The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-06-12
HARD TiMEs!.-NC RELIEF.

"Slr, Congress can afford no relief"
Doctor Duncan.
No relief! Pray what was government made
for, if it was not to preserve the nation from run
ring into evll-and TO help it get out when unior-
'uEaely found 10 be in No relief from Congress
Then we had better cease paying our Senators and
Representatives - per day, half the year round
NO rehei Then e, us strike out froni the Consti-
tuition those grants OF power to regulate the cGrren-
cy and commerce, and provide for the general wei
larc NO reIlei Why not cease experimenting
VI ny not pay oil the government debts, reduce
foreign Expectations, encourage domestic industry
SET cur manufactures TO WORK, and give the far
ner' back Their good markets for wool beef, but
ter, cheese, &c, by raising The tariff; Why not
reduce the expenditures of the government, and
the army of harples who are ftttcning upon the
spoi!s: Why rot give the states their propor.ol
OF the public lands, and thus diminish the direct
taxes upon the peope: We know of 10 reason
other Than that I" the powers lha, be" uW not do
It, They insultng'y tell us it is not their duty to
afford relief; aye, and when all the powers of the
government, with M jories in both branches OF
Congress, are in their hands-they put Doctor
Duncan upon end TO say TO yor, reader, and 10 all
he people; "Sir, Congress cNR GG0m no Teiiefr'
" hat think you Is it not Time we had Ircsi-
dent and Congress who will listen to the voice oi
the people !; and who will moi put them oil win
The insulting, unleeng and false excuse that they
cannot afford rc!lef?-U UdicamGa.
We respectfully, and candid'y call the attention
of the fteemen of Vermont to the subject embraced
in the preceding article, We beg them to ask
themselves, how congress Gun afford relief, Let
them examine the constitution of the United States,
and then point us to the article Of that instrument
which gives congress the power TO regulate the cy-
passions and Gonractions of the State Banks. In
that instrument it will be found that the power il
given TO congress alone, - To coin money and reg
ulate the value thereof" In direct violation Of
the constitution, the States have usurpcd the pow
or ''to coin money and regulate the value there
of''-,hey have torn from congress the very power
sacrodly entrusted to tina, body by the constitution
for the protection Of the people against the evils
that now cypress lhcm-they have coined VIVA,
they call mOEcy, they have regulated the value
thcreof-.cy have filed the pockets of the people
with their money, not the money Of the ,>ns,u-
lion-hcy would not trust congress to regulate i,
thcnselyes-und now that, it has deprecated, and
filed the country with distress und rain, they
charge ii all upon the "rUinous measures Of the
Administrations" and call upon congress to afford
measures cfrc'icf They usurpcd from congress
the power to regulate the value Of money, and
now they ana>>ma,izc congress because they do
not exercise that very power. They took upon
themselves the powerto regulate the value Of mon
ey and after issuing millions on millions of rags
that have deprecated almost to 2ero they fold their
arms, ccnirnedy aud tell congress to regulate this
currency Of theirs, 80 that the farmers shall not
lose by their Spccu'aIions-by their usurpa,ions--
by their violations of the consti,r,ion--or the pres
ent Administration must 20 down