Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-08-10

tit out cfiis USE" Sc. IAN this is truly
copied from the message, word for word;
page 78.-And it leaves nothing to be
said. II coniesses that the money
belongs to The people, and that the Gov
ernment has made most unjusti6oble
and pernicious use Of it.
But what "Gopernment" was it that the
President speaks ofin the above passage
Of his Message, and so strongly con-
demns as having done all these mischiefs,
from the effects Of which the people are
now suffering? Not the Constitutional
Government Not Congress for ma
jority of Congress, when wished to re-
move the public money, upon the iniima-
ton that il was unsafe, refused, and pas
sed resolves that il was perfectly safo in
the depository provided for it by law
1t was the Executive who immed diately
after the rising Of that Congress and a.
galnst its declared will, took the public
money out Of the custody and safe keep.
ing Of the law, and out OF the control of
the National Legislature. Congress did
not select the pet banks among which the
public money was divided nor did it
have any hand in the Executive, Trea-
sury Circular, instructing those banks to
loan the money out to their customers.
Congress endeavored to remedy the evil
by passing the first land bill, but their
endeavors were frustrated by the Exec
utive, who vetoed that bill and kept the
money.
But, is it not amazing that, after the
disclosures contained in the above ex-
tract, and still more fully detailed in that
before taken from page l4ih of the same
message, showing the gross abuses which
had been practised for four years, in the
employment Of the public money and the
ruinous consequences which had result
ed from them-is it not amazing, that,
after this, the Executive should still per-
sist in holding on upon these millions Of
surplus money and Withholding it from
the States' How can this be accounted
for but by suPposing that there is some
deep laid project-such as an Executive
Treasury Bank,-which is kept behind
the curtain until the people are suffici-
emily humbled by their distresses,t to sub
nit to any desperate operation, rather
than continue in their present condition.
See further, the letter Of Secretary
WoodJuy, published year ago,in which
that member Of the administration dis
plays the sumo hostility 10 the distribu-
ton law. "Should we (says he, become
involved in a real war, or quas; war will,
Mexico, the surplus may mever be divided,
or ,ciN be soon recalled. At all erenis The
~hoie ,oiN be ,Uanted in l842, j mol ear
ier." It has been under the manage
ment Of this officer that most Of the evils
complained Of have arisen refer al
80 to the semi-official articles. in the ad-
ministration paper, (the Globe) at that
period and throughout.-Its endeavors
to persuade the States not to receive the
land money its call upon the people
to turn out the representatives who pas
sed the distribution act, and to appoint
others to repeal it and leave the money
at the disposal Of the Executive and
finally the general order which issued
from it, announcing to the whole office
party, that, hostility to the distribution iaw
'could be considered as the test Of fidelity
TO the Executive.
l refer to one other document only -
The Van Buren, paper, called the "R. L.
Republican," published in Newport, last
week, and to which / refer because it
brings the business home to US and shows
US what we have to expect from the Van
Buren Candidates supported by that pa
per, should they be sent to Congress. -
Extract 1--WE say, who was it, that
with the subtlety Of serpent and the
venom Of a fend, held out the tempting
lure Of a distribution of the surplus Yeren-
ue ; and when j, was found that equitable
principle ,rould not carry Il, contrived,
by appealing to the eupidiy Of the small
Ter States, to induce them to accept
double share of The iraces of nn,iehfeons-