Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-07-16

In another column will be fOund brief extract iroh Brownson's Quarterly Review, placing in a strong light some of the nore material objections 10 the distribution bill which has iusl passed the House of Representatives.
 MT. Ewing, in his official report, stated that the national deb, amounted to some twenty forty mill ions' Ihis person of common would supp pose to be aistrong reassR why economy should be used in every depar,mentnf the government. Yet, in the face oi this information, the whss dow pro- pose to pass law, by which three millionl of dol lars will be extracted from be 9ptonafreasuy bo be presented te the states-thgs furnishing a necessity for raising this deficient sum by lhe position vI taxes on the people, IL p ,'
 The mode by which this bill will operate is simply as follows The proceeds of the public lands will be collected, paid to the United Ssates and thence transferred to the To furnish the deficiency which it will create in the federal revenues lawAill be passed raising he duties on articles of commerce. To collect these duties, it w cost probably twenty per cent. These will be sent to Washington, and will just supply there what had been taken out.as gratuity to the states Now in the process bf coec- ting and transferring these three millions the cost will be $6OO,OoO. This sum, therefore, is dead loss 1 to the people of so much money. The whsle machi- nery is simply taking out of the Treasury with one hand, ithree millions of dollars, and pulling into it with the othef the same sum, at an annual cost of $6OO.O
 If the county be in debt, why not apply the pro- ceeds of the p"blic lands to its liqudationl l If the country be in debt, why take from the pub lie cobers 'e money which should be applied to pay ing it, tor .e purpose of distributing It among tho States, aFa yearly loss of S6OO.O
 1 When an honest merchant becomes involved, and
 in company with his neighbors, fails in his business what does he dol Is it customary for him to ga- ther up the remains of his fortune and say to one of his neighbors, here thousand dollars to satisfy your cdtors another here are ten thousand to re- establish you in business third here is similar sum to keep you from the horrors of jaill No, he retrenches his expenses-secures what he has, and furnishes it by degrees to emancipate himself from debt and ruin,-and this is the way the General Co., vernment should do. Be just before you are generous says the old maxim.
 It is folly to say the lands belong to the states. Admitting they do. and that they are held in trust for the general weare-is not that welfare as well secured by paying the debts of the whole people incurred by the General Government! Is it not bet ter secured?
 Franklin told story during the negotiation of the treaty by which the independence of the American colonies was recognised by England, illustrative of the wishes of the English government to impose upon the colonies the expenses of the war It ran some thing as follows:
 An Engiishman one day passing through the streets of Paris, when furious Frenchman ran out of a house with red hot poker in his hand. " An! Monsieur," said he, "yl you let me have de pai- saire to dis leee pokare just one foot in your body?' l John Bull was struck dumb with astonishment. | "Vell, sair, pardonnez moi, just let me poke him six inches It will give me de grand satisfaction" The Englishman up with his fist, and was going to knock him down, when the Frenchman cried out:
 By gar, sair, ifyou will give de plasaire, sacre, you shall pay for de trouble and expense of heating de pokaire.''
 The whigs play the part of the Frenchman. The country, they know, will sanction the direct as- sumption of State debts; but they are determined to have out of it six hundred thousand dollars to pay for de trouble and expense of heating de pokaire.