Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-13
RICH MO d:
FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST ~,
DislrIbEi.on RiR.

! Distribution Bill
a valued personal and political friend thus re-
mons'raIcs against the passage Of the Distribution
Bill:
/ "wAsHlxGroS, 10th August, Al.
! GLOW can you recommend, m the same number
OF your paper m which you pnhl'Sh Fl,lmore'S
speech ON the state Of Frances, tho; the DiSti
/ button Bill be passed at all rvoUtsl Take ms est.
mates ot tue receipts troU the present 1uIes, and
| the new Bill, or MIR EwinE's and thc nett amount
cannot be counted n more than S2u,oOOOOo, with
/ the addition to be made Tor home valuation,
/ So, eos 900. The expenses which have averaged
so nuch higher can't he brought below StS,oOO0OO,
Including the interest the loan. There debts
I due Tn several Ut the States, aud many claims
| llQuid'tcd. There will &c new ana large demands
/ to repair the dcsoate condition IN which prede.
! csSsors have left the deiences at the country.
"ln this state OF circumstances, what must be the
result OF she Withdrawal Of the Ltnd Fundl-ro
. ONer;urn the Tariff compromise adjustment, to
! require a farther .can IN time Of peace. Can the
Wing party IN the South maintsin itself under
either Of these results! And can any thin; more
evidently demonstrate the CONSEQUENCES of error or
else chI,dshness, than the passage OF ill which is
not to 90 INTO effect uli year, as IL the case
with the present BIN"
Some Of the provisions OF the bill are not to our
As,e-butw we thought the scoi preponder.tod over
the bad 50 greatly, that should hesitate 20
take the bill. According to our view of The qucs
ton, have right look TO the condi ion OF the
Treasury IN respect the disposition of this fund
The States are cnutIed to fair aud equitable pro.
portion Of the proceeds arising from the sales OF tn
public isnds-and those proceeds do not constitute
legitimate sulJec, tor Federal expenditure. Ii we
are wrong in this-and we presume not to set up
our opn.ons ON this pom; the test Of political or
lhodaNy-,he objections Of our correspondent may
be entitled to weight. But, il we are right tn.
chi. .,fr FTc - -.
not making an immediate ami unconditional distri-
bu,ion.
There are other considerations besides the equity
Of tho measure, which recommended /; to our ia.
youraJIe regards We wish to see the land ques-
ton settled and no longer permitted to constitute
source Of Executive patronage aud a fruitful topic
ior Dsmososue% II the bill, as it stands at pre-
sent fails to accomplish these objects, i, ought to
&c amended, Again, the States want the sums
which viii tall 10 them respectively. They can
make a more profitable o. their quotas than the
Federal Government. In the Golfers of lh- latter.
the money Wi. Ue wasted, as 1t has been-iyr there
IS no stronger incentive to prodgaiily than the ros-
session OF the means to indulge l. The argument,
that an increase II the Tariff wall he rendered ne
cessnry by distribution, is not made good to our
s2iIsiacloI-and even II It were, the further r0s.
ton is to be established, that the increased Tariff
will prove p greater CyI. than the d s,ribu;ion OF
or millions among the States vii. a good. Our
own persuasion i, that Virginia will be more bene-
fitted 10y 100000 annually than she can be injured
by any Tariff not exceeding ~ per cent. In the
one there IS certain and positive benefit, and
IN the other only contngcn, cyil-for no man has
yet predicted, Or predict, what effect will attend
the imposition OF duties. It may happen, as il has
happened Ihat those regions expected to DC injured
may be ben, fitted.
But the subject is an a5s,ruse and complicated
one-upon which gentlemen may entertain con-
hciins opinions without censure from is.