Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-06-30


tIon with other causes, is hourly draining their .,
der sisters Of so many thousands of their mos, =.
tcrprzing, wealthy and talented sons. they .Lo,,,
not desire TO add tenfold impetus 10 the snr, 90
emigration, by offering their lands, as free ,.c
10 those who will settle and cultivate them n.
prices Of those lands are now low enopoL
conscience. Bur, low they are, the cyper;.n..
of the last two or three years is enough TO conv;.
lis that from them alone, in very short per;oa
sum will be annually realized, greatly more ,b,u
adequate TO the wants of the government. e,o.
every article imported from foreign coun,,;..
admitted duty free. How can a surplus. Tins i.
rivcd,-not drawn from the pockets of the peo,,
by taxation but for every dollar of which those who
pay it receive largely more than an oquiyale,,
we ask, how can "a surplus revenue. thus accrunu
be more wisely or benefciay disposed Of than h..
depositing it with the several State government.
to be by them expended in the endowment of som.
narcs OF learning, and in the construction of wo,l
of internal improvement VIII it be contended,h,;
it would be better to let it lie idle in the Depos;,o
Banks, absolutely mischievois as il is in prodnc;
those money prcssures which are necessarily coo
sequent upon the abstraction of so large poro,.
Of the currency Of the country from circulation :,
say nothing of the hazard of its ultimate loss fo,.
the precarious character of those institutions , n
would it be more wise and proydeni TO cxnord :.
in building brick walls, called Notifications tI,rouol-
out country, and planting cannon upon ,bo;n
SUBMITS, which would result in fastening uno,
in few years an immense standing army. onora
ting perpetual drain upon the treasury. and i,
defiance both of the admontons of history and H..
sagacious policy of our forefathers Surely ,o,.
We therefore congratulate the country upon ,,s
passage of this important b-which, indcpen1o,
Of the immediate and direct benefits that ma, h.
expected to flow from it, will ensure more oec'
nomica administration .ot the federal poyernm.,,
by making il the interest of Congress TO suena =,
little as possible on useless, visionary and mic.
chevons projects, instead of, as now, making :,
their interest TO squander much as possible a.
every schemc, whether of local or national IN,
provcment, which, by the log rolling process. tb,v
can force through the two Houses.
Benton d Go. on the mdnc.-The WASHINGTON
correspondents of various journals concur in s,o-
ting that q Bombastes Benton,7 the great Humbn, .
d the 10Th century, is fast sinking TO his proper To-
tel. When he aud his co-laborer. Senator W rjcbt
the mouth piece of Van Buren, affirmed that thor.
would be surplus to divide, the spondent of
the L. :. Gazette svys,a
! Mr. Rives met all these statements by an ;,
lithmetcal calculation. The receipts fion the 6rs
quarter (said Mr.. Rvcs) are l millions--rlAjoo
,horc Il,
terare 9 millions. This gives 70 millions for IN.
IfBt six months 1t is well known that the mas
Busy financial time has to come, but if YOU ool,
duble the hrst quarter, it gives 40 millions fur tn
year add this to the % millions it will make an
aggregate of % millions Nh. Rives said he did no,
see how this could be used in the course of,lu
year. Is it possible (said he) that any gentlcu,,
can rise here, and say that we shall dare to eypenJ
% millions IN any one year When did any ,rat !.
expenditure exceed % millions save IN Ilrtic.
uiar year, when the expenditure reached ; mil.
mons Tire Creek war has passed away---thc cloud
which hung over the South west in conscouc,,re
Of the contest in Texas, has disappeared. Woo5d
any gentleman then say that we could eyncn1 6,
millions ! He re.oled at the idea of such an o.,
pendture, and the people would revolt at H. He
then went on TO eulog Jefferson as the antbor Of
the navy and declared that in his notion ofhe gun
boats, he had gone in advance of the age we are
now falling INTO the very same idea, when We arc
building steam batteries, which are nothing more
than Mr.. Je1crsons gun boats with the advantage
of steam. He considered that gentleman were
dragged along by the weight ofthe surplus rcve-
nue., TO vote for appropriations which were not nc
cessarv or usiIfabr. lie wished TO see gentle
men relieved from this influence, emancpa.ed from
all artificial motives. and that every appropriation
shall hereafter be left to rest on its own merits
lie predicted that there would be nearly 80 mil
hons OF surplus money in the Treasury in the com
mencemcnt OF the next Year, and he wished TO see
the administration proposing some reduction by
means OF which the revenue may be prevented
from increasing. After Mr. Rivcs had spoken for
some time in style of real cloqucncc he sat down.
and Mr. TalImadge made most excellent most
able speech on the side. He called on Mr.
Benton to come down from his lofty flight of ina
g'na''on, and to tread the path of common sense
sa'd 1t was high time that the people knew who
were IN favor of this dreamy pursuit OF golden,
currency, and he wished il TO be proclaimed to tb
word that he did not support any of the ideal no
IONS OF gold currency which had been projected
by the Senator from Missouri, nor any other no
non winch went to the overthrow of the credl
'ystem OF the country. When these speeches o.
'lr: Rives and, Mr.. Talmadge, and the speech Of
VIZ. Perce OF Rhode Island, made in the house to
iay about members getting money from pet banks
or speculaons, ION which a committee is raised
nan be published, the regency will look blue
ms gold humbug" will be the Jest and scora
u all future time. Posterity will wonder that an,
senator should have had the daring cfrontery I'd
uempt to palm such palpable cheat upon m