Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1858 — SIGNS OF THE TIMES. [ARTICLE]

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

Hon. John J. Crittenden was welcomed in many places on his way home from Washington through Ohio. At Zanesville, Lancaster, Columbus and Cincinnati, the people turned out irrespective of parties to do honor to a Southern man who had taken a noble stand in defense of Northern rights; and when he crossed the river into Kentucky, the enthusiasm of the people was none the less manifested. While passing through the streets of Covington, transparencies met him at every turn, inscribed with such words of welcome as the following: “Welcome to your old Kentucky home;” “Hon. J. J. Crittenden, the incorruptible statesman;” “Hon. J. J. Crittenden, tried, faithful and true.” And at night he was serenaded by the German Turners. We make the following extract from his speech at Covington: “He congratulated the people that the fury of partisan strife is subsiding. He thought there could not be much of contest which is preparing for the future, when the people shall again choose a President. ‘Not much of a contest, I think!' said he, with a prodigious grin that brought down the crowd. ‘An Administration that begins by spending $17,000,000 of surplus, spends $20,000,000 more of treasury notes in addition ar the start, borrows $20,000,000 during its firstyear, and foots up at the expiration of a year an expenditure of $80,000,000, with estimates of $100,000,000 for the next year, can’t stand long in the favor of the people.’ He would frankly admit that Mr. Buchanan came to the Presidency at an unlucky time, and he had had an unlucky time of it. The country had suffered great financial distress; commerce was depressed, and it was somewhat owing to these calamities that the deficiency in the national exchequer exists. But still the Administration is chargable with extravagance, and the inevitable consequence of a great national debt. When it is remembered that the Administration of the younger Adams was denounced as extravagant when the entire expenditure for four years was only $54,000,000, and that of Jackson, whose bill of costs for a similar period was $100,000,000, what will be the conclusion of the American people when they consider $100,000,000 expended by the Buchanan Administration in a single year! It is enough to make the people study seriously.”