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' - I J.l.tlM. aiAAntM I. fk. .Muni MlnmitAM I f I 1 --rtfe , If Mr. Adams' report oa the Vctj Message. . - Mr. Adams then rose, and, in a firm and distinct tone of roice, audible in every part of the Hall, rend his report, a follows: The Select Committee, to whom was re ferrcd the Message of the President of the United States returning to this House the act, which originated iu it, " to provide re venue from imports, nod to change and mo dify existing laws imposing duties on im . ports,' and for other purposes,' with his objections to it;-with instructions to report thereon to tho House, have attended to thut 'service, and respectfully report : ' Tho MeKs!?e is the last of a series of Executivo measures tho result of which has been to defeat and nullify the whole action of the Legislative authority of this Union , upon tho most important interests of the nation. After tho accession of tho lato Presi dent Harrison, by election of tho people, to the Executive chair, tho finances, the revenue, and the credit of the country were found in a condition so greatly disordered nnd so languishing, that tho first act of his Administration was to call a special session ; of Congress jo provido a remedy, for this distempered Slate of the great body politic. It wh even then a disease of no sudden f occurrence, and of no ordinary malignity. I Fonr years before, the immediate predeces. " sor of GeD. Harrison had been constrained to resort to the same expedient, a special session of Congress, tho result of which bad only proved the first of n succession of palliatives purchasing momentary relief at tho expense of deeper seated disease and. aggravated symptons, growing daily moro intense through the whole four years of that Admiaistration. If had expended, from jcar to year, from eight to ten millions of collars beyond its income, absorbing in tlmt period nearly ten millions pledged tor ctepo site with tho States, eight millions of stock . In the Bank of 4he UniteiLStalcs,. from five to six millions of trust funds, and as much Treasury notes; and was sinking under the weight of its own improvidence and incom potency. " Tho sentence of a suffering people had commanded a cnange in me Auminisira tion, and tho contemporaneous elections throughout the Union bad placed in both Houses of Congress majorities, tho natural exponents of tho. principles which it was the will of the pcoplo should be substituted In the administration of their Government,, instead of those which bad brought the country to a condition of such wretchedness' and shame! There was perfect harmony af principle between the chosen President of the people and this majority, thus consti- " tuted in both Houses of Congress; and the first act of 'this Administration was to "call a special sexton orCdiigcss for their ... deliberation and action anon tho measure indispensably necessary for relief to the public distress, and to retrievo the prospe rity of the great community of the nation. ' : Ort the 81st day of May, 1841, -within three months after the inauguration of Pre. sident Harrison, the Congress assembled at his call. But the reins of tho Executive car were already in other hands. By an inscrutable decrco of ProVidcnco tho chief of the people's choice,' in haspiony with - whoso principles the majorities of both Houses bad been constituted, was laid low in death. Tho President who had called Tho meeting of Congress was no longer tho V President when Congress met. A sucees. v -sor to the office had assumed the title, with totally different principles, though profess. ing the same at the time of his election, which, far from harmonizing, like those of bis immediate predecesssor, with tho raajo. rity of both Houses of Congress", were soou disclosed in diametrical opposition to them. I The first development of this O'iand most unfortunate condition of the. General "Government T was manifested by tho failure, once and again, of the first great measure intended by Congress to restore the credit of the country, by the establishment of a k National Bank a fuilure caused exclusively --i--byi theoperetieD- of Jborto-jseM-crjr the 'f - President. Is the spirit of the Constitution of the United Stales, the Executivo is not only separated Irom tne Liegialntivo power, Thus ut made dependent upon and responsible to it. Until a very recent period of our history, all reference in either House of Congress to