Whole Xo. SO Tarb orough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.J batuvday June 12, istl. Toi. ATZI wVo 24. 1 i The Txrb. Jroxgh Press, nv fli-:mt(;n i.ou' viu), IspuM"''1 weekly at To J .".- rrrf Ffh (',.,'s yet year, if aiJ iti a v i o.;e or, Tree JfV'r.at ih cvrir;it.ion of t lie s'ib;ri ot ton year. -r a3 "'rio1 los7 l' ' a y vir, T urih.fn-f f '.-i- pTT inoiitli. Subscribers are at liberty to (!i.coiiiiniiP at any tiiti", 0:1 rivi:i.r notice t!iere-f B.,J paying arrears those rest lin at. a lista:e-e jnit i:ivari;i!3v pay in a.lyane.e, or give a respon- s;i,p n-fi retire '!1 l,ils vicinity. " vJvt'rti-i'i'K i.ts ii.i'. civHnr a ?p:ir will h. invfi'''' at 0te r"'--,r the first insertion, and 0") ts f'T every eo;itiiitr,uice. T, i i rtr u l vorti cen jiMj m -I'm. r.ii-.lll. liners aiKl .1!!- iviil srivortiseaieals v.) per cent. biVier. A1 fl" 1 1 1 . 1 r- r!j,:j)tnts must be marked ih. nonbr of Jre-ns retire.!, or they will be cvitiuu i,l u: r.l,r.-.! nn.l cdr.1r.1v I -.wr- -rli,, rl 01 1 11- it il fetters Iressc 1 to uu; ivutr must be post .,j 1 nr they may not be at tea-led to. h 7i -is p Ti Tii'Clnir Hibmitlod to t!ie ScM.i'e a n -c:;ij;e froai the President of th United S at'.s, h was t trail, ainl is as follows: To lh: S:'H'ilc. (tti'f, I Lise of Kcp.-'cs? nl t fives of the Cnitc Sfues: Fkllow Citi:u:xs: Vou liave been as p'ub!ed in your repetive halls of lejris lalin under a p; oclam.iti.ui bearinj; tin finnitiire f the illustrious citizen who was s laud y called by tlie diiect suffrage of the to the disdi.irj;e of the in- por'aat filiations of their ediief executive offiee. Upon the expiration of a single month from the dav of his installation, he h is paid the great debt of nalure, leaving behitui him a name associated with the re collcitioa of numerous benefits conferred upon the country during a long life of pat riotic devo' ion. With this public bereave ment, arc connected other considerations which will not escape the attention of Con gress. The preparations necessary for his removal lo the seat of Government in view of a residence of four years must have d'-wolved upon the late President heavy expenditures, which, if permitted to burden the limited resources of his pri vate fortune, may tend seriously to the embatrassment of his surviving family; and it is therefore respectfully submitted to Congress whether the ordinary principles ofjiMice would not dictate the propriety fcf its legislative interposition. By the provisions of the fundamental law, the powers and duties of the high ttition to which he was e lected have devolved upon nic, and in the dispositions of the repre sentatives of the States and of Ihe people wdl be found to a great extent a solution of 'he problem to which our institutions are fur the first time subjected. In entering noon the duties of this office. I diJ riot lcilth.it it. would be becoming in 1 to d. stm b what had been ordered by ' my lamented predecessor. Whoever,! therefore, may have been my opinion,! ongsnally, as to the propriety of convening J Congress at so early a day from that of its j adjournment, 1 found a new and a; controlling inducement not to interfere! with the patriotic desires of the late Presi h in the novelty of the situation in Jnich 1 was so unexpectedly pi iced. My first wish under such circumstances would necessarily have been to have called to my aiVm the administration of public affairs, "jc combined wisdom of the two Houses 01 Congress, in order to take their counsel 'nd advice as to the best mode of ptrir:i- ng the Government and the country from embarrassments weighing heavily on Jlh- lam then most happy in finding ;lf, so soon after my accession to the residency, surrounded by the immediate epreematives of the States and people. No important changes having taken JeJ?in foreign relations since the last Mon o Congress, it is not deemed neces- ,r)' on this occasion to go into a detailed ,Camenl in regard to them. 1 am happy roDfu1-"' SCe notninS to destroy the ' ipj ot bcing able to preserve peace. t . Vacation of the treaty with Por ihe t p ',e" duIy exchanged between has W, Vernments- This Government thos"0,f 11 inattentive to the interests of iLp ot 0Ur cidzens who have claims on u'eOvtrnm.ntf f press ojam luuuucu uil fA- dnl lire.;i,-V s,'Pu'ations, and a hope is in- !V that th e representations which have imadetnttw . i i . vjuvei uiiiuiii un mis sue Hiy ea(j ere long to beneficial results. U-e orresPorKlence has taken place be- isro n stcr.c,ary of Stale a,ul lhe Min" to Ini f IeriJntannic Majesty accredited exar.de Te.rnmen, on ,he subject of Al nraentr cLeod'8 indictment and impris commn!I)ies of wnich are herewith InadHlC-ated 10 CdnS-ess. papers h l? whal aPPeara from those 5'l may be proper to stale that Al- fXiri !:.r JpT.Qfvl k, t 1 1 1... .t .l: " w -uu iiuiki uv me-nous 10 nie amount ol two minion fii-p in- ipmit jm,' 1 .1 'P'tme Court of ihi,trt r m v,,i, 1 .1 ,. mm.,()n ."vVn ' accomnlisbing an mine change in th anhismotion to hp ,1; "' , 7 n.in.i one honored prl ol aiT.irs. Stocks of all kinds rapid- prison, nt ' r .V"," 1 U.Mty tNVO doF ,rs and ninely-eigh. !y timeline in.livichialsi ruined, and Stitc- o, S ' 11,3 ,!cC',a:i th,t "ts the special objects of which will b- emb.rra-ed cv. in Dump efforts t T I, Sec " u P"61- . f S 71 bV "J C,1Ce t0 5he "P f lllc Sec m,et with pn.