Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-07-05

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30 rsr, for bte.kiug dowa she Adsnsruiou you vote
ior Sir Nan Burea a0nt yoa ~ 90 ye. he constituent
wHi ,av. a 60 fot Mr. Van Borea. 10 be sure hes the
dcmocrauc candidate; bot then don't how pas.
sas the laoi bll could hurt him. M Clay, gong
run" go bat" says The representative, "you know Gen
lset,on !, opposed 90 the hill and that would have
been vetoed II We bad passed i,-you wouldn't have
20 sgatnsi Gen Jackson, would you - "Well"
The cpns,itnrut. ain Jackson msn. he sure always
JscksoD pau-l mean ever since IT came out IL
The Argus uhet Ccp. jackson taken into he demo
cfAic party; hut don't why Cen ja kon should be
opposed g. this ds,rhuiionhe used 20 he IN favor Of IT,
Don't guu hrk W uH Barcn could hare psraaded him
20 n Hst eur" ~ tee the representative, "you
dout und,r,tsul s natter tins Is Of the most out
ngcnu' measure that was ever presented 10 Congress
The oft h hfihcrvYain downright hribc
ry! "Nei~ SAYS tho constituent, II an opposed 10 hr
berry 10 Do SURE and Gen jackson, aud the whole de-
mocrauc party are opposed 10 al bribery, the State
Senate RD every whore else bai Hcn don't eracg
hoW drifinF ne monty among all me Pcopls gryiug t.
frrry tguri share can be bribery when giving II
20 few IN the cities. letiin-Ihc banks
nothing Is not, Bat III think OF IT, 20 for The demo-
cratic party 10 he surc for the Benton yellow boys. AMI
down With all monopolIes; but don't understand how
this eau ho bribery after ALL study little more
into this natter Mr. Chairman. will not pursuo tins
dialogue further. wall not supposo you would then adj
dc- your constituent IA what has becu alleged be the
secret language ofpariy, aud say 10 him at ,he Of
tho money needed by the Authorization TO increase
the patronage and secure the OF the party w
suppose th because know you to be inca uble OF
D "'N'''NH
could say much q every body else.
Sir, have few words to say in regard to the
peculiar position Of my own State, with reference
to the expenditure, Of this Government when
shall have done. think | may safely ay,that no
State in the Union has shared so little in the direct
pccuniary benefits Of the General Government as
Vermont. From the very beginning, she did not
reap all the advantages conferred on the other
States. Exercising throughout the whole Of the
Revolutionary war an actual, though unacknow-
lodged independence and occupying frontier pos
ton, often the theatre of invasion, and always in
eminent danger of ii, her people bore their fall
share in the pers, the trials, the expenses and the
honors ofthat contest. Yet she cameinto the Uni
/ on in 81, bringing not with her State debt to
cast as burden on the nation, but to unite with
her sister States in the payment ofthe twenty mil
liens Of their debts which this Government had al
ready assumed. Under the operation of the tax
ing power of this Government, she has paid her
share Of the debts of those States in proportion to
her population and resources. ! speak not this by
way of complaint make the statement as mat
ter of fact and Of history. OF the several hundred
millions Of the expenditures which this Government
has made since its first organization under the pre-
sent Constitution, but fraction has been dsburset
in Vermont. have no. been able TO ascertain from
printed public documents, the precise share which
the State ] in part represent has had in all your a
propratons; but will give you the amount TO
three permanent objects Of local expenditure, as
sample. Your expenditures for Notifications have
! been II $40 900 dollars; for internal improve
fments 6,2s3 900 dollars; and of neither of thes,
/, sums has dollar ever reached Vermont You
expenditures Tor light houses have been 641 00(
dollars and OF this Vermont has eceived the sun
OF 4.'29 dollars and % cents Sir, while othe
States can boast of the Notifications the navy yards
the custom houses, the marine hospitals the mint
the armores and other splendid works which YOU
Treasury has caused to spring into existence o
the harbors and rivers whose channels you have
deepened and enlarged; Of roads and canals, which
your munihcence has constructed or aided the onl,
legIole marks which you have made on the surface
OF vermont, to which her people can point as eyi
; dehce mat she also belongs to the Union, is the
I light house have mentioned and small arsena
: -botht together costing the Government somelhin.
: less than fifteen thousand dollars speak not ey
en- tins IN the way of complaining ofthe past expen
dltures OF this government, or as putting in CLAIM
for large share in future expenditures for sima
objects. 1t Is doubtless true that expenditures 70
national purposes should be made where the Gen
eral interest requires them without reference [
e state lines and know that to the vast smoun
oil your future appropriations, but mere trlfe en-
ever be expected to reach the State of @hic at
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=. representative. You have ceased making on
preparations for internal improvements, and we ca
n expect nothing for such objects. Oar people ar
hardy and brave, have always shown inemselve
well qualified to defend their territory and requir
i no iorlileatIons; and having no seaboard we ar
= cot oil from reaping any local benefits from th
s thousand maritime objects for which the creates
: proportion OF the funds of this government hav
beeo, and IN all probability will continue TO be, ex
q pended. Sir, the people of Vermont understan
the consequence which, under the practical legis
lauon OF tins government are to follow from thei
. inland positions and they have been long lookin
: forward to the period when the national debt bein
discharged, aud surplus found 10 the Treasury a
e objections to distribution of the proceeds of th
= public lands would cease The expected 5erio
has arrived, but the objections still continue. an
\ NC were warned by the ChsirmaL Of the Commit
n tee OF Ways and Means in the opening Of this dc
q bate that 'hero was not only to be no distribution
= but that If the surplus continued, the compromis
tariff set would not be respected. Sir. know th
T. would be the natural consequences Of the accumr
# laion Of an excess ofreyenue and denial Of it
j. distribution: aud being very sure that the es,t,