tho opinions or wishes of tho President, Tclaling to any subject in delibc. ration before them was regarded as an out. rago upon the rignts or the deliberative body, among the first of whose duties is to spurn the inlluenco of the dispenser of pa. tronage and powei. Until very recently, it was suthc.icnt groatiy to impair tho influ enco or any member W' bo E'ispoctoifTiTi tho measure, first among those deemed by the Legislature of the Union Indispensably necessary for the salvation of its highest interests, and lor mo restoration of its credit, its honor, its prosperity, was pros! rated, defeated, onnulled,by the weak and wavering obstinacy of one man, accU dentally, and not by tho will of the people, invested with that terrible power, as if pro phetically described by one of his own cho. sen ministers, at this day, as " tho rigltt to deprive tho pcoplo or sell.goverament. -r-Tho first consequence of this Executive legislation was not odIv to prostrate the c Harts of the legislature itself, to relieve the people from their distress, to replenish the exhausted Treasury dnd call forth the resources of the count ry, to redeem the public faith to the fulfilment of tho national engagements, but to leavo all tho burdens and embarrassments of tho public Trca. sury, brought vpon It by the improvidence 'of the preceding Administration, bearing upon the pcoplo with aggravated pressure. The fatal error of the preceding Adminis. tration had been an e xcess of expenditure beyond its income. That excess had been an avcrago of eight millions of dollnrs a year, at least during tho four years of its existence. The practical system of ks fis. cal operations had been a continued in creasQ .o expenditures and diminution of revenue, and it left as a bequest to its suc cessor no efTectivo reduction of expenses, but a double reduction of revenuo to the amount of millions, to occur, of coarse, by tho mere lapso of time, unless averted, within fifteen months, by subsequent legis lation. By the double exercise of the Prcsiden tial interdict upon the two bills for establish ing a National Bank this, legislation was prevented. Tho excess of expenditures beyond the revenuo continued and increased. The double reduction of revenue, pre. scribod by tho compromise of 1833, was suffered to take its full effect no reduction of tfur expenditures had been-prescribed j and in the courscof eighteen months, since the inauguration of President Harrison, an addition of nt least fifteen millions to the enormous deficit already existing. in the Treasury at tho closo of the fast Adminis tration, Is now charged upon tho prevailing party in Congress, by those who had made it tho law, whilo the exercise of the veto power nlono disabled the Legislature itself from tho power of applying the only reme. dy which' it was within the competency of legislation hscii toproviue. .. . The great purpose for which the special session of Congress hrtd been called was thu3 defeated by the exercise of the veto power. At the meeting of Congress, at the regular annual session, the majoriticsxif both Houses, not yielding to the -diseour ngemcnt of diappointed hopes and baffled energies, undertook the task of raising, by impost dutjes, a revenue adequate to the necessities of the Treasury, nnd to the ful. filmcnt of tho national obligations. By tho assiduous and unremitting labors of tho committees of bo:h Houses chanred villi the duties of providing for the neccs sitics of the revenue, nnd for the great ma nufacturing interest of the Northern, Cen tral, nnd Western States, which must bo so deeply affected by any adjustment of a tariff, to raiso exclusively a revenue adequate to tho necessary expenses of tho Government from duties on Imports; a tariff bill believed to bo noarly, if not wholly, sufficient for that purpose, was ela borated and omply discussed through a long scries of weeks in both branches of the Legis- laturc. Tho process of gestation through which alone such a complicated system could organized, necessarily consumed many be months of time; nor wero tho committees of the House exempted from severe re proach which the purchased prcs3csof the Executive Lhicf are even yd casting upon Congress, without rcuuko or restraint from him. Tho delays were occasioned by the patient nnd unwearied investigation of the whole subject by tho appropriate commit. tecs. As t ho neriod nnnronched whrnthe so called compromise tariff was to be con siimrnatcd.Jtavingilic