-t,.ai;tv ihe iufrot on iheir 11-tn.'ai l M .to !u- ,fla-.'ss mI to ret.irv ol ar. i, . '11C a piper- up ,1 I wo su'jjiN-ts, isit-ivstirii; ibc Ciinvneroc of the rouniiv. whidi will receive mv consj.loration, aiid whicli l lnvcthe honor to communic te lo Com Jjrcss. So I ir as it d ponds npin the com-sc of this (Jowrn-nmt, our ndatlo: of good will an I iViend-ihip will h0 S:.-d ulousl v cul- nvated with all ivtti-ins The true A mer-! ii iuc. win ne touo.l to coniit io the oXL-K-isfi ot a spirit ol j tiiee to ! )Ci mani- icsie J in the li ;char of all our interna- noinlohlig.tioas to the weakest of the nmilyol nations as well as to the most powerlul. Ocea-ional conflicts of opinion may arise, but when the discussions inci dent to them are conducted in the languige of iru h and -villi a strict regard to iutiee. ih- cuiuge of war will for the most out h avoid d. The lime on.rht tri he n-r n-,t. ed as liavme ir me hv when n ivmu t t,. arms is to b est e!ii-d .s Ihe only .w hiter of national ddf rences. r-. CD J - - v ... proper fhe census recentlv taken shows a ii reji- iiiniy j)rogres"ive ineiease in our popula tion Dp in ih ? bre living out of the war "f the Ivevoh.it ion our numbers scarcely eq lalied threi- milhons of v011s: they al ready exeCL'd seventeen millions, and will i'0 otinuo to jvngress in a ratio which du plicates in a period of about twenty-thivc years. The old Sta'cs contain a te; ri'orv -suwieicnt in itself to ma;n'ain a popu a'ion ')! atlditional millions, and the most popu bti" of the new States may even yet be re girdeil as but partially sealed, while of the new lands on this side of the Kockv Mountains, to say nothing of the immense region wiii'ih stretches from the hape of thoce mount lins to the mouth of the Co lumbia river, about 770 000.000 of acres, ceded and unceded, still remain to he brought into market. We ho'd out to the prople of other countries an invitation to j 955,000, and estimated receipts from all come and settle among us as members of : sources of S3,SOO,000, making an nggrc our rapidly growing family ; and, for the; gate of about (M5"0,000, and leaving a blessings which we oll' r them, we require j probable deficit on the 1st of September of them to look upon our country, and nite with us in the great task of preserving our institutions, and thereby perpetuating our liberties. No motive exist for foreign conquest. We desire but to reclaim our almost illimitable wilderness, and to intro duce into their depths the lights of civili zation. While we shall at all limes be prepared to vindicate the national honor, our most earnest desire ; ill be to maintain an unbroken peace. In presenting the foregoing views, I cannot wi hhold the expression of t lie opi nion th it there exists nothing in the ex- tension of our empire over our acknowl- edged possessions to excite the alarm of : which time provisions made by the same the patriot for the safely of our institutions. law, and which then will he brought ac The federative system, leaving to each tively in aid of the manufacturing interests Slate the care of its domestic concerns, ' of ihe Union, will not fail to produce the and devolving on the Federal Government most beneficial results. Under a system those of general import, admits in safety of discriminating duties imposed for pur of the greatest expansion, but, at the same . poses of revenue, in unison with the pro time. 1 deem it prr-p'r to add that there ; visions of existing laws, it is to he hoped will be found lo exist at all times an im-j that our policy will," in the future, be fixed perious necessity for restraining all the ! and permanent, so as to avoid those con- hmclionarics of this Government within the range of their respective powers, there by preserving a just balance between the powers granted to this Government and those reserved to the States and to the peo ple. From the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, you will perceive that the fiscal means, present and accruing, are insulfi- cient to supply the wants of the Govern ment for the current year. lhe balance in the Treasur y on the fourth day of March last, not covcied by outstanding drafts, jinel exclusive of trust funds, is cstimateel at S60,000. This includes the sum of S215, 000 deposited in ihe Mint and its blanches to procure metal for coining and in process of coinage, and which could not be with dravn without inconvenience; thus leav ing subject to draft in the various deposi tories The sum of 645,000. By virtue of two several acts of Congress, the Secreta ry of the Treasury was authorized to issue, on and after the fourth day of March last. Treasury notes to Ihe amount of 5,413, 000 making an aggregate available fund of 6,050,000 on hand. lint this fund was ehargeable with out standing Treasury