Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-12-14

,,sinly they do. The Democratic press a over th'
land should keep it before the people, that the wing
party hope to retain the ascendancy in both branches
of the Legislature through bribery, their only weapon
If their promises ever gain credence with this grea
American people, it will be through their ignorance.
THE DISTRIBUTION DILT--INo.Ll
| Among all the Objectionable measures OF the Fedora
party not is more Papaby indeienslble, both OF
The score of principle aud expedency, than the ab
surd and dangerous plan of dividing the proceeds o
the Public Lands among the several States The very
don of raising loan Of twelve millions on one day, Il
replenish an exhausted Treasury, and OF dividing
portion of the receipts another; borrowing win on
hand and giving away with the Other IS so rePughan
- ,he painest sense SO yolave of the cleares pnci
Mes of riph so useless and uncaedfor that 1t no con
ttutona objection could be brought against It, lis au
tbors would still deserve the ridicule, and contempt
the community.
| But when the gift is unwarranted by the Conslitu
ton or by the deeds Of cessoa, when 1t IS Intended a.
douceur to the States when the object OF its authors
is that the General Government shall tax the people
the State indirectly for State purposes or IN Other
words give the States portion oil the pubic money
and then lax the people Of the States Tor The deficiency
created by this gI the question assumes an aspect o.
deep solemniy calculated 10 excite the attention and
arouse the energies of every citizen who desires the
perpetuty of tile Union.
say the "perpetuity of the Union, for if the Ge-
neral Government assumes undelegated powers treats
The independent States of this Coniederacy mere
and then taxes their citizens to obtain back from the
people what has been squandercd among the States:
fthe States are be nsurd by such corrupt usurpa
ton If the organic law of the land and the objects for
which the Confederacy was formed are no longer TO be
the guide of Congress- the Union will lose its value
and our institutions their simplicity corruption will
stalk abroad like the obstruction that waseth at noon
day." and the bands that unite the soyeregntes
Of this Confederacy be broken forever.
part Of the Public Lands coded by portion
of the States TO the United States, comnon tnnd,
for the benefit of all the States The deeds OF cession
have been relgously complied with, and the lands
have been sold, their proceeds have been placed IN the
Treasury that "common fund OF the States and ex-
pended in paying the disbursements OF The coniederated
sovereigntles Each State therefore has received its
benefit from tile lands far any nett proceeds have
been received and expended the General Government
has continued to perform its duties as trustee, and the
States which Mr.. Tyler very Justly observes "are EN-
phaticay the constituents the General Government
have received all the benefit which could have cnured
to them.
Such has been the uniform pursued in relation
to the Public Lands the only course consistent with
the deeds ofcesson and the guardianship imposed upon
the General Government, course sanctioned and APP
proved by all the States, until "flenry Clay desiring
like Caesar, TO buy that popular affection which he had
not earned, devised the distribution scheme, means
of exciting the cupdity Of Legislative ogrolIers, Of
creating taste for exravagant expenditures, and Of
diminishing the Of the Unlon that the hiatus
might be filled with monies obtained through an cSor-
Lant impost on foreign commodities.
There are some in New England who have favored
the distribution plan, not because it was was honest,
but because they thought the deficiency in the reve-
nues created by it would lead to an exorbtant pro-
tariff but their selfish desires have been CON-
pletey checked by Congress, who had declared that
distribution ShuH cease, whenever the duties exceed
twenty per cent; it having been thus soemny decld-
ed by Whi1 Congress that no protection TO New Eng
land shall arise from the distribution, my iellowct-
zens, Of all parties, will be apt to regard the
sure with an impartial eye.-Haryord Times.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
HOME SQrADRoS.-Actiye preparations are in pro-
gress for getting this squadron ready for Com
modore Stewart will hoist his broad pennant board
the independence. Captain +. A. Parker has been
ordered 10 the command of the frgate Columbia, and
Captain J. Gaaher to the command of the indie
pendence. No commanders for the steamships have
yet been designated
Commodore George c. Read succeeds Commo
dore Stewart in command of the Navy Yard at Phila
dephia
II has already been announced that orders had been
issued from the Navy Department for completing and
launching the rgate st. Lawrence, at Norfolk, and
Raritan, at Philadelphia. We have now the satlsac-
ton Of stating, earnest of the disposition of the
Secretary of the Navy TO put vessels of in
state of efficiency, that orders have been given for
launching the rgates Cumberland, at Boston, and the
Savannah, at New York.
Instructions haze lEewlse been gwen Tor building
soop of at Portsmouth, N. H., and small vessel
Yheher to be brig schooner rugged, not yet deter
mined) at each of the following places Boston, New
York and Norfolk.
A Naval General Court Martial, will assemble at
Philadelphia, on Monday, the 18th December, 1S4l,
for the trial of Captain William Compton Bolton,
late Commander of the United States frsate Brandy
wine, and such other officers may be brought be-
fore it.,
The Court will be composed of Commodore Jacob
Jones' President Commodores John Downes, Henry
E. Ballard, +. P. Kennedy, John B. Nicholson, w. B.
Shubrick and Capt. Daniel Turner, members.
Charles II. Winder, Esq, of Baltimore, Judge AID.
vocate.-.qrmy and Nary Chronicle.
L. 5. EXPLORING EXPEDITION.
The Peacock Capt. lludson was expected to arrive
at Fort George about July lst the Pinecnnes, Captain
Wilkes expected 10 arrive at the same place July l5
and the Porpoise August J.
All these vessels were at the Northward in pursu-
ously been ut Fort George, at the mouth Of Columbia
River where every attention paid them by the Go.
vernon and officers Of the Hudson Bay Company.
From Fort George il was believed the Squadron
would sail for Sin gapore, and from thence home
The above information is from an officer belonging
to the Squadron, who remained at Fort George while
the vessels went North, waiting for their return. The
fastest information direct from the Squadron left all
wcl-.E \. .4mericaR
T)LAlN DEALING FOR sALE.-IIavng purchased farm
ms county, Hanover, offer for sale my Farm tho
New Bridge and half miles North East Of Richmond,
containing about hundred The land divided
clover product field 300 barrels of One
fields has produced GOO bushels of wheat when only
- There about Is 20 of meadow land
part which is already cleared The soil ia generally light,
adapted cultivation OF vegetables and Of