The Arkansas advocate., 1837-04-20

OcTtUc lAoHB5 5i A1tpftsEltdtRGS II @4Su NStbUu4 q struggle The hardy pioneer must still Teinble as tho spec0lator approaches bis quiet home, sink deeper into the recesses of the forest to ayod himfor you have passed 10 law for his benefit
 Ihe treasury circaIar--so universally and so justly complained ofstill broods wilh it's incubus influence upon the country parayzing the best efforts of ths in. dustnous, and debafrng the poor citizen from using even the slender which his industry has enabled him to collect together The bill 10 rescind fl passed he Senate by vote of q 10 5, and sent 10 the House of Representatives carly enough in the session 10 have been passed, without he approval of the President Yet, through democratic neglect, t did pass Il at be heel of the session. when by vote of I43 10 59 t vas sent 10 Gen Jackson. ct has not become aw-and the poor must still buy his gold and silver al premium, CT give up his land 8 the specuator. The President neither approved nor vetoed it. Well knowing that t he returned t with his objections, would become law by the constieu- tional majority, he withheld ii from congress in abso- tac, unqualified, and daring defiance of the desires of the people, and the express will of the peoples repre- senatves, upon the ground that he could precise ly understand Il, and that is provisions might hefeaf fer be matter ofd doubt Determined to play the bra 70 to the last moment of his poj.ica existence he re- fired from oiee performing, with cool haGaihood3 as he left he cha Ulstate an act undcn5by hostile to1he will of he people, insulting to congress aadi he nation, and unworthy the chief magistrate of a republic. Lad he House passed the bl. improper season the hauaAt
 
 power delegated 10 him. Aet, have you magnafsd against this bold and daring aet of un9uaHied deae- ism Have you raised your voices in repl6hansoa, Of have you ao rather lala pFosrate n he dust and, crawling to the foot of he throne, poured forth your sYccilaIc aduiaon in layaE farewell 10 him he Lad just opposed the fiat o hs a6soatism 10 the express wishes of every constituent you represent? #hY this silence! Did you approve the actor had you ether dudes sprngi1g ff9@ your allegiance to him, para mount to those you ose your ouu State and be Beo- pie you pretend 10 represent!
 T. point 10 all that ysaf party hare faied to dc, would be aE endless and fieGca3oan task. ask you what it has accomplished. The less q the fortifca- ton LilI providing f5f tbe common annual apPro99i- aon3 fer works now begun and already in progress, brings 10 my recollection the Protgate and 5onbasc Senator from Missouri a whose Gan enc of Yoet has unormly been found voting. lie is jhe eTY last nan 10 whom sound judgment Weald look as q repository of constitutional law-t6o very last whom t would re- gard as capable of aiding CT aa 9fstandiHg improve ment many constitution earth and yet the very par ty who were wiling to follow him in midnight assault aPon the constitution, when but go years aince e ae- sired 10 put three millions of money at he disposal Of the executive under tie Prete2t of a fear of Trench iuyasion and when, more recently, he proposed ta expead the whole surplus HeFeaaa iR tor2ina ha seal coast, have noW faied ay disagreement between the Seuato and the House, to make the common annual appropriation. leave o another occasion, aaY eee- ment upon your peculiar share in bringing aboe. Ais ante#a+d event.
 Nor have you passed any bill forradacine the duties and diminishing the receipts of the treasury. There masl be large surplus revenue in fine treasury ca lho first el January nest, aa4 ga Eou have refused to d. vide tha. surplus among tic States. Permit n.8 aoain 10 depart from tbe plan ] had resolved upoa, a5d 10 demand of you the feasans for your vote against dis tibufon. Grant tha t is improper to levy more tax es, either directly indirectly, than are required for the waits of the government. Grant that t is uncou- stutonal 10 raise royenue for the purpose ol dis Aibutng 1t. So fr Ne all agree Net here f vas re- duced 10 an absolute eeftantY, that the surplus in the treasury next January would be nearly if o daite as large as that of winch Arkansas is still receiving Ter share. The only question before you was, what should be done wth surplus which could not fail 10 remain ia the treasury. There were but two mothods--to di vide 1t among the States, or to place in the deposito banSs There was not eFea tue most remote prospect of a possible contingency in which the money would be needed Yet you ali voted against the disrbuiion l commend you to prudent management of all the means and careful hasaandfY of all the resources !ered you by inc situations you occupy. Asau4- edy, if you often Vee n direct opposition to tue n- eres and wishes of the people, your opportunities may soon cease.
 he biiI for increasing the military establishment has also failed. Our frontier is therefore to be left still defenceessaad when the savage puts in his knife and omahawk to the rich and ripe harvest of death in Arkansas, the general government may reeollect that the democratic majority a congress and our own mefa bers there left us unprotected Doubtless thero may be somehiog io pure and devoted loyalty like yours, to alloy the horrors oi such ophe-and while the life blood was ebbing from your bosom, while tho keen axe sunk deep in the heads of your wives and the knife passed to the hearts of your children yod might forget that your party had refused to Arkansas sufficient defence uPon Ter lronter-and loyal 10 he last gasp, you might dja amid inc desolaton afoaad you, with the cry of "Iieele Presdea.f' upon yout lips.
 Another bill which was lost l,y tue neglect of yoer democratic friends was that authorizing tbe rcnonsh ment of the sixteenth sections granted for the use schools, and s.... ol oher lanas nstaad-tha hil