Government without any revenue tariff sanctioned by the law, the prudence of. Congress, without prccipa- ting their decision upon the permanent sys- Utm wliioh tliny tondly.hnpcii to ustubiiijli",' alies of character and conduct rarely seen upon earth. Sueli an investigation, though strictly within llicr-cope of tne instructions embraced in the reference to this commit toe,',wou"d roquire a voluminous report, which the scantiness of time will not allow, and which may not bo necessary for matu ring (he judgment of the House upon the document now before them. The reasons assigned by the President for returning to the House of Representa tives, with hisobjections, the bill to provide revenue from imports, nnd to change and modify existing laws imposing duties, and for other purposes, are preceded by a brief dissertation upon . the . painful sensations which any individual invested with the veto power must feel in exercising it upon im portant acts of the Legislature. The para graph is worded with extreme caution, and with obvious intent to avoid the assertion, mude in such broad and unqualified terms in the letter read at (he Philadelphia Indc-pendence-day party, that Congress can en act no law without tho concurrence of the Executive. , There is in this paper a stu dious effort to save any individual from the imputation of asserting the unqualified in. dependence of the Executive upon tho Lc-gislature-f and the iinpotence of Congress to enact nny law without him. That asser tion,' mado in so explicit and unqualified terms, in the Philadelphia letter, is here virtually disclaimed and disavowed. The exercise of soma independence of judg ment, in regard to all acts of legislation, by any individual invested with the veto power, is hero curtailed and narrowed down to the mere privilego of not yielding his well-considered, most deeply fixed, and repeatedly declared opinions on matters of great pub. lie couccrnmcnt, to those of a co-ordinate department, without requesting that depart ment seriously to re-examine tho subject ol their difference.- The co-ordinate depart- meat to tho Legislature is no longer the co-ordinate branch of tho Legislature. The power of Congress to cuact a law with out the co-operation of any individual Ex ccutjveis conceded, not merely by unavoid able inference, for the closing paragraph of the message, recurring ogam to tho same troublesome reminiscence, observes that after all, the effect of what he docs is sub stantially to call on Congress to reconsider the subject. If, on such reconsideration, a majority of two thirds of both Houses should bo in favor of this mcasuro, it will become a law notwithstanding his objections. -Thedruismof this remark may perhaps. be accounted for by tho surmise that it was a new discovery, made sinco tho writing of of the Philadelphia dinnerparty? letter ! and the modest presumption ascribed to the Constitution that the Executivo an com mit norror of opinion unless two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature are in conflict with him, is tempered by the nrrii able assuranco that in that event he1' will cheerfully acquiesce in a result which would be precisely the same whother he should nc quiesco in it or not. 1 ho aptitude of this hypothetical position may ba estimated by the calculation ot thcchaoccs that tho con tingencv which it supposes is within the verge of possibility. 1 he reasons assigned by the President lor his objections to this bill are further precc- ded by a narrative of his antecedent opin? ions and communications on the subject of distributing the proceeds of the sales of tho public lands. Ho admits that at the open ing of the extra session ho rccommendud such a distribution, but he avers that this recommendation wasexpressly coupled with tho condition that the duties on imports should not exceed the rato of 20 per cent. provided bythe compromise act of 183d. Who could imagine that, alter this em. phatic coupling of the revenue from the dm. cccdsof the sales of the public lands, the ruptcy and ruin. The daily demands of tho Treasury must ba supplied by the In. come derived from taxation by the year, and hot by tho' dissipation of the common property, : " : . .'V" v"'-.' .