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Candidates.
,For Legislature.
- F Ssaa,-Ml I. 6. Jeter.
For Hiesse qfrprescutaitcs.
Col John 1iniet,
Maj. Tillman Watson.
Dr. J. 0. Nicholson.
Ma* George Boswell.
CV James Tompkins.
Dr. R. C. Grifin.
o Wiley Harrison Eog.
Dawson Atkinson. Lnq.
Ganl. I. L. Bonham.
James Sheppard.
7 'The friends ofColonel
P. H. 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
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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