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- - w * u - - - - .~ SWe will eling to &he Palar" of the Temsple of o"tw gs asia h an. VOLUME -0 . - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ V~3 EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER,9 IST W. F. DURISOE. PROPRIETOR. TERMS. Three Dollars per annum, if paid ir adance-a-Three Dollars & Fifty Cents if not paid before tho esriration of Si: Months from the date of Subscription and Four Dollars if not paid within twelveMontis. Subscribers out of the State are required to pay in advance. No sub~cription received for less than one yeargod no paper discontinued until all ararages are paid.except at the op tion of the Publisher. All subscriptions will be continued unless otherwise ordered before the ex paration of the year. 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BRADLLY. announce bun a candidat for &he oice of Bria'adier General. to fill th occaisoned by the resignatiun of Gei Ju13 to 24 Tfhe Mends of ff. R1 WMILAMS, an ance hias acandidat fo tobsde of Sherif, .jme31 tf 90 The efeuds of Capt, ENTILL, effaew li -aida" Sbba bel as aeanidate fo 6Ofte of Tax Col , of Edgeleld Dis The frDende Of Capt W. L[,. COLEMAN. annotnee hint as a candidate for Ordinary of Edgefeld Di, trict. Jan 19 or 51 0?wThe fiends of Wn. J SWKIMNS. Esq.. annoonce hitam as a candislat for the office of Ordinary. of Edgefield Districl September 2. tl 31 The friendwof Colonel J HILL announce him as a candidate s'or the u fee of ordinary, of Edgefield Distrct. August26 tf 30 Q- IThe frien:sof Col. W, H. MOSS. announce him n, a candidti for the office of Ordinary of Edgafield Dis triet. &Nem the Caden Journal OUR BlRTH-DA1Y. Iacrihed t.o'lonas 8. RursseUl Esgr. -31 3DWAan 3. PoaRIKn. Our lairth-day ! years have wildly passed Since we have ceased to welcome thee, 'Till even thy sky appears O'ereast, And lathe rolls his deepest, last And wildering surges sullenly Above a name once prized so dear; Though it hath scarce an echo now. Through memory's treasuare-cells to !hear On lnering tone however o One voice, however lfalieringly It whispers o'er the sweeping tide Of years may come, with sounds to waken The chords those joyous hours have -I taken, When gladness' ielf might nly sway The lyre, whose passion-breaths n ould glid<a Bnt with a mingled joy and pride, To hail our early natal day. Our birth-day ! Where are now the wreaths 'a Thnt crowned in other years. that bright And smonened brow with as sweet baeath-. As float around those halls of light. Where only snch pure being dwell As througha some rapture painter'a dreamis Weaving a deep, a hushing uspeli, Athrilbag as uns~ akable. Their spiritual halls thattus With an undying glory-gnush ? And where are too. the rainbow hoes, That lit thy sky in boybhood's year ? Each leaf Oblivion's salent dews Have darkly laved!-esch ray in tear, flath wildly l'ast itself!-and all For which we would one hour recall Of other days, is gboonied and shaded! AII. all their tints of beauty laded! We deemed not in onr early hours, That birth-day suns could ever bring Aught but a train ol beams and dlower, To wait upon its waker.'ng We knew not that a surge to wtid Could chafe the barque of manhood wbile The hoyant shalop ot the child Best floated in one saiat.t smile. And Henvest's sweet fiaee seemed luringly To tempt it farther still to see. Our birth-day!-Where the absent ones, Who twined thy youthful brow of light, And hailed thee in such soft. P% eet tones Companions of ouar soul's delight I i And where the beamv eves that then Spoke rapture at ;ae-l spirit abrine 7 We felt not, sinee we movedt 'itiong men, Snch moments as were only thine ! Yes! some have faded from the sphere They highted up with rays of love. Seare seeming, though thev lige-red here. Less spiritual than those above. An m some hive lived to gladden. blets The altars retired by other hands, While our's yet burn in leoneliness. And an each flame grvows less and less We. like the magicians of Eld. list sigh nbove the broken winds Our powerless hands had vainly held. Our birth-day !-'Tis a saddened sound A leost tote of a lonely lute A breath of song tht. -s.,ated round iThe minstrel lips now cold and mnute A vanished wave that swept-along The goblet's brim in revel's hour. When wild romnsce. unwreathed in song. Drenthed in the lyre's deep minstrel power And echo's lone aid fearful swell That start. to utter bit-farewell! Sumterrille, Au:. 3. 