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Piii<l,iir<T loiclliirencer gives the rc suit of a marvellous case of this kind,'; which occurred there last week. A Mrs-j: T'rksun hail been confined to fier bed since ; the latter j?art of last May, with a disease j 'generally known ns "milk leg." .She; was unable to leave her bed to walk across j the room, or take a step, except by the aid j, of a crutch or stick, and the greatest cau-M lion and watchfulness were necessary toil prevent her death. On Sunday, 31sl Ju-;1 ly, she was induced to submit to be thrown 1 .into a mesmeric sleep. With the greatest difficulty she was removed from her bed J lo .the chair, and in about 30 minutes Dr. Eviiug had Iter in a sound magnetic shimher, which continued about two hours, during which several successful expert-j mcnts were made in neurology and syrn-1 pa thy. She was thpn awakened, and, to ! the astonishment ofheiself a id friends, got up and walked about the room, up , stairs and.down stairs, and through every ! room in the lioiiso, without the aid ofa,i crutch or stick, as if nothing had nilcd her.;1 * .1? trim!, and it had i AIIUIIICI V.\ JJCI UIH I.V ..U? the effect of removing every trace of the I disease. Dr. Ewing is well known in that city, and their statements are entitled to full credence. If this statement is true.' we have arrived at the period when we may "throw physic to the dogs!" Phil. LcJjcr. Mermaids.?As two gentleman of the press, named Tom and Frank, were sauntering among the rocks, they discovered two beautiful mermaids sporting in the witcr close to the beach. Delighted and astonished at such a discovery, for a mo- j ment they were at a loss what to do. Recovering, however, from their first sur-' prise, they retired behind a rock, where they could see and not be seen by these; divinities of the ocean. 4'Now Frank,out, with your note-book, and write what I die- j tate; my organs of perception are larger | than yours. Are you ready?" "All ready," whispered Frank.* "Write lis cyi, "Two mermaids up to their wai?t in water.': liHVft y?U gOl lllcll IIU? n: 4 13 . V | Frank.'* Add then, 'lung hair of an au-j hnrn lino, slightly tinged with ocean groi n towo/ds the end; faces round as a full moon, and white as?and while as?"' "And white as what?" demanded Frank, Impatiently.?"Why, 'white as moon: eyes bright as lightning, mouth, cheeks, nose, &.C., beyond the reach of Johnson, Walker, &, Co.; bosoms, &e., oh Lord!" Here they were inXerupted by a stout elderly gentleman, armed with a tall hickory stick, i who seized Tom by the.shoulder, and demanded in a rough voice, what he was j about. "0, dear sir," replied Tom, im-1 ploringly, "don't make a noise?you will frighten the mermaids." "Mermaids?j devils," roared the old gentleman, they I J"* are my daughters, end if yon don't vanish j in a twinkling, I will make ihis tall hicko-j ry ring about your ears." Nufl' sed," itrmulfiil Tf,,n and Frank and were among! p..... . _... ... , ? (he missing quick as thougiii. Bustuji Post. A " A graceless scamp, says the Boston Bee, was recently heard singing tlic following: "When I can shoot my ritle clear, To pigeons in the skies, I'll bid farewell to pork and beans, , And live on good pot-pies." He was all alone by himself at the time and returning from an unsuccessful hunt! after peeps and sand snipe?at least we presume so. fl? ___* FASHIONABLE GAIT. "We like to see a young lady walk as though a flea was biting her on each hip. Is so fascinating. She is just the match for the dandy, who steps like an open winged turkey, travelling over a be.d of hot ashes.' l ; ||^ft??U23SS30XA Fv. iikportoe Tin: minoiutv of tie select committee OS the presl dent's veto. The ui::.'cr.-']^i!0!!, members cf the select com mitlco .) wlnitji the 1'res hie .it's message is re lentil, stibmil a brief an I !iae?.y protect a^ains t!;n elaborate report of i.ho majority. Free ?over;imc:it depends on constitutiona c!irc);s; otherwise, democracy is depotism ? Each Jiousc of (.digress iris an niisoiuie negn tivc upon the other, the American judiciary oxer rises power lo nnnui laws, The Union and tin Sta'ejfc respectively, in some instance?, r.ullif; each other's legislation; t!:c sovorciga arbiter being t!:o people, never }'ct, in more than lift; years of pruspsrouos experience, failing to in terpose their political omnipotence, peaceably iiifeligiblv, and for the general welfare, li addition lo tiicse fundamental principles, wilic! are