Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-01-25
Bssgilata ArussS.
FRIDAY, JANUARY a5, 1911.
RI G IL ~ O N ID.


<=r===-
Extract from The rcp9rt at the Commit.
tee Of Finance, made in tie House OF
Delegates on Tuesday fast.
The eommis:ee find, ",hst including
the morey in the Treas ry on the 1s
lay of Jan. 181 1, amounting to S 16s.
2l+-2Ss the probable receipts of Gov.
'ernmept fof;he current wear will be 8
544, 9S5-11 and the probable expenses
VIII be $50, 9o6-f2, leaving balance
IN favor OF the Stale Of S l94,oS9--99. u
Your committee communicate
with much pleasure that the prospe-
rous aud growing state of the finances
u government renders il unnecessary
to make an additional requisition on
the lioeraiity and patriotism of the
people. The taxes though light and
inconsiderable, are commensurate to
all the useful and expanded purposes
OF the government, and have been
paid vita unparalleled prompt.tude dur.
ing the last collections.
T" Your committee also feel salts
faction in stating that the embarrassed
operations OF the treasury during a
shor, period in each year, resulting
from temporary deficiency of re.
SOURCES. have been much more limited
IN their effects in the last year than
usual: They believe the cause of this
embarrassment is sensiblv diminish.
ing, and VIII be speedily removed with.
onL the intervention of legislative aid ,,
!" Resolved, as the opinion of Thu
committee, That it is unnecessary to
raise the tsxes for the present year,n
The following Gamble and Resolution have
passed both Houses OF The Legislature of
this state:
THE General Assembly of Virgil
MA view with the most serious con-
/ Germ, the late attempts which have
been made, to obtain from Congress, a
rcneSsal of the charter incorporating
the Bank of the United States
This Assembly are deeply impress
-sed with the conviction that the orr.
gina( grant of that charter was uncon.
stituh onal--that Congress. have no
powcr whatever to renew it-and
that de exercise of such a power
would be not only unconstitutional.
but dangerous encroachment on the
sovereignty of the States: Therefore
+ Resolved, That the Senators of this
State, in the Congress of the United
States, be instructed, and our Repre.
srn,atives mos. .earnestly requested.
in the execution of thEir duties. a.
fai;hfukrepresentatives of their com
try, tosuse their best efEsrts, in oppo-
sing bysevery means in Nheir power
the renewal offthe charter of the
Bank of the United States.
The idea of a dissolution of the uni
on is one Of the most frigh;ful that can
enter into the MUD of man; and the
Indignation of the American commu.
nity cannot be too strongly expressed
against that legislator who on thar to.
pick wantonly abuses the place which
chareeHhas gwen him in the national
counciEA lie is not from any impor-
tance d weight which we attach, to rhe
words of Mr.. Quincy that we utter
this sentiment; but from the intrinsic
wickedness which observations such
as those which his speech display on
this subject, aud which, if calculated
TO produce any effect at all, are caicu.
lated to excite temper destructive ct
harmony, ADD Introductory OF anarchy,
misrule and bloodshed.
Let psssuPPose, for moment, the
uniondis solved let US imagine seven
teen Indepsndent sovereigntes let us
suppoSt theinevita5Ie iealousies which
such aSstate of 'hicgs win produce I:
let us contemplate the endless nesoci-
atoms that will arise their rup,ures,
the commencement of hostililies, the
prevalence of innumerable little pre-
datory wars the calling in foreign aid
bv the weaker party, which may even.
.tuslly be conquered by its ally and re-
duced to province dependent on a
distant n0wsn Let US view the pee.
pie ,bsfshasvah. by these feuds, taxed
for lie expcntes Of these reverend
ing wars; families impoverished a
few leading meu possessing all the
wealth and all the power in each so.
vereignty orators retained in the paV