Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1807-01-12
91oiititai gDt tf!Lanv.
FROM THE NEwYoRK HERALD.
Presidents Message.
(coNeLUBZD)

WITH great pleafure we peru(e the &C
count of the hourifhing fate Of the treaiury
the receipts for the lsft year, we are told, a.
mount to fifteen millions If dollars, and that
8 the payments and lburfements Of the fun
ded debt which have been made il the four
years and an half preceding, will At the Gloie
OF the prelent year, have extinguthed up
wards of twenIy-thrce millions Of principal"
he afterwards tells Us that tie entire extln-
gulhment of the public debt is the molt de-
frable of all object, But le; US fuppofe that
the plan of the federal admiEihrason had
been Readily adhered TO Throughout that
the internal taxes which were pledged to the
public creditors, had not been repealed, and
that iome millions had not been paid in part
purchale Of a Paadcra'5 Box, how much near
er 1hould we now have been to this deiirablc
obecl
MIR. PRECEDENT next informs us that there
will ere long, be fuch prodgious accumula.
ton Of monies IN the public treafury, that he
ihall not know what 70 do with II, and that
the puzzling queftion prelents, to what OBJ
ject fhall theie iurplufies be appropriated |!
And then he recommends the fuppreiIion Of
the duties on lalt and the continuation Of the
Mediterranean fund The Mediterranean
fund which was pretended to Dc a temporary
affair, but which we then predicted was
meaIt to be permanent, amounts, according
to MIR Gallatin's report, to million of dollars
annually; the tax on lalt to little rifing balf
tie Jv~ a pleaiant way, truly, of lehening
Il = taxes on the people II is laid however,
that the d1'es contributing this fund are chief
~ levied on luxpries but a. the very reverle
OF this happens TO be The cafe. it is hoped this
will not be relied upon az the fole reaion for
continuing tax Of million Of dollars annu-
ally more than the administration know what
to do with. And here may we not ak Mr.
Prehdent TO cait bis eye towards our defence
lels coat, and 70 read tie anxions applications
which are lent him from New-York and other
ieaports, for that protection which the govern
ment of every country owes TO its citizens. If
he will only a61me he virtue, and Gllen, as he
ought TO do, 10 thefe entreates, he will loon
find himfef dilemtarraned of all his difficult
lies relpecting thefe Treafury furpufles. To
this however, we do nor believe Virginia will
ever conlent, and we are willing this lfpicion
llould he remembered.
Among other things to which Mr.. JefTer-
loR thinks thele furplufies ihould in preference
be appropriated, he mentions education,
roads, rivers, canals and luoh other objects Of
plbtIc Improvement, as il may be thought
proper TO aid TO the eoaRtptiozal enumeration Of
tsje,a Po7Usrs." The fubject of IA public
inltitution i now The faysJ propofed for the
confederation of Congress, became if approx
ed by the time the fate Legislatures fhall have
deliberated on tbs exterior Of ne fedora! frgfs,
an.. the laws lhall be paAed and other arrange
ments made for their execution, the neceHary
funds 7piH be on land and without emPIoyment.
fuppole adds he) amendment Of tie eogPifa-
.ter, by content of the ftates, Hsseba,y, becauie
the objects now Recommended are aof zE-saE