1842. Temperance. Frem the Greceille Mountainter. GREENVILLE CONVENTION. The Commi-tre. to wehom twas referred the second Resolution offered to the consid ation of this Body, respectfully submit the Jblowwttg REPORT. For tie information of others, and for tie better understanding one another. we would cheerfully spread before the world the principks and designs. not ouly of this Convention, lut of every Society from the seaboard to the mountains, and of every individual member of such asociation. as far as a e have evidence, and ourselves un derstand them, in mteir eforts to promote the cause of Temperance in our Stat. For, although we are otijecti, to some ex tent, of distrust and suspicion, and have been the subjects of secret and public de nunciation by many. we have neither prin cipli nor de-iso in our diferent organia tioni and efiurts wh afraid to avow-wi I ofthe drun eness. We avu., besitasinely. that the war we wage we r. tend, as to this vice, to be one of exter mination. Our associations are volunta ry. An impressed soldier, driven into r~enks by the operation of lan. or a mer ceniry bireliug. tempted by the hope of moone), powever ear patronage, are unknown ill our set vice. Our only term of enlist ement it forr the war-the fehole sor-and whilst this war is waging we will engage, as Temperance Asociations, in no other service. " e will a sponse no other quar rel. amuI. % len. ended. anti this our coa monl etetm% i.- driven isent and destroyed, % e pleldge ~ur lires, our fortunes, and our sacred IsoSer. thal our ariy shlI disband. But our is not a war of brute force-it it, a moral warlar. We seek th good of all-w e propose that the fruit. of riuniph; bhall be sbared by all-we invite. and wvith opten arni. receive into sur bervice the father and son-ihe mother and laughte-r -the husband and wife- the wideow aid the orphan. The patriot-i e philanilirso pist ani the chtistian-Ihe ablstinet-le partially abstinent-the temnperate anid the inte-mperate; and of huts. dayv the unlortu nate Drunkard. cosming even fromn the camp~ of the enemy. althougir covered s Ut- may ho with the scars he has received in a harder serrice. WVe knitw that we are fiereely enionns ced by inuta few-somei of wthoom comec wish fair .epeecrh upon their lips, 'jlthuih we arn assured the poisont ol atsp is undr their tongues. Some are thi-eselves de lusted iby more art ful ment-soite have e-ars lint will not hear-eyes. but will not sere; and niany, vet-y nmatny, hasve nsot yet cosn ideredt, and are .till des.tit u l thu light. The lover of his htottle. who hats de-lbe rately made up his mmna he 'till not. fotr any considieration,. part Itrom it-the man whio has fully investigated the n hiole mat ter, and is resolutely determinedi tee spread temptationi be-fore others, by the manfac iure of. aid raile ins itoxicaling liquors, regairdles" of cousequences,. in one point of view. smay hep;xoe our eflrts; though even to such, we are hetter friancds that. he is to hin l orhsnigbr B ut, that she overof god ordr, p acead sobriety that the lover of the sotula of metn and of the canse of a commison Saviour, shotuled he liund in toppoisition so our associationes, mutst otnly arise from the fatct that otur princi4.les and desigan-our miotives of ac tion and meanis by which alone we hope to attain our end, are notecorrectly nunderstnod, -of all such wie ask that we may he judged of by our fruits. WVe urge them to attend our meetings-read our addresses hear our professions-learn our practices -scan our lives. By these shall yo know themi. WVe seek to teach by example and by precept-reasonI and argument are our weapots-and nie addressoturselves to the underatandings and hearts and consciences of men. #ec persuade men to he sober. aind hius see-k toe thin the ranks of our enecmy. Wo be5 men to desist frocm the manufac ture of the poison. and thus seek todry.0 the fountains of this evil. We spread b fore t.en every iniducement which life c deiaah-hings past. present or to come which either earth or the future abodes c happiness or misery are regarded as fat nishing, it) aid us int effecting this great re formatien. And this, too. in the open da] We have no secret conclave-no convem lale,-uneprivate %atch word or countet %ign-no hidden schemes-o) privilege order. Our ameetitngs are heit alway upon public totice-ouir consulations ar before the eyes of the world-friends ati enemie- are insited to attend-no man' Moush is tmuzzlrd-every man i6 invite and encouraged. and often urged to spenl for or against. as lhis judgis ent, his fears, c his feeling- may dictate. Cat it he. then, that our warfare is un fairly conducted, or throenen disa-trou consequenoces to the institutions of th country? We di..claim'all combination ror sects rian p-p.ses-we