the conservative basis of our free inslitu lions, the Constitution of the United States re i|uircs the Executive Magistrate, if he disnp proves an act of Congress, to return it, with hi: objection?, to its authors, nnl cail upon them ti reconsider, before it can become a law. Then is no veto, as is too often supposed, either ii the word or the spirit of the Constitution; bu mere authority for executive reference to legis lative reconsideration. Unfounded resemblance lias been ignorant!y supposed between this A rherican deliberation lu prevent errors of pas s.on and precipitancy, and the absolute inhibi lion of the Roman, or ilio modem royal veto.? There is no reseniidance whatever hetwecr tiiem. They arc as unlike as ftee and absoluti government; as unlike ast.be Polish veto, whicl allowed every member of a single branch of le gislaturo, without reason, to repudiate any of iti proeoeiiigs by his single and. solitary voice.? Equally unfounded is it to suppose (as ignor :ince of their operations frequently docs) tha the monarchs of France and England are no absolute enough :o use the veto. They use i every day; cue of them in the exclusive rigli of initiating all legislation?and both of then by tiie vaster means of executive influence.? What has been passionately stigmatised as the one man power in this country, is in ]>rinciplc I he same tiling as the separation of Congress in. io two bodies, to corrcctrfthc errors of earl other; though much less powerful, because tin power of a majority, by a single vo'c in citiie House, is absolute, while that of the Exccutivi is merely suspensive and subordinate. Jlad al the members of t he i lot so of Representative! voted on lite tarili* bill, it would have been cithe carried or lost by one vote?and that, the eastinj vote of the Speaker. There is much of oni man power in all free government. The majorities in Congress in 177-1, on al the essential points and principles of the dcclara tion cf rights were but otto, two, or three. Al the great critical questions about mon and n:ea sure.-, from 1771 to 1776, were dec: led by tin vote of a single, and lliaL^d'um Uy ?lm e?<<M' one iudivllluai. 'J im Declaration cf ir.eepcn douce itself was so carried. The English re volution of 1GSS was determined by one or l\v< votes in Parliament. The King of France wa condemned to death by a very law votes. Jet I'ersun was elected in plage of J Suit, after thirty seven trials by'nuc vote. The expedition ii lu-lo, frfhn New England against Cape JSrctoii which gave peace to the world, was carried ii the House of Representatives of Massachusett i-.. - ?l M... t ..f ?!.? inic nf ri?nrri>? UJ VtJLC*. -IlUi!?L v/l LIIV- ?ll IO w. in the meinorahlc session of 1701, was carric by the casting vo'.c of the Vice President. 'J'ii' vote of New York, wliicli finally led to t!i convention lor forming the present Constilutior after the failure of the Virginia attempt, b wliicii only three States were represented a Annapolis, was carried by one vote. The lirs Bank of the United States was failed to be re chartered by the casting vole of the Vice f'resi dent. The late Bank of the United States wa negatived, when first proposed, by the Speaker' casting vpte. This instructive enumeratio might ae much enlarged, leaching that the re spom-'oility ol one man has often saved State and changed constitutions. Such salutary exe entire authority has been exercised from the out set of the American Government jiwti) marke approval by an intelligent people.- wifiely appro elating in their chief representative, the ineeti mable value of a firm and judicious inletposi tion of this conservative and indispensibleyjElic For the first time in the annals of the Unite States, this immediate emanation of the Consti tution is subjected, on the motion of an ex-I'resi dent. fthe chairman of this Committee,) to tin obstruction of the mere icchriicalliiies of legif Jalion. 'J'Jic Constitution commands us to jour ir:tl;/.e the President's objections, and then vol on them. The House did .so on his prernonilo ry objection to a like bill, hut sent him anothe ii::d we power to do so? Wore not the func lions ol the House exhausted by the previou proceedings! Can thev reircrate upon the E.