Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-03-21

Ill
whose Eagle she has seen taking his
flights with many jealous pang-that
young and gigantic rival is going to re-
lieve her from all her inQuietudes by be-
coming her tributary. We may then bid
adeu to all those visions of glory in which
we have so fondly INDUCED, as connect
ed with our future destinies, and take al
humble rank with the tributary nations OF
the earh--tributary to a nation who has
the wisdom to adhere to policy which
we have the folly to reject, and shall
have renounced forever.
know it is said this bill is not to be
what it processes to be-a permanent
system for this country. But, ifthis sys-
tenn is to be adopted, and then to be de-
stroyed, who are to destroy it, We, the
friends Of the policy, are to destroy it
we are to wage the war-we are to make
the attack-we are to obtain the conquest
oyer it. Now had rather be in con-
dition to have to defend our own posses
sions, than to have to attack aDd conquer
those oft the enemy. l do lot Ike the
idea Of first giving up our SossessIons,and
then of going To war ir order to recover
them back. The cent Of that war de-
ponds upon the rncertain contingencies
of the unccrtan future and l see moth
ing in the hopes resting on those contin-
gences, to countervail the force Of my
contrary fears, and to quiet my mind on
the subject.
1t is said, TOO, that the Treasury is in
danger of a plethora, from surplus, or
accumulating surpiuses, CT revenue; that
this danger must be obviated by gradua-
ting our income to the wants Of the Gov
ernment. Wants Of the Government
These must depend upon the objects Of
expenditure by the Government; and
these must be determined by the wisdom
and discretion Of Congress, hereafter as
well as now they cannot be prescribed
and limited by US. If an overhowing
Treasury be an evil, it will be time e.
nough tQ apply a remedy when the evil
exists. AT present it does not exist, nor
can we know with certainty that it will
exist hereafter. But is an overhowing
Treasury an evil? and such an evil, that
all the great interests of the country, in
volved in the development Of her great
resources, must be sacrificed TO its pre-
vention? An evil Who feels this surplus
Of revenue, if there should be surplus,
as burthen From whom does it alb
stract one necessary oflife, one comfort,
one luxury Not an individual in this
country. The revenues Of this country
are no more felt as burthen upon them,
by the people Of this country, than the
dews of Heaven are felt as burthen
upon them; they are alike unconscious of
both; and no one would think of the for
mer as burthcn, but for the metaphy-
sizes employed to prove it to be bur
then. What sort of burthen is that which
is felt only by the aid Of metaphy -
and then only by the aid of imagination
l hope we shall consider, and if we do
not, that future Congress will consider
the great and glorious objects yet to be
accomplished by this Government, and
to which these surpuses will be nccessa-
ry-objects Of national improvement, de-
manded by the geographical situation Of
the country, and which constitute in fact
one of the great resources yet to be de-
veloped; and the establishments, too, ne
cessary to devclope the resources Of the
mind OF the country-if she should deem
1t worthy of her ambition to aspire to the
most glorious Of all fame, the fame which
mind coniers by her immortal works.
Believe me, the establishments necessa-
ry to this glorious end, are yet to be cre-
ated. Little views to little savings, very
proper for petty corporations, are not the
views proper to the statesman in the A
merican Congress These ought to be
large and respective, and to correspond |.
to the grandeur Of the trust committed to
his charge, otherwise he runs the risk of
dwarfing the country born Of gigantic
to the littleness of his little
views. The prospect of these surpluses,
then, far from embarrassing, rejoices me
for | see in them the means to great and
desirable ends, and without occasioning
a particle of grievance or inconvenience
to the people.
l know it is said, too, that the dissolu-
ton of the Union is threatened, and that
this bill is necessary to hold the States
together. Yet it is said in the same
breath, that this bond is no bond, and is
represented as frangible as the flax
scorched by the fire. The tendency to
fly off from the Union, should hope
was not very strong, if it could be over
come and constrained by so frail liga-
ture. But to be serious, this very argu-
ment is what alarms me most as to the
stability and efficiency Of this Union.-I
Here, in this body, we have seen an in
herent power claimed for the States un-
known to the constitution, and incompat-