have to governmem ptrotatge toseek-there ise none. in an' possible event. which could arise or attaci to any denotitnation. or to all combined grnisng out of our organization. Th hearty co-otperatio . fur such a series a years of men of every sect known in ou community, with sctres of others of higi purity, intelligence and patriotism, of ui sect at all, hould quiet, we think, all ap prehension on this subject. We disclaim all co-nbination for politics pur pmes. We have no peculiar privileg or political adviatage, which, by pussibili ty. we might hope to secure by such am ciations. that will nt lhe enjoyed by all,o that flow otherwise than incidentally from the moral reformation we are proposing gecomplish. We hope, it is true, to dri the demagoogue from his fastness by purify ing public morals, and elevating the -vtn dard of public feeling. We expect to coo vince men that love of country and lovec the jug are not sytoninous- hal eandi dates for oioe. whether of honog. prot_ truet, should no long-er lie permistd to paut chase influence, or recommend themseve to popular favor, by adminie.tering to tb gross appetites of inconsiderate men. ? Th practice is corrupting in it- influence, a should be universally regarded as disre-pu table. The same cordial co opeistim which is sccn of men of'll po!itiir- I radei with those of no polities as all-owl rank and conditions-pursuits, employmein practices at ne a.m... ..v...... ... 'e are injurions to society, destructive of it peace and subversive of its morals. Wi do not deiy but that society has a right 1i restrain men from usine even their owi property in such a way as not to injur their neighbors. Wet do not perceive ia a tian's liberties are necessarily invade because his peersuiti or e'mploymtents ma: he interferad with. Liberty is not licen tiousness. Upon tlespei points, as they ma, present thoeitelves, s nen in comtamoi withthe ither freeen' of she State. w, cliim the ri:h:t of ex.-reIsin2 and main tainiting our indiri-lual opiiniioins. In thi application of such porincipl-t. aipon men bures that miLch: tie s-agzer'ted. that Trei perance awnt iill he found briadiv to dif fer, is nol too toe quesaned. %%e' cannot there'ore. Iy aty paper emnain fmn this bod%. he expected1l tat ,pread out th opilmmti .i itnd i'iduail mendbers. The: are' not poroiptrly the sutbjectm of caivass il or h :te-, a- it formts no part (if the de sign of' anly oaf ur 2tefaaieifis thus tol in 'toke ear secure le'gaslativte actioni. In ou lemdieis, noe deoeube. it the ticcenity shall ev arise, n ill tb' foundit ae 'te'rtn materiully a elsew''here. ate of nt hich tolarraty otppositioi to any imptfropfer legi-laaiotn. leooking to ward the enaictmen'at of tnumptuary baws -pirtecriintf nhahtt a mana may eat a drink or wear, ier tither unoproper interfer IHut we mleet the objection f'ully, fairl; atnd btt~odly lay ahi poubolic disclaitmer, re corded. attd itntendaed tot'e placed inecver msan's. handsl. n 'ho n ill re'ad. a lin the refot mali inea ani bic'h we are enugage'd as art nt suciattin. is not inte'ned or e'xpecaed to b carrie'd etut toy le'gislative aid. TIhis foirm eel no piart aofaour deCssent in orgaizing tha it neat thea' c~apona we.' desire to wielr We look toi public opintion, and shall aher seek to mae' tur lodgteent-that is sai to bo' abovey the lais: and ifsat. an any cous try otn earth. it is peculiarly so itt Sout Carolina. W eaheall attempt to plant ota Baaner, with its inscrciption of peace a earth anda good nt ill to man, itt every halt tation int ourt hiaud. Web cotmmend it to th he'arts an-l nfl'etionis of our countrymen. Thlerefore-" Resoltd. That our object is not tofore hut teapersualde men to be~ sober. IRwd.1red, Tlhat wte disc'laimn. utterly, a Setarian eon Political c'ombninations, at all dependence upotn, or intention to see Legislative aidh, an the Reformationi which we atre enganted. Resptectfaull stubmitted. J. N. W HIlTN l-:, Chaoirmmn. A Pht sician's Pee-A gentlemannut fell sick, 5n)5 the New Yoirk Auroara. at sent foir a doctor Hie felt his pulse sciei niacally, and then shoatk his head most at btously, as doctors will. -Iam vcry sick." saidi the patient, "b you can cure me. If I atm up in a wet I ..;n 6ie yo RW, but if' I lin kere otts a0S)d to pay you more Aollar, and %hould I die r Tanything!" smiled and wrote out his C. 4-ad in a week the mai was id his $50 the first thing. 