Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-07-18
GEN. JACkSON'S TOAST

on the 4th Of July and being unable
to attend, sent the following toast:
The Constitution Of tie United tates-Wb,,
it does not authorize, is forbidden to those VIII
act under it. constitutional right to appv. and
IA necessity for such application, are the ,rns
sources and limits Of our power TO ,ax-When
the taxes produce more money than can be r;ob,.
fully applied, the appropriate remedy is reduc,io,
or repeal. To continue "A tax without nece,>,y
and for the sake OF distribution, is to subvcr. the
prime pies OF the constitution, and must end in dee,
iroyng the liberties OF the people.
All will agree to the frs, proposition of the toast
to wit: " what the constitution of the United State,
under it," We wish that Gen. Jackson had con.
stanly kept this maxim before his own ewes. II
he had, he would not have invaded the Spanish
territory in time Of peace suspended the wit
of haJcas corpus when there was no supreme ne
cesstv for that higl-handed measure Nor, al
a later day, would he lave seized upon the pub.
lie money, in violation OF the spirit if not of the
letter of the constitution, which regards the repre-
senatives of the people as its legitimate custo.
dams.
versally admissible, to wit: " 4 constitutional
right to apply, and a necessity far such application,
are the true sources and limits of the powelto
taN.' But, how would Inc and his right hand rem
stand by this rule Will it be contcnded that tie
scheme of dotting the land over with furfcatis,
is " neccssary' to our safety to our welfare Ii
not, then his plan of disposing of the surplus re-
cnuc, as, from his now well understood hosiilituo
the Opposite bill, (Which he only signed in com,
qucnce of the overwhelming majority in both lIi.
SEES of Congress, rendering the Veto impotent pr
once, we are authorized TO regard the proposals
of appropriating some twenty or thirty mill ns
ofdollars for the purpose of erecting forts, is d.
dcmned by his o wn rule. Nay it is doubly ct-
demned, inasmuch it is not only not ncCesSak,
but would be absolutely nlischievous, by ayingio
foundation of system of extravaganza, to wich
there would never be any limit save the mans
in the treasury the commencement of those 'as
works begeting the necessity of their compeli0,
in order to prevent the seeming loss Of the psf
OUTLAWS, while aiterva ards, in order TO keep tfm
in state of preservation an efficiency, arfm-
summing wv
liberty, would have been cngrafted upon outys-
TEN as a " necessary" and perpetual excrrnce
and curse. The necessity for the application
of the public money, one of the main limitaons
of the taxing power, being thus enlarged to anhde-
finite and constantly increasing extent, it is aonce
apparent that the increase and perpstuatin Of
the tariff systcm, the very evil which the enules
of the Dcposite bill are affecting TO dread Is me
of its probable consequences, would mu are
probably have foil owed the defeat of thatNi1and
the adoption Of the substitute proposed fori BY
Mr.. Benton, which, we repeat, we are aulhoized
to regard as an administration measure. IftTen-
ty or thirty millions of dollars had been sqander-
cd upon useless orti fcatons, during the lite scs-
sion of Congress, is it not obvious that itwoud
have rendered, year after year, similar appopr'a"
tons essential, increasing annually in amount,
and thus creating the ;" necessity" which would
authorize the extension of the faring po'ce to an
alarming and oppressive degree How could
those enlarged expenditures have been metba' by
the perpetualon of the tariff system, ami an m
crease rather than reduction of duticsl IT (
result would have been incvitable and it IS no
assuming too much to say that tie Wings a'ded
by portion of the Jackson party, have saved the
people, by the Deposite bill, from new bill oil
abominations," as the tariff law of 1923, when
found SO able defender in Mr.. Van Buren,, 10
now generally designated
If the profgate system Of expenditure, con-
templated by Benton's bill, had been commenced,
the third maxim of Gen. Jackson's toast, though
true enough in the abstract, would have been
useless truth to the people. "When the taxes
produce more money than can be rightfully ap-
piled, the appropriate remedy is repeal or reduc'
tion'--But the day would never have been seem
when the taxes would have left surplus in the
treasury. On the contrary, in order that the supply
might equal the demand the inventive ingenu'-
ty of the rax-ayers would have been very 500"
called into exercise TO find new subjects OF taxa
maximum rates, until our condition would hd'o
been the duplicate of the picture for which "fe'
Britain sat to the Edinburgh Reviewers, repre-
scning every item of property, both OF neces'"'
and luxury, sub ject to tax, from the orad'c "
the coffin.
The closing proposition of Gen. Jackson 'o"s'
is, like the preceding, undeniable: " To con''""'
a tax without necessity, and for the sake o. d''
ribution," has never been advocated BY any Po''
itician, in or out of Congress, and We venture"
say it never will he and we are therefore so"''
what oeton;ShoJ tb,t the ;dopt of The JnlV"