Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-02-14

internal commerce. and currency OF this coun-
try is of itself an unauswerablo objection to
the present enactment of a law that oil must
sec will powerfully increase the evils that al |
ready deeply nf1lict US. The natural instinct
Of brute animals, in such crisis, would sug-
gesI caution and prudence as The course Of WIS |
dom, not rash adventure and wild experiment.
If it were bad policy 10 protect by imposls the
industry Of your own People, If it could be
hown 10 be unpatriotic and I'M American 10
cherish by duties manufacturing skill, so that
IN time OF war YOU might be able 10 furnish !
/ the commonest necessaries OF lie 10 your own
! People, still having done so, however unwise- |
/ ly at first, since by doing you have created
on immense amount OF property, it would be
madness, moon-stiuck madness, 10 crush that
properly AT n blow. Sir, by The laws now in
force, if you but let them alone, in five years, by
your own showing the evil Of which you now
complain will cease TO exist. Instead Of this,
we are now asked, in order to get rid of seven
millions of surplus revenue, 10 destroy an un-
nua production Of three hundred milllons, and
are pravely told that this will be n most salu-
tary financial operation. Let gentlemen keep
constantly in ninU thai the bill and report go
upOn tho admission (at least 1t is not Other
wise assercd) that the duties now imposed are
barely Sufficient TO enable our own manutac-
turers TO continue their business. With the
single exception Of iron, the report on your
table will, / think, be found 10 be in substance
ms have quoted il. If then you diminish that
protection, by curtaing IL in the short space
Of eighteen months by seven millions, which
by The law now in force would not be done
iii the end of five years, II follows, as neces.
sary conclusion, that you do abandon capital
aud lal or, to The amount have stated, 10 in
slant and total destruction.
MIR Sneaker | have only suggested much of
the merits Of the subuct Us deem necessary 10 dl-
rect the attention Of the House TO the importance
and number Of the questions which wo arc called
upon to decide, before can safely vote Tor
eains he bill If, then, reflection requires time II
the exercise cfrcason is an agent IN our researches
afer truth, If knowledge is not lntuitlve, we poor
+ morals who not gifted with those inspirations
which seem to be the peculiar attributes OF the au-
thors Of his bill and report, must beg moments
pause before we decide. We must plod on in the
!, old beaten way. We must proceed by painful and
slow research must stop, look around us, and
reflect much and after great toll and long jour
/, new, we NAV possibly reach those lofty heights Of
franc cndentaI political wisdom which the authors Of
this bill have scaled with the speed OF tightening al
a single bound. Is II 10 be expected, again ask,
that, in the twenty-five days that remain for general
business, can canvass, item by item, oppropria-
ton bills to the amount Of near Iwenly-seven mill
ions, and have time left us 10 labor through the DIFF
, Gculties that attend the bill under consideration
, MIR Speaker in conDexion with the objections to
time, must remind IFS authors, and The politice
jority Of ihie House, Of another subject, which, IN
justice to themselves and TO the nation, they
bound bring forward NJ the present session. al
lude to an amendment Of the Constitution, that
tho election Of President and Vice President of tho
United States may, in no event, ever devolvo on
Congress We are now approaching the termna-
ton of these eight years, during which Gen. Jack
, son has occupied the Presidential Chair believe
each annual message TO Congress, during all that
{ time, has advcred in strong and sometimes mplo-
ring appeals to the National Legislature on this
- subject | know that gentlemen have heretofore
excused their neglect If these suggestions of the
President, by saying that there was IN tho Senate
political majority opposed TO thein and therefore
0 the great leform much desired by the President
! and his friends must wait until that opposition was
. subdued. Sir, whether fortunately or otherwise
for the republic, will not say, but the fact is, that
favored time, so long prayed for has at length arr
we'd There is now a clear majority in both BRAN
= ches OF Congress, friendly to the existing Admins
$ tralon. Now time has at length come. when we
NAV with confidence call upon the friends of Gener-
j. al Jackson redeem his and their pledges, onen
4 given on this vital subject. cal especially at thus
time for action and not promises and postponemeni.
4 Gen. Jackson, after this session. Will be more
mere, admonish advise us, touching this inter-
c esting subject. 1t has made an imposing figure in
: tlat revolution which has subverted all the maxITns
i uf poly and law, Hhensoever and howsOever they
@ were opposed suggestions. II has been a
n theme Oh which honest patriots and designing DEM
agOgues have dwet with equal skill and power
The President, for the last time that his voice
, ever be heard in public council, in language which
bespeaks deep and abiding soicitude, again besee-
: ches YOU TO act. Hear what ne says IN his laa
l. messa &c TO Congress- Nearly at the close, ant
when he is about TO bid final adieu to you and The
,. Of public life, he gives this subject 10 your es
y prcal charge with all The soemnity Of dying dec
y" laration. He SAYS, IAN any experience and reiec
ton confirm the conviction have often espresso,
l. TO Congress- in favor Of amendment 10 the Con
le siitution which will prevent, IN any event, the cleo
h ton &C President and Vice President Of the Unet
+, s; aes devoving on til. House Of Representative
"a and The Senate and therefore beg leave again II
'" solicit your attention TO the subject"
W l. there, ihen any reason now for not cairyn.
to this recommendation into effect, by the party havni
to- the power in both House ard Senate 10 do so J.
- None. call, then, upon the democratic party,
In az you Of the majority sometimes las fn derlsion
- the name) cal! yourselves, to postpone this new ex
~ pertinent finance dispos" OF 1t at once for thi
" year, because II stands IN the way Of constitution
al reform, which, by your own admission, depend
ne all your ,pe Of liberty. DO this, or take the CON
= sequences If YOU now refuse to act when you hav
r. the nndoubted power 10 redeem your pledges, s.
IA often aud solemnly given the People OF this countr
-, will believe that all your promises and profession
* the promptngs ofpetriotisIn but iaiher III
", hollow and Sc fish articles ola shallow hypocr sy =
n However unchariIabe some gentlemen might deem
L. such a conclusion TO be, in my Judgment II would b.
most reasonable and Just. Our conduct admits q
no other explanation, il we consume the time allow
A. cd Us in discussing The difference between Two sys
W tens OF revenue and pass by unnoced another sub
Al ect which, by own declarations repeated IN CIV
IL cry form touches our existence as iFee PEOPLE,
u Sir, might here content myself with thus ex
ly pressing my objections 10 the introduction Of thi
an b,u al This Time, By the committee Of when | am
a, member. | have endeayored TO satisfy tho Hous
~ that the necessary bills, without the passage q
- which the Government cannot execute us ordlnar
&c dunes during The year, must occupy us the entire re
III mander Of the session; and five should possibly
OF have any time not thus necessarily employed, tina
re there are other matters Of high and paramount ma
n, tienal importance, which should take precedence {
~ this But there is another objection resting witt
VI great weight on my mind, which cannot iorbear Il
IL press upon the attention Of gentlemen before taxi