0N 0, 4. it r TO MESS.GE. Of RIepresenataes of the unfeigned regret that I fiud rthe necesoity of returning to tepresentative., with my ob entitled, "An Act to pro rom imports, and toel C-aue a isting kiwe, imposing duties r- for other purposes." be more painful to any in d upon to perrorm the chief sunder otr limited Consti to be constrained to withhold an important mensure n Legislature. Yet it unonld Ibe hbih purposes of his %ta ut the true interetb or the -r the people-the comion C both branches of the Gov - Iding his wril-considered. e4 and repeatedly lecharel atters of great public con hose of a co-ordinnie de ut requesting that depart "io re-examine the subioct ee. The exercise of sumc r judgment in regard to all ion, is plainly implied in i yof approving them. At ii , it becomes a peculiarly as ressive one whetn the sub by. Cqpgress happen to - I tire present stanee, the es; to affect various brsof a great country; r O w eet of distributing the pro ccd 4bo sals of the public lands, in the e stat6-or the finances, it tia been ty-tmake kuinn my settled cviction vanous occasions during the preasu 6" f toungress. At the open ing of zgis season, upwards of twelve I on ,.sharing fully in the general obe toining prosperity and c.edit, I recom edso0ch a di-stribution; but ti-at recom siion-was even then expressly I couplederith the conditin that the dutie on smpqesould not exceed the rate of 20 per cent. provided by the compromie act !t 13I ; These hopes were not a little encouraged, and these views stretigthened by the report of Mr. Ewing, then Secreta - ry of AithTreasury. which was thortly - therean id before Congress, in which I he recornsended the imposition of duties at the r of 20'per cent. ad valorem ont all lreoelitkles, with specified exceptintts: and statte&"if this mensure be olopoted. - there wiltbe received into the trea-itirv from cust~ims, in the last quarter of the~ rpresent year. (184I.18$5.300J.000; in all the 'year 1842. abut $2:.500,t00O; and in the Syear 1843, efter the final reductinti under t he c of hirch 2, 18:3, about $20.800I. -O000;" andiadded. e-i is believed, after the -heavv expenditures required by the public r service in Uhepresenit year sall have been -provided'for, the-revenue which wilt ac crue from tiit or a neerly proximate rate 0rfduty, wilbt, sufficient to defray the ex - penses ofalie Government, anod leave a i surplus C adnually appiliedI to the gra - ua pa 'tofthe national debt, leaving -the poeitf the public lands to be dis ~ pse n~qtb~V~sshall see fit." I was - m~ost t -i~jabitCongress, at the time. - seemeJiely to concur in the recoin 1 mendatione ofthe Executive; and. nntiei -e co heerrectness of the Secretary's Senlusiie's'nd'in view of an actual stir - plus, pasSgilie distribution act of the 4th sof Septem !f last, wisely limiting its oipe r rati to tb conditions-having refrerence both of them' to a public state of the tren - ury, durttfrom that ethicht had been aniipte1 the Secretary of the Trea - sury .i whe aramount necessities of they pubieeric..It ordamned that if. at 'atme-ddg h existence of that act. there shoald betan imposition or dutie~s on '1iprt a -with the provisions of the act of rettb. 1833, and beyond the k rate of d t~bdby that act. (so wit, "0 per cent. i at.Vlue of such imports, or any of1j~jm the distribution should e susped sh3 aould continue so -us pended9 ttIA :? cause should beC ie .tmoved. .y- t pryous clause it had, in a e like i t*IFdcautions patriotism. Id pnv~d~~~fl cae,(n which all re -: ven a ls~~ iat t6e proceeds of the '- sate ftheuul ad oud be used for tede,. ti~ y rt was enacted a thatlb' Igiand be ini force - untotb by law, unless she a gaied 8 become involed in war with any foreign power; in which event, from the conmencement of hostili ties, the act should be suspended until The cessation of hostilities. Nut long after the opening of the pre sent session of Cungress. the unprecedent ed and extraordnary difficulties that have recently embarrassed the finances of the country. began to assume a serious as pect. It aoun became quite evident that the hopes under which the act of 4th Sep tember was passed, and which alone justi fied it in the eyes either of Congress who imposed. or of the Executive %% ho approv ed the first of the %% o conditions just recit ed. nere not destined to be fulfilled. Un-' der the pressure, therefore, of tle ernbar rassments which had thits unexpecte.Ily arisen. it appeared to me that itic course to be purstted had been clearly marked out for the Guverament by that act itself. The condition contemplated in it, as requiring a suspension of its opermaiou had occured. It became necessary. in the opitious of all, to raise the rate of duties upon imports above 2U per cent.; and with a view both to provide available mcans to incet present I exigencies, and