The Arkansas advocate., 1836-07-15

deeply inscribed Proscription. SpoiIs Pyander-a De moefaey which comes to us through the elembc of ul- na-mohafchieal Fedefalistn--wtf due admixture of Regency Cayenne, and medcaments from the cauldron ot 4ammany, enforcing by the most improved and mod efn node the tactics and rgor of discipline of the New ! ofK school. ARlSTOGEITON.
 For Advocate
 It IS urged that Judge White opposed measure sim
 liar to the Land Bll on two former occasionsand the cry o " inconsistency" IS heard. little expected to near ths charge from the party protesting on and carry out the principles of Gen Jackson. What was the true orthodox faith in relation this matter in times past! shall go to the highest source shall go to Gen. Jackson himself. Read his annual message of IS50 lie says, in allusion to similar recommends tlen by him made in l829ss have heretofore felt my
 duty to recommend the adoption some plan for the distribution ot the surplus funds which may at any time remain in the Treasury after the national debt
 snail have been paid among the States, in proportion
 to the number ef their Representatives to be applied by them to objects of internal improvements,
 Ihs, then, IS the true doctrine, n the soundness of which Judge White heartily believed. Having ascer- taned the true fath we will now endeavor to ascertain the facts which urged Judge White to oppose the Land bill in the session of 1S3I2. Was the national debt pad the condition on which this recommendation to take effect! Was there surplus fund in the Treas. ury To each question the answer s no. According to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of that year, the public debt remaining unpaid was s2s 322- S5o locts, and the surplus remaining in the Treasury alter deductng the funds reported ineffective, was $l,l67 ,000 " hat then the duty of Judge White as man protesting the principles of Gem Jackson It was to oppose the passage of the bill. A similar bill came before the Senate in the session of lS334 The same circumstances, the same objections applied, with all the force they had in the session of lS312 The na tonal debt, to the amount of millions, unextnguish ed, The surplus revenue little two million dollars These tacts appear from the official records of the country, which Judge White could not mistake and he was again compelled oppose the passage of the b1 Has any change been produced in the circumstan- ces o the country to justify corresponding change of sentiment Let facts speak for themselves. The na- tional debt IS entirely paid off There was surplus in the Treasury the lst of April last according to an official report, of S36 Al 276 50cts. This, it will be perceyed includes the receipts into the Treasury for the first quarter of the present. year. Assuming that the
 first quarter furnishes data from which to calculate there will be received into the Treasury for the last three ters, the sum of s33G00 000. That sum- with S5G00- O0o coming from France and Naples and the further sum o 500000 the value of Government stock in the U D. bdnE, added to the surplus the first of April, nave the sum total of SS2 276 50cts from which deduct the estimated expenditures of government for te present year, S23 l33, $40, which, be borne mind, includes all expenditures ordinary and extraord- nary and we have surplus revenue remaining in the Treasury at the close of the year. of S59 107 656.
 With these facts before the eyes of Judge Whe how else could he dol Gen Jackson says after the public debt shall have been pald distribute the surplus among the several States according to their Federal presentation Here the national debt is pad-a surplus Ill the Treasury of near sixty millionsJudge White votes for It's distribution among the several States ding to their Federal the party pro- fesslng to be the Jackson party cry out
 Such wllfu perversons of the truhthe under stood from which they emanatemay be excused in sderaton of the sedegradation to which tho terms of their servitude subject the authors They look eagerly for the day. fondly hoping not far dsant when their American Octayus may sign himself after the approv- cd fashion of the Roman Tyrant-Cesar, Dictator IF designatus ". VOICE FROM THE SOUTH.