notes redeemable in the current year and interest thereon to the estimatetl amount of five million two hun dred and eighly thousand dollars. There is also thrown upon the Treasury the pay ment of a large amount of demands accru eel in whole or in part in former years, which will exhaust the available means of the Treasury and leave the accruing rev enue, redueedasit is in amount, burdened with debt, and charged with lhe current expenses of the Government. The aggre gate amount of outstanding appropriations on the fourth day of March last, was 33, 49,616,50, of which 24,210,000 will be required during the current year; and there will also be required for the use of the War Department additional appropria- The anticipated means of tb Trratirv ire Sreallv inadequate to this demand The tveeip's from punoms for the list three qnnrtors of the last year, and the irst quarter of the present ve .r, amounted to Si 2. 100,000; the receipts for lands for she same time to S , 712, 150, showing an avrajro revenue from both sources of Si,- v.'JG.S70 per month. Agradu d fn ip.smn ol trade, growing out of a restoration of confidence, together with a reduction in the expenses of collecting, and puncHnlilv oti t.ie part ol collecting officers, may eause an addition to the monthly recei.o's iron ihe customs. They are" estimate I for the residue of the year from the fourth of March at Si 2,000.000; the receipts from the public lands for the same time are estimated at S3,500,000, and from miscellaneous sources at S170.000, mak ing an aggregate of available fund within the year of S hi. 070,000, which will leave a probable deficit of Si I. -103. 132, 9S. To meet this, some temporary provision is necessary, until the amount can b? ab sorbed by the excess of revenues which are anticipated to accrue at no distant day. There will fall due within Ihe next three months Treasury notes of the issus of 1S10, including interest, about S-oO,-000. There is chargeable in the same pe riod for arrearages for taking the sixth census $29 1,000; and the estimated expen ditures for the current service are about Ss, 100,000, making the aggregate de mands upon the Treasury, prior to the 1st of September next, about Si 1,410,000. The ways and means in the Treasury, and estimated to accrue within the above named period, consist of about -694,000, of funds available on the 28th ultimo; an tin-issued balance of Treasury notes author ized by the act of IS 11 amounting to Si,- u-jnext, ol S4,815,G00 In order to supply the wants of the Govcrnmcut, an intelligent constituency, in view of their best interests, will, with out hesitation, submit to all necessary bur dens. But it is nevertheless important so to impose them as lo avoid defeating the just expectations of the country, growing out of pre-existing la ws. The act of the 2d March, 1S33, commonly called the compromise act, should not he altered, except under urgent necessities, which are not believed at this time to exist. One year only remains lo complete the series ol reductions provided lor by that law, at slant nunctuations winch eteieat the very objects they have in view. We shall thus best maintain a position which, while it will enable us Ihe more readily to meet the advances ot other countries calculated lo promote our trade and commerce, will at the same lime leave in our own hands the means of retaliating with greater effect unjust regulations. ln intimate connection with the question ef revenue is that which makes provision for a suitable fiscal agent, capable of adding increased facilities in the collection and disbursement of the publie revenues, ren dering more secure their custody, and con sulting a true economy in the gteal, multi plied and delicate operations of the Treas ury Department. Upon such an agent de pends in an eminent degree lhe establish ment of a currency of uniform value, which is of so great importance to all the essential interests of society ; and on lhe wisdom to be manifested in its creation much depends. So intimately interwoven are its operations not only with the interests of individuals but with those of the States, that it may be re garded in a great degred as controlling both ff paper be used as the chief medium ofcircu lation,and the power be vested in the Gov ernment of issuing itta pleasure,eitherin the form of Treasury drafts or any other, or if banks be used as tbe public depositories, with liberty to regareeall surpluses from day to day as so much added to their act ive capital, prices are exposed to constant fluctuations, & industry to severe suffering. In the one case, political considerations, di rected to party purposes, may control, while excessive cupidity may prevail in the other. The public is thus constantly liable to imposition. Expansions and con tractions may follow each other in rapid suocession, the one engendering a reck less spirit of adventure and speculation, which embraces Stales as well as individ dividuals; the other causing a fall in prices, ourn, u.niapmi v, is toe s ate o things now existing in tin United Slate-;. These efi' cts