to lay the faanndatioi of a successful negotiation of a loan, I felt it incunbncut upon me to urge up.n Con gress to raise tihe rate of dities according ly. imnposing them in a spirit of di-crimin ation, 'hr the two-fold object of alfording attmple revenue for the Government, and incidentul protection to the yarious branch es f domesttic industry. I also pressed, in the most emphatic but respectful language I coulal employ, the neces'ity of taking I tiae land -ailes avasluble to the tre sury, as a teia basis of public credit. I did wat think that I conld stamil exciased, much levs jans tified, before the peoile of the U. Staes. nor could I reconcile it to my),elf. to re comrtmnend the impositien f additilaon.I tax es upon tlemi, without, at the same time, urging the eimplo mient of all the lriinaaste means of the Goveroment towards satisfy- i ing its wants. These opinions were com- a municated in advance of any definite action L of Congress on the subject either of the ta riff or land sualcs, under a high sease of public duty. and in compliance with an L express injunction of the Constitutiont so I that if a collision (extremely to be depre cated as such collision4 always are) has seeminagly arisn hetacen the Executive and Legislaive branches of the Govern mnit, it has ussurrAl 5 - .- ..., aaa ~UCn at Ortgtuated, with my otjrctions to its becoming a law. W ith t a view to prevent. if possible, an open dis agreeti of opinion in a point so im portant, I took occasion to declare thdt I t regarded it as an indispensablC prer-qui site to an increase oh duties above 20 per , cent.. that the act of the 4th September r abould remain unrepcalrd in its provisiors. i My reamons for that opinion w ere elaborate- r ly set forth in the message which accon t paried tlie return of the bill-which no cauastitutionl mijnarity appenrs to have been bound lir pasing into a law. a The bill which is now bM ore me propo- I scs. in its 27th sectton, the total repeal aaf c one of the lrovisoAs in the act of stptcm- C ber; anl, while it increases the duties above:.0 per cett., directs an uncoudiitan a-l distrilbuan of the land pi ocreds. I am i therel'ore, subjected a seacond tinae, in a the period of' a few daN, to tle necessity ofeitter givin mt1y approsal to a Men sure hich, iaa miy deliicrate judgment. is in conflict with great public interest; or of returning it to tle, I loise in which it ori;;inmaed, n t yobjectionts. Witha all e any anxiety fo te assagef lanniiehi would! repalenish atn exanaatedl trettary, andt furnish a r-oundl and healhby encaour agetnent to tmechanical inadnasry. I cnannoat cotnsent to do so at the sacrifice of the peace andt harmonay of thec country, anid the clearest convictions of public duty. For some of the reasstras which have broaghat me to this conclusion, I refer to my pre'vious messages t) Catugresti, and brie-flv subjoin te folloni ing: 1. TIhe bill tunites two subjccts, which,< so fa from havinag anay anity to one atao thter, tare wihotlly incoangrous ta their char atcher. Ia is both a revenue atd ant appro priation lill. It tus imposes ont the FEse cutiv~e, in te first pahece, the nece-aity of either approving ithat which lie wotahd re ject, or rejecting that whliejh hae might oth--r wise approve. This is a species of cona strainit to which thejtudgmntu of thec Exe cutixe ought not, in amy opintiont. to he sub jectecd. llut th-at is not amy only ,.hjactiona to the act itt its paresena forma. 'Te union of snhlieacts a htolly dissimnilar in their chtar Iacter 'in the samc hill. if it grew itnto a practice, n ill nat fail to leatd :o conseqaun ces dlestructive of all wise anad coasienatious legislation). Various measures.earb atgree able onaly to a small mtinority, might by lac ing thus tunitedl. (and the morn then greater chtance of success,) Ilead to the pasarng of la-ws, of which tno sinle provision could, if standing aloane, commnand a majoaity in its favor. '2. While thec treasury is in a state of extaeme embarrasment, regnaiting every dollar which it can mtake available; and whaen the Government has nt tonly to lay additional taxes, but to hoarrow money to 'meet pressing demands, the bill proposes to give aw ay a fruitfual source of revenue which is tho same thing as raising money by loan and taxation-not to meet the wats of the Government, but for distribu tion: a proceeding which I must regrd as highly impolitic, if not unconstitutonal. A brief review of the present condition of the public finaUces will serve to illustrato the true condition of the treasury, and ez hibit its actual necessties. On the 5th of August, (Friday last.) thero was in the treasury,in round numbers. S,150-000 Necessary to be retained to meet trust funds $360,000 Int. on public debt due in October 80.000 To redeem treasury notes & pay int. 100.000 Land distribution, un der the act of 4h of Scptcmbcr, 1841. 