Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-10-02
From the American Sentinel.
state Debt.

state Debt.
Some Of the Wing presses urging their po-
iticnl friends to oppose the reelection OF Governor
Porter, on account of heavy taxes AMI the increase
Of the public debt Iwould seem but fair. that they
should say at the game time that the Whig Repre-.
srntatives from the city have always, with scarcely
an exception, voted for every extension Of the pub
ho works. and for the local appropriations from the
State Treasury from which the state debt has a.
isen and for all the taxes which have been impo.
.ed on the people; whilst Governor Porter has on
various occasions interposed his veto to prevent
farther extensions and useless appropriations, which
Wing houses had passed. We refer 70, example
q the Gettysburg Rail Road, and the Wisconisco
Feeder.
But is there not qni,e as much cause for cons
Paint at the conduct Of the whig City Councils
Is not the City debt oppressive the State debit
Has not the peoples money been squandered, at
trast as unwisely by the City as by the State au-
ttofi ics and have not the wings, both in the City
sad State legislature, always been the principal
<.use Of The wasteiul expenditures; and extrava.
CAN'T arpropria;ons1 But what surprises us most,
that the wings, Of the city, who but few months
ago, made most urgent and eloquent appeal to the
legislature, which was copied and approved by al
most all the whig papers in the State, TO impose
for the purpose Of sustaining the esedt of the
commonwealth, should now turn round and ask the
people to rcjec, Governor Porter for doing what
hey prayed him and the legislature 10 do In that
address. which refers to period embracing the
u = - ~, Iii q
fonrER's administration, these gentlemen say en-
i.ka,ically-"WE DIANE no fARTr, on RATHER
SoT MORE THAN ASoTHEn"-and yet the
wings of Philadelphia, a. whose solicitation these
bqrlhens were imposed. and for whose benefit thsse
improvements have been carried on to completion,
ne now attempting unjustly to excite hostility to
Governor PoprER, We cannot believe, for one
moment, that the wings of the city approve Of such
mode Of electoncerng. Read the following ex.
i,acts from the appeal to which we have referred
ahHve.
Extract from an address of the citizens Of Phill
,rphia issued March 4, ls4l to the Freemen Of
Pennsylvania.
From the epoch at which the DISTRIBUTIONS
of rHE SURPLUS REVENUE, and the enormous sums
sractcd as the price of charters seduced the Lesis
ilture into the FATAL EnRoRt OF REPEALISe THE
STATE TAX, WE DATE the oRlGIS OF Our MIS-
r,aruSEs. No people ever yet with impunlty,
r'iied on any source but taxation to supply def
II in their ordinary revenue, or pursued the sys-
i'm of borrowing money for extraordinary service
sihsut laying to meet The interest, and gra.
Ia lily axtnguish the principal of the loan. These
fundamental principles, and our cxperiance
w,,n the las, few years has bitterly taught their
npot,auce and their truth.
We have no desire to dwell on the errors Of past
Legislation. We blame no party, or rather not
",lc party more than the Oher,-I.eaders of all
,irfses have acted if yon were unwilling to con
ghVto your fair proportion towards the expenses OF
lpur own government, and the fulhlment of her
ia; cations; and have proclaimed that siI was wei,
hen all wss not well, Even at the last session,
Tough a tax was laid, it is believed to be greatly
l,dequate and the system offorcel loans was still
Irsucd. The day has now come when ho further
.',tts can be successfully practised. We at the
isis Of our fate. We must sit down in mute dss-
,t.ir or rise like men, and face the evils which we
ave Brought upon ourselves or supnely suffered
o,hers to bring upon us. We cannot doubt which
,tcrnative you will choose.
Il is for you to say, whether these shall heTeaf.
Ter be Withheld from them. REauIRE rouR REP
ussESrArIvEs TO IMrosE, WITHOUT DELAY, SUP
r.cIESr TAXES TO MEET THE INTEREST on IoUR
DEBT, AND ESTABLISH ADEQUArE SINKING
UNI, and the career Of unrivaleI prosperity is still
arfore u.s.
Signed by about fire hundred cfthe prineipa
Wigs Of Phladsiphial
IN the year 1896, under the administration o
Gov. RIrNTR, when upwards two millions of dol
rsrs were received from the General Government
I In the same year the UNITED STATES
BANK was chartered and hurried through a whig
cyislature by TnADnEus SrEyESs, WILLIAM d
REAn and others, and approved by JosEPH RiTsEn
n which appropriations made for the following
NV WonKs, viz the North Branch and Yves
branch Canals the Erie Extension and Geiysbur
;aiI Road. The Wisconsco feeder was auhoT
ID by act of Apr! IA, 1886 and approved by 10
urn RITSER.
Judge Mclean.
Our private correspondent at Washington write
is that the President has received a letter fToI