-, Tho second reason of too President for objecting to the passage of this bill Is not moro ponderous than the first. It is the destitute and embarrassed state of the Trea. sury, and tho Impolicy, if not unconstitu tionality, of giving away fruitful source of revenuo, which if retained, may be seized by the Government and applied to meet its daily wants. But the President had just told us that the fruitful source of revenue was a subject wholly dissimilar iuitiiliar actcr from that f revenue raised by duties of impost so dissimilar that ttUT union of them formed in his mind an insurmountable objection to tho passage of the bill. '" I most respectfully submit (says the message) whether this is a time to give away tho pro ceeds of the laud sales, when the public lands constitute a fund which of all others may bo nTado most useful in sustaining the pub. lie credit.'" And bow could it be nniln thus useful? Precisely by giving diem awty. By giving them away forever! For if the principle be onco cstrblished that tho pro ceeds of theeatafof the public lands shall -Mes-of tho be substituted in the place of revenue by tax ation to defray the ordinary annual expens es of tho National Government, never more will the pcoplo of any State in the Union have the benefit of one dollar from this richest of mines of inexhaustible wealth bestowed upon them by their bountiful Cre. utorfor the improvement of their own con gismiiTv uuiuvmji iu ura jhwuiwuhuimv.. isia m seeing others tnisenU condition of the country. , opposed to a law which d ! 'WW They percoivo that (the whole . legislative much refined happiness TofZ powerof the Union, has been for the last ed to half three score and Z Ver Si fifteen months, with regard to tho action of not slumbered all his timet' ""hii Congress upon measures of vital importance of mankind to bear out ths ? in a state of suspended animation, strangled their pecuniary interests co t89ertioni lbs by the four times repeated stricture of the menu, with very rare ei ? Executive cord. They observe that , under appears to be the case not r those unexampled obstructions to the exer- but rather from necessity S Pritlcil)lf cise of their high and legitimate duties, they grow up with generous emotioh have hitherto preserved the most respectful great pleasure in making oih i forbearance towards the Executive chief; short career n ;"".::.0n.er,lrpy..t that while he has, time after time, annulled 0f their fortunes, admonialJlT11 folly, and then it i, thev .uxlT e mere act of his will their commie. sion from the pcoplo to enact laws for the fetuSe hindmost fareastlievannlf'!a,lli re , they have torcDorne even some, however, who receiving " of their resentment for these inheritance or othcrwum f g P'?Per,3'l9 by sion f common welfure,' they have forcborne even the expression of their resentment for these multiplied insults and injuries they be- are entitled to no credit 'eropf S licved they had a high destiny to fulfil, by jnt0 lordly and domineedngtu;, administering to tho People in the form of by virtue of their possession in ' law remedies for the sufferings which they want 0f sympathy, sneak evil i hod too long endured. The will of one rupU, as if nature hid aVarJeJ n man has frustrated all their labors and pros- riority to one side. ' "r trated all their powers. The majority of T - , - , ' the Commiltee believe that the case has oc. JZZSt&A curreu iu too nnnaisoi our union, eomem- . , . . " ai rrovidem i , . i hub ai u cu in i nr.n twipn plated by the founders of the Constitution X?. uso ot uepresenia- w Dear: that the resort to that expedient niight I . , "y . exaeriencsihei, "e&r;il dent of the United Slates ;. but they are ""':' """' ? on 5 whilethe uy u.o gram .o vu UuTO . -f-. - . . .lir- J". powevt4mpeacn wo-l -r personal subserviency to -tho Executive : nnd any allusion to his wishes in debate was deemed adeparturo not 4ess from decency uan Irom order. An anxious desire to ac. -commodate the action of Congress to tho y opinions and wishes ot Mr, Tyler had led to modifications of the first bill for tho esta- 1 bliithment of a National Bank, presented to him Tor his approval, widely differmg from 'the opinions entertained of their expediency uy no majority oi ootn Houses ot (Jon. grcss, but which failed to obtain that ap. iproval for the sake of which they had been reluctantly adopted. . A second attempt en sued, under a sense of the indisjrcnsable necessity of a fiscal corporation to tho re., venue and credit of the nation, to prepare an act, to which an informal intercourse and communication .bejwecn. aiemher of the House, charged , with the duty of pre paring the bill, and tho President of the United States