The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-12-14

entertained that under the conduct of the
gallant officer at the head of the troops In
Florida, that troublesome and expensive
war is destined to a speedy termination
With all the other Indian tribes we are en-.
Toying the blessings of peace. Our duty as
well as our best interests. prompt us to OBJ
serve, in all our intercourse with them, f.
deity in fulfilling our engagements, the
practice OF strict justice, as well as the con-
slant exercise of acts of benevolence and
kindness. These are the great instruments
of civilization, and through the use ofthem
alone, can the untutored child of the forest
be induced to listen to its teachings.
The Secretary of State, on whom the
acts of Congress have devolved the duty
of directing the proceedings for the taking
of the sixth census, or enumeration of the
inhabitants of the United States, will re-
port 10 the two houses the progress of the
work.
The enumeration Of persons has been
completed, and exhibits grand total of
l7,O69,54 making all increase over the
census of 1880, of 1902, GAG inhabitants,
and showing gain in ratio exceeding 80
l-2 per cent. for the last ten years.
From the report Of the secretary of the
treasury you will be informed of the condi-
ton of the finances. The balance in the
treasury on the first of January last. as
stated in the report of the Secretary ofthe
Treasury. submitted to Congress at the
Extra Session. was S9S7,345 O3. The re-
ceipts into the treasury during the first
three quarters of this year, amount TO S23-
467,O52 50. The estimated receipts for
the fourth quarter amount TO s6,943,O95
25, amounting TO S3O,4lO,l67 II. and ma
king with the balance in the treasury on the
first of January last. s3l ,207 ,5l2 so. The
expenditures for the first three quarters of
this year, amount to S24, 744.346 81. The
expenditures for The fourth quarter, as es-
timated, will amodnt TO S7,290,723 10 =
thus making total of So, O25,O7O; and
leaving deficit to be provided for on the
first of January next, of about S627,557
so.
OF the loan oftwelve millions which was
authorized by Congress at its late session,
only S5,432,726 IS have been negotiated.
The shortness oftime which it had TO run,
has presented no inconsIderable impedi-
ment in the way of its being taken by cap
ltallsts at home, while the same cause
would have operated with much greater
force in the foreign market. For that rea-
son the foreign market has rot been resort
ed to, and it is now submitted whether il
would not be advisable to amend the law
by making what remains undsposed OF
payable at more distant day.
Should it be necessary in any view that
Congress may take of the subject 10 revise
the existing thrift of duties, beg leave to
say, that iii the performance of that most
delicate operation, moderate counsels would
seem TO be the wisest. The government
under which it is our happiness to live, owes
its existence to the spirit of compromise
which prevailed among its framers-jar-
ring and discordant opinions could only
have been reconciled by that noble spirit
of patriotism which prompted Cancellation.
and resulted in harmony. In the same sp'r-
il the compromise bill, as it is commonly
called, was adopted by Congress at the ses-
sion of 1888.
While the people of no portion of the
union will ever hesitate to pay all necessa-
ny taxes for the support of government, yet
an innate reDugnance prevails to the impo
sItlon of burlhens not really necessary for
that object. In imposing duties, however.
for the purposes of revenue, right 10 dis
crlminate as to the articles on which these
duties shall be laid. as well as the amount,
necessarily and most properly exists. 9th
erwlse the government would be placed In
the condition Of having to levy the same
duties upon all articles, the productive as
well as the unproductive. The slightest
duty upon some might have the effect of
causing their Importation TO cease, whereas
others entering extensively into the con-
sumption of the country, might bear the
heaviest, without any visible d:mirution in
the amount imported So also the govern
ment may be justified in so discriminating,
by reference to other consider tons of do
mestic policy connected with our manu-
features. 50 long as the duties shall be laid
with distinct reference to the wants of the
treasury, no well founded objection can
exist against them.
1t might be deemed desirable that no
such augmentation of the taxes should take
place as would have the effect of annulling
the land proceeds distribution act of the
last session, which act is declared TO be IN
operative the moment the duties are in
creased beyond 90 per cent, the maximum
rat, established by the Compromise Act.
Some of the provisions of the Compromise
Act, which will 60 into effect on the 3Oth
day of June next, may, however, be found
exceedingly inconvenient in practice, under
any regulations that Congress may adopt.
| refer more particularly TO that relating to
the home valuation. A difference in value