\ eeutive a bill which he has returned, and ill House cannot carry? ^ The undersigned feel their duty to pretest against and resist it by th only means left to a minority, preventive of th unconstitutional acts of an angry majority, be lieving that the time is near at hand when the will themselves most regret, as all will condom the innovation. The succession of the acting President totfc Chief Magistracy was unavoidably follow ed i) collisions between him and the party who selcc ted and elected him, because he suffered himse! to remain in the hands of their advisers, instca of Iris own. Tirose whose political synipulhie tire undersigned enjoy are in no respect answers ble for^tnls strife, which they have uiiiforurl treated, with moderation; adhering, however, t the faith of their own politics. Wo- noilhc made nor gave the quarrel; but calmly and con scicntiounly, with all due respect to majoritic inexorably ruling in both houses, stand upo our rights, and maintain the even.tenor c uur way, rcjyiug jupuu uiu jjuujjic wu-ncn uu 'restore whatever may be amiss, as they hav been doing with alacrity ever since the disaster ous commencement of the untoward legislation of sessions of Congress which have now endur eel for nearly twelve months of the last fiftcer All the elections since, all'urd unquestionable proof that, if there is any wrong in the Federa Government, the constitutional means of. re storing right are in full*and active operation.? While thus abiding their time, the minoritie of the two Houses of Congress abide by th principle that the first Magistrate of-a great pet % pic is entitled to respect; and even by opponents should be trcated'witli decorum. \Vc know on 3 dirtrencc in language and feeling towards the . President and those which we use towards each other in Congress. His not being personally . present is, in our opinion, no reason for malig ning his motives, traducing his character, or I vilifying his administration. The most strenuous, inflexible, and successful opposition con1 nists with the language arid spirit of moderation; - and if the people arc the intelligent, sovereignty . supposed by our institutions, would be more . popular tlmn indignation, violence, and obloquy. 3 The President has communicated his objections j . f.. n..PnnrrrnsB. afantst which numbers , I so large in both Houses voted, as to prove, be-1 Y; yond doubt, that it is extremely objectionable, i .J and which we, in common with every one of' ,Mhorc large numbers, representing, as we have 11 every reason to believe, the wishes of a large i; majority of the American people, conscientious- J J lydeotu unwise, unjust, and as many think, un-, .'constitutional. The President's objections arc . j contained in a respectful message, temperate , jI in tone, persuasive in argument, and develop-: 3! Ing topics which wc believe will meet with popu-! jj lar acceptance. On the several messages of j 31 the same hind, drawn from Mr. Tyler by this' t j Congress, candor and history will acknowledge, I . | we think, that the last is the best, in all the j merits of reason, diction and temper. The . Constitution gives him the right which his con- j . [science enjoins him to exercise. Allowing the . j Chief Magistrate, therefore, what every Presi-' _! dent is entitled to, and has enjoyed on such oc-J i jensions?simply to speak and act for himself?j jjtlie next step, according to the Constitution and. i [ uniform practice, should have been forthwith to , .' take the votes of the House of Representatives,, j which would undoubtedly have shown that the : .'President is sustained by very nearly, if not .1 quite a majority. I t| The undersigned regret the novel and (as! I many conceive) unconstitutional innovation to t! which the President's objections are subjected? | t not for his account, but that of constitutional libi erty and congressional propriety. We believe . that he is perfectly right in insisting that the : public lands shall not be withdrawn from the as, sets of the Federal Government, when, with all ll.n nlnnnnlc nf r/i^nnrco n ?ul n hll nfl.l tiff nrofleT ) ing tlieir relief to Congress, it persists in rcdu3 cing and degrading the country, for 1 he first time, r to tiie extremities offinancial want and pecuniary 3 distress. We think that, under such circum|; stances, to withhold the magnificent real estate d of this Union from public mortgage, is an act of r madness and suicide difficult to conceive of hur man passions. We have not a doubt that nine3 tenths of the people ofthc United States strongly disapprove of it, and that a majority of those rnis1 represented by majorities in Congress, whatever . the;r impression might he as to the proper