640,000 - 1 WiIOODW Leaving an available am't of 970,000 The Navy Department had drawn re q;u i'itions on the treasury. at that time, to ,eet debts actually due; among which aro )ills tinder protc;t ftr Sl.414.000--thus caving an actual deficit of $444.000. There was on, hand shout SiLo0o of nisued treasury notes. a.,isted by the icerning revenue. (amounting to about ;150.000 per week,' excluinve of receipts ti unpaid bond,,) io meet requiitions lor he army, and the deuiauds of the civil ist. The withdrawal of ihe sum of SG40,000. o lie distributed aniong the States, a4 non a the stateineuttand accounts can > made up and completed. ly virtue of he provisions of the act of the 4th Septem ier 1is, of which nearly a moiety goes to i few States, and only about 838,000 is 1a be diVidt-t among all the States,) wbhile i adds materially to the embarrassments if the treasury, affords to the States no de ided relief. No immediate re'icf of this state of things s anticipated, unless (what would most !eply be deplored) the Govcrnment could e reconciled to the negotiations of loans ready authorised by law, and prove to : productive. some time would elapse efore sufficient supplies would flow into he treasury. while, in the mean time, its mbarrassments wouldbe continually aug nested by the semi-annual distribution of be land proceeds. ,,ecomes redeemable .. donut two years and a half, which, at Inv sacrifice. must be met: while the treas-' ry is always liable to demands for the >avment of ottstauding treasury notes. ;ch is the gloomy picture which our inancial department now presents, and vthich cnlls for the exercise of a rigid econ omy in the public expenditures, and the endering available of all the means with n the control of the Government. I most espectfully stbmit whether this is a time ) give away I lie proc-eds of the land sales, hen the publilc lauds coisitute a fund hiehb. of all others, may be made most seful i- sustaining the ioblic credlit. Can hoe Government be generious aid munifi Cut to other. ni hen: every dollar it can oimmand is nercesary to supply its own vants! And if Congress would not hesi are to stter the provi..ions of the nei of he 4thIt Sep:e.nher lIo ti rettini unrepeal. 4d, in case the country wI'as inlvolved .in' var. is not the iecessity fe'r sucl a course on Authirdmperaive a-it nould be the-n? *.. A thirtl ojerion remains to induce tie to rett:rn the bill to the Ilise " ith nV hjection.. 3y unitinig In 4 suijects so in -uros n a tariff andI distribotion, it nev itab lly makies thle fate of the one da edenit upon that of the other, in futuro oanteeis of party. Cain anythin'g he more .tal tio the tmerchant or mranufacturor than uh an allianec ? Whatt they most of all etuire is a systemt of moderate duties, so rranged as toi n iihdraw the tarigoqestion, s fair as ptossihln, cotmpletely from the. rena of potlitical comnioin. rThe chief not is piermanencey and stability. Such n incerease of the tarihl I believe to be ne essry, ttn order to meet the economical :xpediures of Government. Such en crase, imade~ iu the spirit of moderationt intl judicious dit-rimniation. would, I have m douibt, he entirely saatisf actory to the American peoiple. In the way of aeom pliehing a meoasure so salutary andt so im peratively demnaded biy every public in ter, the legislative dlepartmenut will meet with a cordial co-operation ton the part of the Executive. This is all that the man dftures cani dedire. atnd it wouldi be a urdeni reaidily borne by the people. Bt I cannot too earnestly repeat, that, in or Ir to be bteneficial. it must command gen :ral icquiescence. Biut can such pcrtma inicy be justly hopetd for, if the tarift ques ion en coupled with that ,f distritbution as to which a serious conflict of opinion -xista among the Stntes and the people; which enlists in its support a bare majori ty-if, indeed, there be a majuority-of the two Houises of Congress. W~hat perma ency orstability can attach to a measure which, warring uponi itself, gives away a frtitful soturce of revenue at the moment it propses a large increase of taxes on the people? Is the manuifacturer prepared to stke himself and his interests upon such issue? I know that it is urged (but most erro neously, in my opinion) that instability is just as apt to he produced by retaining the publicads asa .sourceof rveue, auifee