Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-01-03
WHOLE NO. 144.


estate and live stock; and the next trans
fer will be from President Jackson to
Vice President Van Burcn. Why, sir,
said Mr. J.. had he wanted the vote of
Pennsylvania on Il recent occasion, 1t
would have been at his service; or, at
all events, it was said, he woald have got
Tic votes Of a large majority og The COL
iege Of electors. lie was, however, re-
joiced to find, said Mr. L. .here was ono
man among them unwilling to send in his
adhesion to the heir apparent, and that
man was the Secretary of the Common
wealth Of PENNSYLVANIA. BY this, he
had done himself honor, and in some
measure, redeemed the character Of the
state from the degraded tbraldom and
surveillance in which she has been much
too long placed 1t gave him no plea
sure thus TO speak of Pennsylvania. Her
subser,icncy sad humiliation was sub
ject of deep regret to him, and he men
toned it with sober sadness. lie saw
clearly that the cup o! our humiliation
must be drank TO the dregs; and tina. tho
State of Pennsy lvania was 10 be made
tributary TO the mighty empire State of
New York, and her honor, interest, and
dearest rights, sacrificed to crafty the
AMBITION Of single individual, who was
TO be the successor of tie present Chief
Magistrate of the Union. And the
measure before you is a part of II system
calculated and designed as "A preliminary
step 10 effect this object.
The ostensiblc object is, however, to
give the people useful information, 10
warn them against the moastrous cyiiso
nullifcaton Why, said Mr. l.. tnoy
want no information on this subject; there
is not press in the State, nor man IN
favor of notification, and why squander
their money at a time when they are pres
sed down with debt and taxation, to gIye
then, information they do not want, or
will have long before our 1000 books
can be printed and put into their hands.
Sir, SAID Mr. l.. ifyou take the money
from the pockets Of the people, you arc
bound to employ it for their benefit and
more for their benefit than if they retain
ed it themselves; and upon this principle
you huve II right to tax them, and upon
no other. But, said MIR. l.. this is but
the branch of system to render venal
and mercenary the public press OF the
country, and to corrupt the source OF
public information, aud by these means
to corrupt or deceive the great mass OF
the people.
"Nir. l.. said be was pretty far ad-
vanccd in life, and after an ostracism of
many years, he had been sent again by
the people into the councils of the State.
lie was stranger in the House, he had
looked around and saw not a familiar
face, not a man with whom he had ever
been associated in public life; he stood
like blghied, weatherbea shrub on
Il drcary waste, the companions with
whom he was associated thirty years pre-
vious, were gone to the silent tomb,
where he knew in the course Of nature,
he must soon follow them. But old as
he was, and small as the remnant ordays
he had to number must be, he should not
be surprised if he survived and outvcd
the government and Liberties Of the ma
ton. And who will have done this;-
The man whom Pennsylvania has de-
liohted to honor. The man with whom
this House, by the measure before us, Is
about to flatter, compliment, and honor.
The President of the United States. If,
said MIR. L., the advice be given, the
measures recommended by President
Jackson be adopted, the Union OF the
States cannot be preserved; 1t would not
be worth preserving The General
Government might do much harm, but
would be deprived Of the faculties OF do
ing any g"od
"Thc Bank Of the United States must
be destroyed, and Treasury Bank es-
tabished, that the President may have
the control Of the purse of the nation, as
well as the swoid. Next, our protective
system, calculated to unite us and make
US independent of foreign nations, and de-
pendent on our own resources; this must
be abandoned, and the nation reduced to
n state Of colonial vassalagc, and made
tributary to Great Britain. Next in this
catalogue, follows the system Of Internal
Improvement, this system must be put
down. We are next told the sources Of
revenue arising from the sale oil public
lands, about 5000, 900 per annum, must
be surrendered TO the new States, in
which the lands be. The whole corps Of
The United States officers, necessary to
survey and bring into market those lands,
arc to be kert up, lest the patronage OF
the President should be diminished, but
not cent Of money raised upon the pro-
ceeds Of those sales, is to be paid into tho
Treasury of the United States. Ifthis
sum is divided the share Justly belonging
o Pennsylvania, will be about 100000
,er year. This would be very accepta-