dispo1 sition of the puidic lands under ordinary circutn. stances, are anxious that, in the present eraer3 ' ?Ciicy, ttioy l>o ajyj.lio.f t calorc tliO ,f-credit and roli?vc the crying^ wants of the Gov. eminent. The objecrtorr is equally well taken _ to the monstrous misalliance of the lands and 0 the impost in the same bill?pernicious to fair H legislation and orderly Government. Armies . and navies unpaid for months; dismantled, not . for want of revenue, hot through party passion; 1 Congress without their own favorite compensai5' lion, putting fetters and vetoes on all the opcra!1 tions of Government, betray a spirit of pctulent 3 ' self-denial, the counterfeit of self-government, s : A member of this committee imprecates cxccuj tivo counteraction, by putting the whole country, e ! stripped and scourged, to the torture of trial, e ; wlto can longest bear the agonies of destitution ! ?thus poisoning the very wells of public scntiy I mcnt; arousing ruthless, revolutionary counterfaction, if the people are not wiser than some of it their Representatives. Party, an element and !. help of patriotism, may be prostituted to anarchij_ cal dissension. The undersigned trust that re<5 volutioiiarv views are not common in Congress, s as we feefsure that tlfey are not acceptable to n the people. >_ | It is not for this protest to explain or enforce s the Executive objections. Letting them speak . for themselves, we vindicate constitutional rights, and deprecate wrongs by Congress. Without d objecting to any censure or measures deemed . proper by the frustrated majority?and appeal to j. the peojde?we should spare them this protest, !_ but for the character, temper and tendency of the f. counteraction inflicted?not so hurtfully on the d Chief Magistrate, as on republican institutions. i_ The present proceedings, with all its angry antcj. cedents and violent results, is without example, c : without warrant, and of evil tendency. 1 The deplorable condition of the treasury of the United States is notorious; not only without mone ey, hut, as has been said, without law for raising - , it. The President's exposure of this penury is r. humiliating truth, which unrelenting opposition wrings from him, to justify the repeated miss called vetoes, also #rung from him by the same pertinacious opposition. A complicated scheme e ' of (in many particulars) high-pressure impost, it; calculated to revive appeased dissention, and e perpetuate unpleasant discontent, forced through e j Congress by inexorable legislation, carried by a !- ;.floajority of one vote if all had been present?of y | but four as it was?is returned by the President n | with objections, for reconsideration. The House | of Representatives, which ought to be thankful e for the opportunity of it, turns upon him with iny dignant denunciation; he is threatened, and only threatened, with impeachment; and by false anlf j alogy to the memorable affair of English shipd j money, is told, contrary to the genius and the s i letler'of our mild laws, that his head ought to be i- j brought to the block. Discord is proclaimed as y j the order of the day. Conciliation is said to be 0, disgraceful, and concession out of the question, r The undersigned flatter themselves that these - arc but hasty ebullitions through the safetys valves of-free government. When appeaJ to n battle is menaced, wc cannot believe that the >1 battle of bloodshed or civil war is contemplated, d but presume nothing worse than conflict by the e ballot-bggj/lot the cartridge-box. The columns - of this ca'pital and of the public press, albums, ii magazines, and various other repositories of the - ardent temperament which betrays itself in such 1. appeals, may excuse the suggestion that possibly r> tiu'v am intended neither for the cartridee-box I nor the ballot-box, but merely for the band-box. - During the nearly twelve months of irksome and, - inglorious session of this Congress, to the great B annoyance of the community, appeals to passion e have been much more common than to reason. ) By the eminent mover of this Committee, none of the great subjects of deliberation have hardly been spoken of?banks, exchequer, finance, bankruptcy, tariff? upon any and all of which his wisdom and experience might have afforded edifying discourses; w'hile all the minor topics of personal, party, and especially presidential exasperation, have never failed to be vexed with implacable and indefatigable agitation. It has been said, in the course of indignant harangues, that there is not only no money, but no law to raise it; and that the. Chief like a profligate King of Great Britain, cndjjjktj -'it!.