Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-05-25

by the general government, in every form
and manner the subject has been present.
ed This was another item in the policy
ofMr. Clay to indirectly support the ia.
riff 1t would keep up perpetual drain
upon the Treasury, and thereby prevent
its reduction. On one occasion the Sena.
tor from Kentucky, lamentod that intern.
al improvement "lay crushed beneath the
veto" Of the man with the iron nerve
When did Gen. Jackson ever serve his
country better than when he vetoed tbo
Lexington and MaysviIIe Turnpike Road
bill. There had been introduced info
either house of Congress, bills for yarious
objects of internal improvement, whose
estimated cost amounted to the enormous
sum of Itoo Hundred Millions of Dollars
One survey for ship canal, alone, would
cost thirty thousand dollars. What would
have been the consequence to the coun.
try had net Gen. Jackson arrested it in
its wild career, none can foresee. NOTHING
but an enormous and oppressive tariff
would have afforded means to carry il on
But we had President who was ALWAYS
at his post when his country was in dan
ger. Had he been selfish and desired to
increase the power and patronage of the
general government, he would have given
his support to the policy. All the money
dlsbursed under that head would nccessa-
rily pass under his eye, and the great num-
Der of agents employed would be appoint,
ed by him, whose influence would be Sc
cured to their patron at the polls. But he
knew his duty better, and gloried in its
performance. Nothing proves more deci-
dedly his integrity ofpurpose than his OPP
position to measures which were so we'll
calculated to increase his power and pro-
long his administration. Let his enemies
aver to the contrary, notwithstanding.
What can any one make of Mr.. CLAWS
policy OF distributing the surplus revenue
among the several states, but kind of
hush-money or bride not to make fuss
about the onerous system which collected
more money from the people than the
wants OF the government required. 1t was
an attempt to silence opposition to his dar
ling tariff. 1t is said by some writer that
the man who corrupted and ruined the
Roman people was he who first gave them
money from the public treasury. Such
policy is calculated to weaken, if not de-
stroy, the state government.
Another item in the policy of Mr.. Clay,
is his fifty million bank, to be located in
the city of New York. Such an institu
ton must be regarded as an attempt to
establish II great political machine, by
which the destines of this mighty nation
are to be controlled and governed. 1t is
well known that three-ffths of the whole
revenue OF the government IS collected IN
New York, and for it to be deposited in
such a bank, would at once consolidate
the political power and the money of the
country, and could, beyond doubt, per
petuate the administration, who called it
into existence. Those powers are too for
midable to be ever united in the same
hands with safety to the liberties of the
people. Mr.. Clay said, on one occasion,
"give him money and patronage and he
would make himself popular" Should
such an institution ever be established at
the North, with or without the public de
posites, we may forever bid farewell to
the commercial independence ofthe South
1t would be in the hands of those whose in
terest it would be so TO manage it as to
benefit themselves at our expense.
A STATE RIGHTS MAN,
From principle, not policy.