himself, might secure by compliance with his opinions, a pledge in advance of bis approval of the bill, when it should be presented to him. That pledge was obtained. The bill was presented to him in tho very terms' which ho had pre scribed as necessary to obtain his sanction, una It met thd'same fate wiih its predeces. sot ; and it is remarkable that the reasons assigned for the refusal to approve the se. cond bill are io direct and immediate yon- flict .with those which had been assigned for the refusal to sign the first.j provided and sent to the President a tempo, rary expedient, limited in its operation to tho space of one month, during which to avoid, as they thought, the possibility of a collision with the apprehended antipathies of the President, they had suspended for the samo month the distribution of the pro cp?ds of tho sales of public lands, which, Sva previous law, was to take effect the day nfterAhocxpiration.of tho compromise. Not only was this. ..nipsL conciliniory jnca. first and paramountob;ucUo4i.oLthoI!j:csu dent to this bill should be that it unites two subjects wbich so Xarf rom Jiaving - any affinity to ono another, and wholly incon gruousio their character which two sub. jeers are identically the samo with those winch ha had coupled together in his re commendution to Congress at the extra sesi sion T If there was no nfiioiiy between the parties, why did he join them together? the union was illegitimate, who was the dinlnisturli in the present condition of public affairs, tSjV-l'?I,-,.,ilfewW prove abortive. They soe that the irrecon. menwe citable difference of opinion and of action ,WI J00 gooai, between the Legislative and Executive De- KM0 U partments of the Government is but sym- "J, "d ?" of that tt Utheticwith the same discordant views who Lfor "r own pr. 1 ------ . V I rp A 1 I IHUVUi U1LU1 CTFI V IIIUPP flMrmu. 1 . dition. But giving aw-yes, to tha-ast nd feelings among the rcop.o. o i. em - 'JT? ccux giving away, forever, to pamper the alone the hna issue ot no rgg;C mu oe j - -- B to lull, til lilt) aurruw uuu iiiuiuuvuiiuu uuuci n ; . -. , . im the failure of all thoir labors to redeem the J6 Uen 'T'0"8 8"d m,td honor nnd prosperity of their country, it is of a brighter day willasccmia. a cheering consolation to them that the ter- 'yv.0Pear .a ,hal Jf0" llv" a few Jw minationof their o,wn official existence is b.mortf'' eve" ,h$ "wstgiW, at-bana k that they are-even nownoui f, r;v.r " 'u'u" mt return to receive the sentence of theircon. "-r w Here is Mta.-paw. reckless extravagance of a Government forever preaching retrenchment and econo my, nnd forever heaping million upon mil lion ofannual expenditure" to suckle armies and dry curse the land," The committee submit to llie House their unhesitating opinion that tho appropriation tx .v mriJ ,i nrA. J i'.oin. f stitucnts unon themselves : that tho lcgisla. inai, ne "T wno P'uraing on b. ""J wwv vivw-vt-tiw-em.e vs t - t . : ' i" "J 1 Wmimi" TiirVV Vnn r rinw"l,.:tl the public lands to the ordinary annual ex. live power of the Union, crippled ana uis. . ' penditurcs would bo tho only effectual and ble.a. it may now be, is about to pass, re- Sla h is tunf to all K irretrievable ey of that great and novated and revivified by the wilt of the SjJ 5 estimable inheritance of the American Peo. People, Into other hands, upon whom will J pie. . That, if once that growing sndinex. devolve the task of providing that remedy Jj": WfS Kaustible fund shall bo doomed to form the for the public distempers which the.rown PrDd TV 2 whole or any part of the way, and mean, honest and agonizing energies have in vain 8JJ W!' for the annuVestimates of the receipts and endeavored to. upply. ' . JS'" f.xnend;iir. f ihn Nniinnnl nn.nmnt 1 . Tho power of the present Congress to -.7 7 ., - . . "7 luo . .. ....r...,, . ir. r .1.1- tho pcoplo may bid farewell, a long fare- onaci W8 essential to jno weuure m io well, to everv hnn of ever rocpivi. n 1.,1. peoplo, has been struck with sppoplexy by iar's useful improvement from thntgifl of ,n Executive hand. .Submission obU wiJJ God to them, thus cruelly and perfidiously ' oWy condition upon which bo will per. wrested irom their hands. r' tnounwmw. ror"Hnn.ii.iiirem secure that relief which you io vai aouht Irom your creditors, bearing in mini, that nothing more is cancelled than tba kcrfa. rotiWhtnrwnicli Hi higW vfflwitf1 but cannot Je used to destroy yoq like tba Nineteen of the States of Uiis Union, in measure earnestly recommended by him. " the ordent, perhaps, in some cases, incon. -"If be forbids their action unless couplet vMr V"."' ZVJZ siderstely ardent, pursuit of this improve. " conddton declared by himscll to oe r ' ' "vu"'w r.cnt of their own condition, have become subject-so.