may readily be traced to the cau-cs above referred lo. The public rev pouc, on being removed from the then Hank of the United States, under an order of a late President, were placed in selected State Huiks, which, actuated by the doub le n-o'ive of conciliating the Government so 1 augment their profi s to the greatest no-silW extent, enlarged cxtravagintly 'heir discounts, thus enabling all othir ex isting banks to do the same. " Luge divi dends were declared, which, stimulating die cupidity of capitalists, caused a rush to le made to the Legislatures of the respect ive States for similar acts of incorporation, which, by many of the States, under a 'emponry infatuation, were readily grant ed, and thus the augmentation of the cir cuhting medium, consisting almost exedu- sively of pap:r, produce I a mot fatal dehi- : -II . . 1 r .1 'ion. An 1 1 lust i -if mo. derived from the land sales of the p?i iod alluded to, will serve b.sl to show the cff-ci of the whole sys tem 'The average sales of the public binds for a period often years prior lo 1S34, had not much exce eded 2. 000, 000 per annum. In 1 S3 1 they attained, in round numbers, to th.o amount of So, 000,000. In the suc ceeding year of IS35 they reached 16, 000,000. And the next year, of 1S3G. they amounted to the enormous sum of 25, 000,000. Thus crowding inlo the short space of three years upwards of twenty three years' purchase of the public domain. So apparent had become the necessity of ar resting this course of things, that lhe Ex ecutive department assumed the highlv questionable power of discriminating in the lunds to be useel in payment by different public debtors a discrimination which was doub:less designed to correct this most ru inous state of things by the exaction of spe cie in all payments for the public lands, but wdiieh could not at once arrest the tide which had so strongly set in. Hence the demands for specie became unceasing, and corresponding prostration rapidly ensued under the necessities created with the banks to curtail Iheir discounts, and there by to reduce their circulation. 1 recur to these things wilh no disposition to censure pre-existing administrations of theGovern ment, butsimply in exemplification of the truth of the position which 1 have assumed. If, then, any fiscal agent which may be created shall be placed, without due res trictions, cither in the hands of the admin istrators of the Government or those of pri vate individuals, the temptation to abuse will prove to be resistless. Objects of po litical aggrandizement may secure the first, and lhe promptings of a boundless cupidity will assail tl:e last. Aided by Ihe experi ence of the past, it will be the pleasure of Congress so to guard and fortify the public interests, in the creation of any new agent, as to place them, so far as human wisdom can accomplish it, on a footing of perfect security. Within a few years past, three different schemes have been before the country. The charter of the Bank of.ihe U niteel States expired by its limitation in 1 8.6. An effort was made to renew it, which received the sanction of the two Houses of Congress, but the then Presi dent of the United States exercised hist2 to power, and the measure was defeated A regard to truth requires me to say that the President was fully sustained in the course he had taken, by the popular voice. His successor in the Chair pf State unquali fiedly pronounced his opposition lo any new charter of a similar institution; and not only the popularelection which brought him into power, but the elections through much of his term, seemed clearly lo indic ate a concurrence with him in sentiment cn the part of the people. After the public monies were withdrawn from the United States Bank, they were placed in deposit with the State banks, and the result of that policy has been before the country. To say nothing as to the question whether that ex periment was made under propitious or adverse circumstances, it may safely be as .-orted that it did receive the unqualified condemnation of most of its early advocates and it is believed was also conelemned by the popular sentiment. The existing Sub Treasury system eloes not seem to sUnd in higher favor with lhe people, but has recent ly been condemned in a manner too plainly indicated to admit of a doubt. Thus, in the short period of eight years, the popular voice may be regarded as having succes sively condemned each of thethree schemes of finance to which I have adverted. As lo the first, it was introduced at a time (1S16) when the State banks, then compar atively few in number, had been forced to suspend specie payments, by reason of the war which had previously prevailed with Great Britain. Whether, if the Uniteel States Bank charter which expired in 1811 hail been renewed in due season, it would have been enabled to continue specie pay ments during the war and the disastrous i i . . . , t . . rtni-TfTTKtcjgj: c' period to the commerce of the country which immediately succeeded, 1", to say the least, problematical: and1 whether thd United Stat s Hank of 