-..,, I-.,,. T?-.r>\r ivivli did. nerSKpZ beget mistaken impression to that effect, to which mere professional opinion gave color. But mature consideration, and the true philosophy of interpretation, satisfy the .undersigned, and they believe the most distinguished jurists of the country, that it is unfounded apprehension to think that Congress ever could have intended, b^. an act or omission, to leave the Government without aliment for its subsistence. The important question will be settled by the Supreme Court of the United Slates, in whom the undersigned, with the great body of llie American people, without distinction of party, repose confidence. The aspersion of that tribunal, inferred from English history, ir not only unjust disparagement, but inaccurate historical recollection ? Even the twelve judges of Engla .d never did, as has been said, unworthily submit to royal dictation; but many of tlietn (although their tenure of office, salaries, and perhaps lives, depended on the King's pleasure) manifestly resisted his rapacious will. In the United States, the public money?whfch the President is laudably anxious to raise by law, through the ordinary means? could not be employed in his profligate indulgences, in war or other offensive application; and wc trust that the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, in no way dependent on the Executive, whenever th^y come to the solemn adjudication of this vital question, will deal with it as they did at their late session with another, which, probably, provoked the unjust imputation on their rectitude?treating this question of impost, as they did that of slavery, with integrity and independence. Th? undersigned hope thev will come to the conclusion, which all lovers ol 'their country must desire, that, instead of deserving capital punishment, the President is entitled to the thanks of dispassionate men foi anxiously enforcing the law concerning imports Nor will we emit this occasion, while vindicating that court, for expres^yjg grateful acknowl edgemcnts to it for having^ contrary to manj pre-possessions, by independent judgment; sus tained the most delicate provisions of our Unioi against the clamors and prejudices of negrophilism. Finally, the Undersigned are assured, thai whatever the court does, they will not leave (as has been strangely imagined they must) the de termination of this great question of law to tin ' arbitraments of juries. Thcrc'is hardly a juro: 1 in the^ountry who docs not know that property liberty, and order; are best preserved by main taimng that .venerable jurisprudence which it civil cases, leaves to juries onlyquestions of fact and refers to judges questions of law. The un dersigned have no fear of the judiciary. The dread no veto or dictation from a President.? They are not alarmed by crises of party. American republican annals are a continued series o formidable conjunctures, without detriment t< the republic?antagonism without commotionState and individual conflicts without civil war or any unwholesome catastrophe. The charita hie ballot-box is always at hand, with incsliina hie relief, to vent all passions. V'/c arc liapp; to find that a portentous committee?the otTsprinj oi uiuiguaiiou?prupuses jio liuui aci, uul u, proceedings will go out in harmless explosion Eloquent invective, angry denunciation, piiilip pics of speech and print, inflict 110 fatal blows 01 the solid bulwarks of this great empire, whicl advance steadily in greatness, increasing in popu lation, production, and power, rejoicing in peaci and plenty, while antagonist parties and arnbi tious individuals struggle for its honors with 1 fierce but harmless recrimination. Republican Government would else be bereft of its rationa attractions and manly support?the noble ex citements of a free press, free speech and uni versal suffrage; admirable substitutes for tin stagnant tranquility, frivolous recreations, am dreadful energy of despotism. Let the battle I mcnt8 of this Capitol continue to rock with salu ! tary agitation. Our reliance is in the inajestii : strength and serenity of a sovereign pcopie. The undersigned cannot believe that Con ' gross will adjourn wihout enacting a law for re venue. They will not afford the President si great a triumph. The