-totally -different -that ho f - - will not suDtir them iooe coupieajajnei - v. wiujkjMiuuiw-jriw..uiB..aBiier-same law. With that condition Congress fous.j ile finds himself pressed down silk cannot reply. In this state of things he 1 mountain oNiability.on his own account has assumed, as the C-immiltce fu'11 believe and for others. What must hs iot Tb tho exercise of the whole legislative power Sherifl has already taken every ttuo&M to himself, and is levying millions of money large balance, yet exists. Io luchi upon the people without nny authority of plight,- crushed in spirits, sad no opcninx law. - But the final decision of this qucs. for more than a mere. .subsistence, be bus involved,, some of them lieavify involved in debl', Tlic greatest portion of this debt has been contracted for the accomplishment of stupendous works to expedite and facilitate the intercourse of travel and of trade be tween the remotest parts of this great Re public, swarming from year to year with re- f Inl 1 Kl I n rr mra rC nnmilaliftn ft- mm w . wvuviieiir iiiuiiviia ui uui'uiuliuui 11 ia iiu i " . exaggerated estimate of the value of these Hon depends neither upon legislative nor consent to languish out ot BU Mn Kgw works to say, that the saving of time, of executive, but upon judicial authority, nor ' cuuureo ; or oy . . ww.u, labor, and of nen, to indi7id,ml citin, can the final decision of the Supreme Court disagreeable, lift himself a once from tbt of tho Union, enjoying the benefit of these pon it bo pronounced before the closo of bottomless quagmire . " public works, more than repays, in wry to present Congress. In tho meantime vitality to his frame, and comfort lobisdo. single year, tho whole cost of their con- Mho abusive exercise of tho constitutional niesuc circie. xnere m sawij itw struction. . power of the President to arrest tho action base in tho decision which harms oone.ta n..t whU tW mmnn,0 t,-w of Congress upon measures viul to the uispcnses gooa to many.-iini uut, while tccso immense bcnctits have ... , . . k.M.uii,.i.m.li MniJ n been thus secured to the people, as a com, S'TS tf teZM ks munityol individuals, the States which au- "7 "r."iZ7 iiw..i-.fc.M n.fnrHfhtani.iilL thorized them have eoRtracted huwlen of Wffl,w n" 1 ,e Rower ,,seu rou? . . " .V. A. irA:.!-I -xw. liabilities heavier than they arc ablo to bear, powerful hand, and where should tliev find for which they accordingly herewith respect it but hi the svmnathies of tho National Go. MV rePort- bo restrained and modified by an amend- out property, to satisfy liabilities on wnicii, ment of the Constitution itself, a resolution by their utmost exertions, they could pot pay a lourtn ot mo annual inierraw ia nothing immoral in oraving, under well o . iihulfcwuil rltus? t is objected to this bill that it is both a re venue and an appropriation bill! What then 1 Is not the act of Septcmbar 4,1811, pproved and signed by tho President hinr- self, both a revenuo and an appropriation bill T Dtc8 it not enact that, in the event of an insufiicienty of impost duties not ex ceeding twenty per cent, ad valorem, to defray the current expenses of tlie Govern. ment, the proceeds of the sales of the lands sha llbolcvicdasparl of alio same. revenue, eHreerVfrtempttiously rejcclod,- bnt, in total nndTmpropriatcdta tha"Bamo-parposc8f disregard of tho avowed npfhions of his own Secretary of the Treasury, concurring with iiiusu, nearly unanimous, ot all tlio most eminent lawyers of tho land, in solitary re liance upon the hesitating opinion of the -Attorney General, ho has undcrtnkcn.not only to levy taxes to the amount of millions upon the people but to prescribe regulations for its collection, and for ascertaining the valuo of imported merchandise, which the law had, in express terms, reserved for the legislative action of Congress. And now, to crown this svstcm of con tinual and unrelenting exercise of Execu tive legislation by tho alternate gross abuse ot constitutional power and bold assump tion oi powers never vested in him by any mw, we como to the veto Message referred by tlio House to this commiltee. A comparative review of tho four seve. ral vetoes which, in the course of filWn months, have suspended the legislation of ims union, combined with that amphibious -luuuvuun, uie reasons lor awrov nw and signing a bill, and nt the same time striking j j".'