Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-01-03

poTtntlOn, ST,5IS,b2U. Revenue oil the year
ending 25th June last, S3,39S,455 10; ex-
penditurcs, S2,755,623 &c. Excess Of reven-
nc over expenditures, S642, s3l d.. There is
a surplus on hand Of 100000 belonging 10
The Department. Boston Courier.
The Rerenue-the Currency. Two weeks
since we vontured few remarks upon the
Presidents message, closing with reference
TO its rigtnarole concerning the pet banks, and
promising 10 continue the subject Last week
we intended fully TO redeem the promise--thc
illness of both editors prevented and now the
message is behind the times-o dead lion-the
public care less about the policy that was und-
Ell the old, and more about the policy that will
be under the new administration. The reader
is therefore referred TO an admirable letter on
our first page for reply to the message, while
we proceed 10 note matters Of later date
the principles of the old administration, events
have occurred strongly marking the intended
course and views of the new. And what is TO
be the policy ofthc new administration Hup-
py for the country would it be-happy for the
new President-were his administration to re-
gard the voice Of the people, unqualfc1ly ex.
pressed in favor Of the distribution bill--that
most glorious act, the passage of which was q
splendid triumph over ambition and intrigue
and corruption, and the more SO because a.
chieved in spite of the administration. But
,vo al, hat NJ Va D,,
ren, with all his proiessed democracy, will care
a straw for the icM Of the people, hover strong
ly expressed on this subject his letter TO Shcr-
rod Williams forblds il the Developments in
the present Congress, the appointment Of the
committees Of the Senate, the debates thus far
and another casting rote, all forbid it. Yes
the new administration is to oppose disiribu,-
ing the surplus among the states ii is 10 re-
tain under its own control the money OF the
people; II is 10 continue the old and fatal war
upon the currency--a war upon he homes, in
dustry and enterprise of the country, in behalf
of the favored banks and the dishonest money
shovels. Look at the Senate: there is Bonn
bastes Benton, with a majority at his heels,
play ing off his political humbugs; there a res.
oI1tion resembling the Treasury Order, (which
order, according 10 the official report Of the
Secretary OF the Treasury, is this very year,
reduce the proceeds Of the public lands from
twenty millions TO only four millions ~ has
been introduced by Wing; and the admin.
istration senators oppose il. There Mr.. Clay
has again introduced his land bi'l-and il is at
the mercy of a caucus packed committee, un-
cquivocally opposed to it. There Mr.. Cal
post act oil July ashland Mr. Van nuren, by
a casting vote, has sent it 10 a committee
known 10 be hostile to a distribution Of the
surplus revenue among the states. These
demonstrations ore not without msahing-nor
are they accidental: they indicate that there is
a settled purpose in the new administration 10
carry out the projects of tho oil with regard 10
the public lands and the revenue.
The truth seems 80 be, as asserted by wri-
ter at Washington, that "Mr Van Buren, is
bent upon having forty millions 10 electioncer
with !" and, unless some half a dozen scnat-
ors OF his, who come from Wing states, throw
OF the yoke Of party and go for their country
and their constituents-he piH have this vast
sum scattered through the land in party banks,
bound, in the very nature Of the case, to do his
bidding. To bring the revenue within his con-
trol-to got the purse and the suOrd into the
same hands-he must destroy the new distri-
button bill. Let US see if the whole party ma
chihery is not brought in requsiton 10 effect
its destruction if the administration senators
do IT deny that there will be surplus if
the Secretary Of the Treasury does not this
year, as he did last, make the most wild and
absurd estimates to back up these denials; if
Benton, in the Senate, and CambreIeng, in the
House, do not demand enormous appropria-
tions, under the plea Of putting down the Indi-
ans and defending the frontiers. This is the
way the administration last year carried on the
war upon the treasury; another war, precisely
like il, is already commenced the admins
tration fight for the money and the spoils-
the Wings TO save the money and give it 10
the people.
fEJ| Reader, another year is numbered
with the past, and still another has begun its