public distemper is si great a triumph. The public distemper is si easily remediable, that those in power never cai answer to the community for longer failing t i apply the remedy. The minority is not respon sible. nor the President, nor even the Senate.? The House of Representatives is exclusive); the national purse-bearer. By the majority o that House should be annually replenished ant ! arranged its receipts and issues, as the report o the majority of this committee argues. Most o , the troubles experienced by the present and pen j ultimate administrations, including the over throw of the latter, are attributable to supcrer 1 ogatory Executve efforts beyond Executive duty I to repair disordered finances?disordered by ill 'judged and calamitous acts of Congress. Tin 1 people will hold the majority of the House o Representatives responsible for this their appro ! priate and chief office. It is disreputable to then that restoration so easy has been long deferred No country in the world has such resources am facilities for revenue. One year's administra tion of stlch laws as Congress shoul enact woulc draw from the inexhaustablc means, the labor the ingenuity, the commerce, the manufactures and the public lands of the United States, super abundant income. But, as with the fatal distribution of surplus revenue among the States distress and demoraliza'ion began, so are the} continued by the same egregious impolicy; insisting on alms?giving a pittance of land sale:to the States. The undersigried discern, will deep disapproval, that the report of the majority of this committee, in conformity with the vote? of its chairman, strenously argues distribution ol the public lands to pay the debts of the Stales, This is not the occasion to develope the dangers of that much-condemned scheme. In preference /or another, and much belter, nearly all Congress coincide in opinSjbr with the President and ilie people, viz:?that immediate relief would proceed from a moderate, discriminating, permanent tariff Why is it not a law? Why may i( nr>?. be made at rtrifee! WIjo binders ill Is party passion to prevail, or magnanimous patriotism? The imdecsigned will'not doubt, even tliuugh perhaps doomed to disappointment. This mortal issue, ii' cast by Congress upon an injured, insulted, oppressed, and otifrajjed people, may return, with dread responsibility*, J with deep damnation, to plague the inventors of _ such misciiief. Those we act with are ready to sro forth, and be tried by the country, in full con^^jSy fidence of popular justice. Others wi f mine fur themselves, and for us^po, as we are ' VH if but a minority.* The report of tire majority pro^>0 sen nothing but that the President be assailed, .J jand ihfl*vousutntio:i be assaulted; the President ! impeached without trial, the country dishonored . ikJiim for exercising, almost under CongresSioh-. durcssc, an unquestionable and much-cherish^ , en power, dear to a noble people, which it is tha wildest dream of excited party to suppose that people will ever suffer to bs stricken from the Constitution. Mean time, what is tb be done.' Arc Congress to call out moia vetoes? Like *7 barbarous nations, worshippm*^moniac crea- ? lures of their own malignant roagin^g, are we all to be sacrificed to the evil Discord and Despair? Are distraction "bnd* inaption th minister furious and dreadf^lreflifftfe? The un-. der3igncd rely on popular providence, which, in' 4 several trials, has with the smiles of IIe"aven? overruled whatever perils have beset our (till , now) thougli^H&nd considerate country. No4' God of hattieSr^hvoked for our rescue. Depreeating such shocking profanation, humbly trust that no battle or bloodshed, no oml war or 1 massacre, is the only umpirage to determine for rational freemen the simple question whether ' they will support or repudiate the Government of their own creation.. JVe do not despair. We do not fear that savage Infatuation will cast away for future scorn the gresent admiration and re- fuge of the world. i C. J.INCERSOLL.- *, JAMES I. ROOSEVELT. ?5Sf?3? , .. ifl Mr. Gilmer of Virginia, made a protest against, SH - the report of the majority of the committed 1 ' which, alter arguing the unconstitutionality or f the action of the House in referring the veto to . a committee, instead of prdfceeding to another .