Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-02-20
The Assumption.

Mr.. Grundys Report, and MI lftfhor" '""S'
mi. resolutions promise 10 give rise 10 the most pro-
ninent debate Of the session Of the Senate Wen |
does il deserve TO he sotor the Importance OF the SUD
ec entities il Ia that distinction. Nr Clay ana ms
Whir followers attempting to wres Inc ProceS"a"
the pnb lands from the Federal Treasury, Tor purposes
of their own Surely, there scarcely ever was a 'i'c
when The prounsition was unreasonable ii!ah ~
the present moment Uncle Sam has mol !nniS "ii"aS"
to pay his own expenses Is tins the time Wlen iF'
Clay shall take away the proceeds OF the p"c ai'''
and compel the IT, = 10 raise the lar or TO run III
debt. The President has jus, been compelled To APP
neal to the House Of of Representatives to give some
rrclief 10 the Treasury The New York American oil
the 18th (Whg paper contends, that III consequence
of the state ofcommercr and tho reduced impoT'atohs
of forciUn Goods s.the customs will be woiuy short
and that New York, instead OF paying ten millions
TO the Treasury will not pay than trt IS iis INC
then time to pirate about assumptions to talk OF u'ei
inr the proceeds Of the public lands from e Pnoi'c
Treasury: But independently OF other oalectiohs-m
c,.pdcn.lv Of the objectionable principle which IS
involved in the distribution, what VIII the South say
ia lis necessary tendency to increase The farm lake
away your lands, and they have at once 10 Fa,Se e
duties The less OF the one, the more nt inc o'it''
We are indebted to able friend at Washington Tor
the following views the subject oil The pGDc ai'us
and the distribution of their proceeds, wnIch we taNG
the liberty in this xon ofaylng before our read
ers: ,.,.r
gislaturc in the Union vieng with each other in their
efforts to prove to the country and 10 the world, that
satisfying all local and private wants, ODE found
in the public domain Of the United States; that if the
public lands their proceeds the righ, of the States,
as they say, be wrcnched from sordld and selfish
Government, and given 10 the States, they pay
their existing debts, make all the roads and canals their
people want, up TO soundncSs and suvcncy, all
their Banks establish again, their credit abroad and
enjoy uninterrupted cIyslum They do not take
the pains 10 tell, that honest people, who depend on
them for the truth and the whole truth that the selfish
and sordid Federal Government, against which they
dcclaIm, has not revenues sufficient, that from the
Public lands included TO meet It's current expenses:
they do not tell hcm that the annual sales of the lands
in ordinary times, will not pay two and half per
cent. upon the existing debts of the States, without
having any surplus for works. they do not tell
them that make the States equal upon the principle
of assuming the debts, the existing liabilities of more
than 200 900 900 of dollars, would have 10 be increased
TO nearly ten times that amount, and that immediate
taxation to meet the interest of debt enormous
would be the only within the power Of Con-
gross. There are thousand other things also, which
they do not tell and should not tell them fully and
truly, before the dcluSion in the public mind is pro-
duced:'