The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-05-29

uotos ~ ldSts Wnen OtOuSnAO tuo lesh ~.
10 in effect openly avowed; syoSed, and
the reason assigned; that the scondltions
of the States, at The prsseHt.momento of
pressure and difficulty makes this in-
direct assumption especially expedient
and important What more than this
have The Engilsh-baakers ordered US to
d5i Afh4i more could d1hev desire than
.ihat. w shsald thus mo tage to them
through The agency Of the indebted
Ssm.es, lhe@Sh0lez domain OF the Repub-
Aisi 5Whai more, than that the States OF
this Union should becometheir factors
aud, ,brpk ers, 70 coIlsci, by the officers
q oI lhs FeLeTskfSsernmeut, and to Trans
nit 10 them, the, annual proceeds Of a
. vast donsig, larger Than Eve times En-
gland ITSELF ~. The British Gov
=, ernmept, arrogant and ambitious as ills.
would desire po stronger hand in the
Treasury Of this ,Government-ao s,ron
: gor griPes upon the sthroa's, of these
Staies-no better means to. prOduCetdi'
sensioas among US, than this measure,
y-ssere lt.sdoptsd, would afford "a I...
And now, sir, what proposition COM
tanned 10 this substitute, but the result
ting consequence Of that succession oI
eSenis, lhave sought all along to pur-
suei The British paper system, 51-
ginning, as have shown, in a political
coalition, with the King against lhs PeC
pie, founded, in the first place, their ma
tional debt; revoluiionized Ihe currency;
expanded and perpatuated both the debl
and itself; drew within it's coil the whole
wealih'of.ho empire; imposed
-. Q destructive tribute upon all labor and
u ell properly, and thus continued, through
each . sIccessiYe generation, to increase
the in eguaIly Of condition and the ag-
=. gregate misery among men, unlIs ai the
origin Of our G0Vernmentit extended IT.
self TO our shores. Here the system
assumed the. same FORM, and took the
. same principle, as the, basis Of iis new
empire. Il commenced here as in Eng
land, 10 a coalition with a political par
4y, and selected for ils ally that party
which. affiliated, in feeling and princi-
pies, with the forms OF the British Gov
eminent. /, founded Itself upon ma
tonal debt; snd,1in order 70 comFeie
its identity with the mothor, system in
England, il transferred that debt 10 the
same English brokers who controlled
the system there. Being thus establish
, ed upon British capital-under British
influence, and IN connexion with party
.mhe deemedAo. the British Goyerumen,
sihe best model The world had ever pro-
duced,' The system began 10 affect the
came social and political results here,
thst il had there already produced. II
expelled The constitutional currency, and
look iis, place made labor and property
tributary 10 its Golfers; expanded from
one iutp o thousand banks centralized
within itself the whole moDyed wealth
,of the county: communicated English
feelings and English Governmsni, en-
ter ed into our councils plunged the
=. .iStsles in. debi two hvadred millions O!
of dollaIs to, British bankers, who con-
scious OF their power. through iberageu-
.cy of the ,system here, and its party
.connec,iods, have commanded Ah:s gov
ernment TO assume these debts; and
now, sir, we have the result of the whole
I'VE have The direct propotiiion1t 10 die
tribute The proceeds of,he public lands.
for that very purpose. made by the po-
. ,liticat friends Of This system. in their
place in the Senate. Such, isay is the
result of the paper system, ard if, in
stead Of resisting, we adopt the policy
3 ,oflhis substitute, we shah soon have
aul6led the utmost wishes of General
Hamilton and his parly--the destruction
Of the Stale Governments, and the es-
lsblishment ahbngus, OF an aristocracy
upon The English model rJs y}o r's4
n q Eoris il possible forany thing To- be
isnore: manifest, ihan that distribution
q of the mong, arising from the public
lands 10, in fact, a distrihu,ion-of rsven>
.De generally? y?-Wbo. does not. see that
Iii, for instance, twenty-five milli0ns Of
dollars be necessary to the Administra-
lion of,the Government; i, of that a.
mouni, ,fEe millions are broughtto the
Treasury from the public lands, and il
this latter sum be rvRhdfawn from the
public service for the distribution to the
States, who does not see that you musl
Impose an additional tax, 10 that extent,
10 supply The deEciencyl Thus, thefe'
fore, in order that The Federal Govern
meut may, with lone hand, distribute
five millions 10 the States, it must begin
by collecting, with the other, five mil-
lions from the people oftlese very States
by increased taxation. Yes, more than
sfiye millions must be collected, because
lhe expenses Of collection, in the frs
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