* . vote on the bill, as directed by the Constitution, r he proceeds to an investigation of the nature . and object of the veto power, as bestowed upon . the President by that instrument Glancing at . the-extra session, the passage of th^dietribution r law, and exposition of the Treasury as 6tatcd in - the President's message at the commencement i of the present session, he continues: ' The revenue bill was reported on the 3d of t Juno, and taken up for the first time in commiti tec of the whole on the 8th of June. Thi final . reduction of duties to twenty per cent under ; the compromise of 1833, was to take"effect on r the 30th of June, and then the the distribution , under the act of 1841 was to commence, provi ded the duties were not raised beyond twenty ? i RSLfCnt. On the 7th of June the -committee i of ways and means, which had reported the re-^Sf ^ venue bill on the 3d,. brought in what'was called y a provisional bill, the ostensible object of which - was to provide for a temporary collection of du- * . ties until time could be afforded for the jSassage f of the general revenue bill. The revenue bill j provided for a general increase of dutie&jjbeyond - ; twenty per cent, and its passage would ireces, 'sarily have enforced the suspending clause of - j the distribution act The provision bill report-jedon the 7th of Juno, contained no reference y to this suspending clause of the distribution act j j On the 9th of June a second provisional bill was s j reported from the committee of ways and means, i. i with the same general objects as the first, which -Ihad been reported only two days before, and i with a proviso repealing the suspending clause i of the distribution act. The first provisional bill was never consider3 od. The second was passed by the House on - the 15th of June, went to the Senate, returnedj^ l with amendments which were, concurred in th?S^ i 25th of June, and was returned by tbe Presi-^* l'dent with objections on the 29th of June.? - These objections were founded on the deplora^ -1 b!e condition of the Treasury, and on the expes jdiency of adhering under the circumstances to dthe terms on which distribution had been au-! ihorizcd by the act of 1841vThe revenue bill did ^ -! not pass until tbe 5th of August. It was returnfHf c ed with the President's objections on the 9th. These objections are now before the committee. They are substantially the same as those which accompanied the provisional bill on the 0 29ih of June. The revenue bill contained a j clause most unequivocally repealing the sus0 pension of the distribution act, which its own rj passage would have enforced, and thus it was in 0 effect the enactment of a new distribution law, applied to the revenue bill. Kacli house ueliberateJJ&ftised to strike out y this and persisted in assocrating in ludtertrous^ f contrast two measures, the one an act to raise 1 money for the support of government by the imf nositionof taxes, the other to distribute the land * f revenues among the States. The majority of - both Houses had proclaimed, with the concur rcnce of the Presiden!, in September, i84l, - that distribution should only be made when the , duties were below twenty per cent. The ma jority of both Houses had again and again pro3 claimed, in 1-842, the necessity of raising the f duties above twenty per centi' and yet tbey in sisted on distributing the land fund without re-i ) gard to the situation of tho^Frcasury, and without regard to the burthens which might be im1 posed en the people. They might have attempted to raise revepue 1 from imports and to distribute the land fun<k?in , seperate bills. Then each measure would have , rested on its owu intrinsic 'merits. But they rxrtvoiofnrl In ^AnnorhMrr tliom ill nno Kill TKn . restriction in the distribution act of 1841 was , designed to guard against increasing the burr tiiens of taxation to fill avacootn occasioned by . distribution. The legislation of 1842 is designi ed to create a vacuum, filled by increased..,taxai tion. There is no precedent in this histoty of any government, for the union, under rinc^ciri cumstances, of a revenue and an appropriation I bill. As there was no necessity for such a onion ? t? ?I.oi nnkl!/> ,t-n HTO Jit lihpTtV tO in. ** ,j..|r.uv?v,? ? J ? t fer that it resulted from a consiousness that one i or both the ntcasnice could not have separately commanded a majority. The-exigenciea'Qf.the I national treasury were supposed tg^furnftb a I favorable opportunity for Congress to extort t^rms on which alone the government should" be ; supplied withfcevenue to meet their own appro- ? 4 r *