Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-04-17

those who are preaching most excellent political
sermons, in favor of an exclusive specie cur
rency!!
fear, sir, that we have not sufficiently real
lied the importance of a sound and stable cur
renew All our civil institutions combined are
not more important than this, as guaranty for
secure enjoyment Of the rights of property. In
vain do we boast of our laws and the incOr-
ruptbe purity of our judges, as means ofprotec-
ting property fyOu take away the very substra-
tum upon which the whole superstructure must
rest. will hazard the opinion that in the six
months of the executive usurpation and misrule
which has elapsed since the removal Of the de-
posites,-the briefperiod of a Roman dictator
ship-property to the amount Of 100, 100000 OF
dollars has passed from the pockets OF the en-
terprising and industrious classes into the strong
boxes of that moneyed arstocracy against
which this administration processes to be max
ing war. Such is the magic power OF trans
ferring property from class to class by means OF
disordered currency. 1t goes from one to
another like the balls of conjurer passing
from cup to cup, which no one perceives while
passing, though every one can see the result al
ter it is consummated.-
No administration has done more than this to
increase the progress OF the moneyed aristo
cracy, and none has ever done more to dimin-
ish the honest earnings of the poor. And
will add, that no measure has tended more to
produce these results than the removal Of the
depostes.
| will now trouble the House with few re-
marks on another topic which has been intro
| duced into this debate A gentleman from
Virginia at an early period Of this debate (Mr
| PATToN) and an ex-senator from the same
| State on a late occasion, have remarked, in
| substance that no man has done more to put
down the tariff and internal Improvements, and
! to advance the Virginia doctrines Of State
| Rights than the present Chief Magistrate. And
the Southern gentlemen are called upon to look
| with indulgence upon any other errors he may
| have committed in consideration of these great
and mertorious services. Yes, sir, it is gravely
| alleged that General Jackson has done more
than any other man to re-establish the doctrines
of Jefferson
| | propose TO examine these extraordinary pre-
| tensions very briefly Ana first of internal i'm
provement We are told that this many head
ed monster lies PROSTATE under the club Of Her
clues, the veto. And what proofs ofered?-
| Why, miserable little appropriation for the
Maysville road! Now you will scarcely believe
me sir, when tell you that this political Hercu-
| les, after having struck off one head Of the Hy
| dra actually gave up the contest and threw
| away his club You will be still more surpris-
ed to learn that in the very year in which he
| performed this great constitutional labor, he
signed and approved appropriations for inter-
nal improvement, to larger amount than had
been made in any one year of the proceeding
administrations
| To be more particular sir, although the previ-
Gus administration had been charged with
| squandering the public money in these improve
ments to buy up the votes Of the people, yet the
whole amount expended in the two last years of
that administration was only 1912, 1886; whereas
the sum expended in the two first years Of this
administration amounted to 81, 1864, 293, being
an increase of more than fifty per cent. This is
in the true spirit of Jackson retrenchment and
economy! But this is not all. General Jack
son voted believe for the celebrated survey
bill of 1924 and certainly for the subscription
to the stock of the Delaware Canal Company.
And as the merits ofthis administration are evil
IDENTIFY designed to be involved in the contest
for the succession, it is not out of place to say
that the second officer of the Government vot-
ed not only for the survey bill of 1924, but
for the toll gate biIl-the most extreme Of all the
powers ever exercised on that subject assum-
ing to exercise jurisdiction and sovereignty
within the limits of the States. In theory the
President admits that Congress has the right of
appropriation for national objects, even in his
veto message; and in practice he has gone be-
yond any of his predecessors.
Then how is it as to the tariff? Gen. Jackson
voted for the tariff of 1924 the first practical
assumption Of the power to impose duties eX-
cusiveIy for protection, and the second officer
of the Government (Mr. Van BUREN, voted for
the tariff of 1928; best known as the bill of
denominations. the most odous and extravagant
measure Of protection ever adopted. The Pre-
sident has scarcely ever omitted to affirm in his
annual messages the constitutionaity and expe-
diency of protecting tariff; and going beyond
any Of his predecessors he recommended to
Congress distribution of the surplus revenue
among the States, distinctly upon the ground,
that was necessary to keep up the duties for
protection higher than was necessary for the
purposes of revenue. But he has done so
much for the cause of State rights, that we are
invoked to
"Be to his faults little blind,
And to his virtues very kindn
And what pray has he done for the cause Of