- vuusirucuon, at its most imnort. ant enactment : illurtratedbyjjontempora. AJMitf-eflJlBTona of temper and ef sentiment aivnigea at convivial festivals, and obtruded npon the public eye by ihe fatal friend,!,;,, of sycophant private correspondents, and stripped to its naked nature by the repealed and dsringtissurnptioTr both ofegidafive and of judicial power, would present anom. Tho appropriation; of the proceeds of the sales of the public, lands to defray the or- diriary -expenditures ortheTJovemmcnt is believed to bo a system of fiscal manage ment unwiso impolitic, improvident, and unjust ; and it is precisely lor that reason 'that tho bill now beforo tho House provides mat they shall not be so appropriated. The public lands are the noble and inappreciable inheritance of the whole nation. The sale of them to individuals is not a tax upon the purcnaser, out an exchange or equivalents scarcely more burcensomo to tho grantee than if he should receive it as a gratuitous donation. To appropriate tho proceeds of the sales to defray the ord inary expenses .u- rt i . . . . i oi me vjovcrnmem is io waste ana destroy . I mi ..... tne property xnc prppcrty is hcldbyCon. gressin trust. Mr.Tylerspeaks of the dis- tribution as if it was giving away the property It is precisely the reverse It is restorin" i to the owner. To appropriate the proceeds to del ray the current expenditures is to give ii up io uiiapiuauoii una wusie. it is poll, tlcal economy precisely 1he samo as if an individual landholder should sell off. year aner year, parcels OL niEcsiaie, and con suitte ris1 proceeds1 in thu pBytnt'Ut Of his ycrnmcnt T in their fidelity to the trust com mittcd to their charge io this immense" and fitmbst bou ndless publicrddmainT "The a p. plication ot the proceeds or the public lands to alleviate the burden oficso debts prcss ing rtipon the people of almost all the Slates is, ijf not the only, the most exceptionable mode of extending the mighty, arm of the VWMfisJf-4 -tlieStates from tho pressure of the burden bearing upon them a relief consisting only of tho distribution among ihcnfof their own pro- pprty a TrV.rt fnrnlahinfl lhom llm manna . John QtriNCT Adams, Jno. M. Botts,- ' James CoorEtx, ...K. Rayner. - TlIOS. J. CAMPBELLf Truman Smith, F. Granges, II. S. Lane, . Jeremiah Morrow, J. A. Peabce. circumstances, tho benefit of the bankrupt law. On the contrary, nottodoso.wooli! manifest nn utter, and no very laudable da regard of duty. Every man should beam, bilious to do tho mast in his power for the general .good. If a discharge from U debts, which tlio toil of fifty years could never reduce, will enable him to be useful to-hirriself and to others,- ft would vp great perversions of morals or obliquity Raolecd hi thi- SrnnfA nnA. ike. TTmu rtf iudffment not to seek end SCccpt It. fl Thflm a i-onnrflrtna notoriously insolrenl, America in Congress affr-,;.W, iiM.thirii nH uh nn ju)e expect to lounge ia the 77 i . . 'naL- I . . l i. u.- mm'h DfOUB of paying to the United States themselves V "ea concurring uxrcin, xnat moonas to pay noirueots, toj- - ho inconsiderable porlionof tho debts due he foow,nfT fndincirtof the Constitu. to give themselves a.rs on the from the States to them; so that by one t,on.of,he United States, in tho seventh denouncing all bankrupts as .t it.-. .V ...,.. section of the first article, bo recommend, their nnnlicntion for relief as uisUonoruwi States will be reeved from tin LnU.W J ei lo the Legislatures of the several States Even if such individuals haf more we. pressure of their debt, and Treasury of the Union will receive back in payment of debt no small part of the same sums allotted to the States as their respec tivo portions of the distribution. the common r"c V me nuopuon oi tne same,- oy in mo community man mo pui o inree-iourtns oi tne saia uegisiaiure, snail i reasons, aro disposed to nnui " -, become part and parcel of the Constitution : I opposition is harmless, and should not , instead of tho words two-thirds," twice flict a moment's pain 1 hey are, eTY repeated in the second paragraph, of the My,' men who labor nnder the belief m said seventh section, substitute, in both much talkioz. and high prctcnuuiB, - w. - - . sum bi: vt.iini hi-i,iiuii. huuhlhuiit. iib