1S16, produced a" re-toration of specie payments, or the same was nc"nmplished through the irtstrtirneri 'aldy of other nvans, was a matter of some di!j cuhy at ill it time to determine. Cer tain it is thai, for Hie fitsl years of tbe op erathm of that Hank, its course was as dis astrous as for the greater p rt cf its" subse qocnt career it became eminently success ful. As to the second, the experiment was tried viih a redundant Treasury, which continued to increase until it seemed to be lh.? part of wisdom to distribute the surplus" revenue among the Sbt'-s, which, opera ting at the same time with the specie cir cular, and the causes before adverted to, caused them to suspend f ecie payments, and involved the country in the greatest em- birrassment. And, as to the third, if car ried through all the stages of its transmuta tion, from paper and specie to nothing but the precious metals, to say nothing of the insecurity of the public monies, its injuri- ons effects have been anticipated by the - l:t.I . I ...l!nH rouniry in us unquaiiucu luiiuiuiumiuu. What is now to he regarded as the judg ment of the American people on this whole subject, I have no accurate meansof determi ning but by appealing to their more imme diate representative. The late contest, which terminated in the election of Gen. Harrison to the Presidency, was decided on principles will known and openly de clared, and, while tbe Sub Treasury receiv ed in the result the most decided condem nation, yet no other scheme of finance seemed to have been concurred in. To you, then, who have come more directly from the body of our common constituents, I submit lhe entire question as best quali fied to ive a full exposition of their wish es and opinions. I shall be ready to con cur with you in the adoption of such sys tem as you my propose, reserving to my self the ultimate power of rejecting any measure which may in my view of it con flict with the Const ilutton or otherwise jeopard lhe prosperity of tbe country; a power which I could not part with even if I would, but which I will not believe any act of yours will call into requisition. 1 cannot avoid recurring, in connection with this subject, lo the necessity which exists for adopting some suitable measure whereby the unlimited creation of banks by the States may be corrected in future. Such result can be most readily achieved by the consent of the States, to be expres sed in the form of a compact among them selves, which they can only enter into with the consent and approbation of this Government: a consent which might in the present emergency of the public de mands, justifiably be given in advance of any action by lhe States as an inducement to such action upon terms well defined by the act of tender. Suth a measure, address ing itself to the calm reflection of lhe States, w ould find in the experience of the past, and the condition of the present, much to sustain it. And it is greatly to be doubted whether any scheme of finance can prove for any length of time successful, while the States shall continue in the unrestrained exercise of the power of cieating banking corporations. This power can only be limited by their consent. With lhe adoption of a financial agency of a satisfactory character, the hope may be indulged that the country may once more return to a state of prosperity. Mea sures auxiliary thereto, and, in some mea sure, insenarahlv connected witb its suc cess, will doubtless claim the attention of Congress. Among such, a distribution of the "proceeds of the sales of the public lands, provided such distribution does not force upon Congress the necessity of impo sing upon commerce heavier burdens than those contemplated by the 3Ct of 1833, would act as an efficient remedial measure, by being brought directly in aid of the States. As one since! ely devoted to the task of preserving a just balance in our system of government, by the maintenance of the Stales in a conelition lhe most free and respectable, and in the full possession of all their power, 1 can no otherwise man feel desirous for their emancipation from the situation to which lhe pressure on theif finances now subjects them; and while I must reptidiate as a measure founded in error, and wanting constitutional sanction, the slightest approach to an assumption by ihis Government of the debts of the States, yet 1 can see, in the distribution adverted to, much to recommend il. The compacts between the proprietor States and this Go vernment expressly guaranty to the States all the benefits which may arise from the sales. The mode by which this is to be (Teeted addresses itself to the eliscretion of Congress, as the trustee for lhe States; and its exercise, after the mosi uwwiu manner, is restrained by nothing in the grants or in the Constitution, so long as Congress shall consult that equality in the distribution which the compacts require In the present condition of some of the States, the question of distribution may be regarded substantially as a question be- f i -; I il

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