Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-02-14

y. ''.S SSpt NotEGCteu IA Tue inilroi eilcnt Oi Tie
James River, &c. and Us il was ascertaned that
the surplus revenue of the fund for internal i'm
proveinen; would not be sufficient TO redeem Il, il
was prudent 10 lock ahead. and make timely pro-
vision. The bill applied the annual balances in
the treasury, TO the purchase of certificates of the
debt, or required them if they could not be had,
10 be vested in some stock. II was insisted that
these balances and the annual interest that would
be drawn from the stock, would, ia time, extin-
gulsh the debt without the States ever feeling the
payment. IL proposed no increase Of taxes; but
was intended. the contrary, TO avol an ultimate
resort 10 taxation. The State found itself in the
Siiuanon oil an individual who had embarked ia Il
spiehuiI speculation, and the profits OF winch
would not pay the expenses Although many
years were TO eiapse before the debt was payable,
IL wasincumbent on the House 10 provide for il,
ana mere was no mode OF doing it less objection
able than that proposed
The opponents of the bill insisted slat it was
improper to take money from the Treasury that had
oeen raised by taxation, and apply il TO the pay
mcnt OF debt due from tho fund Tor internal inn
proyenent This would be- in violation of the.
PftaSc to the country that the improvements in
tended To connect the Eastern and Western " waters
should he made out OF the resources of the fund
Tor informal improvement. IL would saddle the
expense opoR the Treasury. That fund would be
adequate to the object, if rem0idlei in some res
poets After about the year 1880, its revenue
would be relieved from certain appropriations, and
the surplus revenue, if employed in the extin-
giishment OF the debt, would 90 far towards the
accomplishment of that object. The debt was not
payable for fifteen or twenty years and in that
time the condition Of the fund might become more
prosperous. But, If no other resource be within
The power of the Legislature, the stocks which
compose the fund itself can be sold, in preference
10 taxing the people. Ontaking the question, Mr..
Rives motion prevailed, and the biz was nldefi-
Ritely postponed.
The bin concerning the Baltimore Railroad
was taken up and read the second time. On Mr..
Bryce's motion il was amended as 10 require the
Company, if they 90 below the mouth of the Little
k>aawha, and cause the road 10 touch Mt Coving-
ton, or some other point Jacksons rver-and
the bill was ordered TO be engrossed.
The T0T!J-{fiternal HnprOrenettS- C0lOni=a-
ton Question.
The following is the Communication of Cover
nor Giles 10 the Legislature OF Virginia-accom-
panying the Resolutions of South Carolina and
Georgia. Those who chose TO sound the tocsin
OF alarm, in consequence of these communications
viii be sadly disappointed. When the Select
committee, 10 whom they are referred, shall make
their report, we Will venture 10 predict from their
discretion and wisdom, that this is not the first
time that eTii-oinencd partiZan; have seen spec
to in bush.
Eeec,i.ice Department, Feb g, 1928.
SIR: In compliance with the Resolutions of the
respective Legislatures offs. Carolina and Georgia.
now do myself the honor of laying before the
Genera Assembly the proceedings of the Legisla-
lures OF those States. upon The subject ofthe Tariff
Internal Improvements, and the American ColoDi-
Ration Society.
Whilst | sincerely lament the unwise unjust
and Inflated measures, which have given rise 10
the sc proceedings. fully concur lii tie princi-
pies and doctrines therein asserted and demonstra-
ted; as wen in their ancipatio,o of the fatal con-
sequences 10 the union of these States in the e.
vent OF perseverance in the deprecated measure, s
ON the part OF the General Government. Believing
that iaudahle spirit OF enquiry is Just awakened
by the pressure of intolerabie burihens esnecial-
~ upon the great staple productions of culturc
3 above all uponte production Of wheat; & that the
time Is now arrived, when every American ciii-
zen ought 70 be informed ofthc true character and
destructive operations of those unauthorized mea-
sures, as well as IN regard TO their unjust and op
pressiVc sectional bearings, in regard to their
destructive influence upon the great principle OF
American liberty, secured to the people in written
constitutions. take pleasure in submitting those
vitality interesting subjects TO the General Assem-
bly,; and most respectfully ask for their most pro-
found consideration
Feeling the highest qualification from, the con-
viction that the General Assembly, under every
emergency, will ever be found equal to the high
est desiinies which may devoive upon il, through
the solemn acquisitions and injunctions Of our.fun-
damcntal laws; and particularly so, when placed by
Then, as centineis 10 guard the rights and liberties
OF the Virginia people, aud OK the corporate righis
oil the State OF Virginia, | shall refrain from re-
commenting 10 the Virginia Assembly at this
time, the adoption OF any specific measure
which may think imperiously called for 10 meet
ana subduc the alarming crisis. Besides am CON
scous, thdt5he great BODY of the people OF Virgin
Ia havea just and full confidence on their General
Assembly, and expect every member 10 10 his di-
~ In the worst of times This conviction furnish
es an additional motive with me- for reiyin,r with
confluence upon such measures as the General As
selnbiy, IN IFS exclusive Judgment may think pro
per TO adopt upon the moincntous occasion | can
not avoid observing, however, that it must be a
subject OF the highest qualification 70 every citizen
w'thn the sections OF country now lsbourimg I'M
der the unauthOl scd expressions of the Gen'i CIV
eminent to know that the Local Authorities owe -
mem have competent constitutional means il,
their own hands for the purpose of doing them
selves justice. il most unfortunately thew shoild
be torcIbly dti5en TO that deprecated resort In
iaSt' IN the worst state OF things, that the oppress-
ed sections OF country afford abundant means TO
tie Local Authorities, to secure 70 themselves Sin
their intercourse with the world all the sanitary
Independence of nations 10 protect themselves
without the least hazard. against physical force
from every quarter. Whilst through The same
means, their wealth and prosperity might be aug
mented TO an amount hey end any estimate which,
has yet been made in the contemplation of that y,
of thc subject
! hope too, may be indulged, for remarkinc
further, that il has always been matter Of slIr
Prise to me, that even tie enarnoured noiaries Of
these immortal, unjust, dclusive scheme sbouId
be so blinded by their own interests and passions
az IN drive the contributors nhaitinr The tribuar
sections OF country into the contemplation OF these
powerful allnrenIents, which every inuartiaI in
teIlgent citizen, be his habita,ion where II NAV
must know, will necessarily attend change. In
their political relations with the world whilst the
inhabitants Of the sections Of country receiving m
unballowed tribute, az being conn ed of tbe
property OF Others must know, that they hav
every thing 10 lear, and nothing TO hope from anv