ihiiii i iiinrn iniuiiirr hiiii iiiiri .., A,h committee regret that the.shortncsa c08eft. tho W0rd9 - maiorhv of the wRntrv nns n,nnr7h rinrnlerat real sreauM oi:tho timelHchthey haven lowed then mfe- rf - J,7h nrnctorsirifle .way their W, household cxneoscs. The first principal of political economy necessary for a nation is to raiso by taxation within the year the whole sum required for the expenditures of thafyear rEverjr departure from this prinT ciple is a step in tho path of national bank-1 spivcs or the preparation of this report constrains them to pass over numerous other considerations amounting to the clearest do. monstration that the distribution arrionz the btates of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands will bo infinitely more conduc- From the TWalooaa Monitor. - and waste their breath in tho voc -whicb they are so wcllsuite(LVVeri that no bankrupt has no little expn" nriioilirlifa An RnnkrnntrT. In the distribution of good and evil in the reflection, as to permit himself to be aa j world it seldom happens that any man has led by such a class ot tne numu -r- tTveto TC:'7Z"U7'rZrf t without alloy ; and there is now who.Jive to no purpose, and ww of the peoplo from 'their embarrassments, "' ?tT a numerous class of c.ti- world only by leaving it. than tbTdevotion of the Mme funds to be ?cnf who' fro.m "J ward cvc"ts. ttr0 P"' 'But it seem, the bankruit hw taiJJ swallowed up in the inwtiate gulph of the "'y "posed to ill natured Criticism to red political hostility ; from the DeBje ordinary annual expense, of the Federal wh' they can be only more or less indif. as Unconstitutional, jccaus pa Government-to Jrkh in tha usin. lifc- fcrent.-We allude to those who by adven. a Whig Congress ; and from wne the nine millions of the fourth instalment tu de, losses and fluctuations in the because they wish to cultiva e promised to the States, the seven or eight luo of property, have become entangled the people, who are supposed to wb millions of stock in the Bank of tlie United r'ond. ihci' me.ans of Paymettt. and who. t- In each of these objections, tne States, and tho five or six millions of Indian 7 ? T V?- i revT 8 . mouves D0' Pnnc V "5' - far pwrt oiaicrv, ui which u is mo woibi lunu, nave I lure musi assume itcaiu r . ,', .11 soucht the nrotcction of a law enacted bv nlm;hln . Tiefore men. who thin. . a . . ii . trust and JNavy pension funds, all sunk, during tho Van Buren Administration, with- outJeaving a wreck oebind. 7 This review of tlie reasons sident for objecting to the passage of tne We coi Delude wiu tllfl rpnrniienfntivffl of ibn rmnnln nnrt iKaIbm luiiliifuul it f-- " I J -" 1 tUII WUUJVV vj .-. fS IU States, for the emergency which the action suestion to bankrupts, topersev .r .1 . 1 1 I 00 . . . . . ,,op true w - y- o, ino irovernment naa no sngni mnuence steps they have taken 10 w - M : t. . i. r.A .1 1. - . . .l ,n,ui or uu"- iu pruuutii. 1, iiujr. w uiiiiuvuiij os- 1 w9 anu lei meir puiwpiw or uai bill might be extended far more into deta.L thatKlho nepJ takcn by a mn ,0 filers work out their own safety, and all leading te the conclusion that thev u.... u! if ji.-Jj . .-. i... re,.'," w . 1 . J i iiavH iiuii.tnii uuiwnrcu a uauaruin. in r' 1 1 if 1 1 1 are feeble, inconsistent, and unsaUsfiictory. tanlly aJ ted and is aQttcd a lhe on, It remains only for the House to take, by .i, .i.iiuL. - i;r r yeas auu nays,ine question upon tne- final ft passage of the bill, and as the majorit xnexomminco cannot inauige, even hypo theucally, the absurd hope of a majority either in this or the other House -of-Gen. gross, competent to the , enactment of the bill into a laW, tbey leave the'tlouselo'de; (ermine what furthertnoasnrethevnnav deem necessary and practicable by the lc. asignifi cance, In many points ot view, on the Leri HONOR TO WHOM , . ffi Krimmingcr, Esq., Sheriff of WIJJ Whig county of x.rXLZ--!fo'- Officer to settfe-b7 puuuu '"Tutl year.,' He was first also, y- challenge. Bis brother wien - m me omio one l to I on the other, and thereby do that justice all men to which he is prompted by desires .yve marMnpt thatmen..who,by interest 'Tr . ' r"Viu nta and.offltC:. or ilfiahncss. are above nccumarv demn. I ". . dence, and whoso chief satisfaction con RaUigk Reguter. . j . :
Highland Messenger (Asheville, N.C.)
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Sept. 9, 1842, edition 1
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