a soven years war at this ratet Whatison do all our expenditurcs for religious, benevolent, and phtlanlhropic piirposes beur to those resulting from this infernnl scourgc? - And how con any but the blackest hypocrite pretend to bo a Triend of peace, of human proore6s, or oP religión, without setting his fitce Bternly ngainst nll tite prnjects ofterriiorial agtrrandizement wliich,however disguised, do reallv tend to olunire Uie coun'.rv in'.o the