The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-10-08
borrow TWELVE MILLIONS of dol

borrow TWELVE MILLIONS of dol
lars, and that part of the money had
been borrowed; and above all he saw it
announced IN Henry Gays speech that
the expenditures of this year,-the first
year that the whig party had got into
power, and the year too which was 10
he the wear of wing retrenchment and
reform - would exceed the extravagant
expenditures las they had been called of
Mr.. Nan-Burcn's administration, the enor-
nous sum of SIXTEEN MILLIONS of
dollars; the speaker was here interrupt
ed with round of applause, and that it
would be necessary for the next Congress
to make an additional loan of several
millions to meet this expenditure. He
saw too that their professions of regard
for the mechanics and workingmen, were
nsincere and holow-hcarcd. Instead of
granting protection 10 the workingmen,
they were about imposing enormous bur-
thcns upon them. The necessaries of
life were to be subjected to high tax,
whilst the wages of the mechanics and
working men were reduced. The wages
of the workmen in the different navy
yards, and upon the public buildings had
been reduced, and simultaneous with this,
he had seen attempts made by the wings
IN Congress to tax tea, coffee, SALT sugar
and moIasscs, neccssarles of life which
the mechanic could not do without. In
fact the Tea and Coffee tax was passed
by 4 wing house, and il was only through
the united cXertions of the Democratic
Senators, in conjunction with few IN
| dependent wings in the Senate, that those
articles were exempted from taxation;
and salt, sugar and mOlasscs were still in
/ the tax bill. Mr.. p. said when he saw
/ the party with which he had formerly
acted, carrying such measures as these
and pursuing such a course of policy, he
considered it time for him to pause and
/ inquire whether he was not in the wrong
I company. When he saw the party that
/ promised the working men relief, impos-
ING heavy burthcns upon thcm-when he
saw the party which had promised them
better times, pursue measures calculated
to make the times worse-whcn he saw
the party that promised retrcnchment in
! the expenditures Of the government, eX-
pending sixteen millions a year more than
! their predecessors, he began TO inquire
whether it was not time for the working
men, the real burthCn bearers Of the coun-
try, 10 abandon that party; and after ma
ture reflection he had determined TO aban-
don it entirely. Mir. p. said that he still
had confidence in President Tyler, and
highly approved of his veto messages,
Those vetoes had saved the country from
| the curse Of al overshadcwing institution.
which was intended merely for the bene-
fit of designing politicians, and which
must operate to the injury of the laboring
and producing interests of the country.
He thought the people had seen enough
Of the effect of these large institutions, in
the operations of the present detunct Bank
of the United States of Pennsylvania
He had seen enough to convince him tina.
such an institution could never be benc-
fit to the country, and that the greatest
corruptions would be praclsed in carrying
on its operations"